skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most large-sized companies don't have those skill either.

In fact, going into some market and solving a problem with software is almost always done by people not used to work in development that go and write something by themselves.
> We'll grow past it eventually,

Don't take this for granted. I suspect this behavior is actually caused by an inherent anxiety in some subset of the population. When they don't have real (and likely) dangers to worry about, they will find some kind of tiny risk and overamplify it as something to focus their anxiety on.

Removing all things dangerous from the environment will only serve to amplify their tendency to do so. A mum in a high risk high crime neighbourhood is probably more likely to let her kids roam free (and less worried) than mums in upper-middle-class neighbourhoods where there is virtually zero crime.

My hypothesis is that the solution is to let children experience activities that are moderately dangerous (ideally through risk of pain, minor injury or some social stress, with risk of death or permanent injury kept minimal). This helps (I think) callibrate their ability to estimate risk as they grow up.

This would allow them to ignore imaginary risks like the one discussed here, and may help them identify situations that come with real danger.
it's the kind of thing that if you don't know it's not for you. very hipster product for weird electronic musicians, more of a fashion statement than anything else really.
Is that a serious question? The same reason we don't add dairy cows to cave drawings or put shiplap on the great wall of China or conduct civil war reenactments with predator drones . It's a historical landmark.
Real time data check notifications with MongoDB
I have the opposite theory that the classical "masters" grabbed all the obvious low-hanging fruit and hypnotized the masses with mindless repetition for centuries. Finally, some of us have broken the spell, and can now enjoy more interesting, sometimes "dissonant" more modern melodies to enrich our aural lives.
The macOS editor Chime now supports Ruby
For me, physical buttons are the best UI. Completely agree with the screen UI being ugly but being able to play/pause, switch songs, change volume, and rewind my book using a clicky button beats any touchscreen UI imo.

I'm using an AK SR25 right now and absolutely love it. It's pretty small.
I also think they didn't learn one important lesson (maybe). MVP's don't need bells and whistles. Stop adding that "one last thing". It's a Minimum Viable Product. It should be lean, and somewhat polished. Add features later.
bravo, I've wanted something like this
Q: why are galaxies like ours so good at golf?
A: there's usually a splendid hole in one.
Have you considered reading the TOS instead of insulting me?
Correct. Attempts and any excuse to setup "Precrime" programs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precrime), where the entire population is under continual surveillance by "algorithms", "AI", or agencies is about control.

Saying it's about the children, makes anybody who argues against the point look bad. But once they have successfully slipped that under the door, the continual surveillance will go on to be for any and everything, as it becomes in any authoritarian state. It's just another and sneaky way to get to what is done in China.
Uhm maybe we want to?

Not everyone likes rural life. And people in cities use public transport a lot. I don't even own a car myself anymore and haven't driven one in years.
> But I've never seen a report of actual framing of someone via CSAM

Here you go: https://www.spiegel.de/international/business/hamburg-bank-s...
I did the same thing, and we would go miles just to see if other friends were home and increase the size of our bike group before going to Dairy Queen or a local pizza shop and hanging out there.

> But also maybe kids just enjoy different things nowadays

I think this may be true, but also I think parents might find it easier to let their kid play video games in their room where they think they are safe compared to letting them roam around unsupervised. I had friends whose parents thought we were bad kids because we wouldn't know where would go that day, so when they asked "where are you going" and we said "idk, to the creek or pizza or wherever we find interesting" they would think we were up to no good since we didn't have a plan.
> The reason is because black people will watch white movies, but white people don't watch black movies.

What happened to "people just want to be represented in movies"? Simply put, since there are more whites than blacks in the U.S., then every film-maker has an incentive to represent them more to reach a broader audience.

This is absolutely not because "white people are more bigoted", which is laughable when you consider that they are surely, in proportion, the most xenophile people on the planet.
Does It Matter?: IT and the Corrosion of Competitive Advantage
The best way to "detect" would be to, obviously, read it. So yes, this is surveillance, and just because you have good intentions doesn't mean you're not wrong.
The US Government pushes MFA hard. If you work in the DoD supply chain you must have MFA. I find it hypocritical that sensitive government data like this is not protected in the way the government prescribes for contractors. This is a 'what is good for the gander is good for the goose' (yes that is backward from typical) situation. Why not make use of ample resources from CISA?

https://www.cisa.gov/mfa

https://www.beyondidentity.com/blog/us-government-now-requir...
If we are aiming to create a common international system of representing the fractional part of a decimal number, it makes sense to start with the system that is already in use by the most people.
The biggest fallacy in my experience is that the thing you built isn't done at ship because your first build is only what you thought of to build. Your users might need some of what you built, but the feature requests will quickly show you that you only thought a fraction of the possible things a user would want.
I think there is a substantial difference between handing money back to all civilians to compensate their rights and spending the money on specific government programs that only benefit a subset of the population.
As part of its application, Finland will agree to donate 5.7 billion umlauts to other NATO nations each year, excluding Germany, which already has enough.
It's much cheaper than a phone, I mean. Sure, you got me...
Long before Preview supported signatures, I used PDFSigner.app [1].

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/pdf-signer/id428271079?mt=12
I thought simplicity was Trello's differentiating feature?

I don't use Trello often, but this strikes me as the JIRA-ification of Trello being underway.

Others don't seem to agree though.
this is about as logical as saying "just because we signed a contract doesnt mean I need to uphold my end of the contract. you should have known I wasnt going to be able to fulfill my end of our agreement"

I agree with personal responsibility but not at the expense of communication.

Imagine if every single person who moved a package was required to open the package and confirm the contents. It may be the only way to accept personal responsibility for its contents, but it's dumb. I am telling you what the contents are and if I am lying to you then I need to be held accountable. Especially if the contents are dangerous and I told you they are safe.
I ended up getting a Dirtywave M8, but the Deluge was a VERY close second. If I ever get tired of the M8, I still have my eye on a Deluge.
> They’ll listen to you next time, won’t they?

No, but they won’t have the capital to spawn another drain on our economy either.
pretty surprising functionality for a beta product
I started a cluster and initial testing shows that alloydb is Postgres, so everything should just work. The blog post [1] has more details on the implementation [1].

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/alloydb-for...
Do you have more info on the benchmark? e.g. No. of connections, DB instance type/configuration used, scale, etc.?
I wonder how long until this is a thing some people do; like the blood transfusions from younger/healthy people.
Yes. They all do BT5 now.
Same conclusion but simpler logic --- "hard tech" is where their real, most natural advantage lies.

Consumers don't really know or care if the people making their microchips came from a different culture with different norms and a different language.

These differences become much more pronounced with "soft tech".
Yes, that benchmark result is quite old in Duck years! :-)

We actually run that benchmark as a part of our test suite now, so I am certain that there is improvement from that version.

The biggest DuckDB I've used so far was about 400 GB on a machine with ~250 GB of RAM.

There is ongoing work that we are treating as a high priority for handling larger-than-memory intermediate results within a query. But we can handle larger than RAM in many cases already - we sometimes run into issues today if you are joining 2 larger than RAM tables together (depending on the join), or if you are aggregating a larger than RAM table with really high cardinality in one of the columns you are grouping on.

Would you be open to testing out your use case and letting us know how it goes? We always appreciate more test cases!
Not yet no, because Apple postponed their plans. But it was planned along with the plans for iOS. The Mac was not going to be excluded.
You have proof ?
Rising income inequality linked to Americans’ declining health
There have been 14 so far in 2022 alone. And the year is not even half over yet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_th...
Creaky U.S. power grid threatens progress on renewables, EVs
Opponents of a repressive proposal are not required to find alternatives, but here is the obvious one:

Rather than surveillance of every adult, forbid access to the Internet to minors. This would also reduce Facebook induced depression of teenagers, suicides and a lot more.

You'll find very quickly that the noble advertising and surveillance lobbies will back off, even if you tell them to think of the children.
> below market property tax rates

There’s no such thing as a “market rate” when you’re discussing invented taxation schemes.

> You went to ad hominem very quickly on having your ideas challenged.

No, I went very quickly to calling out the immorality of your position upon your succinctly demonstrating the same.

> It’s not a gross moral failing to want property tax to work the way it’s supposed to …

Taxation schemes are an arbitrary invention. They’re not supposed to do anything other than whatever they’re designed to do.

Furthermore, the LVT scheme you proposed is not how property tax works in nearly every jurisdiction on the planet, and is designed to force people from their homes, coerce them into selling their property, and control how that property may be used under penalty of ruinous taxation for a failure to comply.
That makes sense. Also much better because you can pay off that higher rate one first and your overall payment would go down.
Orban knows he doesn't have the juice to go all pro-Russia in this environment.
The updated contract my bank send me had a nearly identical website to the one above linked, so you could easily see the changes they made.
Almost exactly a fit against my idea[1] to generate OpenAPI from HAR files. Going to read through to see if I can add HAR support.

[1]: https://github.com/captn3m0/ideas#openapi-specification-gene...
As an introvert developer, it feels like I have an energy budget, and interacting in things like meetings takes a chunk of that budget. Too many meetings and interactions too frequently leaves me socially drained and useless.

I can participate in a meeting when I have to, but there's a cost.

I can be on-camera in meetings when I have to, but I have to focus more to interact in that kind of setting and I feel far more drained afterwards.

I can understand that a manager might want to see their team and have frequent video meetings and try and read body-language, but I hope managers understand there's a wide variety of personality types and being in that kind of social setting isn't using a lot of peoples' strengths too wisely and might be reducing the effectiveness of some of their team members.
>English-only speakers

I mean most of native speakers won't have much trouble understanding Australian accents. It's the ESL people that would have a hard time without having enough exposure.
I like

"just shadowban the oaf"

As currently practiced by all those who fear the populace-driven wrath of the auto-Dang...
Forced to sell is quite ridiculous he could take out a small loan against the increased property value without having to sell. He would lose less money from the loan than the unrealized gain on the property even if he paid the increase in property taxes this way for 50 years. The idea that homeowners need to maintain 100% ownership of their home no matter what their finances are and no matter how much their home goes up is a bad one.
Ah, well, that was a risk that I took... Thank you for the feedback though! The Star Wars puns were too hard to resist...

If you have a specific question, definitely post it here and I will clarify!
Not everybody agrees with you that it's a worthy goal. Personally I have little desire to see it removed, doubt its removal will be achieved and tend to think the various attempts to do it are misguided.

I could imagine getting pretty jaded as a python maintainer having to keep pointing out why the latest attempt won't work. I think the onus is on those who want this to demonstrate that it can be done successfully and lay out a plan as to how it can be put into the real world without causing chaos in a python ecosystem that has only relatively recently got over the trauma of python 3 (which is the bit I doubt is possible).

Edit: To be clear, I don't think anything that consists of a set of proposed changes to the cpython interpreter is even beginning to attempt to think about the implications for the ecosystem, which is where the actual challenges are, and I'm assuming that's what the "Just creating a PR" comment is saying.
> to be blunt: this is your misunderstanding

Ironically, you seem to have misunderstood me, because:

> fundamentally leaving the currency/monetary union and leaving the economic/political union are completely different things, so obviously they would have different outcomes

Is something I’m aware of and I wasn’t contradicting.

I was saying potential negative consequences specifically of Brexit were near-simultaneously used by the same person both were not going to happen at all and yet simultaneously that they were a reason the EU would give the UK a good deal.

In one case, the pause between these two claims being made by the same person was literally only just long enough for me to say “no” without actually justifying why I was disagreeing with him. So please, don’t just say I’m misunderstanding.

And that makes me think that in a parallel world where the UK has been in the Euro but still voted to leave the EU, the government may well have dismissed any and all concerns about the economic consequences, left, and then blamed all the harm that did happen on “remoaners” and “saboteurs” and “the jealous EU”, just like they did for the much milder difficulties they faced in the real world.

> it is politically impossible, especially when the EU's position is that "the Euro and the EU are linked: leaving one means leaving the other"

First, “Politically impossible” doesn’t seem to be in the vocabulary of current UK politicians right now.

Second, I get the impression many of the louder Leave campaigners hated both the currency and the EU, so I don’t actually see how your claims are evidence makes it more politically channeling in the UK than Brexit was all by itself. Economically more challenging, sure (though you’ve still not convinced me it would have been impossible). Politically more challenging? I don’t see it.
Many billionaires have their prepper mansion in NZ.
Ashton Kutcher seems to spend most of his time, using his celebrity to pump up the companies he has investments on. He lost all credibility, when he decided to do this interview and help is buddy Adam Neumann.

You can notice he is not completely comfortable doing it, but he did and that is all that matters at the end.

"Interview with Ashton Kutcher and WeWork CEO Adam Neumann"

https://www.cnbc.com/video/2019/01/14/watch-cnbcs-full-inter...
The Role of the Sales Engineer in Enterprise Software Sales (2020)
I rode my bike all over town as a 8-12 year old in the 80’s and 90’s. My parents would send me to the grocery store and hardware store a mile or two away on my bike for random things they forgot during their main shopping trips.

But it just goes back to the same question: has the world gotten more dangerous or are we just more aware of dangers that were always there?
I don't see how blockchain technologies could help. The economies they create are profoundly unfair, inequal and adversarial. And I really don't want this new internet where everything is commodified.
Thanks! Can you tell that my SQL-fu is stronger than my HTML-fu? :-) Much appreciated!
You've heard of wantrepreneurs? Meet the wanture capitalist.
Lawmakers approve $600M to help fix housing program for Native Hawaiians
IANAL but I think you are probably subject to both versions of the TOS. You granted them a license to the content you posted under the old TOS, and those terms are still valid. Future content grants them a license under the new terms.
"Seek and ye shall find."

Read the New Testament and then the Bhagavad Gita. Jesus's words are uplifting but there's a lot of information that he gave the disciples that didn't make it into the Book. The Gita can be viewed as the "missing manual".

- - - -

I just lost my cat recently and had a birthday, so I'm in a deeply existential mood.

"All things are impermanent." It's as true as true can be. One day the cat is here, fluffy and meowing. The next day the cat is gone, and unlike the one in the story the cat is not ever coming back. Everything is like this: temporary, transient, contingent, impermanent.

The only thing, if anything, that we can "take with us" or that outlasts us is the effect we had on the world around us while we were alive. That is the closest thing to a "possession" you'll ever have.

So look to that. If you seek meaning in life, try helping people. Be kind. Cherish every moment. Feel and express love.

Hope this helps. :)
Grey Butte Field Airport – where UAVs get tested
Can someone do the math for me?

Let's say I'm 6 feet tall... what object would I have to hold out at arm's length, to have the same angular width as the entirety of this image?

A bacteria? A virus?
My immediate first thought on reading the headline.
I was looking for a picture of the 1,300 foot tall 'purple passion' plant mentioned and wasn't having much luck so searched the web including the Guiness World Record website for that and/or Dan Carlson and stumbled on this (after many requotes of claim but no links to actual source or pictures) and came across this from 2005

...Grower of guinness world record largest indoor plant, however searches
on http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com show zilch on Purple Passion
Plant, Dan Carlson, largest indoor plant, indoor plant, and a browse of
all 8 pages within the Plant World category of anything supporting his
"record". I do concede that perhaps this online version doesn't carry
all records.

http://wiki.iceagefarmer.com/wiki/Sonic_Bloom
>I'd say that something that helped a lot was that in early 2000s there wasn't that much people speaking English in Budapest. So, no cheating.

The situation has changed quite a lot since then. My former english teacher (monolingual english speaker). regularly complained about people being too quick to whip out their Hello Turist[0] sounding english instead of replying in Hungarian these days.

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=tsznw_eXpEs
Is that app innovative in your opinion? We had people creating widgets for Linux desktop 20 years ago. That person probably decided to maybe he can open the health app for free or maybe find some script that does it (not sure if Apple let's you script your phone or you need to first ask permission).

I would pay for an app if either it saves me time by doing some of my work for me or if is entertaining like a game.
>If I want to buy tomatoes and a friend tells me a shop down the road has them on special offer, that's not collusion.We're not artificially suppressing the price of tomatoes.

You mixed up the analogy though. Rather it should be that tomato seller 1 talks to tomato seller 2 down the road and they agree to never charge less than x$ for 1 pound of tomatoes thus removing market forces and creating an artificial floor for tomato prices
Don't define your target market as "we just need to get 1% of this $100B market".
Define your market as "for this $XM sub-niche of a sub-niche, we are the 800 pound gorilla that is the obvious choice."

You can always expand your target market over time, but start where you are strong.

Everyone understands this in theory, but it's hard to do in practice, because I think we have evolutionary aversion to "scarcity". So instead of thinking of it as "small vs large" market (when the small market is plenty to start with), think of it as "easy vs hard" sales and marketing. If sales and marketing is hard, shrink your market.
I am surprised no one mentions the elephant in the room - rent control.

It makes it harder to discover the true rent (one has to pay a large lump sum to the previous tenant to get a rent-controlled apartment) and it discourages rental housing construction.

Do you really think that these effects are best observable indirectly, as rent and construction?!
Because NATO would overwhelmingly defeat Russia in a conventional war. There is no real upside and there is very real downside for NATO to escalating a conventional war with Russia to a nuclear war.
cooking is one of my favorite hobbies. Will definitely check it out.
Agree that railway is the most promising "next-gen" heroku-like - between multi-service apps, opinionated pipelines, and the add-ons - they have got the basics right!

replit is the most holistic and unique product in the broader category. from dev to prod with laser focus on getting the experience right. But for enterprise or startup teams that needs dev/qa/CICD/testing etc it's still a bit too downmarket. And many people still want an escape hatch from the cloud IDE, or at least to use VSCode.

Coherence (www.withcoherence.com) is trying to deliver a replit-like experience for those teams. It's a new category that confuses Cloud IDE, PasS, infra-as-code and more. But in general it's obvious to us that the future looks more like replit than like anything else out there! In line with the idea that most new/junior devs want to work this way as well.

disclosure - I'm cofounder of Coherence
I find it ironic that people often look at the EU as "privacy-focused", with things like the GDPR, while at the same time the EU wants encryption backdoors and photo scanning.

IMO, the politicians just want more authority and power. The GDPR gives them power to sue and fine large companies, ie, free money. I don't think it's about privacy any more than encryption backdoors are about fighting crime or photo scanning is about protecting children.
Gemini also debunked it. So there is evidence to the contrary.

https://nitter.net/Gemini/status/1524428615844339718#m
About #2, 3, and 4, yes, quality starts at the supply line, and the supply line is all abut relationships. You should vet those carefully, and if you can't get enough quality from the immediate market you want, go into their suppliers and do it yourself (or co-start with somebody that can meet your expectations).

Hamming, as always, is quite insightful.
Don't get me wrong, the EU never met a piece of snooping legislation they didn't like, but the fact that the top part of the page is trying to sell me some encrypted email address makes me wonder about the article's editorial integrity...