skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm guessing that they would have added some simple nutrients and tried with plants you would find in e.g. deserts that are used to grow in very low quality soil.

Over time, you could probably make the soil richer simply by supplying simple nutrients and chemicals and letting nature do its thing. The importance of that is that there would be no need to transport many tonnes of earth soil. Though using some of that would probably help bootstrap soil production.

Chemical fertilizers are mainly produced using simple chemicals (hydrogen, ammonia, phosphates, etc. So, you could see that happening on e.g. Mars which probably has most of what you'd need in some form. I guess the Moon would be more challenging as it has no atmosphere and lacks elements like nitrogen and carbon.
> so I was just curious if there were any array languages that would be approachable to me

q is a very wordy language that sits on top of K4. Some open source examples of libraries used in finance:

https://github.com/finos/kdb/tree/main/q
Ask HN: Do you have more respect for UX designers or developers
I realized that I have more respect for the development profession then I do for designers and I am trying to figure out why. Businesses seem to respect both enough to pay large amounts of money for the work, and people out side of the tech space don't seem to care either way. I have alternated between the two fields for ~10 years and have ran into UX and Devs who phone it in, and who act like professionals, but the professional craft seems more common in development.
As someone who has been looking all over Sweden for American pizza (specifically NY style for sake of variation) closer than the few Dominos franchises which exist, I'm rejecting that claim.

Neapolitan pizza is great, American pizza is great, Swedish pizza (both kebab and otherwise) is great, it's just that if you're going to claim something is "more" pizza than something else, I'm going to give it to Italy.
That can’t be the key difference lest you consider gettoed immigrants with no expectation of integration as expats, which is not the typical usage.
> while maintaining visual consistency at scale

What does at scale mean here?
Holiday pay is full pay.

Parental leave is usually not. Parental leaves start rather high (100% or 90%) and then go slowly down (to 60% or 50%)
Zoom filter to add pants when you forget to wear them (machine learning)
Your algorithm should probably return places like Lisbon or Nice, which have nice and sunny weather all year round, but not too hot summers. And not Reykjavik, where you need functional clothing (water and wind proof) all year round.
You clearly haven't had to move goods between europe and the UK then. Or had to queue up in Kent.
If I spent 1/8 of what I earn, eight of me could live on my salary.
It's functionally achievable, people live in my country on that amount.
But I don't like that, so I spend a bit more.

There is no sense in reducing the entire human experience to the lowest common denominator one in order to fit more people on the planet. If that's in your plans, you have a literal fight on your hands.
Exactly. There's nothing peaceful about rewarding brutal aggression. Peace requires that Putin stops the invasion.
Yes it will be wonderful to see a glut of video cards on the market. Hopefully the end of highway robbery is close to an end.
> That would not produce anything close to this

Well, have you read the methodology used by this map?

> Each dot is a subreddit. Two dots within the same cluster are usually close to each other if multiple users frequently leave comments on both subreddits.

So it's not exactly about subscribers, but it's the same idea, which proves your refutation wrong.
>salame piccante

Salame piccante in italy has 0% to do with the crap passed as pepperoni in US pizzas. It's a traditional salami (cured meat). The same way Sprite is not champagne.

>Pepperoni does not exist as an Italian word.

I know, I speak the language. Peperoni however, where the name for the topping was copied from, does, and is the plural for a kind of pepper (bell pepper).

Peperoni or pepperoni (which is often referred in both "p" and "pp" version in the US), is obviously a copy of the italian word "peperone", out of context, to make it sound as this crap is some traditional italian ingredient.
Show HN: Fruits – Sell digital products via your website, newsletter, etc
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It works as simple as this:

1. upload a file at "fruits" & set a price
2. you will receive your individual fruits-sales-link
3. share the link wherever your customers are (e.g. website, newsletter, social media)

In addition, we also take care of the tedious office work such as invoicing and VAT collection for you, and this is completely automated.

What do you think? We are looking forward to your feedback!
With modernc version there are also a lot less compiling hurdles for niche devices, I have a bunch of apps that use the modernc version because it was the easiest solution to compile the binary for a 32-bit ARM device like the Raspberry Pi.
I wrote an interactive/interpretting parser in JavaScript with which you can do the same. https://fransfaase.github.io/ParserWorkshop/Online_inter_par...
There the JavaScript is embedded in the page. I am in the process of developing a JavaScript library from this. See: https://github.com/FransFaase/MCH2022ParserWorkshop/blob/mai...
This reminds me of the Ext Designer tool from many years ago that was very useful in building forms with the Ext.js framework.
I find myself more and more in favour of gatekeeping/keeping a low inflow of new people.

Too tired of the "include us -> we demand change -> we demand you be kicked out -> build your own place" cycle.

I used to be very against any form of gatekeeping. And lost a few really nice communities through that cycle.
Yes, that also immediately focussed my attention… We have friends from Iceland and I have since added Reykjavik to my weather app — to feel good that weather there is even more miserable than where I currently am, wherever that may be.

An obvious topic that seems missing from “good weather” is the amount and duration of rainfall.
> I've got ethernet cables that I've been using since 2011 without them breaking.

Me too. My problem is going to store and finding such cables, that will last 10 years.

> My headphones are in fact from 2008

That reminds me. When I was complaining about 3.5 mm cables in one music store, how my only good cable is from earphones I bought ~20 years ago, the store person went, like, "of course it won't break if it was made back then! why do you expect to buy something like that now, they ain't now making any"
I'd say no, but usually yes. In any competitive environment, usually an entity is incentivized to maximize total value, not value per user.

It matters not that a new user is better than the average existing user. It only matters that they are better than nothing. Good things grow, and they get worse per user over time if they can. The book unsong is an interesting read if you find this concept interesting and you like scifi.

But there may be some interesting counter examples where group ownership is distributed per user, or with equal voting per user. I imagine in such scenarios, it is possible for quality to increase monotonically.

But this would require all existing members to make good decisions about growth - which might not be that easy as it sounds. I wouldn't be able to think of examples off the top of my head... one interesting one to consider might be the group of all humans...
> If I start making pizzas in India and because mozzarella is hard to find here, just use processed cheese instead and may be put more chilis on top to suit Indian tastes, does the dish stop being pizza

No, but if you call that pizza something like Pizza Kalari would it then be wrong to say that Pizza Kalari is an Indian invention?
The problem with SIDS is that it largely just describes unexpected death while the parents are absent or asleep. This clearly includes a large number of accidents.

One of the SIDS prevention tips is literally not to sleep next to a baby while intoxicated. It's possible that alcohol breath would be the contributing factor but it's also possible that an intoxicated adult is simply more likely to accidentally suffocate an infant while asleep.

I'm not saying all cases of SIDS are accidental suffocation (though the vast majority of SIDS prevention tips boil down to "avoid obstructing the infant's airways and provide ample ventilation" and the rest are largely about temperature control to prevent hypothermia and hyperthermia) but I find it far more plausible that some infants simply are more vulnerable to accidental suffocation (or other forms of physical stress like temperature).

We ended up going against most SIDS prevention tips (our newborn slept in the family bed starting with an age of half a day) but we were also extremely attentive (living in a country with healthcare and being able to take the time off helps with that) and our baby was very healthy, strong (already able to lift his head shortly after birth), took well to breastfeeding (and my wife was able to breastfeed, luckily) and was very obvious when signalling discomfort (usually being too hot when we followed the recommendations). This doesn't mean SIDS prevention tips are bogus and it doesn't mean any other baby would have fared the same, but if we had put him in his own bed with a pillow and duvet I could easily imagine that he could have suffocated in his sleep and it would have been labelled SIDS.

EDIT: FWIW because of the implication that SIDS is a "disease" that can strike at any moment, we had a guilty conscience the entire time. I think a more honest framing of "some infants can be physically more vulnerable than they seem and here are some tips to keep them as safe as possible" would have made it a lot less stressful, but I'm not sure how much framing it as "SIDS prevention" helps people actually think about these things (or at least just follow the guidelines if they don't think about it).
Exactly, the industry of trading relies on building good models. Running analysis to uncover more data points is part of it.
Good wireless is expensive, and not maintenance free. This is at least true in any business setting. At home, wireless is simply fantastic for mobile devices, but wiring in fixed items (PC, consoles, TVs) is 100% the way to go.

Also, being conscious of what's in the air space is as crucial as the quality of your wireless equipment. It's all for nought if your microwave, AV sender, bluetooth headset or crappy 2.4Ghz wireless mouse is shitting into the same airspace as your network connection.

I say all of this as someone that pushed HARD to switch our office from wired to wireless when we moved. Aside from the direct cost saving (~200k in wiring alone) the side benefits of things like not having to use a crappy 'presentation PC' in each meeting room was a complete revolution. You just bring your laptop, and it's not even going to shit itself roaming from wired to wireless because boom, you were on wireles the entire time anyway. Same principle about wiring in fixed items applied though, we put fancy ipad meeting room control stuff in, and dropped extra on ethernet adapters for them because they're fixed devices, wireless is not a good choice for that despite ipads being wireless devices primarily.

Lack of visibility is probably the biggest shortcoming for enthusiast-level home wireless. I've had good outcomes buying ex-business Aruba gear and repurposing it for home use, but it's power hungry and you need to know what you're doing to get it off the ground. But being able to actually see what's sitting in the spectrum and watch the impact of things like turning on the microwave for ten seconds is a game changer.
TL;DR this article compares the performance of mattn/sqlite3 (a wrapper around sqlite's C code, requiring `cgo` to compile and embed) with modernc.org/sqlite, an automatic conversion of C to Go code, and finds that the "native" Go code is half as fast as the cgo version.

Which brings us to the obvious question, what improvements can be made? What if the Go code was handcrafted instead of automatically generated?

https://gitlab.com/cznic/sqlite/-/issues/39 is one issue from a year ago where they talk about insert performance and some optimizations as well, so I believe the author is aware of it.

Anyway, I hope a native Go version does pick up (for everything currently depending on cgo for that matter), it makes cross-compilation a lot easier.
You can also prioritise the other channels, or simply sit on DMs if they are not urgent¹, and let it be known that you do this. Many will start using your preferred channel if you explicitly don't make it easy not to.

We do something similar for external requests: if a client sends a direct mail to me, there is absolutely no SLA covering my response times and I deliberately don't jump on the case. You have to be a little dickish to make this work, if you respond quickly to direct contact by mail/phone/other people will not start favouring the proper channels.

[1] also make it clear to people that what is urgent to them may not be as urgent to you!
> We wouldn't have any words left to use if it was up to you I guess.

Good point, that's a bit of an extreme though and context/intent does matter.

> And what "hate-laws" are you referring to, in regards to speech, that people are "getting around"? You do know Twitter TOS is not the actual law right?

True, I meant the Twitter TOS I guess. But Musk wants to model the TOS as anything within the confines of the law right?
I think the existence of flying jacob should have been your first clue.
Game worlds with actual consequences are the key for me. Feeling like my actions could have impact on others makes my participation feel much more worthwhile.
But with traditional social media structures, as the user group grows, the quality of voting/interaction suffers - you get more people willing to like/upvote memes, clickbait, and controversy.

Maybe what we need is more media/discussion curated by people who care about quality instead of curation by the masses
I think people are a bit too critical here, as people's view on weather are different, i.e. utility functions are different.
As a person living in Edinburgh though, I can say the weather is not too bad, but certainly could be tad warmer without being uncomfortable.
Not sure if true, or just a new trap laid by iceland to keep me away...
> I do not think it is directly related to China. I think it is just not trendy to be an embedded developer

Not true at all. Pay has nothing to do with trendiness, but the other way around, being a webdev is trendy because of the high pay, great benefits like WFH and low bar to entry. Meanwhile embedded dev has a higher bar to entry due to the difficulty of the work, low relative pay and low flexibility in terms of WFH, making the jobs untrendy.

And no, the outsourcing of most HW related dev work to China has had a big impact in lowering embedded dev wages in the west, coupled with the fall of great electronics giants in the west. When I started uni to become an EE there was Nortel, Blackberry, Siemens, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Sagem, Philips, etc. developing HW and mobile devices in Europe, or the west, and were hiring like crazy. Fast forward 6 years when I finished my Master's and most of those companies have either went bust, or have become just brand names for Chinese OEMs, or have become sweatshops for far east workforce, keeping only some of their sales and senior management in the west.

The EE market in the west has went way down in the last 10-15 years in comparison to the web dev market which went way up. The only western HW company making insane profits is Apple and semi titans like ASML, Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Quallcomm, while the Japanese, Korean and Chinese companies fighting for the rest of the scraps, and most of the European ones throwing the towel completely. The commodization of HW and FW dev has meant the commodization of dev wages as well.

After graduation, some of my colleagues went into mobile app dev (the iPhone has been out for a few years but were far away from becoming the norm) and are now making several times what I do as an embedded dev at the same level of YoE. Talk about betting on the wrong horse. I still can't stop kicking myself for choosing such a poor career path and wonder if I can still switch as most companies seem reluctant to hire a thirty-someting embedded senior to do junior web dev work usually done by a teen or twenty-something out of bootcamp.
"Bad money drives out the good".

Dota 2 subreddit used to be great, but eventually the toxic people came in. Those who were neutral either left or became toxic. Those who were good left.

You really do need intense moderation to keep a community good and that's not easy.
I find that one of the biggest clue to distinguish AI generated content from humans is how eyes (if there's any) are drawn.

With AIs like DALL-E, they usually end up looking terribly uncanny and sometimes all over the place.
The even more annoying thing is that it's Ctrl+C twice.
Why is this a go program instead of 10 lines of bash?
I'd read a blog about your experience
Then there's no victory for anyone, because there's certainly no way Russia is going to win this.

The difference with Vietnam couldn't be bigger: in Vietnam, the US was fighting other people's war, most of whom didn't want it. The US was fighting the local population much of the time. This is pretty much the most generous way to interpret Russia's position in the war. Ukraine is fighting for itself, for their country and their freedom, because they know what will happen if Russia wins.

It's not NATO that's demanding that Ukraine fights; it's Ukrainians themselves who want to fight, because they know they can't afford to lose. And Ukraine has the people, they just need the weapons.

> The best outcomes for everyone involved is some settlement where Ukraine continues to exist and NATO and Russia both agree to not interfere.

That's what everybody thought, but Russian promises not to interfere turned out to be worthless. This agreement existed, but Putin broke it. He wants to control Ukraine, and made that very clear. He denies that Ukraine has any right to determine its own fate.

Asking NATO not to interfere is asking NATO to allow Russia to take over Ukraine.
Wireless is an added bonus to my router which we mostly use wired. It's nice to have for guests and mobile devices.
Extreme include discipline for C++ code
I don't have a story for the poor guy trying to come out of poverty in the way you mean. The chances of becoming 0.1%-style rich are extremely slim and likely the best shot they have is to slowly work their way up so their children can be middle class and (if the children also work hard towards generational advancement) their grandchildren relatively rich. Getting Kardashian-style rich is unlikely to ever happen for more than a few thousand people in the world at a time. Telling people the truth (becoming extremely rich is very very unlikely) seems better to me than a beautiful but untrue story that might harm them financially (ie: invest in this shitcoin and we're all gonna make it).

Like you I think large wealth disparities in society are undesirable, but if those come from the way society is set up then society is what is going to have to change. If you really want to change society then set up a movement and convince large groups of people about your viewpoint, but be prepared for hostility from anyone with a vested interest in the status quo.
> emitted by almost all printers

I believe it's only by some copiers and laser printers, not inkjets for example.
> I have a theory that most people tend to favor the pop music of their high school years. No idea if it’s true or not.

I would rank that theory with evolution, relativity, and the germ theory of disease as being as close to true as any theory is ever likely to get.
I feel like this is that story about the factory...

1$ - Blowing a hairdryer at the monitor

9,999$ - Knowing where to point the hair dryer...
I've had these for about 12 years, they don't get mentioned enough!

Downsides were that in the US there were expensive, and need proper daily cleaning, but the tradeoff is worth it - only need 1 pair per year - less waste too!

Going to get Lasik this year because they don't play nicely with travel in developing countries, but they were absolutely fantastic for school and university.
> The communities that hand-wring the most about predators and risks to children tend to be middle class, suburban, and white.

It's got nothing to do with race. Anyone who has the ability move out of a dangerous space does so, regardless of their race.

Getting them to move back in when they are perfectly fine where they are is the problem - they have no control over when and how the city may deteriorate again, and they don't want to have to take the chance of a large financial risk to move again.

It doesn't matter if cities are safe now; the suburban folk who move back in realise that they have no control over how safe it will remain.
>No, but if you call that pizza something like Pizza Kalari would it then be wrong to say that Pizza Kalari is an Indian invention?

I already answered your question in the next line in my comment -- There has to be some reasonable limitation on how little you modify something before you get to call it a new "invention".

Besides, no Indian would feel the need to do that because, unlike the British, we are quite comfortable in our culinary identity. And most Indians would not respond well to such marketing. In fact, things like Pizza and Burger fill pretty much the exact opposite niche in India where eating very crappy versions of these western foods seems to have an aspirational value to it.
All-in-one data quality platform for non-tech users
This particular way of coding to me exemplifies one very important problem with people who work in technical professions: their utter inability to "read the room".

In this specific instance, I suspect the folks who enjoy writing (and assuming they actually can - reading) code like this, completely assume that everyone has a brain with the same kind of weird quirks theirs has, namely the ability to recall almost instantly infernally long minutiae of details and thereby decipher what most people perceive as pure noise.

Or, more generally speaking, they assume that their potential audience essentially are as smart as they are.

News at 11: this is almost never the case.

And in the case of: this type of language, APL, LISP, functional programming, quantum physics, etc ... your favorite topic/programming language/hobby ends up bound to be confined to a tiny bubble of folks that are like you instead of gaining popularity.
>> but if we had put him in his own bed with a pillow and duvet

Well, for newborns you aren't meant to do that anyway. Definitely no pillow, and a very breathable blanket if any(sleeping bag is actually preferable nowadays). Our little boy is 1 year old and he still doesn't use a pillow - there's just no need.