skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every day I look at the things that I'm ready to do, and choose the one that I like the least, the one that's least fun — the task that I would most like to procrastinate from doing, but for which I have no good reason for procrastination.

I'm not sure I've seen this approach to combating procrastination before. I can see how it might work: once you've completed the thing you least wanted to do, you might feel relief that the distasteful task is done and you can then dive into other stuff without that nagging you in the back of your mind.

I think I will give this a try...
IIRC appspot.com is used by App Engine, one of the earliest SaaS platforms provided by Google.
Stock up on guns, ammo, cigarettes, water filters, canned food, and toilet paper.
>> Perhaps the art of bootstrap is not discussed enough here.

Twelve years ago, I bootstrapped my own company. Took a very small loan from my parents ($5,000), got a friend to work with me and we were off and running. We still worked our full time jobs, but I was taking vacation on Thursdays to cold call clients and give them my elevator pitch. Then it was setting up appointments, making the presentations and trying to get people signed up using a subscription based model we had developed while he was working on the mobile app development.

We were about two months from generating enough revenue to quit our full-time jobs when my buddy died suddenly and unexpectedly. It was pretty hard to continue after that. I slowly wound down the clients I had signed up over the next year or so, and quietly closed the business after two years. I still do business under the company name, but the organization is long gone.

If nothing else, it proved to me you can bootstrap your own company on your off-time, and eventually make that transition to full-time with very little to no overhead (office space, equipment, employees). Also, it showed me you don't need $10M in funding to build a niche company serving an underserved industry.

But bootstrapping isn't easy. Cold calling people isn't easy, getting out there and grinding away on a consistent basis isn't easy. Having your own money invested with a "do or die" attitude isn't easy. Believing in your idea isn't easy. I'm not sure constantly having to raise money is any easier, but the difference is one one hand you're constantly working on your product and business which makes your business sustainable. On the other hand, I'm not sure constantly chasing investors and their money will really benefit your company in the long run.
I think you’re reading too much into the word “wanted” or the words “in favour of.”

It sounds like, if it had come to a vote, you would have voted for them.
It’s not just a black issue. There’s a ton of white people this applies to. White people are at the same rate blacks were in the 60’s when the Moynihan Report came out. So the trajectory is the same.

Society is far less racist than it was in the 1950’s. However the amount of fatherlessness has exploded. Same with for whites but it started at a different place.
Are "Western gender stereotypes" significantly different than non-Western gender stereotypes? I can't tell if that means it counts a chubby stubble-covered man with a lip piercing, greasy and dyed long hair, wearing an overly frilly dress as a DnD player/metal-head or as a "woman" or not (yes I know I'm being uncharitable and potentially "bigoted" but if you saw my Tinder/Bumble suggestions and friend groups you'd know I'm not exaggerating for either category). I really can't tell what stereotypes are referred to here.
Waylock 0.4.0 and Rewrite, Zig-Wayland Improvements, River Progress
The problem I think is engineering haven't figured out good ways to measure software productivity, and so it's very hard to make the kinds of estimates that we need to properly justify work that otherwise delivers zero immediate business value.

(I also suspect that not all refactoring work is equal, and that most refactoring work don't result in any positive engineering or business improvements.)
Considering how much AWS recruiters message me constantly, an apocalyptic scenario where even the big players are having to lay off substantial amount of engineers is pretty low on the probability curve. Especially given the crunch to hire literally anyone of any skill, which is incredibly difficult at the moment.

I will say there's probably about to be a bunch of WEB3 crypto bros about to need a new job, to which I say good riddance; the days of them grifting people is probably over.
I am a fan of switching to school years with 10 weeks on, 3 week off quarters. I think a couple of the summer breaks staggered across the nation would be even better so that not all kids are on vacation at the same time.
I wondered why all the pictures at the top had sunglasses on, then I saw a couple with eyes. Still some work to do on this one.
This response conflates the current cyclical trend with the secular assertion I questioned, so I'm going to skip over the cyclical commentary.

> Going net withdrawal from net contribution with what is currently the largest, wealthiest economic segment in the United States is not likely to increase the size of money seeking to invest

From anecdotal observation, VC and PE investors are at a point in their financial life where their earned income is much smaller than their investment income, so I'm not sure this distinction is as relevant for that class.

Perhaps a thinning of multiples in the wider market from the 9-5ers withdrawing their 401k investments will pull money out of riskier investments. But it's unclear that your average VC LP has ever acted rationally (since median returns more or less match the public stock market, but with a decade lock-up).

I think the more interesting inflection point will be in another decade or so when the baby boom generation approaches peak die-off. How much of that money will go to wannabe tycoons a la MBS? How much will go to non-profit endowment funds? IMO there's a reasonable argument we'll get right back to another dumb-money peak like the one we just exited.
Well, ok, if you're thinking of UI state in that way, you're right. I was thinking of UI state in terms of how it's stored and manipulated in client-side JS.

To your original question, my proposal is that html over the wire provides a good solution without the need for state to reside and change in client JS.
The most amusing part will be watching these VC-backed companies realize the tiny bit of revenue they do have is from other VC-backed startups in uncomfortably familiar positions to their own.
Webmentions Yes, JavaScript No
>Figure 2: Non-cherry picked Imagen samples

Hooray! Non-cherry-picked samples should be the norm.
No, it's coming from a perspective of moral realism. It's an objective moral truth that racial and ethnic biases are bad. Yet most cultures around the world are racist to at least some degree, and to they extent that the cultures do, they are bad.

The argument you're making, paraphrased, is that the idea that biases are bad is itself situated in particular cultural norms. While that is true to some degree, from a moral realist perspective we can still objectively judge those cultural norms to be better or worse than alternatives.
Also, It was decommissioned then reinstated. However it was still a flagship.
Counter artillery is incredible effective. When I was in the army they told us to never be close to artillery firing as it was expected that the location would be determined by radar from the shell and you would expect an answer very quickly.

Note that Ukraine now has gotten new artillery from France that has longer range than apparently anything the Russians have.
>If I need a for-loop, I'll write my own script to generate the JSON.

That's how you end with extreme mess in logs, UI and metrics.

> But with Airflow, you need to figure out what _Airflow_ operator and method wraps the Google SDK method you're trying to call.

Or you can use PythonOperator with hooks, that generally integrate external APIs with Airflow connection system.

https://github.com/apache/airflow/blob/main/airflow/provider...

I think the bigger problem with Airflow's Operator concept is N*M problem of integrating multiple systems. That's how you end with GoogleCloudStorageToS3Operator and stuff like that.
I don't think the concern over offense is actually about you. There's a metagame here which is that if it could potentially offend you (third-world-originated-woman), then there's a brand-image liability for the company. I don't think they care about you, I think they care about not being hit on as "the company that algorithmically identifies black people as gorillas".
> Electric synthetic ammonia is mature tech

I'd prefer a nuclear plant nearby, ammonia is toxic: https://abc13.com/ammonia-truck-disaster-houston/1332062/
> on my mobile phone, the pizza place wants me to download a 30mb binary app to see their menu.

Pretty sure HTML works great for pizza menus.
Unfortunately, this XKCD post is used correctly.

.NET is known for its homogeneity and massive standard library that seems to be a black hole where eventually all good implementation of popular libraries end up in.

With one exception: UI frameworks. For whatever reason, UI frameworks have bloody and complicated history starting with early versions of .NET Framework and ending with the latest upcoming .NET 7.
Let's hope, fingers crossed, this time is different :D
Bigquery alone is the reason I recommend GCP.

That said, both AWS and GCP have some real rough edges.
An airplane that flies at 70,000 feet near the equator could release a load of SO2 which would make an aerosol that reflects sunlight and gradually makes it way north until it precipitates over the arctic.

Alternately build a solar sail factory at a volatile-rich asteroid (say 24 Themis) that makes plastic films coated with aluminum that fly back on their own power and park near the Earth-Sun L1 point.

This one is almost practical: Use a boat to disperse iron sulfate at carefully selected spots in the ocean. Actually more than one boat because if you don't survey ocean conditions you might not deliver the iron efficiently. The iron causes an algae boom, some of the carbon is trapped in plankton that sinks to the deep ocean.

The UN Law of the Sea forbids this, but the United States is not a signatory from that treaty so nothing stops you from doing a Kickstarter and running the operation of the coast of the US.
That’s how has worked in Canada. Prairie provinces literally bought one-way bus tickets to Vancouver, BC, for the homeless and addicted.
It is hard to interpret the "orders of magnitude" assertion as anything but a deliberate lie.
Aren't those old systems?
> is it so obvious that someone using your promotion more than once a day is "stealing"?

Yes. This is very obviously stealing, particularly if the promotion said it was for use once a day.

Edit: Also, sharing your netflix password may also very well be illegal: https://www.lawjournalnewsletters.com/sites/lawjournalnewsle...
Postmodernism is what postmodernism does.
Internalized oppression!
Stop giving the panhandlers money and they will go away.
> If there is no company then why don't individuals become felons when a company is convicted of a felony?

They do. Companies cannot be charged with criminal offenses, so "when a company is convicted of a felony" describes a non-event. Only humans can be charged and convicted of criminal misconduct.
I'm using a very slow computer (intentionally) and I can't look up anything. Even if the title pops up in find-as-you-type neither clicking it or pressing Enter moves me forward. Too bad, I was very interested.

Edit: it finally worked. But it's slooow as hell.
Right, maximize ROI with a pure play for 100x return.

https://youtu.be/BzAdXyPYKQo
"In their complaint, lawyers for Kellar and Day argued that two particular steps of the attack violated statutes against market manipulation and computer hacking."

So now they want crypto to be treated as regulated securities, but let me guess, only when it benefits them...
>Profitable from the first client is... uncommon.

Is it? Outside of Silicon Valley, I don't think there are many businesses that deliberately lose money in an unsustainable way. I know all of mine have been (at least marginally) profitable from day one, at least.
Also, git describe's output is not just <tag>-g<hash>, it is <tag>-<commitcount>-g<hash>. That number of commits since the tag counter can be handy in its own way (such as it is sometimes handy when trying to figure out which branch the <hash> is most likely from).

I'm curious if the git resolution algorithm that accepts describe strings also verifies/checks the commit count matches. Glancing at the documentation [1] it says that it specifically matches describe output strings (the docs call it <describeOutput>) and not just "<anything>-g<hash>", so it may actually check the tag existence and verify the commit count.

[1] https://git-scm.com/docs/gitrevisions
For sure, also I don’t assume people know much about Knuth or expectations for academic work.
Obligatory post about https://librewolf.net/

It’s a fork of Firefox with security / privacy configurations set as default.
While appspot.com is a Google domain, anyone can register domains under it. It would be similarly surprising to see an official GitHub blog post under someproject.github.io
He doesn’t have to state this. Look at his work.
If you can’t evaluate decisions or experiments on outcome, what can you measure them on? And why would you bother to? How would you learn from those decisions?

The worst case scenario is bound to be horrifying, by definition. That’s not an excuse for waffling out of making a tough call.
Indeed. If a project has shortcomings, why not just acknowledge the shortcomings and plan to improve on them in a future release? Is it anticipated that "engineer" being rendered as a man by the model is going to be an actively dangerous thing to have out in the world?
So for the first claim, they are arguing that forcing a leveraged short squeeze is market manipulation? There seems to be lots of straightforward counterexamples that it's not - that's an extremely common tactic the big guys use to squash little guys in the regulated markets. The little guys "would never have agreed to part with those securities on those terms" and the squeeze is often deliberate, transient, and leveraged.
To be clear, when you load our search results, you are completely anonymous, including ads. For ads, we actually worked with Microsoft to make ad clicks privacy protected. From our public ads page, "Microsoft Advertising does not associate your ad-click behavior with a user profile." This page is linked to next to every Microsoft ad that is served on our search engine (duckduckgo.com). https://help.duckduckgo.com/company/ads-by-microsoft-on-duck...

In all our browsing apps (iOS/Android/Mac) we block third-party cookies, including those from Microsoft-owned properties like LinkedIn and Bing. Unfortunately, our Microsoft search syndication agreement prevents us from doing more than that, though we expect to be able do more soon. We've been tirelessly working behind the scenes to change these requirements, though our syndication agreement also has a confidentially provision that prevents disclosing details. Again, we expect to have an update soon that will include even more third-party protections. I understand this is confusing because it is a search syndication contract that is preventing us from doing non-search things, but that's because our product is a bundle of multiple privacy protections, and those are the distribution requirements imposed on us as part of the search syndication agreement.
Could this pottery shard be a 1k-year-old hand grenade?
Well among other things, a sustainable business does not ever need to "extend its runway" because it is infinite by definition (sustainable meaning profit > 0) and "default alive" is a mode it operated in since inception.

All advice in these articles applies to the other kind of businesses ("makes $10k and spends $100k/month...") that likely got in that position by what in some cases is basically a ponzi scheme of fund raising, which was completely fine until just a few days ago and then they realized it's not going to work forever. This then resulted in a widespread panic and all this advice about "how to survive" and suddenly realizing that you should also "make the product amazing". These should be default rules to live by for any business, is all that I am saying.
Reading a relatively-recent Machine Learning paper from some elite source, and after multiple repititions of bragging and puffery, in the middle of the paper, the charts show that they had beaten the score of a high-ranking algorithm in their specific domain, moving the best consistant result from 86% accuracy to 88% accuracy, somewhere around there. My response was: they got a lot of attention within their world by beating the previous score, no matter how small the improvement was.. it was a "winner take all" competition against other teams close to them; the accuracy of less than 90% is really of questionable value in a lot of real world problems; it was an enormous amount of math and effort for this team to make that small improvement.

What I see is semi-poverty mindset among very smart people who appear to be treated in a way such that the winners get promotion, and everyone else is fired. That this sort of analysis with ML is useful for massive data sets at scale, where 90% is a lot of accuracy, not at all for the small sets of real world, human-scale problems where each result may matter a lot. The amount of years of training that these researchers had to go through, to participate in this apparently ruthless environment, are certainly like a lottery ticket, if you are in fact in a game where everyone but the winner has to find a new line of work. I think their masters live in Redmond, if I recall.. not looking it up at the moment.
Apple presumably has little to gain from replacing native apps with web apps on iOS.

(Moreover, responsiveness and battery life, things that Apple presumably cares about, are unlikely to improve by switching from compiled apps to javascript or even webassembly.)

Google, however, might have something to gain from replacing native apps with web apps on iOS.
Diet coke tastes like cleaning chemicals.
And jammers are always going to leave parts of the spectrum untouched so the owners of the jammers can still communicate.
Yes, it depends on the age group. Like Japan, young Americans are just having way less sex at all now. Possibly because of housing issues + increased personal space and parental tracking + better entertainment.
Spring 2008: 14 years!
You can use nuclear or stored renewables to power a heat pump, which could heat homes for most of the German winter. You’re saying heating is “negligible”, but the fact remains that 25% of all energy consumed in Germany comes from natural gas. There is nothing negligible about that. Also, it seems like you might not be aware, but natural gas has other uses besides heating and electricity. Natural gas is necessary to make hydrogen, which is a key component in making ammonia used for fertilizer. It has other industrial uses as well.
Alternately, there are more females nurses in the world than male nurses, and their model probably shows an image of a woman when you type in "nurse" but they consider that a problem.
Checking signatures will tell you that X created tag Y, but tells you nothing about "Y has not changed", regardless of how Y has changed. But yeah, I wish more setups would sign things.

And agreed, tag protection rules do exist and are fairly common. Though by far the majority I run across do not protect tags or branches by default. And even if they do, external systems may or may not honor changes - that's why dependency management lock-files exist, to detect changes like this where the "name" (i.e. tagged version) stayed the same but the content changed.

Or in a different flavor, you have Go modules, where you cannot ever remove or mutate a tagged version in the main proxy... but you can change it in github, and now your web-UI-visible code differs from what people download. Which may be worse, because while go.sum will store the go module checksums and can complain if you pull the wrong contents, that checksum doesn't match the sha it pulled. If you have a module-compatible tagged version, the git sha isn't stored anywhere, you just have `require thing v1.2.3` and the go module content hashes. Trying to "recover" the sha from this can be rather painful, as you essentially have to check the module checksum for all shas in a repo... assuming it even still exists.
Last time I checked there doesn't exist a commercial operated pumped hydro that buy renewables when supply is high and sell when the weather/season has changed.

I found one plant on the wikipedia list that is at least operated commercially by an private energy company, but they use it to balance their network of fossil fuel power plants when they shut down or start up. During starting/stopping the grid need to stabilize, and doing it themself is cheaper than paying third parties. They stated that in the future when the time is right then they might start to fill the pumped hydro by using renewables, but for now it is power by fossil fuels. Looking at who paid for that storage, it seems to be mostly through subsidies so it was likely a pretty nice deal for them and on paper it look green.
We're irrationally excited about this internally and we're super happy with how the Vercel team has continued to push Next.js forward. Thank you!

We're using a version of the persistent layout pattern Adam Wathan [blogged about](https://adamwathan.me/2019/10/17/persistent-layout-patterns-...) but having first-class support for this paradigm will be awesome.
The pref makes you look like a Tor user, mostly. So yes that population of users is pretty small. The Firefox/Tor privacy protections favor uniformity over randomizing everything.
Lowly millionaires? They can't get in the door at Davos.
You could simply encode a score for how well the output matches the input. If 25% of trees in summer are brown, perhaps the output should also have 25% brown. The model scores itself on frequencies as well as correctness.
A blockchain without those properties might as well be a SQL database.
Imagine a drone with the navigation based on the brain of a fly. It would be practically un-crashable.
I think this is generally good, unless your database treats NULL and '' as the same thing.... e.g. Oracle.
> If your query was about hairstyle, why do you even look at the skin color ?

You know that race has a large effect on hair right?
I've got a hot new product that sends a push notification to your minimum-wage caretaker from directly inside your adult diapers!
I read some of these of massively complex data architecture posts and I almost always come away asking "What the hell is this for?" I know Shopify is a huge business but I see this kind of engineering complexity and all I think is it has to cost tens of millions to build and operate and how could they possibly be getting ROI. There are ten boxes on that diagram and none of them have a user interface for anyone except other developers.
Excited to try this out in my next project :)