skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wish every project was as basic as a web server and database but it's pretty rare these days.

I feel like the overwhelming majority of web based software projects can be catered for with exactly this setup.

If it's rare it's because everybody's drunk the Kool-aid
If you read the UN definition of genocide [0], you'll see that a population increase doesn't contradict (the UN concept of) genocide at all. The key is intent.

[0] https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
> Not so much benevolent as accountable.

Remind me. Who was fired for Waco? Who at the CDC was fired for stopping the Seattle Flu Study from testing for COVID, or for banning commercial labs from testing for it while their own lab reported all samples as positive because of contamination?
I feel like the whole Cheerful Fairy episode in the Hogfather has more substance than the linked article. And is fun to read.

Although shitty articles sometimes give nice topics for a better discussion here in the comments, so why not.
What volume of data are you storing in postgres? Any reason not to use a hosted postgres provider? At first glance it seems like a lot of compute for the service but curious about scale
This is a very good point and I'm going to check out the book you mentioned. Thank you
Hackaday has an interesting article about this:
https://hackaday.com/2022/05/23/fighting-back-against-dodgy-...
I don't know what the official definition is, but I'd consider deliberate mirroring of posture, online tone, and emotional state for conscious deceptive, and manipulative ends to be toxic empathy.

Trivial example - phone services with the stock "Your call is important to us but we're experiencing an unusually high level of calls right now" message. When the truth is the company is spending a bare minimum on phone support and knows it.

Or customer service scripts that say something like "I understand you're frustrated that you're having this problem."

In reality there's no understanding. And there may not even be any interest in fixing the problem - because when you read back through other messages you see the problem has been there for years and there's been absolutely no effort to find a fix.
While I would accept the EU is small-C conservative about GM, that was in response to public opinion — IIRC, every rule predating the Lisbon Treaty (2007) necessarily had unanimous (and not merely majority of both nations and people represented by those nations) support from the governments of the member states — and even then the EU doesn’t ban GM crops but rather it regulates them, and the UK had some such crops (and experiments) before leaving:

https://ec.europa.eu/food/plants/genetically-modified-organi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_food_in_t...

Indeed, the reason I as a vegetarian can have hard cheese is the use of GM bacterial rennet (not a crop, no idea how that changes the regulation rules).

As for card payments, even in Berlin they are less common than in the U.K. prior to Brexit, but that variance by itself (and the increasingly cashless orientation of Sweden) demonstrates the EU isn’t being held back by German skepticism of non-cash money.

Likewise in reverse (and to show this isn’t just an EU thing), when I visited California, I was shocked by how primitive and backward the payment systems were, especially given California has a reputation for being technologically progressive.

However, even if I were to accept all of your claims, this makes little difference in either direction to my opinion of specifically Ursula von der Leyen, as questions of competence are a separate axis to each of liberty-vs-rules and dynamic-vs-conservative and left-vs-right.

Edit: also, GDPR is in this context basically the same as the UK’s Data Protection Act 1998, it is just that nobody outside the U.K. paid any attention to the U.K. acting alone.
This!

The friction to use a cordless vacuum is very low compared to a corded one. And consequently, vacuuming change from being a chore that's done once few weeks for a an hour to some short 5-10 minutes burst every few days.
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Basically it runs a headless Firefox with a web extension that converts visible DOM to TTY cells (think a lightweight VNC). The usecase is for it to run at some server and then connect to it through ssh or mosh so to conserve data usage. Previous discussions are on submitted links pointing to the homepage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25129747

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21630423

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17487552
I had a friend, around that time, who some years before had some sort of disagreement with some guy. That guy's girlfriend filed a rape charge against my friend. He was convicted and served seven years, solely on her say-so.
So annexing countries is OK when a country wants to join a defensive alliance against a bully? No, that's not right.

And you still have not responded to my question regarding Putin's screed denying Ukrainian statehood. Giving Putin anything (appeasement) when he actively denies the legitimacy of a state is and uses falsehoods such as "denazification" as a casus belli is not a good strategy.
Can we call the article an example of toxic filler? All filler in the guise of something genuinely helpful.

For toxic positivity, I call it old-fashioned denial, mixed in with a lot of bullshit.
> Parsing strings assembled out of strings is classically bug-prone.

I think the bigger problem is not so much that regexes are generally defined by strings specifying the desired regex, but that at some point between the development of printf and the development of regex libraries people forgot that they could use whatever escape character they wanted when implementing a new conceptual data type. In C, the compiler deals with strings, and the printf function deals with strings, and they try not to conflict with each other by assigning the escape character \ to the compiler while printf uses % instead.

But in Java, and Python, and presumably many, many other languages, some idiot decided that if strings used \ for their escape character, regex functions should also use \ for their escape character. Since they accept strings, suddenly the regex escape character is actually "\\". How do you match a single literal backslash? "\\\\", obviously. What's wrong with that?
All the narratives that justify total surveillance are fake. Now that's a revelation!

What next? Hydrologists admit there's some water in the ocean? Chromatologists discover that the sky is color blue?
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A lot of people just want to be modest and realistic. They don't like decorating things, telling half-truths or flat-out lying about the truth. Both being overly positive and being overly negative do this. However, from personal experience, most places which affect one's personal life and cannot be reasonably skipped (unless you wish to live close to a poverty wage, and even that is questionable) emphasize being more positive than need be. Negativity can more or less be skipped by just unplugging social media.

Take the classic "why did you leave your previous job" question in job interviews. Most people leave jobs over something which cannot be interpreted as anything else but negative. Bad bosses, bad managers, no growth, no opportunities, too little pay to support future goals. Yet negativity is a no-no (as is "greed" and a bunch of other things). So yes, most people are decorating or lying about the actual reason. And no, this question doesn't exactly indicate any kind of job performance, it's more like a hazing ritual. Same goes for other questions.

It's a weird kind of dystopia for people who are primarily logic driven and/or horrible at selling themselves, and don't have a skillset so in demand they can ignore those barriers. Let alone those who are vulnerable to this kind of behavior (people who are too modest for their own good and anxious to boot come to mind).
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To an outsider, a lot of it rings true.

Perhaps it's not right, but it feels like the present-day US is a country forged out of a war. WWI brought it to the high-stakes table. Then the Great Depression was, it seems, "saved" by WWII - massive mobilisation of economy, industrialisation and subsequent recovery boom. Had WWII not happened, could the US have collapsed there and then in 1940s?
Software Development time estimation. Is it a problem that needs solving?
I am curious to know if time estimation is still a difficult problem to solve for developers. In my experience I am either way under, or overprice. I feel like I should get paid the overpriced fee, but clients then go into a price war with me.

Has anyone solved this with tooling or is it an "experience thumbsuck"? What is your method?
> Nothing wrong with freedom of expression. Having an opinion or expressing yourself in uncomfortable terms isn't illegal, and I see no problem with this.

Excuse me for saying this, but is that an argument in favor of the article or Hitler? because it works equally well either way.

Just because expressing an opinion is not illegal does not mean it should not be allowed to criticize that expression. And just stating that having opinions is not illegal is in no way a valid defense against any criticism neither in specific or in the general case.

> Agree or disagree and that's that.

what an odd restriction to put on other people speech. No, that’s not all you can do. It’s perfectly ok and expected that some people might agree fully or partially with what has been said by another, yet still not like the manor or quality with which it has been said.
I'm not following your logic. $1 worth of debt is worth $1 no matter how risky it is. The risk is built into how much it is worth. Risky debt is high risk high reward. Since these funds are backing a stablecoin it doesn't make sense to go for high risk plays with that much money.
Could this be mitigated by detonating small quantities of high explosives a few meters below ground in a 2D grid?
Even just using the website directly has a limit.
Also, governments are used to being able listen into whatever they wanted to in the past, and now their capability is eroding, and they don't want to lose their apparatus.

e.g.: Crypto AG incident, old phone taps, etc.
If you're looking for an accessible introduction/overview, try Contemporary Abstract Algebra by Joseph A. Gallian. It also includes lots of applications, some of which are relevant to cryptography.
The text version: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/steele.pdf

I feel though that the article hasn't aged well. The talk was given in the age where Java didn't yet have generic types (he mentions this alongside with operator overloading). As to how Java successfully grew since then, I'm not very sure. Not all faults of Java are his, but like many others, he only seems to have a (very good) idea about the general direction, not the path itself.
Maybe so! .. but more likely a narcissist or sociopath in my experience.
If it takes days to figure out problems with the dev/build environment... uhm... you're having a huge problem, regardless of where files are edited.
How about the toxicity of attacking positivity? This world has WAY too much negativity right now and it's downright harmful to human psyche. People are freaking giving up on the world and deciding that they should never have children because they think they'd just be bring them into a doomed world. That's when you know negativity has gone so far.

Some toxic positivity on the odd occasion to counteract the nonsensical rampant toxic negativity is fine with me. It's gotten amazingly ridiculous. People are even cheering for good things to fail now out of some kind of warped jealousy.

And no, for those who thought this, I didn't read the article.
Here it’s justified because toxic emotions poison the mind, make you oblivious to trouble, make you chase mistaken priorities etc.
Spoiler alert, but if you want a tutorial on understanding Tromp's calculus, then here's the readable version of his IOCCC entry with cryptograms and everything deciphered. https://justine.lol/lambda/
Censorship in the US operates on a distributed basis, through outright deplatforming, algorithmic suppression, astroturfing counter narratives and smears, coordinated mass reporting/flagging, etc. You can never point to an explicit decree banning a topic as that would deeply offend our American sensibilities, but if we see the exact same ultimate results while feeling like we have some participatory agency, then we can easily accept them as the natural outcome of the free market, democratic will, or our collective individuality.

Think about any contemporary geopolitical opinion that would trigger knee jerk emotional responses, a hail of downvotes, and accusations of being a foreign agent. Notice how the narrative quickly gets reduced to good versus evil, democracy versus dictatorship. But have you ever actually heard a serious fact-based debate on any of these issues? Many people would consider the question itself offensive.

Americans believe that we’re savvy media consumers when we recognize the bias of individual pundits or specific media outlets, but we tend to miss that the entire sphere of media and discourse is a sculpted garden premised upon certain conceits and assumptions which are in no way politically neutral. The band of acceptable conclusions which flow from this underlying framing always seem to uphold and carry forward the essential interests of the select few who already hold power.
> Right, because the banking system can always create dollars out of nothing to satisfy any outstanding liabilities.

Can they though? Don't they create new liablities with this? Effectively ending in "finance debt with more debt" scheme that has eventually got to collapse?
Any definition of "intent" involving more goals or different levels of abstraction or more presistence than "match given pattern" would suffice.

Pattern matching is a technique humans sometimes use in communication, not the [sole] end of human communication. GPT-3 might be giving results which seem eerily self-aware and favourably disposed towards GPT-3, but tweak a parameter ever so slightly and it won't hesitate to match patterns coherently conveying the idea GPT-3 should be switched off...
NATO is an offensive alliance. In the last 20 years it has targeted 4 countries in unprovoked fits of aggression. It didnt have shit to defend against.

No, that still doesnt make what Russia did ok.

>And you still have not responded to my question regarding Putin's screed denying Ukrainian statehood

Coz you edited it in and I didnt see it. It's propaganda for the Russian masses / Russian speakers in ukraine. It's their WMDs. Im not defending it. It's bullshit.

Nonetheless when peace negotiations happen that screed will be irrelevant. It's NATO military bases in mariupol and odessa Putin cared about not some nebulous sense of Ukrainian identity.

>uses falsehoods such as "denazification"

Eh, if this were all made up lies German magazines probably wouldnt be publishing photos of Ukrainian soldiers with swastika tattoos.

Zelensky actually asked Azov (the Ukrainian army batallion founded by an avowed white power advocate) to back down after he was elected to try and end the war in donbass. They told him no, presumably because they dont take orders from a Jew.

They did very badly when they tried to get elected but being able to say "fuck off we actually want to continue this war" and having your president defer to you does signal that your country has something of a nazi problem.
Last summer in berlin I saw several ‘streetview’ like rigged cars, amongst them a Apple branded car with dslrs(!) mounted all around on a space frame... prolly autonomous driving tests though?
You mean you don’t like swapping between endianness 15 million times when you’re processing Bitcoin????
They sold us "liberty, fraternity, equality" and "peace on earth", and "development for all" and "freedom from totalitarism". That is how we got there.

Countries have resigned their power to mint coin *without questioning their citizenship*: this is so amazing and nobody complains.

And that is just one of many. Now we will have a military without even questioning whether we the people want to or not!
It reminds me a lot of shit my dad would say when discussing physics. It's a fundamental misunderstanding of what physics is, mixed with a little bit of traditional christian thinking I believe. Or it could just be anti-science rethoric. Or both perhaps.

Reminds me of Feynman's story about the beauty of a flower. https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VSG9q_YKZLI
Luckily it doesn't spread by breathing...
Introductory model theory has no particular prerequisites beyond elementary set theory and logic, but it does demand a fair amount of mathematical maturity. If this is your first exposure to higher math, you're probably better off starting with another topic. Real analysis or group theory would be the traditional choices.
I remember in 2009 being part of an online community where I preferred to be anonymous and while reading a thread where people were sharing photos of sunsets, had the thought that eventually, there would be enough information out there that my precise location could automatically be determined based on me taking a picture looking out at the city from my balcony. That's a pretty creepy thought, and it seems that google is approaching it, given that they can have you point your camera "across the street" to determine your location from their glorgabytes of street view imagery.
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> pure lambdas

Also, in lambda calcalus there is no recursion built-in. You have to build it yourself with the Y combinator.
Except when the leader gets kicked out (or resigns) part way though their term, as happened to Thatcher, Blair[0], Cameron, and May.

[0] although I’ll accept he doesn’t really count because both he and the Conservative party explicitly said prior to that election that if you vote for Blair you’ll get Brown soon after.
You should disallow nulls as much as possible, but "" is just as valid of a string value as "John Smith"; if the field is actually semantically nullable, reflect that in the type - don't use arbitrary "blank" values to denote nulls.
Lua 5.1 is the most amazing language design I've ever come across; you can do almost anything with this language and it's as minimal as it gets. It is true that dynamic typing sets limits in terms of project size.
Social media bragging and attention seeking is not toxic positivity, there is no positive in that.
> The US took Ukraine's hand and led it directly into it.

This is what Putin says. Moreover, he argues that Ukraine has never been a real country and that it is his duty to make it share the fate of Belarus.

Unfortunately, this argument completely ignores the will of Ukrainians. They did not want to join NATO because they wanted a war but because they wanted to avoid it. This is clear to any sane person. In 2014 Putin lost Ukraine so he conquered Crimea and decided to start a war in Donbas, meantime Ukrainians tried to do what they can to avoid the catastrophe, and in the end Putin decided other countries will be too scared to help Ukraine and started a full-scale war. If we let Ukrainians be slaves of Putin, we only have ourselves to blame.
I guess people just like complaining, it works great, especially used together with a robotic vacuum cleaner for the easy locations. I just got some food on the floor an hour ago, I would have been lazy to get a wired vacuum cleaner there, but with Dyson wireless it was really easy.
From your post, it seems your issue lies mainly with distrust of the CCP. I agree, that's fine.

> However the two situations are vastly different. The US has a history of reporting on issues that happen on their own turf. Sometimes with positive outcomes, sometimes without any outcome at all.

I'm not sure what you're trying to justify on the US? My interpretation is that it seems more truthful to you at least because you have some aligned values?

This where past details really have to come in imo. Consider the times. China is a rising challenger to the current hegemony and historically they will fight on some level. And fighting is dirty. Most people align with the side that has the most shared common values, and make judgements accordingly. They have no time and energy to dive into the details. Knowing that, these entities will try to manipulate you. If you don't want to be manipulated, you just have to spend a little effort on reading up on different narratives and figure out what's relevant.
I think that small tactical nucks might yield better results. /S
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Storage is trivial freshman physics (lift a weight, pump air to displace water under pressure, pump water uphill) except for batteries, which are also perfectly known physics, with numerous chemistries in mass production, a century of universal use, and working prototypes for more exotic chemistries

Thus, literally as different from fusion as is possible to express.
>Massachusetts with the #1 public schools in the country,

That's just lying with statistics. Adjust for parental income and see what you get. The state has few poor and rural areas to "drag the average down" so of course they look good. VA would look good too if they had the luxury of counting just NOVA and the coast in their stats.
Indeed, which is why the title is so strange. Sauropods are a strange thing to compare with anyway, I would compare it with other methods actually used for working the land.
You're arguing against points I'm not making. All I'm saying is, arranged visits by Chinese government to Xinjiang are meaningless and can't prove, or even hint, what China is really doing there. The "evidence" provided by China will look the same, regardless of their fault or virtue.

So going/not going on such trips, and any authority rejecting or accepting this as evidence are meaningless.
There's nothing stopping you from wiring the Next.js backend up to your databases and external APIs and for simple apps it's likely quite a nice solution. But if your backend consists of complex business logic and needs to talk to lots of different services it can be a lot cleaner to have better distinction between the backend part of your app and the frontend, and just use Next.js' backend for data fetching for the UI.

You can also not use Next.js without a Node.js runtime at all and just compile your whole app to static files to be served by a static file server like S3, nginx, etc. The advantage of this over CRA is that you get statically-rendered html (as well as normal client-rendered React interactivity) which is good for SEO and FCP[1]

[1]: https://web.dev/fcp/
I don't think that Klarna's issues are caused by the economic downturn at all. If anything demand for credit, especially "Buy Now, Pay Later" products, should rise when the economy dips.

IMHO, the issue is that the company has been developing like many tech startups do by burning huge amounts of VC cash on 'growth' without any regard for profitability, and now things start to come back to reality. A $250m loss for $1.6b in revenue is rather incomprehensible for the industry they are in (which is finance, not tech).
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China has Uyghur politicians, so by your reasoning, they're identical to Israel.
I always assumed "toxic" means that it affects others it comes into contact with.

e.g. You've had a bad day at work:

Negative: Being a bit withdrawn and avoiding conversation

Toxically negative: Shouting at your wife and kids
PNE's were actually suggested at some point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion