skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a horribly myopic take, it completely changes the "outcomes".

I am way more productive and happy:

- I save more money so I have more to spend towards productive uses.

- I don't die as often, living is productive.

- I listen to podcasts, diverse videos (just listening) or music, learning more during my drive.

- I call friends and family, enhancing connections and communicating more.

- The car drives for me, leaving me more relaxed and energized when I reach my destination, and I am more likely to travel further than I would normally.

- The car is much safer, lowering anxiety, so I use it more often for productive uses and generally feel safer and happier, and therefore more productive.

- It accelerates and coasts at higher speeds easily, so I get there faster.

- My back doesn't get sore nearly as easily (I get back pain easily sitting up), a huge productivity boost.

- The AC is cooler and heat is faster, sound is nicer, every material is nicer, tint is stronger, wipers are automatic and fast, lights are automatic and fast, etc etc - all this adds up to lower stress and higher safety, meaning less death, less injury, higher likelihood to use it productively, and less stress.

To wave away these things as minor is a very Thiel-like thing to do, but I find it ridiculous. You want to go to space? To be in the most inhospitable environment possible? What does that do for us, again?

I'd rather have better Wifi and more legroom on a flight than a rocketship that went 2x faster but didn't have either. We didn't get flying cars, we got unlimited knowledge and communication at the speed of light, even when flying through air. I'd like to fly a car, but again:

Cars from then 2020s are spaceships compared to cars from the 90s, while cars from the 90s are not really much different than those from the 60s. Within a decade we likely have self-driving electric cars completely dominate, and suddenly the Theilians look silly because all these "non-important" advances like, oh, computers and AI, suddenly solved a big problem, ignoring the fact that those same computers are already solving medical problems left and right, landing rockets from space, folding proteins, re-inventing Chess and Go, saving millions of man-hours of work, connecting people all over the world and greatly enhancing their general knowledge, amongst a few hundreds of other things.
It could work in theory, since it's supposed to be compatible with Postgres, but last time I checked they don't test against it, and it's not anywhere close to 100% identical (https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/v22.1/postgresql-compatib...), so I'm personally not too comfortable relying on it for production workloads.

Things might have changed since though, I'd try asking folks in the forums to hear their experiences with it before diving in. Would be awesome if this setup worked well though!

I personally prefer Fauna from an operational perspective since it's a 0-maintenance SaaS that scales pricing with usage with a generous free tier, but it's probably unlikely to be supported anytime soon.
It's weird in my later 20s I started doing this, writing homophones. I at least get my then/their/effect right still.
"It is also my understanding that it's purely because they chose to do that. They only need to name a prime minister, how they decide on one isn't defined by law."

No, but that's not relevant to the original point.

The two big parties are big and old because they are stable yet also able to change to reflect the changing electorate. They probably wouldn't have survived so long if they weren't internally democratic. The same is true in the US, the two big parties remain big because they're more like loose coalitions with a lot of internal democracy, hence why party elites are constantly getting upset about 'takeovers' by outsiders like Sanders, Trump, the tea party etc.

"The commission is comparable to the House of Lords at best ... the Comission has no real power because it relies on Parliment(which is democratically elected) to make the final decisions."

You've got it backwards. The EU Parliament is like the House of Lords. Both can propose amendments to legislation and slow things down, but they can't actually propose new law changes. In the UK only Parliament can initiate the process of changing the law, and in the EU only the Commission can. They call this the "right of initiation". The power to amend is also a lot less useful than it looks, because if the EU Parliament amends something in a way the Commission doesn't like, they can just revoke the law change completely and try again. The Commission is never required to accept an amendment.

In practice the EU Parliament usually amends laws to give the EU even more power than it was already writing in for itself. Because the EU Parliament isn't really a parliament, the sort of people who run for election are the sort of people who are content to either cheer or boo from the sidelines. That's why none of the EU level parties have any distinguishable policies beyond "support the EU in whatever it already wants to do" and "leave the EU/slow it down". Most of them are cheerleaders.
I can confirm the VAT handling works really well and I even have customers thank me for supporting VAT properly. Particularly EU customers that have higher expectations for this compliance. My original reason for starting to use Paddle for my SaaS was actually just because Stripe wasn't available in my country and I'd prefer anything to PayPal/2Checkout, but now after approx. 18 months I don't think I'd switch if Stripe launched here tomorrow.

They've also added an "Invoicing" system now so we can also be as easily VAT compliant for enterprise deals that will only pay by wire.
Too bad, requests is a very popular and useful library.

Yet, this is just one more example against reliying on third-party libraries for production purposes. Sometimes, urllib is enough.
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Also a bunch of free courses here:

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(free registration required)

(EDIT) If you're in the US and meet the requirements (take free courses) you might also be interested in this for (I believe) $120/year:

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Email in profile if you want to know more.
> What is the point of just releasing the CO2 into the atmosphere with no benefit?

To prevent other carbon from being pumped up from deep beneath the ground
None So Blind as Those Who Will Not See
GUIs do nothing more complex than many things that have to work right, so do. It is only tolerance for crappy software that allows it to be foisted on us.
Volkswagen CEO says car giant will overtake Tesla on electric vehicle sales
It also requires exponentially more stuff to be active year around, and adapting to a full time work/weekend schedule, compared to temporarily with a flexible schedule.

Just the beach walk will require a whole wardrobe of suitable clothes and shoes if you want to do it year around and live in a place with seasons. The scooter doesn't work in the winter.

Renting things also requires you to have a flexible schedule and be outside of the normal work week/weekend, because on a sunday when the weather is nice, everyone wants the stand-up paddle board and all the other stuff at the same time, that's the whole point of owning stuff, that it's there for you when you want it. Renting always means you get it when (most) other people don't want it.
Why are they putting it in a region that has Earthquakes?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_earthquakes_in_Romania
Depending on your needs, urllib might be good enough.
Tilaa[1]. They also recently launched a managed database service[2] (beta).

[1] https://www.tilaa.com/
[2] https://www.tilaa.com/en/blog/tilaa-cloud-database-beta-is-l...
Crazy people are everywhere and yet their destructive impact is greatly reduced if they don't have easy access to ranged deadly weapons.
It is more efficient to burn the already refined petroleum product
(plastic) than to dig up more unrefined petroleum products (crude) and put them to use
Staffing or Hiring Consulting is easy to start. Find a startup or enterprise who is looking for Technical Developers, and they are willing to pay for the referral or hiring fees.

Scrap HN freelancer or HN looking for job portal & match them with the companies.

You will require a computer & some persuasion skills.
Show HN: Resume Writing Assistant -standalone-
> If you want to display a single field from a particular resource you still have to fetch everything. And for nested resources you have to fetch them separately.

Says who?
Great. Now all we need is one that breathes in CO2.
Hey HackerNews! A bit of backstory: I started working on ResumeMaker.Online after my sister complained about how difficult it was to find an easy-to-use resume builder online. The goal back then to enable anybody, even non-technical users, to create a beautiful resume in the easiest way possible. But after launching the product, I quickly realized that design wasn't the only pain point for users--writing was even a bigger issue.

The truth is that a well-designed resume can help you stand out, but if the content is badly written, it is difficult to compensate with an attractive, well-formatted resume. Most people find it difficult to articulate their words in a way that presents themselves in a positive light, and spend countless hours on it. Hours that could be better spent applying for jobs instead.

Finally, after months of curating content, I am proud to announce the stand-alone version of new big feature (probably the biggest so far): Resume Writing Assistant.

This feature enables users to select their role and get access to hundreds of examples of work experience descriptions and professional summaries to use as inspiration. Basically, the goal is to turn a very time consuming task, into one that takes only some minutes.

At the moment, it covers 25 roles with around a total of 700 templates to choose from. And I know there is a lot to improve, that is why I would love to get some feedback, thanks a lot!!!
Here in Europe water costs a couple cents more in a glass bottle than in a plastic bottle. Is packaging really a major cost driver for medicine?
That's right, 1999 was the release of her first album (Baby One More Time). I think the reason some feel like it must have been the mid-90s is that she went from that to the first major scandals (marriage, divorce and a shift in her musical style) as well as her first Greatest Hits album by 2004.

Her next album after that (along with the head shaving incident and being placed under the custody of her manager-dad) was 2007, so most people's memories of her as a "sexy teen idol" are likely from her 1999-2003 period, which in retrospect probably felt a lot longer, especially with the overlap of other young women pop stars in the same period (e.g. Christina Aguilera started in 1998).
I guess if you'd choose a mobile phone over soap, then you're exclusively into virtual socialising rather real socialising.
And the highest data rates to date with the signal integrity requirements that accompany it. Got a piece of dust pushed down by your CPU cooler saddling two DIMM pins? Get ready for your machine to shred your data. And that's just a common simple scenario. I's be surprised if real world error rates in nominal scenarios won't be higher than with DDR4.
Or.. just hear me out here. It's a crazy idea, they could change the abortion laws.

Funny bit about being "Lawmakers" they can do that.

Seems almost logical when one reads the word Lawmaker
>why are they not using it in situations where it would be clear, to any individual with that knowledge, how useful it would be?

Who is to say it is not?

By analogy, if you are laying under your vehicle, loosening a bolt with a wrench, and your dog is hunched nearby watching, he can clearly see what you are doing (and quite possibly understands that the wrench is needed to loosen the bolt) but he cannot understand why you are doing that, or what 19mm means, nor express either. The dog understands leverage in terms of his world, but quite possibly not that the wrench is used to create it in a different way. Certainly he couldn't explain it to another dog.

The other apes are doing things we can see and hear, but do not understand or put any importance on. One thing I note is that there is no mention of body language in that essay. Posture and gesture (and situation) add a huge amount of complexity to language.

And apes are surely using that too.

For example, I can tell you "no" but with minimal deft gestures, convey understanding in you that I mean "maybe" or even outright "yes". The canonical example being Linus Torvalds saying "No" to whether he was asked¹ to add back doors to the Linux Kernel, while indicating non verbally and quite clearly that he meant yes.

You and I have "that knowledge" to understand the whole message, while we quite likely lack nuance that other apes have in their communications.

¹and we both understand "asked" to actually mean "pressured" to some degree, and told not to tell. And there was more than duality in Linus' answer, he was also saying "Don't trust me to not fall to pressure" and "If I am pressured, they shouldn't trust me to keep it a secret".

Apes are surprising in their sophistication.
I will never understand how we got to this point. Why adding this much complexity for just running a simple service?
When it comes to police brutality and lack of accountability I feel like the "defend yourself against say the gov" ship sailed ages ago.
Funny thing is they chose the exact same domain structure, which reminds me that httpx may eventually end up like this ridiculous requests situation...
> at least every 24 hours on a timer.

Shouldn't that be 'at most' or 'at least once'?

(My English skills are lacking so that was quite the mental stumble for me)
You have said it many times here, but I can't remember what were your reasons.

I think it has its place and will just add to the existing tools. After all, even free (and good) vst plugins didn't replace real synths.
> but these mass shootings are a new thing.

Look at the list before 2000, going back to the early 1900s:

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

Then normalize that by the US population over time. There's nothing new.
Improved error reporting for CPython 3.10–and beyond
> A drop in the ocean compared to all the other games out there.

You're moving the goalposts. You asked why, and I answered.

If you show why they can never possibly become the norm, you might have a starting point for more discussion.

> Most people wouldn’t contribute and just rely on others to donate.

And that's cool. Most people don't use any given product. It's those who care that are important here.

> rich governments that get to pick and choose what’s important

I fail to see how that's different from today. The rich are the ones who decide what kind of movies we see, Hollywood being a prime example. They decide what kind of intellectual property laws exist to favor which research or medicines, and they are responsible for ridiculous insulin prices (just look at USA versus anywhere else).

If anything, forcing people to self-organize by crowdfunding or following their hearts provides a chance to shift the balance.

> Innovation needs money or barter or other form of remuneration.

Have you never done anything because you got a kick out of it?
Totally agree. I don't want my parents in their golden years to worry about having to "clean up" or becoming a burden after they're gone. I don't want them to have to think about that at all, I want them to have fun and do what they want and spend their time and money how they want.

I'll be quite happy to spend a modicum of effort sorting through material possessions when the time comes, if it means they get to spend just one extra minute creating happiness and joy with their grandchildren.
4.3BSD is not FreeBSD
Snyk finds 200 malicious packages and Cobalt Strike dependency confusion trojan
i love linode and i am going to switch to linode ASAP.
> resized desktop linux is very far from what ios or android offers both on usability, performance metrics

Yes, Android and iOS have 10+ years of development at this point. However, if you compare with their first versions, GNU/Linux on mobile is good enough already.

> and even more so on security ones

It depends on what your threats are. My threats are Google and Apple. Can Android and iOS protect me? Perhaps GrapheneOS can, but longevity is more important to me.
> What kind of tragedy will be enough for the majority to want gun restrictions, instead of repeating the same idiotic and brainwashed idea that guns keep people safe?

We're given freedoms and liberties that cannot be found in other countries, and we will fight to defend them at all costs. In your case, if a tyrannical government takes place, you have no option to resist. In the US, we have the freedom to take control of our own destiny.
The same set files seem to be mirrored at https://katastrophos.net/symbian/mirrors/delight/. Probably more wget-friendly than Mediafire.
Ask HN: SaaS Communities?
Hey everyone, I'm looking for a community where people are interested in partnering up to build SaaS applications and businesses and leave this rat race.

I've built some applications on my own and got good programming skills, but building alone just sucks.

I really feel like I need a partner to build something great, that are reliable and can also ship great work or are from other disciplines and could take care for example, of ad campaigns and such. Doing everything on my own is too much.

Anybody knows communities of people like this?
The only way you'd be paying back £1200 a month on student loans (plan 2) in the UK is if you were earning £180,180/year or more. And at that income, it's probably not the student loans giving you trouble.
this is such a great info!
> it's not about whether people want gun control

I might be mistaken, but every time there's this discussion, the pro gun control voices are few and far between. Just read most of the comments in this thread. Most have a ready justification that guns are not the problem, the gun laws in the US are perfectly fine, yadda yadda.
Popular Python and PHP libraries hijacked to steal AWS keys
They are also heavier, less robust, more rigid, harder to seal tightly (without plastic), and completely impractical for large-ish items like some food items. Plastic-wrapped bananas are craziness, but a huge lot of our amazing level of food safety depends on plastics, so we can expect getting sick from food a lot more in a post-plastic world, like we used to before the advent of almost-free plastic wrappers.
Depends on what you want in a car and what you mean by ride comfort. Very few cars made today ride as smoothly as a 1970-80 land yachts made by Cadillac and Lincoln for example. Also, many newer cars are unrepairable without special equipment and some don’t even provide service manuals to owners. Good luck getting your Tesla fixed quickly while traveling in remote locations versus a traditional car. Good luck finding a new battery for it if China supply lines are hampered by a pandemic or some other issue. Electric cars aren’t a panacea.

Bottom line is that cars have been available to get us from point A to point B at high speeds for over 100 years and that is why we buy them.
> involves a 1200/month repayment is buy property

Rent?
>China just tore down a statue in HK commemorating the massacre.

How is that different from Eastern Europe countries removing Soviet statues?

>Come on, your spending an awful lot of time defending a brutal dictatorship.

Do you know the political preferences of the people who actually live there? And if you do, why do you believe you know better?
there have been prime minister changes without voting.

As mentioned elsewhere, that's not the case. The PM has always won at least two votes, one in their constituency (winning a local election) and another from their party membership.

What you really mean is, there has been no universal vote on the choice of PM themselves, which is correct. It's not a presidential system. However, that doesn't mean they never won a vote.

In contrast, the EU is run by people who have never actually won a vote. Or, well, technically von der Leyen won a "vote" in the EU Parliament but she was the only candidate who was on the list, so "winning" only meant reaching the quorum threshold.
posted 3am on a toilet in my third language I almost never speak.

Looking forward to your arguments about the substance at hand in fluent Swahili.
Why did I never notice the "La" came from his name? Most people pronounce it like the rubber you get from a tree but my PhD supervisor pronounced it more like "Lah-Tech". I guess that is the correct pronunciation!
Unfortunately the arguman.org site appears to be defunct, and the JavaScript from the archived pages doesn't appear to load correctly when using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at the moment, but I would refer you to these argument maps:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20210419001046/https://en.arguma...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20210510174650/https://en.arguma...

(if you're really, really dedicated you may be able to use 'view source' to dig into some of the arguments provided, although it could be tricky to get a sense for the tree structure of the debate and the vote weightings)
> I guess it's only natural that you should defend your own style.

I have reasons for writing things that way, that can be documented, if necessary. The style is not my own, though.

> However, almost no C programmer would stack and hang their closing curly braces the way Lisp programmers do with closing parens.

But they do it all the time with parentheses, which is the normal thing to do.

By the way: spotted lots of this in the Zstandard compression code base a few days ago:

void fun()
{
if (...)
{
for (...)
{
...
} } }

Yikes; the closes braces line up with the opening ones, but not their corresponding matching ones. I hope that wasn't a Lisp coder (and don't suspect it).

> I'm just curious if maybe part of the reason Lisp is so objectionable to most programmers is because that style is so different from block structured languages.

But it isn't. Almost all the indentation and alignment strategies you see in canonically formatted Lisp code have counterparts in everyday code in mainstream languages.

Found this in Linux's kernel/sched/core.c:

WARN_ON_ONCE(debug_locks && !(lockdep_is_held(&p->pi_lock) ||
lockdep_is_held(__rq_lockp(task_rq(p)))));

^ Lisp disease?

^ gee what is this "arbitrary" alignment?

Would C be more popular if it was more typically like this?

WARN_ON_ONCE(
debug_locks &&
!(
lockdep_is_held(
&p->pi_lock
) ||
lockdep_is_held(
__rq_lockp(
task_rq(p)
)
)
)
);

In fair.c file in the same directory:

if ((ns->nr_running < ns->weight) ||
(((ns->compute_capacity * 100) > (ns->util * imbalance_pct)) &&
((ns->compute_capacity * imbalance_pct) > (ns->runnable * 100))))
return node_has_spare;

in drivers/md/raid5.c:

if (s.written &&
(s.p_failed || ((test_bit(R5_Insync, &pdev->flags)
&& !test_bit(R5_LOCKED, &pdev->flags)
&& (test_bit(R5_UPTODATE, &pdev->flags) ||
test_bit(R5_Discard, &pdev->flags))))) &&
(s.q_failed || ((test_bit(R5_Insync, &qdev->flags)
&& !test_bit(R5_LOCKED, &qdev->flags)
&& (test_bit(R5_UPTODATE, &qdev->flags) ||
test_bit(R5_Discard, &qdev->flags))))))
handle_stripe_clean_event(conf, sh, disks);

All of these examples use pretty much identical formatting logic as what I'm following when I'm coding in Lisp; except that a more pure version of it occurs.
If you can't distinguish between a bot and a human, is it a bot?
See a "gun violence by race" chart and you will see why something that works in Israel or Australia won't work in the USA.
if it can't legislate, then it's not a legislature, is it?

Correct. The EU Parliament calls itself a Parliament, but isn't.
Empathy is a thing worth considering, working on, being better at. I try.