skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Donations are a notoriously fickle beast. Other than Wikipedia, no successful open-source project is being dominantly funded from donations - and one might argue that Wikipedia only gets so many donations because their funding drives are pretty damn obnoxious (Yes I'm aware that it's Wikimedia Foundation but let's be honest the side projects are pretty much irrelevant). To make it worse, even the behemoth that Wikipedia is creates barely 160 million dollars a year in revenue [1]. That is orders of magnitude less than the amount of money that Google, MS and Apple have at their disposal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statisti...
We live in a world with over 100 billion galaxies, each with over 100 billion stars. Life is billions of years old and billions of humans have lived before us. We live in an extremely well-off time, relatively speaking. Anxiety is a powerful emotion developed primarily for much less secure circumstances (eg, past few million years). It may be helpful to know that anxiety is natural, common and beneficial— but also that it is a self-inflicted trick of the ego. There are many systematic self development techniques for achieving positive emotions. I find it helpful to accept where I am (“I am good. I am worthy”) and to accept my desire for more (“I know what I want and I know I am worthy of it”). I try to experience pleasure in the anticipation of getting what I want (rather than feeling anxiety in not having what I want). It is hard to trust— but, learning to trust — that is itself the work!
This piqued my interest after visiting the abandoned nuclear plant in Satsop, Washington and having the pleasure of uncovering a number of fun resources in regards to past nuclear accidents.

Understanding disasters like Chernobyl really puts into perspective how quickly things can go wrong with radioactive material.
I found the following lecture does a great job outlining the Chernobyl disaster and potential impact of similar disasters, both from a meltdown perspective and understanding the impact of radiation.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ijst4g5KFN0
...addendum: ALL models are editorialized/interpreted. Forgetting this often leads to errors.
I completely get Launch HN part - that was not I intended. I've seen companies not 'launch' but incrementally present their releases from what they've built quarter by quarter with YC badge in the title of the post or in the guise of launch week. And have always wondered why are those incremental releases allowed to be discussed so successfully ? I would say YC badge shouldn't be allowed in first place in any post other than Launch/Job. Believe me these companies have become disproportionately successful from their peers although they lack substance within. As mentioned I do not want to name names.
I am/was similar. My solution was to earn enough money to for "lean FIRE". Since I got to that level, my motivation for the grind and tolerance of job-induced bullshit started rapidly declining. Currently, I do not work, but am still productive - I improve my cooking skills (saves money on eating out) or do some hobby with hopes of creating a small income stream off it. This is so much healther than doing more grind in tech so that I can add another $100k to my stash. In the end, my money may run out before I die and I'll end up poor at 80 yo, but that is such a distant and uncertain scenario that doing something I hate (I've grown to mostly have coding jobs) for the sake of protecting against it is just not worth it.

The key here is learning to enjoy living relatively frugally, if you haven't already. If you like living large, you'll be slave to tech jobs for a long time.
Shoe Dog changed my life completely. It is the most inspiring book I’ve ever come across. Contrarily, I want to get off of HN. It’s full of depressing malaise and never about qualities of life that I want to pursue: hard work, perseverance and persistence. HN sometimes feel like I’m browsing r/antiwork.

Phil Knight’s thrust in life and the way he constantly ratcheted himself through tough times is vividly captured in Shoe Dog. Highly recommend it.
Entrepreneurship as a Risk Management Strategy
Why do people keep talking about Hyperloop? He LITERALLY never promised that. The opposite infact, he said I think this is a great concept and worked on it, but all Im gone do is release a Blue Paper.

And then 5 years later people are angry he didnt deliver.

I really dont understand why people keep brining this up.

And as for Mars, nobody can deny that what Musk is doing with SpaceX is getting us closer to that then we have ever been. I dont think any fan of space flight would disagree.
Webviews are not alternatives to electron. If your software works in a WebView, you don't need electron. And if it doesn't work in a WebView, you can't use webviews.
That's a known and widely publicised trait of Python.

In the early days, Python tutorial warned against adding to strings by doing "+" even though it works because that performed a new allocation and string copy.

What you were asked to do was use fast, optimized C-based primitives like "\n".join(list_of_strings) etc.

Basically, Python is an "ergonomic" language built in C. Saying how something is implemented in C at the lower level is pointless, because all of Python is.

Yes, doing loops over large data sets in Python is slow. Which is why it provides itertools (again, C-based functions) in stdlib.
>If we break our bones we visit a doctor. If our teeth hurt we visit a dentist.

Depends on your health insurance, financial standing and free time. If you're an affluent tech worker you probably would go to a dentist for a toothache. Most people I know would not.

I wouldn't compare mental health to broken bones. We've been successfully treating broken bones for thousands of years. Seeking treatment for depression or generalized anxiety is more similar to seeing a doctor for some poorly understood malady like ME/CFS or IBS. No one really understands what's going on or why. You might try some medication or treatment and it might work, do nothing or make things worse.

It's worth a try but it's not a silver bullet. If your life sucks and your future prospects are bad then therapy is really just helping you cope.
Doctors on TikTok: The Dark Side of Medical Influencers
Yes, the measurement feature made me install it as well - no more "quick measurement by abusing the width/height display of the area screenshot selection tool". Took a bit to find out how it's activated though, discoverability of this neat feature is not optimal.

Thanks for this little utility!
>I mean, if the attacker has writable access to your vault, he likely can observe you handling the unencrypted password or steal all your gpg key material after you unlocked it.

To be clear here, only if that implies access to the memory you control, otherwise, no. GPG is pretty good about local file access by an attacker and pass maintains that on platforms where that is possible.
Depending on your setup, you could check out https://fly.io. Pretty easy and generous free tier.
Funny how none of these Assange stories make it to the hn frontpage regardless of the massive upvotes ... I wonder what sort of mechanism is at play here ...
It not his goal to get to Mars himself. That he could already do quite easly.

Getting back would be much harder challanges.

But his goal is for many people to go there.
As a young lawyer in 2011 I had the chance to work on some of this stuff. The FDIC farms all of the legal out to law firms, and we have to litigate the hijinks (in the cases I worked in, rampant embezzlement (alleged) and terrible loans being made to buddies at the height of the 2008 madness). It was cool work.
Thanks. I'd be very interested.

I originally had added the HAVING clause to nastify it further, because this would cause values to appear and disappear, so to handle that you (probably?) have to materialise the entire result of the GROUP BY before applying a HAVING. Which is doable could cause some overhead.

I guess I could see it work for INSERT-only tables, with a lot of headache, but throw in UPDATE and DELETE and it could become awful.

Also we have to agree on what 'incrementally' means :)
After hitting space to go to select window mode, click select the window and its shadow, option click select the window without its shadow. Not sure why you say the option key is not needed.
There are/seem to be very specific scientific applications, mostly around simulation of other systems whose hamiltonians map nicely to that of the computer. For almost everyone on the planet that isn’t very useful, but for that small handful it can be a game changer.

… doesn’t contribute much here, but worth knowing! It’s exciting either way.
> How do I use this to speed up database access? How do I use this to better commute graphics? Can you make a neural net better with this?

It seems that you have missed some of the basics of quantum computing.

For quantum computing to work the system must be isolated from the environment for the period of the computation. You can't use it for anything interactive like graphics.

Any practical problem worth solving with quantum computer needs something like years or millions of years to solve using classical computer. Do you have database index where search takes years or graphics problem where output takes years?

Also consider the amount of qbits needed. For database search you need quantum computer with same order of magnitude qbits as the database index.

Practical problems for quantum computing are mostly scientific problems like simulating chemistry.
This is a pretty distasteful action. Rather than addressing concerns the company has opted for the tin pot dictator approach.
Where does personal agency end and circumstances begin?

A good work ethic isn't "luck". If someone has a good work ethic it's because the people in their life when they were growing up worked their butts off to give it to them. People don't escape poverty because of luck (look at lottery winner outcomes). They escape poverty after about three decades of hard work toward that goal, usually spread across multiple generations.

>Textbook survivorship bias.

Textbook "doesn't fit my narrative, find a way to discount it" bias.
It doesn't (and can't) really address the most important issue that there's no secure clipboard and on top of that some desktop environments come with "clipboard history" malware by default that sniffs your clipboard and logs its content to an unencrypted file.
Hence nr2?
> Adding VST3 support to Ardour/Mixbus, we did not experience this as a notable issue at all.

Not as a host; but this was a major stumbling block for more advanced plug-ins like, say, Kontakt. Given that VST3 was based on VST-MA (largely the work of one of the original Studio One authors), which is derived from Steinberg's COM-like interpretation, there were some genuine pain points for plug-in developers.

But I think your point about the framework approach is a reason against having yet another API to spit out. As you say, developers who do make a living out of this, aren't going to be able to dig their heels in and say "it's CLAP or nothing if you want to run my wares." I imagine it would be suicide for smaller developers like Fabfilter or Valhalla. And if CLAP is just another API supported in branch of a framework, where is the "killer application/plug-in" going to come from?

I think VST3 shows how well this is going to be received. Nobody was keen on VST3 from the start, and AFAIK this wasn't to do with philosophical objections to commercial licensing. It was largely due to the fact VST2 worked well enough, was understood, supported, and nobody saw the point in adopting it. The fact Steinberg had to deprecate 2.4 and then announce they were going to end-of-life support for it in their own applications to convince market forces says it all. Even when Doric came out a few years ago, in v1.0 only VST3 was supported. But they quickly backtracked and added whitelist support for VST2 plug-ins.
I doubt she had much of a choice.
American resources are censore free, how dare you to doubt that?
Yet it's great on desktop. What I liked the most about it was that it doesn't auto-advance.

Generally, the entire site has a really nice design, at least on desktop. One of the prettiest I've seen.
I have a Hoover washing machine with touch buttons. I can't count the number of times I activated something on it unintentionally by brushing against it.

It seems the designers were aware of this problem, because it has a key lock feature. Unfortunately it's hillariously ineffective. To activate/deactivate key lock you need to touch two buttons simulateneously. They forgot however that in practice it's almost impossible to activate two buttons at the exactly the same time. So the machine in most cases interprets this as pushing two buttons separately, usually further messing up some setting you wanted to protect by keylock.
Not to be confused with shotta.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shotta
Not so extraordinary if you take into account that CPU is essentially a thumb-sized labyrinth for light.
Har de har har.

This is part of the thing that annoys me about Wayland boosterism: people complaining about the need to fix stuff I can't see, don't care about and honestly think does not matter to 80%+ of people.

Screen tearing? Never seen it. Don't care.

Different DPI on different monitors? Can be fixed on X. Works in Cinnamon. Also GNOME and KDE but I find them unusable.

HiDPI support? Don't care. Don't own a HD monitor. Don't use anything with a 3D card in it. It's for gamers AFAICS. I'm old and grumpy.

It works, there are games, Steam works on Linux now.

Trackpads? Oh, those toy things on cheap plastic laptops? Don't care. I use Thinkpads. I turn the toy pointer thing off.

For me, this all falls under:

Here's a nickel, kid, go buy yourself a console.
A couple of extra points.

The article alludes to the need for through tracks although it is perhaps not immediately obvious that this can also be used for main "terminal" stations. In Germany, very few trains terminate in the Hauptbahnhofs (main stations) but instead will then move out, often to another large station or depot outside of the city centre. This allows high traffic into the main stations without blocking them up while cleaning/turning round.

Another issue about level loading is made but it sounds like this is mainly related to the difference between a "road" at ground level needing steps vs a platform at carriage level. However, even in the UK where everywhere uses platforms, there are still issues with level due to the variation in track height related to ballast working so even "mostly level" can be a problem, particularly for wheelchairs and even done efficiently, loading these can easily take a minute or more.

Thirdly, at least in the UK, it isn't just the build up of subtle delays that can be an issue but small problems creating large delays. The other week, trains were delayed and cancelled for hours (for some reason) because a trespasser was seen on the main line and needed to be found by the police. One relatively small and common occurance affected 1000s of travellers. A single signal problem, a broken rail, failed point etc. This means that you could in theory run e.g. Kings Cross Station with fewer platforms but as soon as there is a problem, people don't want to sit on a train for 2 hours somewhere on the line. Having more platforms gives you that flexibility.
Seems like engineers and artists were the same persons or worked together.

Seems this held true up until the industrial revolution.
A reminder that Assange is an Australian citizen, currently in the UK, and is being extradited for breaking US law.

So much for sovereignty.
> Too few ppl know this.

Including me until now. I will examine this emacs of which you speak. No promises but I can at least attempt to run it.
There are definitely operations you cannot speed up in Python as much as in other languages, unless you implement it in one of those other languages and interface it in Python.

That much is obvious from Python providing a bunch of C-based primitives in stdlib (otherwise they'd just be written in pure Python).

In many cases, you can make use of the existing primitives to get huge improvements even with pure Python, but you are not beating optimized C++ code (which almost has direct access to CPU vector operations as well).

Python's advantage is in speed of development, not in speed of execution. And I say that as a firm believer that majority of the Python code in existence today could be much faster only if written with the understanding of Python's internal structures.
Even on desktop I wanted to be able to swipe (scroll gesture) or arrow key to advance the slide, but have to click the little dot icons
Any war scenario that threatens the mainland United States would probably involve nukes starting flying, and you'd probably be screwed regardless of where you put it. I'd be more concerned with an asteroid that hits just right.
-The Home Office said in a statement that "the U.K courts have not found that it would be oppressive, unjust or an abuse of process to extradite Mr. Assange."

The irony of this statement would be humorous if it wasn't so frightening.
Nitpick: it's not "per say", it's "per se" (which is latin for the equivalent English phrase 'in [and of] itself').
Could make sense for short distance, low frequency. I know of a few services on branch lines that have long linger times at stations. They will do a 10 minute journey twice an hour and stay in the station between trips.
I'm left wondering if the CSV-example considers commas inside a string field which is surrounded by quotes.

The other examples are way too confusing for me, except the first one.
I was able to drag it sideways with the mouse.
> that's comparing A->B with A->B

Yes, that's the point. feral (your parent comment) has accurately observed that Etheryte (your grandparent comment) has mislabeled A->B as B->A. But feral is completely correct that "the more time something has already been around, the longer its future expected lifespan is" is exactly the same claim as "the less time something has already been around, the shorter its future expected lifespan is". Etheryte is making a pretty bizarre error; he seems to be under the impression that "a < b" is the opposite of "b > a".
Does any one is able to fully bootstrappe it now ?
That is just nonsense. Like you think the should stop all growth until every car comes out like Rolls?

The cars from their newer factories have generally better quality.

And even so, when looking at QC report Telsa might not be great, but its not really an order magnitude off to anybody else either.

So to suggest they should stop growing to fix QC is just delusional and literally nobody, not even you as CEO would do so.
Capacitors make much more sense than batteries, since you need to discharge at like 2-4C average, probably 20C peaks, and charge at much higher rate. Some buses are already running with this, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlJlQprrEmg . So far it doesn't look like there is much interest in it, since I'm not aware of any further development since that 2014 line.
It says that "Nintendo" or "任天堂" the brand name refers to an old Chinese saying "謀事在人，成事在天" which means "Man proposes, God disposes", or "do your best and leave it to the fate".

The idea is not far from the stoic ones - try your best and stop worrying. It's like an idea from this classic debate on TDD [0]: Unit tests make you confident. You write it, you forget it. It makes you sleep at night.

In my first few years of my career, I was constantly and unconsciously thinking about the code, the business requirement, the team, even outside the working hours. That stressed and drained me a lot. In the end I realized I shouldn't have done that. If I am to worry about those things, I just book myself a calendar and go over those things within the time-box. If I need more time, I book another time block for the next day - as simple as that.

Now write that "unit test", forget it, and sleep well at night.

If you really need to worry about them, you should have a "quarterly/monthly worrying day" to reflect about your life, your career, strategies and all that. Outside that day, you just live your happy life.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9quxZsLcfo
AFAICT pass just calls out to gpg; so the answer to your question is, "It does whatever a bare gpg command would do". If you have gpg (or more specifically, gpg-agent) configured to ask for a password every time, using pass will require you to enter in your password every time; if you have gpg-agent configured not to ask within an hour of the previous password, using pass will cause you not to have to enter the password more than once an hour.

And of course, if you've just entered your gpg password to decrypt an email with GPGMail (Mac Mail PGP plug-in), you won't have to enter your password to decrypt a password, since they're both using gpg behind the scenes.
"a few km" seems like a weird way to put it, as a "few" is typically 2 or 3. And just specifying "US" and "Canada" is weird, as an archive in the US and Canada, could be separated by 10000km without any effort.

That said, these archives are close, but I beleive the real reason for this, are things such as take down, erasure, and other court requests in the US, would not apply in Canada.

This is doubly true, if you don't serve data to US citizens from Canada.

So it allows for easy physical maintenance trips, a second off-site backup (weather, rioting, looting, earthquake, etc) unlikely to take-out both.

I also think South American countries are far more likely to descend into rioting, violent takovers, coups by armies/etc, than any place in North America.
Hydro-power dams, nuclear fuel storage, bunkers, maybe some bridges/roads.

I'm guessing/hoping most horrible concrete construction will be destroyed by humans.
Work life can pull you away from discovering yourself - that's like trying to move through life on an unsound foundation - very anxiety inducing.

It won't slow down.
The future is an imaginary reality based on artificial souls and imagination. You don't want to go through life being blown about in the wind you need to discover your base-truth; To not be tricked into thinking you are less than these things.

Luke 9:58 - Jesus replied, “Foxes have dens and birds have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

https://mullikine.github.io/posts/the-tapestry-of-truth/

External so-called truth is the issue. Anxiety is caused by being manipulated and being blown about without rest, I believe.

Consensus truth, pragmatic truth, coherence truth (or incoherence truth: Justin Trudeau), constructivist truth - these truths do not take into consideration what is your personal truth.
It's a nightmare of mish-mashed ill-matching technologies.

Glad I managed to escape my passwords and can now store them in a plain text file.
"Has become"? It has been a commodity ever since we became tribal. It's just we've gone from a 1:1 "give your attention to my idea and work together with me and you'll benefit in these ways" to a 1:10-50 "I am the tribe's leader" to 1:* "I am a megacorporate entity"
This is a public comment, not a message. I have offered up my phone number to people in comments like this and was chided for it even though I understood the risk.

Maybe after you learn the difference between messaging and public comments you’ll understand I was trying to help. Now, OTOH, I’m deliberately returning the favor of your sarcasm.
That's the opposite of what I mean. I have programmed a bunch in Standard ML and OCaml but the biggest missing chunk trying to learn F# was how C# works. It's unavoidable.
In a world that has such judges, does one need felons?