skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having a “completionist” mindset (wanting to understand every reference and insight, and spending hundreds of hours to achieve it) is not the only way to read it, and draw meaning and enjoyment from it. I think a lot of people do “finish” it, but have barely scratched the surface — nevertheless, they enjoy it.

No harm in not enjoying it, or recognizing you’d be unlikely to, either.

However, there is a tendency among people using your logic (but coming to different conclusions so I’m not lumping you in with them) to end up disparaging almost anyone for reading Ulysses or Gravity’s Rainbow or even Infinite Jest.
Many web apps do not use node.js on the backend, so I don't really think that's the point of electron. It's more that it's a way to develop a cross platform application without having to deal too much with native differences. Being able to leverage web tech for the UI also means you can reuse your companies existing expertise.

In that sense, these alternatives all meet the requirement, as on the UI side they all use standard web technology. The difference is 1) they don't package the entire chrome runtime which saves a lot of memory and 2) they use different backend languages, some of which may match a given companies expertise better. E.g. if you already have a lot of Go or Rust developers, these alternatives might allow you to reuse existing backend code in these languages.

Finally, the experience of developing with the alternatives is often superior to electron. Every time I've setup electron for a new project I've spent days messing with complex tooling. In contrast, at least with wails, I've spent close to zero time on tooling. Ironically, the time I have spent on tooling has been on the javascript side.
Having helped "people run databases for their businesses" since the 1970's (yes I am a dinosaur), my approach has simplified dramatically into approaching all database requirements as a collection of just 7 EAV (entity-attribute-value) tables [1] - one 3-field table for each field type: date, decimal, integer, text, time, varchar and then one for id/tenant. I then optimize the hardware for a few (very) long narrow tables, and shard as required. The beauty of this is that the database structure is all in data (where it should be) and I never have to alter the tables. As hardware has evolved, this approach serves my clients better, plus the turnaround time for changes is closer to the client instant gratification requirement.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity%E2%80%93attribute%E2%80...
And also wants to police it.
Duck uses bing results
I think this company is not understanding the role that animals have in millennial households.
At least you can do the hours as an apprentice. Of course, you have to register as an apprentice with the board first
I think there is an oversized focus on everything being free. It started with Google being free but it really isn't since you have to view adds and get distracted.

Also think about a software tool that costs say $100. It ain't free but that's your hourly salary Mr. Professional Developer. Using only free tools is penny-wise and pound foolish.
The C64 VIC-II chip would grab the address bus from the CPU every 8 scan lines on the screen. Some of the early "fast load" cartridges like the Epyx FastLoad cartridge that would accelerate loading games from the floppy drive would blank the entire screen during load so that their async data transfer routines wouldn't get interrupted by the VIC-II chip grabbing the bus. I wrote a similar (better?) cartridge where I would need to use the register on the VIC-II chip that reported the scan line as a sync marker to transfer 3 bytes asynchronously from the 1541 down the clock and data lines of the serial bus. Good times.
No idea why you were downvoted, since although harsh your definition is exactly what psychologists would use to describe people showing no empathy for others.
The problem however is not corporations behaving like that: they want profits above all else and act accordingly; the problem is that we give them the same or more rights than humans.
The problem with LinkedIn is that everything you do on that website is tracked and sold; there is no such thing as a private job application, for example.
In Germany, it's a three year apprenticeship. You get paid a (rather low) wage during that time. As far as I know, you're not allowed to do the job without completing the apprenticeship.

https://www.ausbildung.de/berufe/friseur/

The same is true for many other professions.
My personal opinion, based on what happened in 2008 in my area, is that the exact impact will be local. I think in some traditionally desirable places, prices will level out or only decrease slightly as interest rates rise. Lower inventory will help keep these prices up as increased competition keeps prices inflated despite higher interest rates.

In other places, I think prices will fall as rates rise, since overall affordability will go down, but there won't be as much buyer competition to prop prices up.

At some point, the dam will break and people who've been sitting on the sidelines and accumulating large down payments will start bidding prices up again, causing more sellers to list, which in turn will get more buyers involved.
No, a "prepaid credit card" is a credit card with a balance of $0 but you pre-pay a certain amount. So you buy a card for $500, you can charge up to $500 on it then it's useless. Similar, but not linked to any bank account.

A debit card debits from your account. A credit card requires the bank to extend you credit.
Do you feel the same way about violent crime? I.e., if a person through their own stupidity or naivete puts themselves in a position where they become a victim of armed robbery/assault/murder/rape, did they get what they deserved?
The 90% use case is that someone wants to make it quite hard for an Internet rando (or maybe their employer) to connect them to their "true name" and, by extension, all the other data connected to their true name--likely including their address among other things, especially if their name is uncommon or other data is already known. This is pretty easy in the US.

Making it so no one can make the connection is much harder (as in close to impossible) and probably illegal in many cases especially if money is changing hands.
Woodward and Bernstein didn't bring down a president in Watergate
I sometimes compare this to the seemingly ever rising absurdity of life/business/politics etc.

"The Shepard tone of insanity"

Things seem to perpetually get worse in some way, or so it seems. But often it just appears that way due to similar mechanisms of newly introduced stupidity. Or something like that.
Don’t cargo cult reading by using Bill Gates example.

Because I can make even better case for ping pong or some other hobby some famous dude is known for.

>> What took them decades to learn through trial and error can be read in days.

Outside of domains of specific professional knowledge — there is nothing new to learn about human nature for the past couple thousand years. And it’s usually not the goal of a decent memoir (not to teach you something).

It doesn’t mean of course you can’t learn anything from such books, or reading them is worthless.

But it’s naive and ignorant to expect some miracle breakthroughs or sacred knowledge found in memoirs of the greatest.

Most of the time they just work as a good inspiration to go and do something about your life, make your share of mistakes and learn your own lessons. If the authors character and values resonate with yours.
I think the largest part of it is having grown up in fundamentalist evangelical christianity -- the rapture and all that.

I view such SF as a secularized render of such conceptualizations -- along with the concepts of the singularity, etc.

Much of Asimov's work does this. Many of the robot stories are simply recastings of old Jewish folk legends about golems.

In one sense, I don't have a problem with recasting old fiction into a newer mold. Such is a mainstay of cultural development.

However, there is a particular vain which I do find pernicious.

It calls itself 'science' fiction, but is prejudicial to the concept.

Such operates as a palliative to a condition that seemingly cannot be resolved: our knowledge that the universe, so far as we understand the laws of physics, the knowledge that science has given us, will come to an end. One way or another, our species is headed for extinction. For the species to choose death at a massive drug orgy this weekend is indistinguishable from the obliteration of this planet by meteor in a hundred or a thousand years is indistinguishable from the engulfment of this planet by its expanding and dying sun is indistinguishable from the heat death of the universe.

Though concepts of 'souls' are bandied about in Christianity (and in all appropriated from the ancient pagan Greeks the early church fathers so admired), an examination of the actual deployment of the theology indicates that more generally the bodily nature of an eternity is fundamental. But a purely materialistic understanding of the universe cannot seemingly grant such a possibility of a bodily eternity (whether simulated or not).

And if the individual can be in some way assuaged as to their lack of access to such an eternity, they are typically comforted so by the concept of the eternal continuity of the human race (or its ensuing evolutionary descendants) as a process in the universe.

Rather than a palingenetism in which some 'golden age' is reborn and the true knowledge of 'god' returns, the timeline has been inverted: we do not recede from 'god' but are distant from 'god' because we are still on approach. In a way, it is the full acceptance that 'god' is crafted by Man. We will make 'god', the AI, etc, who will stand beyond the boundaries of the universe, beyond time and space.
The mortgage I got (FHA) in July of 2008 was 6.25%. The house I grew up in, had a mortgage at 9%, and was only that low because my parents won a contest at the local bank.
I'm not particularly risk-averse myself either, so I don't agree with it either. But I do know some are, so those seems to be the arguments in favor of Electron from that perspective.
I can hardly call nuclear energy to be a 'global failure'. True, 'green' groups had some success with scaremongering people to be afraid of nuclear energy, but it is generating 10% of energy globally (projected to rise to 15% by 2030 [1] ), with much higher shares in developed countries. If anything, the Fukushima effect has finally weared out, and we'll see new plants constructed which were halted because of that scaremongering.

[1]: https://www.world-energy.org/article/16596.html
This article/marketing material elides the fact that the king of Phase 1 is developer productivity, and skipping the ORM to write raw SQL is simply horrible for general productivity, even if it will certainly boost your query performance. It's a quantity/quality trade-off that this piece doesn't make explicit, because it's trying to sell a narrow set of services.
Ask HN: HN Search Offline?
can't search, freeze in loading times.
This website is killing the planet
Yeah, it's a matter of power dynamics and enforcement rather than the letter of the law.

Renters are low class and have very little political power.

Fortunately for us, food truck operators in that city are also low class and also have very little political power.

Asserting our rights against a neighbor or landlord as renters was difficult. But asserting our rights as a residential citizen against a food truck operator was much easier (or, at least, the neighbor perceived that this would be the case and acquiesced).
C++ could be an option? technical design and roadmap managed by foundation, and there are good tool ecosystems for this language, what do you think? You know if I choose Golang, Java, Kotlin, DotNet will be probably that this history repeating.
Yea, isn't that how Viagra came about - "Well it doesn't the blood vessels quite like we wanted, but .... well it does this!"
The perceived ease of that operation in a monorepo is what makes it dangerous. Unless these changes all map to a single monolith service, then even though you have updated all call sites, these callers will not be deployed all at the same time, meaning as the change rolls out you may see random breakage. By using polyrepo, the deployment boundary can align with the code boundary, making the rollout problem obvious.
There are no ammonia electric storage plants under construction. You write that there's many under construction, all over the world. Yet you fail to identify one such plant that's actually under construction.
If you’re having trouble seeing the article content, this is the relevant issue:

https://github.com/michalsnik/aos/issues/541
The original link presented a detailed argument for what is Google specific about this, namely that it was enabled by the two tier workforce system.

https://twitter.com/alphabetworkers/status/15373969466917724...
Sounds like they over-raised them prior to the FED rate hike.
This paper contests the notion that this has to do with possible negative side effects of prolonged ketosis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32088118/
Yep, it's very common to require certain degrees and qualifications to be able to sigh off projects and stuff in some industries. It's a way to make sure that a job is done properly without need for a thorough audit every time.
You did not address what they said.
From Zero to Modern Data Stack at Phlo
"A little hustle pays dividends long term."

Only if you're lucky too. Hustle by itself means nothing.
Barber combines a lot of chemicals on top of people head/face. Just because you don't see them as knowledge worker doesn't mean they can work uneducated.
Able.ai exits stealth with $20M to help lenders speed up making high-value loans
Well my friend, you are describing what Stoic Philosophers call “momento mori.” Always remember death is coming and enjoy every moment as it passes.

You just turned 40, I just turned 71. I celebrated by taking a challenging part time job for a company that I feel confident that I can help.
A long held view of mine is that our current architecture where we keep logic on the server and data in the database is rather unfortunate, because it means you either have to

* marshall data to your server to process (which can be slow), or

* marshall code to your db to run (which can be messy, in part because you're translating from one programming language to your db's language - this is the main reason ORMs exist)

I always thought that the solution is to have all computation live in the DB (similar to how kdb does it), but this is pretty nice too. If you squint your eyes this looks like a much cleverer ORM.

It would be even better if the language supported SQL as a first class citizen, but that's not really an option here, since you're stuck with js.
Exactly. You hide the native cursor with css and show an image on top of the page whose position you move around.
Explained why they don't produce official, supported builds.

https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/62903#issuec...
That's a lot of work!

A true labor of love.

Thanks!
Yeah and is more work then the OS itself...

But hey having a browser and ext2 should be good enough ;)
Yeah it's a good question, most of mine are direct or recruiters. You have someone with "franchise" in their title, guess what... you get pitched a franchise. Idk what I was thinking.

edit: part of it in my rationale is "being nice" but yeah I mostly use LinkedIn to get a job
It's the "probably" that they want to investigate and try to get to a "almost certainly"
Apple battery fight: Millions of iPhone users could get payouts in legal action
Same boat. I did some investigation into historical interest rates vs. housing prices, and I learned that there's really only a weak correlation between housing prices and interest rates (and funnily enough, it's a positive correlation).
When you have a credit card, the issuer is providing you credit, and a debit card draws on debits from your checking account.
Making up for that half a billion they lost on Bitcoin?
> If you let other people see that you viewed their profile then LinkedIn will let you see who viewed your profile.

Not if the viewer has Private Mode on. Having Private Mode off for yourself is not sufficient to see who viewed your profile.
Trying to cure a disease that gives cats such bad mouth sores that they sometimes can't even drink water isn't exactly "pushing crap".

We're trying to make it to profitability so we can get to the point where we can test the solution in humans who have neurodegeneration. When you're dealing with incredibly complex regulatory environments and millions of dollars in development costs, it's not always easy to make it from point A to point B. That's the point of this post.
By his friend who wasn't in the cult. Maybe I read it wrong?
As per your note [1], this is the "Sam Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory:

"The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money. Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles. But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while a poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet. This was the Captain Samuel Vimes "Boots" theory of socioeconomic unfairness."
OK, and Russia caused the pogroms and a genocidal famine in Ukraine. It's not a good idea to learn your country's history in an overly rosy way. In fact, being kind to nationalists may have caused the present war. Russians should know that their country has had a sordid history.
I would love to see an AMD chip as fully integrated as an M1, moving the RAM fully on die and part of the Infinity fabric directly. The insane memory bandwidth of the M1 is what keeps it competitive.

I know this has been said a million times, but it's worth repeating because somehow the idea is still floating around – the M series very much does not have the RAM on-die. It's not even in the same package – it's standard LPDDR4/5 sitting off to the side with a lot of channels.
> So, I save on the money that otherwise has to go to paper shuffling, city bureaucrats, likely also lawyers, etc., all before hiring any workers to get the food ready for customers.

Those costs to start up the restaurant add almost nothing to the cost of your pizza. What makes a restaurant pizza cost so much more than your home made pizza is the restaurant's ongoing costs, such as rent, wages and benefits, utilities, insurance, advertising, delivery, and many I've probably left out.

Doing a bit of Googling, I get that Domino's averages around 100 pizzas per restaurant per day. When I've went there there are typically maybe 3 employees visible plus drivers coming and going. Let's call it the equivalent of 5 employees at any given time. They are open 14 hours a day. If they are just paying Federal minimum wage that's a tad over $500/day in wages. That's $5/pizza right there.

More Googling tells me that the rent for an average sized restaurant in the US is about $5000/month, which would be about $160 per day, but a Domino's doesn't need as much space so let's call it $100/day. There's another $1/pizza.

That was assuming they are in one of the 15 states where the minimum wage is just the Federal minimum, and that rent was about average. I'd guess most on HN are in states with a higher minimum wage and higher rents.
Naming is hard: ArcticDB is now FrostDB (+updates)
> I guess that happens when you try to fit everything in 100 seconds.

What, you overshoot by 50%? :-) But more seriously, the job that has been done is simply low-quality, even disregarding the choppy edit style—probably a mixture of shoddy work (from comparing it with some of the others), and the creator not being capable of better as regards the speech—most aren’t particularly aware of how to improve. Much better is readily possible.

> Also, it will become almost literally impossible to hear the difference in the near future

I am an excellent reader, highly regarded for my diction and prosody and for conveying the sense of a matter. So far, I haven’t heard a TTS demo, hand-picked or otherwise, that would stand a chance against a skilled reader: the veriest dunce would savvy which was which within a couple of sentences. (And at least a couple of the demos were deliberately trying to address these sorts of shortcomings in inflection and such.) Certainly they’ve reached the stage where you often can’t reliably identify the computer versus the mediocre reader (and there are an awful lot of them), but I don’t think we’ll see computers beating skilled readers and speakers any time soon, when I consider how poor a job AI is still doing on coherent longform writing, and then add the degrees of nuance and information conveyed in speech. (Supplant them? Sure. But you don’t have to be better than something to supplant it, just cheaper, or some such thing. My favourite example of this is book binding where hot melt glue is vastly inferior to cold glue, but it’s much faster and thus cheaper to produce with, and it’s good enough that you’ll struggle to find cold glue ever used in production now.)
It seems to me that if you’re reporting on “this is what it costs to open a business in this place”, that including the costs it takes to open a business in that place is fair game.

Omitting costs that might or might not outlast your business seems at least as likely to be misleading or dishonest as including them.
Two bouts of COVID and living in a world that's insane and constantly doubling down on the insanity.
This looks so helpful! I waste so much time setting up stuff on AWS but don't really have time to learn terraform/k8s at the moment so definitely going to be giving this a go!
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The original POSIX subsystem would have used it.
And 600 years before the Norman invasion it was the Angles, Jutes, and Saxons invading and displacing the Britains.
Sounds like your neighbor did have a legal place to dump refuse so adding that rule wouldn't have helped, and then everyone in Boston would have a 93rd step in the process.

I've spent 2 years trying to get permission to have electricians put wire back into conduit that is already there in a building I own.

Saturday thieves broke into my outdoor containers (because I can't get an occupancy permit) and stole over $20,000 worth of stuff. I can't install security lighting and security systems without power to run them!

This stuff is really getting to me and I feel like I'm in an Ayn Rand book.
I'm pretty ignorant of this, but was the phrase "All Lives Matter" really out and about in normal use for a long time? Or did it rise in popular use after "Black Lives Matter"?

If it's the first one, yeah I agree w/you. If it's the second, well...
I learned recently, via a Tolkien biography, that this is the Medieval view of the world - that things are always getting worse.
We can directly date the burial of granite objects with OSL. We can detect human populations with charcoal, pollen analysis, modern genetic studies, or directly with eDNA (among others).