skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a lost cause, looking for 'intuitive' symbols. It depends on your culture, your experiences, heck your generation. Just look at the symbols for 'save' (a floppy disk) or 'make a call' (an old phone handset). Kids just have to memorize them, they mean nothing 'intuitively'.

I liken these attempts at symbol sets, to ancient hieroglyphics - a different picture-writing for everything. Even the Egyptians gave up and turned to phonetic spelling.

Just write the instructions on the tag. Or heck, put a 2D scan code there and my phone will tell me what to do.
Yep. Look up pig woman or that one experiment where they called Eggy “Christine”
Comet Interceptor will be parked in space waiting to ambush comets
> That in-browser app is still around and supported today, though I kind of wish it wasn't since it means more code to maintain and test.

Why not sunset it, given it presents an opportunity cost?
It's very early days for this project, so if you're interested in getting involved or learning more, you can go to the:

- Docs: https://unionml.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

- Repo: https://github.com/unionai-oss/unionml

- Slack: https://flyte-org.slack.com/archives/C03JL38L65V

- Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/unionml
> (Yeah, power usage goes down when you add the extra carbon filter to the IKEA purifier. I’ve confirmed this myself with a power meter. Physics is weird.)

Well it's not that weird is it? It went down because CADR went down, the airflow is lower so the motor's not 'pushing so hard'.
About what year did this take place? It sounds like the employees would have had a solid basis for an age discrimination lawsuit.
> We put up with 12 years of random but generally useful things forced on us. Once we decide a career as adults, information not directly useful to the job we will be working should be optional.

It is optional. You just can't get a bachelor's degree without doing that, because that degree indicates completion of a broader course of work than you're interested in.

Bonus: auditing classes is usually cheaper.
This comment instantly reminded me of recent QuestDB's benchmark and the rebuttal by Clickhouse. Both make a great read:

4Bn rows/sec query benchmark: ClickHouse vs. QuestDB vs. Timescale - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31585563

No, QuestDB is not Faster than ClickHouse - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31767858
Date and Time Pickers for All
Companies that handle online sales either buy or have someone whose duties include figuring out how sales tax matches address. Here in California many areas have sales tax surcharges and the ZIP may not conform to the boundaries.

For mail delivery, the name of the post office is appropriate. For other things it may not be. Constant problem for school districts, for example.

Also one author noted that the USPS uses "ZIP" code but the O'Reilly style book has "Zip" code.
Masterful prog rock from late 60s to late 80s was the modern equivalent to so-called classical music. After recordings and broadcasting deeply changed everything musical. Photography did the same exact thing to painting.

Richard Wright and Rick Wakeman were the new Beethoven or Mozart or whoever famed composer.

A most interesting question from an old fart: who are the _actual_ classic composers? Hope not k-pop.
Multiplying .9005 and .90005 by 10000 does not actually cause a 10x difference to appear. No, really, try it!

If your goal is to play with numbers, you could raise them both to a large power. You would discover that the ratio between them increases exponentially, but this would pale in comparison to the fact that both results would exponentially approach zero much faster than the ratio would increase.
Other things that might make you look at your kitchen differently:

- potatoes (and tomatoes) originated in the Andes. Irish people basically had to be forced to grow them. It was the key technology that helped Europe stop it's vicious cycle of famine after famine. In the Andes they also have literally hundreds of varieties of potatoes that they know by name (some are used in soups, some are ornamental, some are medicinal, many have distinct flavor profiles)

- bell peppers are also from the Americas. I'm eastern european and grew up hearing about my great grandparents recipes for making sundried red bell peppers

- Native americans used a complex process called nixtamalization to make maize edible called. Colonists basically took maize and forced Africans to grow it for them but didn't carry over the knowledge of nixtamalization. Causing mass famines wherever they replaced native crops with maize in Africa

- avocados (americas), pawpaws (americas), and mangoes (india) both relied on megafaunal species to spread. Likely giant sloths for avocados buffalo for pawpaws, and elepphants for mangoes. All of these have been completely or mostly displaced by humans and would probably now go extinct without us
Women get bombarded with offers for sex when they put in 0 effort. Why blame men for not trying? If you have to try then it’s already over..
I normally don't use VPNs, so please correct me if I am wrong.

I think from a law enforcement/accountability standpoint, if an "actor" is accused of wrongdoing while using Mullvad's port forwarding service, Mullvad might have some evidence linking the "actor" to an actual identity, since they have the payment information. Depending on the laws of whatever territories, Mullvad may be compelled to leak that info to a judge. Without that information, then there's no information they can ever be forced to leak.
Yes its a shame django isn't as active as rails
Meta to roll out new monetization tools on Instagram and Facebook
Yeah - I did a CS degree at a UK university in the 1980s and it was 4 years of maths & CS stuff - pretty focused.

Learning how to actually write code was something you were pretty much expected to pick up by yourself - most of the CS classes had requirements to do a personal project which was a large part of the marks for that class. Absolutely no way could any graduate from that course without having produced multiple applications in everything from assembler (6502 and 68000) through to Pascal on a mainframe (yuck) and C and Prolog on Unix minis and graphics programming in C on Atari STs - which was great fun.

I loved it - although I did make a bit of a mess of my first year, but you just had to get through that - no impact on my final degree.

Edit: I should explain - Scotland so first degrees are 4 years rather than the 3 years of the rest of the UK.
Offtopic: is there a list of bounty
programs which, like this one, award feature implementations instead of bug/vulns? Google just gives me bug bounty company lists.
It's under consideration, but as of now we need native support for iOS and Android first. React Native doesn't currently support contentEditable.
It's not just sex that is decreasing though, it's all forms of physical contact. Social interactions are decreasing in real life, so it's deeper than what your reply suggests.
AI Detects Autism Speech Patterns Across Different Languages
Courtship has been out of fashion for years, so it's not much of a surprise that sex has followed suit. Once upon a time before the age of the internet, people had a limited amount of interests to pursue, popular culture was limited to 4 TV channels and about 10 radio stations, and they kept in mind the fact that being in a relationship requires both parties to find mutual interests to enjoy together. You shouldn't expect sex from another person if you can't even figure out how to be friends with them, and you shouldn't HAVE sex with them if you don't enjoy each other's company on a regular basis.

Nowadays we have funkopop wielding weebs trying to find their perfect waifu while girls are obsessing over Korean boy bands who barely speak their own language. There's no interest overlap. People don't even try.

People are simultaneously too picky and not picky enough. I know a woman who will date a man across the country but won't date one who is under 5'11" or over 6'3". The reasoning? She's 5'8" and wants to be able to wear heels.

And while I will never set foot in a church again unless it's for a wedding or funeral, denominational association did a decent job of figuring out what the foundations of people's morality and culture is. It's hard for a Southern Baptist to understand the whats and whys of Roman Catholicism, for example. By the same token, part of the reason that we've culturally evolved rites of inclusion is so that people feel included... and we are now abandoning them because it's easy to sit in a cave staring at a tiny screen while ordering from doordash and amazon than it is to deal with our fellow humans.
If you say that there is a property X of computation that occurs independently of how the computation is actually carried out, whether it's by a current generation CPU, hydraulics, lego blocks, someone writing values and following instructions on index cards or some other method that no one has even thought of yet then that property is an abstract property of computation. That's all the word "abstract" means in this context.

What you are suggesting would be like saying that there's some property of addition that is not mathematical (because hopefully we agree that mathematics only studies abstract properties) but that you can only learn about by looking at all the different kinds of things that one can concretely apply addition to.

I would argue that such a thing is implausible. It would be completely unlike anything that anyone has seen in the real world.

One thing I think we do agree on is that conscious experiences are not abstract (very unlike the other person I've been exchanging comments with who denies that they even exist at all). Beyond that I argue that computation itself is entirely abstract and though I don't seem to be able to get you to admit that, I think most people, certainly most computer scientists would admit it readily.

So what we're left with is a claim that an abstract process can produce something that is not abstract and such claims are just not plausible. That would be exactly like a computer simulation of the weather producing actual water.
MongoDB is "in" again? AFAIK, the best NoSQL DB is actually shoving JSON into PostgresSQL and has been for about the past 8-10 years or so.
Pivotal was just a normal board based tracker when I used it. Better than Trello and less complex than Jira which is all I really want, I’ve never been in an organization that has any more context attached to a ticket than what the work is and who’s working on it.

I think I can count on my hand the number of times anyone has actually had a conversation on a Jira ticket for me.

It also helps that right now I don’t have tickets for my work, I’ve been lucky enough to work on exploratory/skunkworks work for my team at my current org.
People saying they're lonely doesn't typically result in others being able to do something about it though. I mean, certainly more empathy is needed towards people who feel that they need more intimacy. The other side of the coin is getting people to desire them though.
> who are they going to date?

Nobody. They all have casual sex with the same 20% of guys then cry when they can’t make him commit
Oh, I thought it meant friends from the planet Pluto.
Defi isn’t just bullshit as far as I know, it is an actual scam that wouldn’t be allowed at banks - I’m surprised regulators haven’t shut down Defi yet. Doesn’t everyone wonder why exchanges advertise interest at 10% - 20% on deposits and at the same time advertises 0.1% loans to others. These things can’t coexist at the same and no one questions the method. What I understand they do is take your deposit and essentially lend that same deposit out 100 times over in a chain of transactions and different cryptos to pay you back interest - and then like Celsius eventually fail. How can they loan out the same cash 100 times? As far as I know, they take control of the deposit - loan that to someone and take that someone’s crypto as collateral, and then loan that collateral out taking collateral from others again, then loan that out, and so on. This is possible in the ecosystem by going between several different cryptos that all allow them to “Defi” with themselves as well. Basically they only need a very small amount of deposits to create a crazy number of loans. I won’t claim to be in the industry but this was the best explanation I’ve received yet, from essentially a leaked, on how they make money.
Reference counting is still pretty high level, given that you have to find somewhere to put the count. It's not really suitable for kernels or some embedded applications, for instance. That makes it less desirable as a language feature.

However, you can definitely implement reference counting in your own programs and libraries.
If you're targeting a field where credentials are required, than you probably should attend, or find an alternative path ASAP.

Other than that though, it's hard to justify the price tag.
I only use VMs to run other operating systems on the server, for all other purposes I use containers. For example, some document servers insist on running on Windows while I insist on not running Windows. The solution is found in a VM which I fire up on demand when I need to access something from that server, accessed through (web)VNC. Once done I terminate the VM. All other services are run in containers, VMs and containers managed through Proxmox:

qm start 600 to start ELSA, the VAG document server. Connect through VNC, find whatever was needed followed by qm shutdown 600

pct start 209 to start the Debian-stable build server, connect through SSH, build whatever is needed, package and copy the result out of the container followed by pct shutdown 209

pct start 208 starts the bookkeeping server, pct start 501 for the backup router, etc.
This is far more useful for SQL users than chaining several sed/awk/sort commands on pipe (although a bit against nix principles).
How do planets get rings?
The author has a point that a redesign could be more intuitive and understandable. Unfortunately the provided redesigns don't fit the bill.

There's some decent ideas here though. The shape of the bleach bottle, the circular motion of the arrows indicating tumble, a thermometer, and a dry cleaning bag. Unfortunately, the execution isn't as good as it should be. The strokes are too thick, and detailing is too crowded.

If anything, this is a decent first draft. But I would send it back with notes. The most important one being: less is more. And it's okay to leave existing icons alone that already work. Perhaps redesign within the constraints of the existing style, rather than creating a new style?
I tried to reproduce the OP's complaint. Of the 5 most recent TILs, only 1 did not reference some other source as inspiration. One literally gave "thanks" to tips obtained elsewhere.

I'm offended on your behalf! :)
The original name was project Avocado, but I didn't find any good domain names and social media handles. I agree the naming could have been better.
I don't have anything against philosophy man, I just don't to be forced into debt and lose valuable time to learn someone else's philosophy. And even that a very western centric perspective. And how is that relevant to compsci undergrad?
Children are not allowed to have hormones, only puberty blockers.
> Imagine learning to play music by fooling around with a piano and discovering that some keys sound good together. Even if after a while you begin to structure music that sounds halfway decent, if you ever want to get good and collaborate with other musicians, you're going to have to start from the beginning and learn theory, chords, and musical notation.

Sure, like Bowie. Or Prince. Or McCartney. Wait..
The CSV auto-detector was implemented by Till Döhmen, who did his master thesis on the subject [1] and has actually written a paper about it [2].

Essentially we have a list of candidate types for each column (starting with all types). We then sample a number of tuples from various parts of the file, and progressively reduce the number of candidate types as we detect conflicts. We then take the most restrictive type from the remaining set of types, with `STRING` as a last resort in case we cannot convert to any other type. After we have figured out the types, we start the actual parsing.

Note that it is possible we can end up with incorrect types in certain edge cases, e.g. if you have a column that has only numbers besides one row that is a string. If that row is not present in the sampling an error will be thrown and the user will need to override the type inference manually. This is generally rather rare, however.

You could also use DuckDB to do your type-inference for you!

duckdb -c "DESCRIBE SELECT * FROM taxi.csv"

And if you want to change the sample size:

duckdb -c "DESCRIBE SELECT * FROM read_csv_auto('taxi.csv', sample_size=9999999999999)"

[1] https://homepages.cwi.nl/~boncz/msc/2016-Doehmen.pdf

[2] https://ir.cwi.nl/pub/26416/SSDM1111.pdf
Not OP, but my team really, really enjoys using a combination of Segment.io for event tracking and piping that data into Amplitude for data viz, funnel metrics, A/B tests, conversion, etc.
Uff, that's massive. Thank you for this comment, I didn't realize we had the audio recordings for the lectures.
You are forgetting the strong anti-male sentiment throughout the education system. Toxic masculinity this, male privilege that.

Women get graduated thinking that investing your time in your own family and kids is slavery, but living paycheck-to-paycheck in a rented condo, ready to be laid off on a whim is true freedom.
You don't seem to understand what it's fore. It isn't just for procreation, or for 'endorphins', as you say. Interpersonal connection is important. Closeness with another person.

Pull the foil off your windows, go outside, and make a connection with another human. It's good for you.
I’m a teacher without a tech background. My role is to schedule a high school timetable.

To do this I have been given software that is single threaded and will only run a single instance, so I have taught myself Hyper-V, and run several VMs with alternative searches simultaneously. These searches can take 12+ hours to run.

The software also runs 25% faster when allocated 2 threads maximum than when 3+ are available…
The UI is fully translatable and you can hook into the localization system and have multilingual content too.

https://docs.avohq.io/2.0/recipes/multilingual-content.html
Elon Musk’s $44B Twitter deal gets board endorsement
> VM escapes are pretty difficult, especially with modern, patched microcode processors

Most VM escapes happen through buggy virtual-devices written in C/C++/.. code. Virtual-device bugs that are exploitable by attackers with root access in the VM are found frequently.
Plenty of thiel fellows have started billion/multi million dollar companies (figma, ethereum, luminar, upstart, etc.), so it seems that $100k had been enough for them.
So this still comes down to our inability to make friends past our 30s... we move more than in the past but its definitely not a new phenomenon.
This exactly is the problem I was trying to point out. This comment does the same thing.
When I articulated my observation with a decent level of clarity, it means I know to an extent what I was talking about. I don't know how to put this exactly, but there is some intuition which tells us from the comment/question how much the OP knows. The X and Y comparison is to say that "I want to do precisely what I asked for and I was not able to figure out a way." While there are beginner questions on the forum, there is high sense of entitlement with "high karma" members. Its frustrating after a while to be treated like infants when seriously searching for a solution.
You're supposed to have sex to have kids but don't you dare enjoy it!
Pretty dramatic!

All software eliminates jobs. If a computer does something that used to take humans thousands of hours, jobs disappear.

The question is whether those were jobs people wanted or needed.

In our case, the answer is no. Our clients are extremely traditional and would prefer to throw more people at these problems rather than adopt software. The only reason they're talking to us now is because people are quitting these jobs and they can't find anyone to hire to do them.

We've never eliminated a job, but even if we did, these are Ivy League accountants, often from wealthy backgrounds. They're all going to be fine. One of them just quit our client's company without a job lined up, just because she hated the Excel work so much.
To me a rather more reasonable take than "women are coached or born to flock to money" is "the world is going to hell, economic precarity is making it scarier to tie two people to a particular geography for work, and the future looks grim enough that having kids is probably a bad idea, so why get married?".

My priors probably differ from yours, though.
Here Comes the Sun–To End Civilization
That seems to be stipulated as part of the thought experiment.

Otherwise, it's a different thought experiment. ;)
Two of the most beloved tech companies at that!
Of course documentation, even when present, even in the code, is often of the "This does X" sort. When you want "You need this to accomplish {larger task}".

It's like walking through the forest and wondering where you are, but every tree has a sign on it that says "tree".
Remilk
This is a benefit of getting a BFA. BA has the fewest credit hours in your major, BS has more, but BFA requires the most. Out of 4 years in my program I only took 3 classes unrelated to my major and didn’t have to pay my college for any sort of P.E. class. A decade later and I see plenty of people working in my field with BA and BS degrees who still didn’t know even basic things because their college programs were so sidetracked with these credit requirements.
Thank you for the explanation, that makes sense.
We see those types of queries commonly in TimescaleDB. And, for example, both compression and "horizontal" scale out has ways where you can optimize your code for these types of analytical queries.

More concrete, we see a lot of web3/crypto use cases, and making a wallet ID, NFT name, or ticker as a top-level considerations.

E.g., use your contract address as the segmentby field for compression.
Because it's the only 0-download/install demo environment and it's hard (impossible?) to tell from analytics if it's a useful funnel.

Also, it can be convenient for testing/development since it requires no server.

I'm indecisive.
I have. My editor also gives me documentation for every function that I need. Plain text is more than enough for that use.

What kind of function documentation are you reading inline lol? Does it have like 30 function arguments?
There's a whole lot of real estate between "most fulfilling part of your life" and "boring".

If you find sex boring, you probably need to take a look at yourself or maybe find a different partner. Sex is rarely mind-blowingly great after your first few times but I can't say I've ever been bored by it.
> a supermajority of miners as well as economic nodes (such as exchanges)

Is there a formal way of defining this?

Maybe it's possible to at least define "a supermajority X% of miners, weighted by blocks mined in the last Y days" (for values X and Y that have previously reached a consensus), but counting economic nodes in a way that is Sybil-proof and globally consistent, seems like it's just pushing the consensus problem somewhere else.
That depends on what do you mean by hard money. A capped supply?
This is how I'd like to be, but my personality or my nature constantly fights it. It doesn't want to go with the flow, it wants to push back.
As a student, I would kill for $300.

Well actually I wouldn't, but my point is: that's a nice amount of money for students and wannabe devs all over the world.
I'm not surprised when you look at the quality of 20ish year old males. They expect sex to just fall in their laps without doing anything like learning to socialize or being interesting.