skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not for me. Coworking and cafes scratch the "I need to get out of my apartment" itch, but what I really value about in-person work is the collaboration and relationship-building with teammates that is not otherwise possible or easily achieved.

I'm not sure if other people (particularly here on HN) can even relate to this, but working is a lot like everything else in life for me. I'd rather see my therapist in person than over Zoom. I would rather hang out with my friends than FaceTime them. And I would rather be in an office with people than Slacking and Zooming. I like being able to pull someone into a meeting room with a drawing board and explain ideas. I love small talk. These are things that are not easily replicable via telephony.

Some companies do the 'one day per week in office", or "we have an office space you can use if you want to" but this doesn't solve my problem either. What I want only works if everyone else is cooperating. In the meantime, I have found that working remotely or alone in a big office building, which I do most days, is making me unhappy. But there just aren't any other options.
My favorite review of that saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hd_m0LAsAs
Yep, they're overrepresented.
Thanks a lot for testing and opening an issue! This is now fixed and released [1]. Let us know if you still face any problems.

(We need better tests against real DBs, which is very much on our roadmap)

[1]: https://github.com/prql/prql/pull/698
Buy a smart bulb for your WFH desk. Pick a color (example: bright white) that you only use when you are working. you might not notice anything at first, but after a while it really helps with shifting your mentality into or out of work mode very quickly. Very helpful at the start of a busy day, or the end of a rough day.

Source: I did WFH for about 2 years before the pandemic in a 1 bedroom apartment that I shared with someone
It’s also, quite frankly, the market reallocating economic decision making power. After a decade of beanstalk economics, it’s reassuring to see the system at least attempting to correct itself.

I have no sympathy for the people losing money. For the young people who invested precious years into what increasingly looks like an economically useless skill set, I feel badly. That said, those who picked up technical or sales chops can likely pivot to a position above the median American’s wages.
Article suggests to use Httpseverywhere but it is being deprecated https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/09/https-actually-everywh...
People in tech
Really? You encountered a bunch of violent crime in Lakeview?

The unusable schools and taxation are way bigger issues, and the everyday corruption through which the city rips off citizens is despicable (much of it revolving around their vehicles). The special tax it imposed on Netflix and similar services stands as a particularly egregious embarrassment.

But the complaints about the weather are tired, overblown BS. If you don't want to experience real seasons, don't live in a seasonal area. The "oh it's so cold" one is particularly bogus, since bouts of extreme cold are typically short (and getting shorter) followed by 45-degree F periods all winter long.
Gmail doesn't even need gmail levels of complexity. The "basic HTML" version is already pretty good, and some very light extra javascript could easily cover what few gaps it has, no need for an SPA.
> My understanding is that the US President (currently Biden) can unilaterally ban oil exports and that this would immediately drop US oil prices to $70-80/barrel and spike global oil prices by 30%+. I wonder how bad domestic gas prices would need to be before this happens because it definitely feels like it would be a permanent nail in the coffin of energy globalization.

There is a big problem with banning US oil exports. Oil is priced in US dollars and this only works if the US continues to be a global political player. If the US stops exports, the price of oil in dollars will rise so much that most other countries will have no choice but to start importing from Russia again - and in a currency that is not US dollars.

Overnight, the US will experience rapid inflation due to all the printed dollars losing value for the rest of the world.
Congrats on the launch!! Really exciting.
> Does Apple not have the resources to build a competitive browser?…

They do. They did. It’s called Safari. That’s how we got here.

What they DON’T have is any care about Windows/Linux/Android users. Apple makes their browser to make their platform the way they like.

If you want Apple to provide the competitive alternate browser on other platforms you’re asking the wrong company.

> Given all the advantages Apple has, how could it possibly be true that they can only get users by literally banning all competition on their main platform?

Google pushes Chrome with the #1 OS in the world (Android). With the #1 site, google.com. And the #2, YouTube.com. And gmail. And Google Maps. Maybe Waze. Chrome OS. GSuite.

They have an INSANE amount of power to push people to Chrome and off other browsers.

I’m not arguing pro-Apple. I’m arguing anti-Google.
Fossils in the 'Cradle of Humankind' may be 1m years older than we'd thought
I read that and found it fascinating. Everything doesn't fit as neatly into the 80 year cycles as they might like, but I think they acknowledge that.
And now this topic is full of people defending this exact entrenchment by dictat from Apple.
I've used a similar system, and tried to formalize this approach at work. The directory containing the projects is the "workspace" or "deployment" (depending if you're talking about your dev machine or a server, but same structure), and it contains "projects". Take whatever set of projects at whatever versions they need, check them out to the workspace, maybe set some environment variables (or symlink apache config files) as applicable, and hit the run button.

The biggest downsides of this approach that I discovered are that (A) projects are not self-contained, which meant some expert (i.e. me) always had to go and fix the deployments, because nobody else understood the system, and (B) a lot of the frameworks we used had their own system for organizing dependencies, which meant that we'd end up with projects inside projects inside projects anyway, and this system, whose intended purpose was to _flatten_ the directory tree, effectively just added another level to it.

Edit: (C), which is a variation of (B): if some projects are in monorepos, that throws off the system, too. Now instead of workspace/project you have workspace/monorepo-project/subproject, so now in some cases you have to reference "../../something" instead of just "../something".
Not everything fits into the nice flattened-out system where relative paths are easy to guess, so you end up having to either merge things together with symlinks, which gets confusing because now you have two parallel structures going on, or just configuring dependencies with environment variables after all (at which point you wish you had just formalized the environment variables from the beginning to make everything explicit).
This sounds like LINQ, or SparkSQL. Instead of a full new language, it makes feel better to create libraries in languages that supports embedded DSL easily.
There is no "constructed" key here. Which suggests the furthest along is "under construction". I'm not sure what all that constitutes.
The cloud does not absolve you from making backups.

Backups are there to protect you not only from technical failure, but also from mistakes and random bans from cloud providers.
Preach but I should have added than my experience was not in the US but in Europe.
We asked a large language model, GPT-3, to complete the sentence “Peanut butter and pineapples___”. It said: “Peanut butter and pineapples are a great combination. The sweet and savory flavors of peanut butter and pineapple complement each other perfectly.” If a person said this, one might infer that they had tried peanut butter and pineapple together, formed an opinion and shared it with the reader.

But how did GPT-3 come up with this paragraph? By generating a word that fit the context we provided. And then another one. And then another one. The model never saw, touched or tasted pineapples—it just processed all the texts on the Internet that mention them.

Up to this point, the article sticks to its thesis that humans have a tendency to ascribe real-world experience to the agents generating fluent text.

And yet reading this paragraph can lead the human mind – even that of a Google engineer – to imagine GPT-3 as an intelligent being that can reason about peanut butter and pineapple dishes.

And with this line they jump past that thesis into an implication that AI can't reason about concepts it hasn't experienced physically with a human body. This is obviously incorrect, we humans reason all the time about things we haven't directly experienced.

I think important concepts in evaluating different types of intelligence are the model learning abstraction, mapping between concepts, and reasoning correctly given the information available in its training data. Does GPT-3 have an understanding of abstractions like objects, combinations, food, flavor? Why does it need to have tasted pineapple to infer that sentence? It seems to know that peanut butter and savory are associated.

Can an educated person, blind from birth, not infer that if it is day time and it is not cloudy, then the sky is blue? Surely they can be considered to possess intelligence, despite never experiencing color directly.
From my experience NIMBYs are typically local property owners who don't want their view, neighborhood, etc. to change. These folks could be better off financially than their YIMBY counterparts who maybe don't own all that same property.

If there's a group of people with money and a group with less debating the same issue, I would expect the politician to support the party most likely to make large campaign contributions.

I have no data to support this idea and should not be taken seriously in this context.
The replies to this make me think I've found "my people". Can we form a group?
Great Idea!

We just tell the teacher that "hey you'll get a bonus if everyone in your class gets an A"!

Who's in charge of giving their students grades again?
positive rights vs negative rights.

You have all negative rights "freedom from", but no positive rights "freedom to"; except as Parliament rules.

"An attorney provided by the state" is a positive right.
> Except the most important problem: A pleasant API

A pleasant API is clearly not the most important business problem a database is there to solve.

The data in it is presumably the life and blood of the business, whereas the API is something only developers need to deal with.

But that aside, the interface will be SQL which is quite powerful, long-lived (most important) and, fortunately, very pleasant.
This is what I think of as Consensus Paralysis. There are usually many reasons to do a thing, and many reasons not to. A sane person or organization would weigh those reasons against each other. However, in most political decision making there's an important asymmetry: any one reason to block action is sufficient, but no number or weight of reasons is sufficient to ensure its progress. In our earnest wish to avoid the tyranny of the majority by requiring full consensus (or close to it), we've handed all of the trump cards to obstructionists. Often a tiny minority, not even pretending to believe in the nominal reason for their objections, can unilaterally block any progress.

The US senate is another example of this problem BTW, both in the form of the filibuster and in the general inadvisability of huge omnibus bills that give everyone their very own excuse to oppose without consequence, but maybe that's getting a bit off topic.
Even without any solar radiation, if they are far apart they are in ever so slightly different orbits. They will drift given enough time.
By “homes” do you mean buildings here or housing units? Because if it’s the latter, doesn’t that preclude most apartment buildings?
Putin is happy to sell grain (even ukrainian grain) to african countries.

You don't get to simultaneously claim it's putin causing the lack of grain, while complaining about him selling grain.
California was talking about a 'exit tax' in 2020 but I don't think they went through with it.

http://scocablog.com/exit-taxes-in-california-not-so-fast/
I wonder, why would you go for a "pipeline" of relational operations, when it's strictly weaker than allowing for a tree of operations? The way the examples seem to be written, a stack machine would subsume the existing syntax, since you first specify an operand (like "from employees") and then you specify and operation (like "filter country == "USA"), where in a stack machine an operation such as "from X" would put the relation X onto the top of stack, whereas an operation such as "filter" would then replace the top of stack with a transformed relation. This could be extended by for example "join on ..." being simply an operation consuming two relations from the top of stack and putting one result back, joining two pipelines into one.
"The next part of your assessment will take place during your follow up phone interview at a randomly chosen time slot between 10pm and 5:30am this night. Please remember to hold yourself ready. Thank you for your time and have a pleasant rest of the day."
I think you would have to know more about how the deal was structured before making these assumptions. You could hedge out directional risk in an asset while borrowing it. I think it's doubtful this position was net short bitcoin.

Or you are right, they were unbelievably naive.
There are a lot of issues that led to the failure. I don't think investors can make a difference until they get better leaders to make the necessary changes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W5zxYDHwf-Y
A huge difference is even a few generations ago, the "growing family" would be the one owning the house, and grandparents (their parents) would move in with them - now it's inverted; only the grandparents have a house or can afford one, and so the "growing" or potentially growing family is living with them.

It doesn't seem as much a difference but it is a really big one.
My TV appliance does not support other browsers; must every appliance be open and support multiple competing browsers? Is there some rational boundary where the appliance can be shipped and just work as it was designed, and not have to support everybody's choice of software? If there exist too many limitations without work arounds, why buy it?
There are well known techniques to deal with this. It's hardly a new problem.
There are projects that use LSMTs as the storage engine for RDBMS' (like RocksDB); I'm not sure it's accurate to say "they can't be use as an RDMBS".
Laying track is clearly the last part of the project; they're working on all the important stuff that goes under the track. The fact that they haven't laid track specifically is a false concern.
Obesity Facts
Well in either case we deserve our hubris!
Study finds insects can experience chronic pain (2019)
Anti-innovative effects of Apple's prohibition of alternative browser engines
It must be a misconception that it takes me 2 weeks to see a GP here in Europe, yes.
It's easy to vilify NIMBY, but those are ALSO the people stopping developers from tearing down historical buildings just to put up parking lots or worse.

Then again, there's also a vocal minority who thinks the government should spend as little as possible, and new projects are even worse.
RE 1. Just to be precise (as I thought this until recently):

* liveness check will cause pod restarts.

* Readiness check causes the pod to be removed from the round-robin of new traffic requests so it has time to recover/finish processing what it's working on.
Resistance won’t be needed if you name it 'Ohm'.
It’s not about mobile or desktop, it’s about marketshare. So just all devices.

IE had a nearly 100 % percent marketshare and Safari is far away from 100 % marketshare.
First to publish matters, but GPT-3 is neither necessary nor sufficient to achieve that. If you're producing fake news related to a press conference, speed of content generation is entirely unimportant because you don't have to wait for the press conference to start to write the fake article/update/tweet. If you care about fidelity to the message of the press conference, I don't see many situations in which a human who has anticipated the likely message(s) of the conference and therefore has pre-drafted paragraphs about "striking a conciliatory tone" and "confirmed the reversal of the policy" ready to select and combine with a choice quote or two as soon as they're uttered isn't significantly better (and as quick as) GPT-type models prompted by the speech-to-text of the press conference. Sure, more reliable publications will want to stick more validation and at least wait for the conference to finish before summarising its message steps in the way, but those apply to bots as well as journalists (or not, for the publications that prioritise being first over being right).
> UK is talking about backstopping the stable coins

London’s talking about regulating and ringfencing them. Not backstopping.
The quote you shared is utter non-sense. I have built SPAs running on devices so underpowered, you wouldn't believe. Single core, 512MB RAM, no GPU. And with a browser running on on top of all kinds of other crap.

Right tech for the job. Where "the job" could be anything.

Considering what modern browsers run on.
Zendesk acquired for $10.2B; turned down $17B offer earlier this year
St. Paul's rent control does go pretty far. Personally, I think it's a mistake to have it apply to new construction. If you remember California Prop 21 from 2020, even that would have only allowed rent control on buildings which are at least 15 years old.
another source https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/06/27/texas-taiwan-base...
> Star Trek is dark because the future we see is dark. And it's getting darker.

It started way before the new Star Trek, for example DC comics movies. it's the exploitation of the pessimism of new generations. Angst also sells.
ESID, for real.

Blasting the AC is usually symptomatic of a poorly-implemented HVAC system. Someone in the building is working in an office that has poor circulation, so they complain until someone with control turns the thermostat down a few degrees. Everywhere else in the building becomes a little chillier. People start complaining it's too cold. It gets turned up a few degrees. Repeat.

It's been a while since I worked in anything akin to a Japanese cubicle hell, but I've worked in a lot of female-dominated offices. Anecdotally:

> in my workplace it's women that control the thermostats and they set it to freezing

Before HVAC automation and smart/demand-response systems took that perk away from them (an early casualty in the war-on-women), IME it was usually middle-aged women who governed the thermostat. Biological factors (pregnancy, menses, etc.) lead them to perceive ambient temperature as being hotter than it actually is, and so they set the thermostat to temperatures that "feel" sane to them. Hormones are a poorly-understood beast-- assuming you're male, you'll experience this yourself if you ever have testosterone fluctuations.

Women also tend(ed?) to work around a lot of heat-producing appliances like faxes, laser printers, copiers, CRTs, and underspec desktop workstations with CPUs perpetually pegged at 100%. None of this was accounted for in building designs from the past.
I would guess that all languages with Turing complete typesystems would be technically equally powerful. I think Typescript supports more useful behaviors out of the box.
lol nothing you can do to make me feel older than i already do :)

Give your dad a fistbump for me, it's tough, but once he finds the right customer he'll be off to the races. I've been there before and I've been thinking about doing the same myself.
C has already added things not in C++, like _Generic.
But there is no real firewall between teachers and administrators - most administrators are former teachers - it's a pretty cozy club in most schools.

I am not opposed to the idea in theory, but don't see any way to honestly make it work. Also fairly certain almost every teachers union will oppose it - and I say that as someone who has the experience of negotiating teacher's union contracts from the other side of the table.
In the best case scenario someday building an SPA will be closer to building a mobile or desktop app

This is the worst case scenario for everyone.

Why does this industry have a pre-occupation with trying to increase complexity of the simplest things over time?
>Like a Texas law passed last year, the bill puts enforcement in the hands of residents, who could file lawsuits against those they believe have violated it.

So, even if they win the lawsuit, how will collection be enforced? Will individuals have the right to levy income or place liens against property?
(Obviously) the litigant has Right of Audience. As do qualified barristers and counselors. It's third parties that are restricted.
> Public housing has the same problem. You end up putting a bunch of poor people in one building, who statistically end up being associated with crime and drug use.

This is not necessarily the case. Social housing in Vienna has both low-income residents who are subsidized and higher-income residents who are not. We haven’t done it as well as they do historically here in the US, but we could!
Also an old timer. I’ve gone from mostly complex app and no DB logic to mostly heavily optimised DB and lots of procs. They protect the DB, make carefully crafted interfaces available and allow changes to the implementation.

Except for eg infinitely scalable cloud data stores like Google’s, or for ML where it’s just massive data and you need a dumb-ish store of many GB of parquet.
The colorways were an antifeature to me (seriously what's the point of introducing a feature when you're already planning to drop it 2 months later) and I'm still waiting for real containers on mobile (the fb one is useless to me as I don't use Facebook) but the other features yeah they're great
But... the reason why their PPP GDP is much better than their nominal GDP is exactly because they aren't actually that wealthy a nation, and so anything involving human labor there is cheaper. If Saudi Arabia actually developed better (whether by finding new, exciting natural resources to export or by developing some kind of productive economic sector not based on natural resource expansion), their nominal GDP would grow but the difference between their nominal GDP and their PPP GDP would shrink.

The point here is, Saudi Arabia is not particularly wealthy, and that, not their inequality, mostly explains their low standard of living. It is not the case, as the thread-starter implied, that Saudi Arabia has a high GDP but due to massive inequality it's all in the hands of the royal family.
What do we do when software gets too complex?

We redesign and start over.

That may or may not be an option with government. If it's not, we know the consequences. Paralysis.

I remember a musing Elon Musk had on Lex Friedman's podcast. He noted that there was no cleansing function for laws. Something like that might be a step in the right direction.