skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The one official says confidently that the drought won't last forever, but there is scientific evidence that current conditions are much closer to long term historical norms than what we have been living with.
Ok, so stories like the guy who blew up his Model S because he was told a new battery would be $22,000 leave me not knowing what to think.[0]

Our official car dealer would happily try and charge $50 to refill the windscreen washer fluid during a routine service :) so maybe the actual cost of the battery unit is only part of the story here.

[0] https://electrek.co/2021/12/23/tesla-owner-blows-up-model-s-...
and Slashdot was founded way before Digg (about 7 years)
the fact that the frontpage animation is a cartoon (computer graphics rendering) of what they intend to do, and not a well produced timelapse makes me doubt their entire project.
Another great Mosfilm, Kin-Dza-Dza!.
Spaceships run on matchsticks while rusty bolts are required for intergalactic travel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUtZOl_QxvY
It is true that I am an Iranian and I use Binance services in Iran
There's a difference between picking the optimal career and not picking a career with the worst prospects.

>And as usual, those with the better information and means to switch paths or take multiple shots will be the ones who can come out ahead.

I feel a person should care more about their own happiness than how other people are doing.
What has reddit got to do with the issue? He also made it clear that the right move was to rename, but that he's now refusing to do so out of spite - i.e. an escalation to the drama.

> is simply projection

oh, cool, now you are insulting me. So why am I childish?
> You can see that there is no way to evaluate `x1` without first evaluating `m 1`, even if the result is a thunk.

Isn't this true of `f(g(x))` as well? You can't evaluate f(g(x)) without evaluating g(x) first, right?
I range ban India from my websites. Cut my spam by 95%.
The problems solved by NixOS are mostly solved already. NixOS solves them differently, and that's OK, but it's not solving them for the first time.
My theory is that companies that jumped into the cloud content space didn't really think out long term what it means. It means hosting the purchased content forever, or providing a digital download for it if you no longer wish to host it.
Lots of US tourists in Paris currently. Overheard a couple of weeks ago:

Waiter: Un café? Un dessert?

Elderly lady tourist: I'm sorry, in English?

Waiter: A coffee? A dessert?
China may be able to crush the regular people thinking there is no way for citizens to fight back but they're wrong. Dejected people will no longer being a productive person in society and possibly harm society by getting into crime.
I'm done at Girls who Code. What's next? Boys who do the dishes? So condescending.
That statement is nearly meaningless, because it does not say how many students are facing restrictions.

What fraction of Chinese students are currently doing in-person learning?

This information is available - there are regular updates from every Chinese city about CoVID measures.

The Economist is just too lazy to actually go tabulate the data, so what we get instead is a vague statement about "enduring restrictions," which affect some unspecified number of students. Are we talking about 10% of students, 1% of students, 0.1% of students? Hint: it's probably nearest to the final figure.

It's not just The Economist that is lazy when it comes to reporting about China. Most Western outlets are. The standard of reporting is incredibly low, and it is colored by some massive biases. For people who actually know something about the country, it's incredibly frustrating.
Where's the rest of the money going? (i.e.: most of it)
Maybe a bit of an expat bubble?

But where I am some new big players have come in and are paying significantly more (50-100%) than the approximate market rate for very experienced people. The absolute numbers (when converted to appropriate currencies) are comparable to what people can get in native English speaking countries.

Some companies do try and adjust for cost of living differences, meaning they offer less here versus some other more expensive locations, but that opens up another can of worms.
What makes you think it takes 10lbs of lions mane to make two servings of crab cakes? This recipe uses 6oz and claims to make four: https://steamykitchen.com/192632-lions-mane-crab-cake-recipe...
Yet there's still no begginer-friendly way of doing any of that without diving head-first into the DIY home growing literature. Your comments are coming off as gatekeeping for no other reason than speculation and the fact you're already familiar with the space.

This product seems to simplify the entire process of home growing, which is a bit more involved than squeezing juice out of fruit. As long as it's priced and marketed appropriately, I don't see a reason why it shouldn't exist. Whether there's a market for it is another question, though.
A person with alopecia's hair color isn't "unknown" it's non-existent. They do not have hair.

Would you suggest that a database of appearance information about a person should have a separate subtable for "hair" to properly model this feature?

Either way, in the end, for displaying 99% of the time you're going to be using a VIEW that LEFT JOINs all these cute normalized tables back together again, and then you're going to want to filter those views dynamically on a nice grid that the user is viewing, and the fact that X != X is going to bite you in the ass all over again.

Creating more tables is just moving the problem around, not solving it.
It doesn't seem like the world has much of a standard though, as much as they have a term "standard gauge". I was on a train from China to Mongolia where they lifted each train car, one by one, passengers inside and everything, to change the boogies for a different track gauge so the train could continue.

At the France/Spain border my train changed its gauge mechanically on-the-fly. The tech is there, it's probably some stupid patents that prevent the rest of the world from having this efficiency.
This thing looks extremely rough when examining pictures and video at highest resolution available. Take a look at the left edge of the display cut out, as an example:

https://i.imgur.com/ttZZhwa.png

This hobbyist level of machining does not go very well with the slick design and marketing.
California's population is about the same size of Canada's, a country larger than the entire US.

While many people do live in cities, many live in, and outside cities, in rural areas.

Rural areas which support the farms you seem to like. Farms do not live in a vaccuum, and require an entire infrastructure of people working, and living in these areas, including schools, etc.

But outside of this, I noticed you completely glossed over climate as an issue, ignoring inclement weather for most of the year. Your map of warm California is irrelevant here, and does not discuss this.

Canada has very excellent urban planning, and often has grocery stores near by. That only helps at certain times of years, and only helps in dense areas.

This is part of the problem.

Electric cars are an awesome solution, yet what I see always is hard core environmentalists harming positive change. An electric car is far, far better than gas, yea? Is it?

Then holy hell, just drop the blather and embrace it, and be happy change is happening.

Get behind the positive.

We have vegetarians manipulating the climate crisis to get their way (no beef is not bad for the environment), we have the bike/anti-car side doing the same.

You want truth? Here's truth, and you saw it with all the covid political stupidity.

Push too far, and it backfires...
alternate architectures; plurality
Multiple implementations of a standard help shine light into dark corners.
That tends to happen when you create "The Amazon for drugs".
Reflections on Italian Migration
I was homeschooled. It definitely isn't for everyone. I mean it was basically a full-time job for my mom.

We had a group that we sometimes did events with, so I have more than a couple friends who were too. A few homeschooled acquaintances are kind of weirdos. But most of the folks from my homeschool friend group are totally normal. And a couple have really sparkling personalities -- I think they actually ended up with abnormally good social skills by hanging around with adults during their childhood, and not engaging in the weird social pressure cooker of highschool.

I suspect the reputation comes from the outliers -- most people don't know I was homeschooled until I tell them. If you could figure it out on your own, it would have to be the case that I was a real weirdo.
School choice isn't more expensive than compulsory district based schooling though. Nationwide charter schools and similar average $6,585 per pupil spending compared to $10,771 per pupil at conventional district public schools.
FWIW, Common Lisp is already a "systems Lisp".
If you look at COST it was pretty darn good to be a shareholder too.

Somehow they made that work out where all three of them won.
it's nuts. even murderers can get parole.no parole is a huge injustice
I'm in the same situation. I'm demotivated as I'm not that interested in the promotion opportunities as I wouldn't enjoy management. I think working in a different company would be be better. I'm considering a smaller start up but now might not be the best time to move.
The banks do. Payment providers do. Advertisers do. There's plenty of reasons for a business to be low-key about providing accessories to break Federal laws.
Speculating, things like crops and building decorations (if they have 3d buildings anyway).
So of the three major SQL implementations, you have one of them following the results of the settled debate, one of them being an exception and one of them huffling glue (whatever that means). In addition, there's a language exception even in the settled group, which you have to handwave away.

Sounds pretty unsettled to me.
Didn't he try to order a bunch of hits though?
The main source of interest for GCC Rust is because GCC targets more platforms than LLVM. A partially-overlapping interest is using Rust in Linux: Linux targets non-LLVM platforms, but is also deeply tied to GCC and Rust-for-Linux would have a lower barrier to entry if it doesn't require a second toolchain.

Long-term, it's considered a strong signal for the health and viability of Rust if it's not strictly tied to one implementation.
Doesn't Google track all of our locations? Why does it let people leave reviews of American restaurants when it knows they've never been outside of India?
You’d also want to avoid any country that the US has an extradition treaty with.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition_case_of_Meng_Wan...
> The stuff I've read that touches on this idea is almost all from 2006 and onwards, mainly 2010s. The earliest example is a bit of an outlier: Douglas Hubbard's 1985 How to Measure Anything -- but it's also only tangentially related.

I didn’t keep good track of such things but a lot of my early reading in the 70’s was in operations research and decision support systems, mostly sort of what we call operational analytics these days with a big helping of statistical process control too. World War 2 logistics practices and ‘50s and ‘60s “scientific management” fads generated a lot of material, some insightful. Many medium-sized businesses could afford significant R&D then, so you’ll find e.g. furniture factories developing their own computer systems from PCBs to custom ASIC components, just to manage statistical process control and decision support systems.

> That said, I did mention it was obvious to me. I still find it hard to convince management and colleagues of its importance...

I think the reason I keep having to justify this every few years is the tendency towards abstractions in management which try to simplify things into “anecdotal analytics”, e.g. preferring a persuasive narrative over reality...for a good cynical perspective from the ‘50s I recommend C.M. Kornbluth’s “The Marching Morons” (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Marching_Morons>).
To be fair there is a history of women who have kids not progressing (pay scales) as fast as men or childfree women.
But seriously, girls who Code?
Thanks for asking if it wasn’t clear.

The article used Costco as a vehicle for exploring the experience, and yet so some degree trauma, of moving away from your birthplace. I read it through the lens of a common belief that Asian families in particular are very close and don’t handle migration well.

I mentioned my story because it’s a contradictory example, but also because I believe that the belief that somehow “Asians” can’t handle family separation is not correct — I believe all people have roughly the same percentage of “gotta stay here” and “gotta go somewhere else” — it’s just human nature.

The last part of my story also relates to the Costco article: despite a lot of time there I never lived in India, nor, thanks to the laws and attitudes of where I was born did I speak much of any Asian languages with my mother yet decades later I, and some American woman of Indian decent whom I’d never met before, used the same body language and gestures while speaking. Where did that come from?
This is great! Gcc support opens up more platforms, more targets, and the opportunity to more easily integrate with the various common embedded toolchains that are built around gcc.

And it's free software, for those that care, this matters.
Thanks for the neat story, and kudos to you for helping her.
I have an old Kindle and it's always had trouble trying to just load files over a USB connection - books show up in the wrong section, no metadata, etc.

Calibre makes it simple and the books appear properly on the device. And it can fix metadata on books downloaded from the internet. That's the main reason I use it. Add in the fact that it's a nice management tool for seeing all my books at once and I'm very pleased with it.
Once the plane is in the air? Fantastic! It’s when the plane is on the ground and the main power and filtration is off is where the danger is. On my last few flights I’ve brought a high quality co2 meter and it consistently hit 3000-5000PPM in the time between boarding and when the plane was moving.
> reads like the biggest caricature of a nerd that I have ever seen.

The site never claimed to be otherwise, so there's that.
Well whistleblowers in banks are loathed too (and pharma, oil, government etc.), exposing and destroying a very finely balanced machinery of theft, corruption, bribery, massive egos, big cocaine/prostitute parties, you name it.

That doesn't make them any less right, does it.
They were organizing a a dogpile there to comment and vote on this github issue. Why would you give in to a bully?

He should have just blocked anyone who downvoted his responses.

Also a fork of PuTTY? Who cares.
You got me curious about the growing process (didn't even know it's something you can do at home), and came across this fascinating tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm1FgFFzQd4
You're not giving professional sports enough credit. On the player picking side, it's arguably the last true meritocracy in the US. Teams are willing to take fliers on fringe Jrs because of genetics and maybe the media attention that will come to their team. Otherwise, they always pick the players with the best combination of potential and immediate talent, regardless of background.

Coaching on the other hand, that's as nepotistic as any political field.
GCC already has compiler front ends for Fortran, Ada, Go, and formerly Java. Adding another language, especially one as popular as Rust, couldn't hurt.
Unless you outer join, in which case NULL values pop up out of thin air...
Huh, stumbled upon a strange visual effect. I got #0cc3bf (sorta cyan) above #acc2e0. When looking at the cyan, the other colour appeared lighter shade of blue/cyan in my peripheral vision. When I then looked straight at the lower colour it turned lilac. Almost pink to begin with. The effect was quite striking initially, to the extent that I suspected the page was varying the colour.

I'm on mobile. The phone was perhaps a little over a foot from my face. It's a sunny day in a room with a South facing window. I have a warmish LED light on (3000K).
Just in case, to answer the question: The vast majority of private, let alone public housing in the UK have no AC.
Indeed, but I think they should first create a standard?
Down hard
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It all depends what kind of crap you talk. There are plenty of things you just can't say and tenure won't protect you when they come for you. Ask Joshua Katz, formerly of Princeton. He complained very publicly and they dug up an old crime and tried him again. Suddenly the old crime that was punishable with a suspension before is now bad enough to merit firing.

Note: I'm not speaking to the merits of how Princeton or Katz behaved. Only that tenure is not the license to speak that some people imagine. And if you criticize your own institution, you're bound to upset people and maybe they'll be the ones with control over the punishment process.
I think you're misinterpreting the parent comment. The best bet for the future of the museum is to appeal to the rich. The child of the hedge fund manager will be fine no matter what they do.
> Facebook as a legacy product in maintenance mode.

Does FB even need to change? What's wrong with a product becoming stable and maintained and just growing in users but not features, etc?

Why can't we just have products that are "done". When's the last time HN didn't get something in "maintenance mode"? With SaaS, it's not even like you need to produce new versions to get more money.
Many of the electronic services charge fees which paper checks don't. There's a reason people do this, it's not "love" or lack of knowledge or legacy. It's a big incentive on large transfers (like rent) to avoid a percentage fee.
When I worked a summer at BJ's (a similar wholesale club) the manager informed me that this was by design. I was asking why we needed to move all the stuff, if we were discontinuing or something. He said nope, we just have to do this every now and then because it keeps people shopping longer. There may be an added "experience" element to it as well, but this was an eye opener to me as a teen.
Forget chargebacks: the wildly fluctuating price of BTC means that even a good-faith retailer can't offer refunds without risk to either the buyer or the seller. The price of BTC has risen almost 40% in the past month; how do you settle this without either side feeling like they've gotten ripped off?
> Please don't think of it as trivial

I've worked with relational databases for 20+ years. This is the very first time I heard of this.
Indeed it is.

As someone who’s been encapsulating magic mushrooms for 10+ years, what I’d really love to see is an easy way to extract psilocybin for a more accurate measurement of the compound. Encapsulated mushrooms work ok but sometimes it can be orders of magnitude different in potency. Like you think you’re drinking a beer and accidentally drank 3 margaritas. I’ve read that people are working on deriving psilocybin from yeast but haven’t heard much as of late.

Fwiw, I think mushrooms at low quantities might be the best drug of all time, even better than caffeine. Happy pills, I tell ya!
1. I don't see anyone in the comments disrespecting Uber drivers

2. I never stated I'd feel shameful

3. I'm not sure I understand what argument you're trying to make
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Sometimes you don’t have to re-check your bags.

Some US airports and airlines are like that for some flights (e.g. international delta flight to Detroit and then onward to Canada). Finally US customs figured that there’s less to worry about if you just hold onto my bags instead of forcing me to pick them up.
If he's in prison for life without the chance of parole, why does it matter to him if his debt is paid off?
To learn Lisp, rather than Scheme, Practical Common Lisp is awesome. It's available online for free at https://gigamonkeys.com/book/, but I recommend purchasing it if you can.
> a random symmetric 9 digit number some government assigned me

SSNs aren't even that random, they're very deterministically generated for the most part. If you know when and where someone was born its not too hard to guess the first 5 digits or so, meanwhile the last four digits are routinely shown places.
The extremely contagious nature of the newest strains is in many ways a direct consequence of our global failure to contain it early on before it had so many chances to mutate. (eg how we did with MERS and the original SARS)

Asymptomatic spread and a lack of clarity on whether it was even "airborne" plagued our early efforts to contain it.

That being said, the lockdown-related learning loss is also a disaster, and one that will disproportionately impact disadvantaged kids and their communities.
You do both.

The foreign key only gaurantees that the other entity exists.

The unique constraint ensures that only one pair of entities has this relationship, preventing a one-to-many binding.

The distinctness of NULL allows you to have multiple entities with the same NULL value without violating the above UNIQUE constraint.

The "NULL is empty" vs "NULL is unknown" is a series of trade-offs of labor-saving. Imho, the wrong trade-offs were made, but once the choice is made it makes sense to continue and be consistent with it. I'd rather be consistently wrong than inconsistently right.
Surely they do performance testing?
That is a great idea. All Experian executives and technology folks should have this done to them all day every day until the issue is resolved.
> you should probably pick a language with a future, and that language is probably not Perl.

A combination of Bash (sed, awk, grep) and Python (string manipulation) eliminates any need for Perl.
Ask HN: If you had AGI today what is your priority list of problems..?
Ask HN: if you had AGI today what is your priority list of problems for it to crack? Assuming a limited processing capacity.
It seems to me that the solution to all the woes of this bill is to just not allow any content to be shared. That basically eliminates this being a problem for 95% of all companies.
> culturally appropriate textures

'Culture' in the sense of human artefacts (buildings, etc) laid down on an underlying terrain. Such culture will be specific to particular regions of the world.
I would bet if you made a modern version of this tech demo today with modern graphics, people would be excited about it.

To me this is evidence that for some reason no one wants these kinds of interfaces, and they are largely just cool tech demos. We've had the capability for almost 40 years, and there's effectively been little to no progress from a pure functionality standpoint. Sure, your voice commands can (sometimes) be recognized by a device you carry in your pocket, but fundamentally there hasn't been a WOW moment for a very long time.
> Ironicaly this is never mentioned

What are you talking about? That is mentioned everywhere. Have a look at the Wikipedia article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis): "Note that the curve with the greater variability (green) yields higher values in both the lowest and highest ends of the range."

The evidence points strongly towards confirmation for the hypothesis regarding intelligence. Only the reason is unclear.

> This shows you how biased all of these critics are, zero scientific discussion, pure emotional and egoistic outbursts.

Pure projection on your part. You are not even familiar with the current discussion.
And a company that will stand the test of time, because as Warren Buffet says, it's providing value.