skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed - mathematics is predicated on the idea that there are individual things, but as we are learning, through things like quantum field theory, there are no individual things, hence, no individuated 'things' to count. As such, mathematics is not the 'language of nature'.

Check out David Tang's lecture on QFT: "there are no particles, only waves"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg

Mathematics still works (at our scale); the consequence is precision.

Individuation of anything is a construct - including subjects and objects:

http://www.katabane.com/mt/ontology.html
> None of them can do dynamic HTML.

Does it mean custom HTML written by the creator of the form or just a few precanned options?
Daily standup are one of the stupidest things the industry has come up with in the last 20 years. It's all part of the scrum BS which is nothing but structured/obsessive micromanagement.

We have 2 weekly meetings back to back. Biz/Dev then Dev/Dev, both combined usually total an hour. When we need to call someone, we call someone.
The Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9seau_Express_R%C3%A9gio... doesn't sound like it:

> The RER's tunnels have unusually large cross-sections. This is due to a 1961 decision to build according to a standard set by the Union Internationale des Chemins de Fer, with space for overhead catenary power supply to trains. Single-track tunnels measure 6.30 m across and double-track tunnels up to 8.70 m, meaning a cross-sectional area of up to 50 square metres, larger than that of the stations on many comparable underground rail networks.

Paris has basically three distinct stages in "urban rail" development:

- first, the mainlines were built from stations on the then-outskirts of Paris (Gare du Nord, Gare de L'Est etc.)

- then trams and later metros were built to link these train stations to the city and serve additional areas.

- finally starting from the 1970s they started building rail tunnels so suburban trains could run directly from one train station through the city to another station - similar to the S-Bahn systems in Germany or Crossrail in London. The RER tunnels were all built in this phase.
If it plugs into the wall it can run on renewables. In fact if it's hot and sunny that day the grid will be more able to power it with solar.
those are the weirdest bugs, everything seems to work as expected until it doesn't.

Glad a customer was able to try reupdating and it fixed their issue. I wish the team best of luck tracking down how the upgrade flow got busted
> the 20s were all about partying and buying stuff of on credit and watching the market boom

World war 1 ended in 1918. The 20s were literally created by tough times. Notably, in Germany, they were tough too.

> Then we get the depression and WWII which required men to become strong and fight which lead to the post war boom.

WWII was started by men who fought in WWI. Nazi leadership, including Hitler, were former soldiers for whom WWI experience was formative. These men were followed by younger men raised to be strong - German nazi were big on masculinity and big on being strong. Collectively all those tough men committed genocide.

> We're entering a tough time with famine and such, and people who decide to get strong and face the challenge are the ones who will do well and provide the next round of good times

That famine is created by politicians who pride themselves and being stronger then weak west. That famine did not just randomly happened. It was created by men who grew up in USSR, worked for secret service and then seen whole their world crumble in 1990.

There are no safe spaces in Russia or Chechnya. Instead you get beaten for being gay (Russia) or tortured and killed (Chechnya).
Damn, glad modern-day boomboxes are coming back into style. Apartments will get even worse than they already are.
Your comment makes absolutely no sense.
Keep in mind there are a lot of people who don't use a computer outside of work/school. For many people it might be a lot easier to lean their phone against something and hit record in the YouTube app than to type out a blog post
Crimes against transhumanity
> sticking with older working ideas over trying new things

Socialism had plenty of that going around, sticking with older working ideas.[1][2] But I hear you.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant_601

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ-3102
I would definitely try to stop my friend from doing something I see as unhealthy or dangerous.
If you look at the "studies" there is exactly ONE that is cited over and over saying that a glass is healthy. There are dozens and dozens of studies saying no amount is healthy.
What a great app that was. The step-by-step animated folding instructions were actually 3D. It had buttons to rotate the view around to any angle. In hindsight they must have written their own simple 3D engine or something. Obviously they didn't need to render too many polygons at once, and no textures or shading.
Same sentiments here. I have heard that the marketplace is great for selling second hand goods locally. But I still think the benefits of not being on facebook outweigh what I'm missing out but curious on reevaluating my stance.
The more dire the serious situation, the funnier the joke.
this is the first and only “cool” paper airplane I learned to build. the version I learned had a tail, which was built from a strip of paper torn off the end of the page.
To be honest, that thing is scary even for me as fit adult male. One little mistake and I could seriously hurt myself. Same for the children. I would be very uncomfortable letting my own child climb around on this to be honest. I would probably let it, but feel bad the whole time.
I always love reading Gopher (protocol) advocacy articles, not least because I run a gopherhole myself.

There are a lot of good reasons for gopher to stay alive, but 3 of the most important for me are; speed - no ads, just the file description and the content; somewhat under the radar - censorship engines tend not to descend down as low as port 70; the content - gopherholes tend to have the unusual, eclectic stuff that few others have...

In my case, I get a small but steady stream of gopher visitors, but thanks to a few nights playing with Perl anyone can now access most of the same content via a normal web browser: https://petergarner.net/gopherspace/index.php
One of the greatest aspects of working from home is getting to see my young son all day. When programming or other focus work I have to isolate, but for meetings he joins me and it's a lot of fun.

My job allows and supports this, and it's one of the biggest reasons I stay with them.
I just assumed they were removed because they were too hard to clean.
No, they generally have different scopes. You do not need to request a scope which can initiate transfers.
CDs are made of polycarbonate and contain Bisphenol A.
>my name was announced as the wrong-gendered version

that really sounds like the kind of thing a person might get stuck with through out their days in school. did this stick around for awhile, or was it mercifully a short lived thing?
>Does the browser allow replacing e.g Sec-* headers on XHR requests?

Probably not, according to this snippet from MDN

> With this information a server can implement a resource isolation policy, allowing external sites to request only those resources that are intended for sharing, and that are used appropriately. This approach can help mitigate common cross-site web vulnerabilities such as CSRF, Cross-site Script Inclusion('XSSI'), timing attacks, and cross-origin information leaks.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Fetch_meta...

being able to override it kills the whole point of the headers.
Believe what you like. A thoughtfully considered medical intervention rescued my health. While patients need to be vigilant for errors and the best treatment is sometimes a matter of good fortune. there is no such things as "belief" in "medical interventionism." It makes as much sense as "weather forecastism" or "speed limitism."
Connect with a recruiter (or five) and tell them that's what you want. They exist to act as a filter, and if you work with several from multiple companies/geographies in addition to doing your own searching, you'll eventually find what you're looking for.
Hackaday is an aggregator that summarizes and provides links to other interesting projects, videos, and blog posts. They've been doing this for a while now and it works well for their audience
Seven Habits of Bad Interviewers
Speaker output is tuned to input power and is probably stored in a file. Somebody grabbed a wrong file for the ‘speaker calibration curve’ while building the new update patch. Shouldn’t happen/doesn’t happen - we have seen internet infrastructure going down due to bad updates on routers - this is not entirely implausible.

I do work with audio stuff in auto industry.
Also -- I'm willing to believe that the regular "boring honors stuff," as they put it, which they've apparently de-prioritized is not the best possible curriculum. But there's no reason to believe that the skills needed to solve math puzzles really quickly are either.

Competitions are always artificial. This school is apparently pulling some really bright students now. Are they teaching them skills that will allow them to excel academically later in life, or are they teaching them how to execute the competitive meta strategy quickly?
My experience mirrors yours. Fastmail’s filtering is at least as good as Google’s for my inboxes, but Google and the other big players don’t seem to have spam filtering better than Fastmail’s on balance. Casually controlling for things like inbox age, I still get a bit more spam in my Google inboxes than in my Fastmail inboxes.

Once you’ve warmed up/activated the personal mail filter in Fastmail, it seems to work better than anyone else’s.
Ask HN: Email client with an opt-in inbox?
I'm tired of a cluttered inbox, but also tired of:

- manually unsubscribing from newsletters I don't remember signing up for

- managing folders, tags, etc.

- allowing for-profit entities the power to divert my attention whenever they want

Are there any email clients with an opt-in inbox? Meaning all emails go to blocked/triage/queue unless I specifically approve them for my inbox, or similar. I want my life uncluttered, I want to be stingy with where I place my attention.

I remember vaguely hearing about this kind of email inbox over the years, but I wasn't able to find any existing providers when I went to search for one this morning. Is anyone using a system like this, any suggestions?
Just looking at what people convinced to give up their mediocre art careers and do other work have done, I'm pretty sure it's been a huge net negative for humanity. Let the mediocre painters paint!
Disagree. The issues described are not with the underlying payment system, but with the integration between the merchant and their payment processor. These integrations are complex, and with thousands of merchants integrating mistakes are likely to happen.

Crypto is not going to change anything. Merchants will continue to use payment processors, and merchants will continue to make mistakes in those integrations.
Self-flagellation fetish
I mean custom HTML by the creator. You create a form rule to set the value of an HTML input, and then you can embed the values of inputs in the form into that html. I've used a lot of hidden inputs to determine values like even css classes to change how stuff gets displayed.

You can even append to an HTML value so you can use multiple rules to build up HTML content.
Whether it's a mess or not depends entirely upon the skill of the people that built it and the constraints they were under while building.

There is no shortage of anecdata on HN and elsewhere of people being shocked at the poor quality of the code base at FAANG and other high level prestigious companies.
If you like to jump to the comments before reading the post (like me), this is an exploration of a fairly common situation: calculating the total number of people who have "viewed/seen" a blog post.

tldr: use either Use HyperLogLog [0] (if you can install extensions on your postgres database), or hstore[1] if you can't.

HyperLogLog is a probablistic data structure, which can "estimate" the number of viewers, so it scales very well for Twitter/FB-scale platforms.

[0] HyperLogLog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperLogLog

[1] hstore: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/hstore.html
It’s probably because a bulk of his replies have been along the lines of “the update transfer was probably corrupted, you must have misapplied it. Can you try again?”
It didn't, because there is barely anything of any substance on YouTube. If there is, it's by someone with a production team - which is very far removed from the use-case of a blog.
There is an addon to bring back downvote visibility in firefox. [1] I believe it makes a call to an API on a 3rd party site so there may be privacy implications.

[1] - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/return-youtub...
So how does the HyperLogLog work exactly? It seems like the solution of choice, but I'd like to know more about the internals.
Machines to gather resources to build factories of machines for workers to drive to, their cars needing a similar concept to exist, to build ACs is a huge part of their problem.

Physical laws of the universe are well defined at this point.
Let's check back in five years and see how well recycling of them is going.

We are already having issues dealing with used wind turbine blades.
I was in a situation where I was managing a junior developer and felt like I didn't have time to properly train him, so instead I was leaving tons of comments on merge requests in GitLab with explicit instructions on what to change (often literally "Change this line to say this instead" with a brief explanation why).

In hindsight, I think I would've been much better off in the long run if I spent the first few months doing a ton of pair programming. Your situation seems a bit different, but I'd say it's at least worth a shot.
you can edit comments to fix typos...
Same. GPU in particular, seems like magic to a layman’s eye like mine.

Bluetooth and WiFi reverse engineering is something I can conceptually grasp from afar, especially because they should be relatively similar across architectures. They are well defined protocols, you send and receive packages. OK.

But GPUs are such complicated beasts, each on it’s own snowflakey way, I don’t even understand how the work on a deep level, let alone imagine how reverse engineering would begin. Memory access and sharing with the CPU, shaders, a massively parallel computing model. Crazy stuff. Oh, and you also get to draw lots of triangles really fast while you’re at it.
Here I thought this would be about dashcon and the beloved ball pit. Extra time in the ball pit for all.
> People aren't buying electric cars and installing solar panels on their homes out of self sacrifice.

This idea is simply wrong. Many of them are doing exactly that, they are using their brains and making sacrifices in their daily life in hopes that collective action in reducing impact will at least give us the time to course correct or reduce the impact of our collective failure with respect to climate change. If you don't know anyone doing this, that's because of who you know.

> I view the transformation to a low carbon future as happening primarily through the existence of natural economic incentives to do so.

Yes, we will need economic pressures to get everyone overall to conform to a sustainable lifestyle, mainly because we cannot coordinate global human action any other way. No, those pressures are not "natural" ones unless you mean as a result of destroying Earth's climate to the point change is necessary for even day to day survival. We have to choose our future, however hard it may be.
This is the big issue. All of these "businesses" ignore the human cost and just assume an exploitable population begging to not lose their housing.

This is a problem that exists all the way through the product lifecycle with these services and leads to GrubHub offering free lunches in NYC but not telling any restaurants so an already stretched to breaking industry gets slammed with no warning.

All these companies are designed around an exit not a viable business.
I would suggest starting with The Vocation of Man, which is short and clearly written. If you wish to go on to The Science of Knowledge, I'd suggest reading up on Kant, and perhaps some Schelling: I found Fichte a lot less opaque after reading a couple of short volumes of Schelling.

It has been a while since I read it, but it seems to me that Paul Beiser's account of Fichte in German Idealism: The Struggle Against Subjectivism, 1781-1801 was worth reading.

[Edit: added inadvertently omitted "you".]
Well sort of. For some reason, many dev departments do things the same way. Usually learned via some scrum consultant.
The playground my city just opened (new suburb: was a corn field 2 years ago) has several merry-go-round things. They are speed limited unlike the ones of the past, but they exist. I've seen park catalogs with them - the tic-tac-toe game is a cheap option for a playground, the good stuff is expensive. (several companies have their prices online if you google - don't confuse park with home playgrounds though when you search)
If the competitors decide to sue, you would at the very least be on the hook for damages, and most likely their legal fees as well. And you open yourself up to criminal fraud charges.
see https://github.com/chaifeng/ufw-docker
I agree with your idea, that society has an inertia so it is hard to make progress once in a rut, but I don't think it is mutually exclusive with the quote.

Just think on longer timescales; with your example of the US and Western Europe, I would argue that they are in the process of weak men making hard times. The soviet countries are the opposite, strong men are now improving things. It's only been 30 years since the USSR collapsed. It took Rome centuries to fall from it's peak, why would the west be any different?

Another issue is that in modern times the richest people in poor countries tend to move to rich countries eventually. Immigrants are often the hardest workers and the most entrepreneurial.
I like the monkey bars :-)
My guess (some if this we already have, some we don't):
- automation: integration of heuristics (multiple columns that you can program via formulas and such)
- exploration: finding outliers or most similar records given some reference (e.g. "I want to label more rows that are about business news in some extent")
- monitoring
- labelmanagement [which we don't offer yet in the extent we'd like to]: merging and splitting labels etc.

generally anything that scales and "somewhat" guarantees the users to input valid labels.

But it definitely offers something that new tools don't: users are super familiar with it.
Schulz did protect his legacy, as can be demonstrated by what has been done with his creations since he passed away. For example, the Peanuts movie from a few years ago was wonderful, and every bit as much in the spirit of what Sparky did when he was working on those things directly. Yes, Peanuts was heavily merchandized, but I still feel that the property has its dignity.

Unlike what happened with Dr. Seuss. Of course, no one can totally control what happens with his or her creations after he or she passes away. Look at how the vultures descended the moment Christopher Tolkien passed away.
The primary thing to start doing is separate your private and work life. You should not be bringing anything home from work, least of all stress. The rest is all a matter of attitude: You will find all of the things you've listed in every industry, but in this one at least some of the work is fun :)
I have a much different experience. I use Mollie, probably very similar to Stripe or any other modern payment service provider. I have the occasional failed SEPA transaction due to an invalid reference id but otherwise this is very smooth sailing. There is almost zero friction in the payment process. I might be a small fish with say 40 transactions a day but I guess my situation is not much different from bigger players. Maybe this is because most transactions are in the Euro zone and things go south fast when dealing with international payments.
Socializing the initial risky R&D costs but leaving market mechanisms to iterate is a common pattern in US innovation.

But I think the real difference was the relative wealth of the middle classes in each society, where the west tended to have a much wealthier society that could afford to spend more on early computers.

The video basically outlines a couple of differences (like party leadership betting on the wrong horse a couple of times), but seems to be driving by at the fact that they just had few enough buyers and didn’t iterate as fast as a result, meaning they had trouble with things like nailing down good yields. This snowballed.
The most interesting fact was that Iceland was 40% forested when settlers arrived. I'm not sure their goal is to return to 40%, but certainly a long way to go at 2.6% 20 years from now.
Thanks Francis! Means a lot :)
Instant NeRF
I can't help but think of the Dashcon ball pit meme whenever ball pits are mentioned. See at about 3:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZgxeX2dCnQ
I'm not inclined to see American-backed separatist movements as entirely "internal" either, but Ukraine is not as homogeneous as some would have you believe.
> Some tooling (such as asdf-vm[0]) didn't work, and it wasn't clear as to why. Note that this was something that I expected and was ready to work around as needed

Tools like Guix or Nix are oriented around describing packages as expressions. This ends up with the result where the Nix packages don't use system libraries. -- Tools that fetch binaries themselves don't always work well, because assumptions that may be true on many Linux distributions might not hold when using NixOS, or even just nix on other distributions.

Though, using asdf from Nix/Guix sounds a bit like trying to use a scythe while riding on a lawn mower.
Space Cadet Pinball is #4? What a ripoff.
> - Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you?

100%. I've been blogging since 2003. It helps clarify my thoughts. It helps me learn things. It helps me see how much I've learned and changed.

I wrote a bit more about blogging for myself here: https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2188

> - Did it help to get noticed/ find jobs or other opportunities?

Umm, a bit. I've gotten a bit of contract work from it. I've published a book from my blog (yet to earn out my advance). I've been in job interviews where people mentioned my blog. I was asked to be on a podcast because of something I'd written (but only because it trended on HN).

But no "Dan is making $Xk/month from his blog and only works 10 hours/week."

> - Do you learn something new from it?

Yes! I have found that I've never learned something so much as when I tried to explain it. And explaining something using words is so much harder than interactively; you have to be clearer and you have to be more rigorous.

Examples:

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/3244

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/2832