skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Or another way to look at it is that American cultural value of "Individuality" has been corrupted to lean towards more and more selfishness because of consumerism

Wanting everyone's life to be better is progress, not selfishness.

Wanting everyone to suffer because of some "original sin" is an abhorrent viewpoint that only results in more misery.

Painting "progress" as "selfishness" is a trick played by those too lazy to do the hard work to improve their own lives, and in general move civilization forward. In the end, they are primarily harming themselves with this disempowering belief.

> What you see as indecisiveness or lack of action may actually be genuine contemplation

I'm sorry but this is laughable. How long do you reckon you'll need to think about this?

The solution is simple, but not easy: ADD MORE AC UNITS AS TEMPERATURES WARM.
Of the companies that gave me offers in the last few months, none of them even knew I had github projects until I brought it up with them during the interview process. I mention these github projects on my resume in a separate section - its not even a throwaway line.

Personally, if someone has a blog or a Github and I'm conducting an onsite interview with them, I definitely spend an hour or so going over everything.
> I am always amazed at how poorly designed bathroom sink faucets are.

> The spout where the water comes out is always so close to the far edge instead of to the middle of the sink.

> Placing the spout so the water exits in the middle of the sink would be so much nicer. You wouldn't have to lean over, your hands wouldn't be hitting the back of the sink, and you'd have so much more room to wash your hands.

That would suck. If the faucet was in the middle, it would be where I put my face when I try to wash it in the sink.
You are aware that you can control the temperature that the AC targets? I live in the US and so have AC and I set it around 29C under normal conditions (if it is unusually humid I find I have to set it a bit lower to be comfortable.)
All I see is people claiming RSS is dead, but I never stopped. Moving between various readers and landed on Feedly for iOS a few years ago. Love it.
The thing is after spending a decade on AWS I'm hesitant to move to a different cloud. Like you are going to have to pay me a lot of money or give extremely generous credit and even then its a maybe.

The greatest trick AWS pulled was convincing the world cloud needs to be complex and they succeeded. We have spent so much resources and time on it, its too painful to leave it.

The only exception is some Google products like Firebase which clearly shine above the pile of burning trash that is Cognito. Perhaps some other products AI related I don't know about.

Azure? Unless you are running .net from Visual Studios don't see why you need to be on it. Many generation of developers grew up not knowing what .net or Java is.
I may have misunderstood your use case. I was thinking of the use case of traveling where you would buy a local SIM where it's actually two separate accounts. In that case you can just switch the profile. You can have a work number and personal number or your home carrier and a local carrier if you are traveling. See:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT209044
that’s a lesson that’s no longer applicable on modern machines I think? —- it often makes sense to start a sequence of piped commands with a cat invocation. One reason is that then the order of sources and sinks in the command syntax matches reality.
A lot of people saying their blog helped them get jobs.

I have a blog [1], with over 200 posts. I went for interviews at three companies in Austria in 2015, was surprised not one company mentioned my blog. Turned out the recruiter had removed the link from my CV. Presumably because it had my email address on it and they were worried the company would contact me directly. Great "value" the recruiter provided to the company there.

So no, my experience is if recruiters are going to remove the link to your blog, having a blog makes absolutely no difference to the job-seeking process whatsoever...

[1] https://www.databasesandlife.com/
> Does the time spent writing feels worth it to you?

Yes. I write for myself (and reference some of my posts years later) but unexpectedly some of my posts have helped other people and that's a great feeling.

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

Not yet! Although I think it has encouraged a lot of other behaviors that might have helped to get noticed or find other opportunities.

> Do you learn something new from it?

That's generally the reason I do it – to document things I've learned.

> Writing up my thoughts in presentable state took too much time/effort. Right now, I simply save my notes to my personal Notion for future reference.

IMO that's good enough. If you want to make your writing public don't waste time trying to make it "presentable" - just get it "good enough" and publish. Or slap a giant "DRAFT" label at the top.
> we're awfully sentimental about our own meat bags

As much as I've enjoyed my meat bag and worked towards making it better through different means like diet or weightlifting, the older I get and the more ailments appear, the more I think about being able to live long enough to acquire my new and improved robot body, Chappie [0] style!

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chappie_(film)
I mean literally this https://youtu.be/TFE9wfAfudE?t=611 Problem solved
It doesn't matter what people think when they're philosophizing alone; peer pressure will win out. Do you want to be the luddite left behind when all your friends are zipping around the world on optical fibers, London to New Tokyo in 200 ms? Do you want to be the only delicate mortal in the room, where everyone else has a full mind backup on rsync.net?

There's a lot of terrible stuff in today's technology world that no thinking person would accept, if they paused to make a deliberated choice. But no one has time to stop. You either go with the flow, and swallow your concerns, or you put massive friction between you and the rest of society. I think it will be the some going forwards: all the decisions will continue to be made collectively and blindly, and without realizing we're making great decisions until we've already made them.
There's an old saying in journalism - "If it bleeds, it leads." There are positive news sites out there - Upworthy being one notable example - but they don;t seem to do as well as fear based journalism.

The core of the issue is money. All major news agencies are all owned by corporate interests, and they aren't in the news business for the betterment of society - they want to turn a profit. This affects every editorial decision they make, and leads to consequences like fear-based reporting and, much worse, editorial decisions that favor the interests of the corporate owners, meaning a lot of stuff about them that may be bad is either downplayed, buried, our outright not printed.

This sounds conspiratorial, but it's all just the side effect of putting profit over people, which is the American way.
I love mpv. It is my default media player in both Linux and Android.
> So don't publish it under a license that specifically allows that?

That doesn't stop anyone.
Can anyone else see the source? I am getting 404 and would like to see the sql statements that implement these tests.

>not to mention a lot of concurrent database updates (which isn't necessarily Postgres's forte to begin with)

Isn't PG multithreaded db server and the default row store is tuned for OLTP with row level locking over OLAP? I could see this being said for Sqlite but not PG.
It's outlined in the following paragraph:

"""
Mr. Frazer’s insight was to connect four levels of education: The kids he scouts in elementary school develop in middle school, compete in high school and take specialized classes from college professors that he brings to Buchholz’s campus.
As soon as the system was in place, the team started winning and never stopped.
"""

Notice how the first step is collecting kids that are already good. The recipe is then broadly: collect the best kids you can get your hands on, train and coach them for years, watch them win. There might be some details of wider interest, but essentially this is a good old elitist project.
> I could see this ushering in the permanent eternal victory of totalitarianism since I can't imagine the masses being able to organize any resistance when constantly bombarded with propaganda from their demons.

I thought this is already what is happening now!

I think technology is neutral, but the entire system is not: it will strengthen the existing power imbalance until there is no hope of balancing it again. For example, the authority can have mass surveillance to identify possible risks and remove them, without the public noticing by controlling the social media. Even if you noticed, you have basically no chance of gathering a large enough crowd to protest due to communication channels being constantly monitored by AI. Even if you somehow get enough people, you will not have a chancw fighting them as their weapons are a lot more advanced, probably unmanned so not constrained by manpower.
I've been fighting a lot of these feelings myself. Several good friends have pointed out that it sounds like textbook burn out and I should take a sabbatical somehow to recharge.

Corporate America doesn't believe in multi-month sabbaticals. But we're several years into a minor apocalypse and almost everyone is burnt out. Something will likely have to give. It will probably be us the laborers that break first because Corporate America says they care about labor but aren't incentivized/regulated to actually care., Smart companies should be thinking about sabbatical culture if they want to survive that because if they don't plan for it they are just as likely that a lot of their laborers break at the same time. I don't know if there are any smart companies left in America.
> so I expect many people would just think you've created a copy that superficially acts like the original while destroying the original.

Prove otherwise.

Star Trek transporters have the same issue.
Getting customer invoices per transaction is fundamentally not possible with the blockchain and peer-to-peer payment networks. What you suggest is that every individual and corporate entity who has sold a NFT should also be treated as criminal and have their assets seized, because they are not able to provide purchaser invoices per sale?

His records and sales are public on the site and easily traceable, far more transparently given than most corporate and celebrity NFT sales that have happened without issue in the last two years.
> Not updated anything since

The codebase is still being updated:

https://github.com/orgs/keybase/repositories?type=all
That's my thought on Stargates. Wouldn't your consciousness just stop as you were ripped apart? And a clone of you would then continue but it wouldn't be your stream. The more I think about this, about what my stream of consciousness is, my "session" if you will, the weirder it all gets.
Interesting.

My take on it is that things are complicated and specialized enough nowadays to warrant people specializing in technical things that aren't necessarily code.

For example, integrations and different system interactions can grow large and complex to require someone to design them and work on implementing them, without necessarily writing any code.

I ask the question because I've often found engineers tend to be condescending to people in these roles because they don't write code.
Yimby Social Culture Prevents Progress, Again
Pretty much my same experience with AWS. We had a customer with some infrastructure on Azure that we had to integrate with. The hoops we've gone through are:

1) Wade through poor documentation to find how to do it, follow the docs to a letter. Even find a perfect example of what we are trying to do that another company did.
2) Get vague error messages that basically only say, "You can't do this." What? Why? Alternatives? None of that.
3) Contact support. Tell them we are trying to do X and give the other example.
Get kicked to a team in the Philippines. After a day or two of conversation, don't hear from them for a week.
4) Get told we were placed in the wrong support team. Get kicked to another team in another country.
5) Repeat 3 and 4 but then this time told we are being kicked to the real Azure team in Redmond.
6) Finally make progress. But very little communication, and certainly nothing like what went wrong, what we should have done, etc.

We are waiting for them to take a final step before we can even test our integration. It's been three months since this started.
Very few people need many groceries within 15 minutes (or several hours or even same day).

What I am surprised we have not yet seen is "Trader Joes online". Not for Trader Joes to do it (they seem disinterested and very focused on an in-store experience/model). But for some startup or legacy company to make such an offering. Limited SKUs, terrific value, optimized for online ordering/storage/deliervy, etc.
And with `--vo=tct` argument, you can watch youtube videos directly on your terminal! No GUI necessary!

mpv --vo=tct "https://youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ"
A way to do this for read heavy applications is to use the separate table to store who has viewed the post, but then use a trigger to update a seen count column. When you write a (unique) row to the table, the trigger counts all the views and updates the posts table. All reads have no extra overhead, only views. You can queue/process the views at your leisure, or pause them altogether as a circuit breaker.
> ?!? Why bother defining a framework for measurement if you're just going to substitute your own judgment? Perhaps the framework didn't capture something important -- like the absolute number of people looking at any given post, concurrent updates, etc.

Just guessing: the benchmark tells you the time complexity. It doesn't tell you the space complexity. The author is optimizing between the time- and space-complexity of the solutions, with the time-complexity benchmarks as an input. (Also, at a scale the benchmark doesn't reach, space-complexity starts to affect time-complexity, as large datasets become less able to be hot in disk cache.)
Same. It was a major loss when Google killed Reader, but I just found another app and kept on RSSing. NewsBlurr is my current choice (windows).
Most of my UK friends opted to drive to work and back (with the AC running the whole way) and work from the office because their home office was too hot to work from home.

I’m not sure “no ac at home” is actually a good idea lan for the environment.
This is a braindead take.

A bar that takes cash cannot prove they're not money laundering, therefor it doesn't matter if the government seizes their assets. That is essentially what your argument says.

It's obvious you're not on board with NFTs, and that's fine. What isn't fine is making blanket assumptions that everyone who sells art in the space is a fraud or a scammer. It's a very stupid opinion, with no basis in knowledge of the space, the ability to track transactions, due process, etc.
Inspiring story, but the absence of statistical rigor bothers me. This little fact, in particular, begs more questions:

> Many of the gifted kids in his program have parents who work at the nearby University of Florida and push to get on Mr. Frazer’s radar.

Is there any data comparing how these kids perform compared to other kids whose parents also work for a top-100-ranked university? (US News ranks University of Florida as #38 nationwide.) Do these kids do better or worse than their comparable peers nationwide?
If you people want to do Dutch bikes because of esthetics, consider other brands like Cortina or BSP. If they are available abroad, that is. I had a lightweight but sturdy Gazelle for some time. Now a BSP. Both matte black, strong frame, etc.

Vanmoof has beautiful bikes, but one of the things I don't like about it is the sitting position. The steer is basically not higher than the frame. Very bad for back, shoulders and wrists. It even pains me when I only see people riding that bike here. That position is not maintainable for a longer time, especially if you're a desk worker.

What I did with my bikes - which had a slightly higher steer, but not enough - is turn the steering pen towards the saddle and then put the steer back and turn it slightly upwards with the ends. I also had a longer re-adjustable steering pen, which was perfect. See here for a pic: https://www.theredpanther.org/?module=timeline&link=1&title=...
Sure, that I understand, I'm just saying that you failed to actually reply to me (or your reply was ambiguous at best)

The topic is GnuCash, parent said "The biggest problem with it as far as I can tell is the requirement for manual entry" whereas someone replied "To use these APIs in Europe you need a license" and you said "There's Ponto", and I asked you if I can use Ponto to connect to GnuCash.

I think it's understandable to think that if someone is suggesting Ponto (in a submission about GnuCash), then you should reasonably be able to use Ponto to connect to GnuCash, since that's the entire point of this submission. Otherwise your comment just reads as trying to shoehorn in your own product wherever it's only slightly related to the topic at hand.
Yeah, all of our new ones around here seem to use some Dutch or German (I can't remember which) company and look almost exactly like that. All their merry-go-round type things are very different from the old ones we were used to, and IMO less good, but they probably also produce fewer injuries than the old design. They tend to come with notices warning that you probably don't want to let your 4-year-old get on some of the equipment, because it's not extremely safe for all ages. Some have climbing structures like the one in the picture that go up to about 2.5 stories.

Middle of the country, and we're usually like a decade behind trends on the coasts. There was a brief "rip out all the fun stuff" trend but it didn't last long and that was more of an '00s thing.
Thank you for sharing that clip.

Has anyone watched the series, Years and Years? It seems interesting.
> they will actually build new generation driven by economic price signals, and not be hampered by excessive regulation with regards to permitting new assets.

The problem with this theory is that it has not been born out in reality: Despite lacking excessive regulation, Texas has a large quantity of plants stuck in permit hell, and we've been stuck in this situation for years.

Texas likes to sell itself as being small on regulations, but the truth of the matter is the bureaucracy is as bad as anywhere else.
Show HN: Finding errors in datasets with Similarity Search
The process of splitting or labeling data is error-prone, and these errors can be very costly. George Panchuk, ML Engineer at Qdrant, shares how to define misplaced items with similarity search and avoid errors in categorized datasets.
Why would you want it to mess with sandboxes? It’s a build system. There are other mechanisms for sandboxing, no need to reinvent the wheel.

Basel is as non-standard as it gets - essentially yet another Google’s case of NIH - but apart from that, how is an ad-hoc single-use pseudo-language better than reusing standard mechanism? To me it’s just a bad design.
Why Wimbledon uses 55,000 tennis balls a year?
Not in mine as far as I can tell.
Reality is, compensation isn't a panacea for drawing talent with enthusiasm.

Indeed, it may even have adverse effects: you draw people who want the money, instead of people drawn to the profession intrinsically.

We do need to build environments (schools, administrations, patterns of educating teachers, social supports for teachers and students, etc) that cultivate enthusiasm and encourage high levels of effort, rather than crushing it.
Oh my god yes. I'm battling (and probably losing the fight) the dreaded Box Elder Maple. The thing grows like a weed and if you cut it down, it just grows back even larger. You either need to cut it down to a stump (and likely grind the stump to nothing), or cut it and poison what's left so it dies for good.

Fkn hate those trees and the bugs they host!
"I do not like NFTs, therefor this guy is a scammer, and deserves to have his assets seized"
- HackerNews community

Disappointing.
The last resort of every peace process is an appeal to our common humanity, so I do think there is some risk to tinkering with what it means to be human. Look at the state of conflict today, even with the benefit of us all being one species. We figuratively dehumanize our opponents in order to justify violence (“they’re monsters!”). It could get a lot worse if we find ourselves in conflict with people who can be literally dehumanized, with whom we have lost the most fundamental thread of commonality.
>Not true

Care to... add more to the conversation? I don't even know which part you are saying isn't true. Or why it isn't true. Or what the truth is, since you seem to know?

Edit: A reply of just "yes"... Is this some weird form of trolling?
Interestingly, many films depicting these future events tend to view things like nervous systems/pain etc. as things that are disadvantages and that technology would remove but humanity is built upon pain, fear, weakness and ultimately death so I wonder if some fully automated but artifical beings could ever be anything more than mundane, they would lack urgency and ambition because they wouldn't suffer the same desire for power and significance because it would be meaningless.
> once they pay off a home, the payments are finished

Property taxes and maintenance costs continue forever.
The Wreck of Bidenomics
My greatest hope is that we will somehow find a way to reduce/eliminate selfish and antisocial tendencies as an intrinsic aspect of any advances made in these areas. I think any tech which doesn't make that a top priority is doomed to create more suffering than would exist in its absence. This hope often seems like a pipe dream these days, though.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transhumanism

"Julian Huxley was a biologist who popularised the term transhumanism in an influential 1957 essay."

And IMHO it's a modern mutation of Gnosticism, which is older than dirt.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosticism

Some people will always want to transcend their mortal birth.
If the goal is to count distinct users who have seen something, but also to efficiently retrieve the actual set of users who have seen something — then why wasn't a roaring bitmap (https://pgxn.org/dist/pg_roaringbitmap/) considered as an option? Presuming user IDs are non-sparse nonnegative integers (as SERIAL/BIGSERIAL pkeys usually are), a roaring bitmap should do everything hstore does, just a lot more efficiently.
There is a bit of luck in even having any viable materials that work at the required temperature to choose from.

For example, humanity hasn't been able to find a single appropriate material for a superconductor at room temperature/atmospheric pressure despite significant research, but a civilization living below 100 K has a myriad of options to choose from. Superconductors are high technology to us, but if your planet is cold enough then superconducting niobium wire would be a boring household item like copper wire is for us.
Ask HN: What's your work from home routine?
e.g., When do you work? How often do you take breaks? What do you do on breaks?
The diving in your story is more like working on a computer than like programming itself. Otherwise the claim would be that we’re paid 0 to program which is easily disproven.

I think many people are overthinking this and coming up with a problem solver myth when in reality programming is an independent professional skill which has been and continues to be paid for its intrinsic value.

The stuff around programming - talking to customers, writing documentation, discussing business requirements, meeting of all sorts would be basically worthless without the actual code.