skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TimescaleDB is packaged as a postgres extension, there's a GitHub project here if anyone is interested to check in on that https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb
Doesn't matter in my case, there are no secrets there (so I use a public git forge). If this doesn't work for you, you can just push to any old server via ssh:

$ git remote add foobar address:path/relative/to/home/dir
$ git push foobar

, or self-host Gitea with registration closed if you want a proper forge.
Senate Approves $280B Bill to Boost U.S. Science, Chip Production
The Fed put morphs into a Fed call
The average most reasonable person in the room cares about other people's feelings and life condition and tries to not insult or hurt them with what they say.
Is there anything actually interesting in these? It seems like it's just a document that formalizes talking points for main issues/questions they get. Talking points they've actively used!

I don't get why this is salacious. That TikTok PR thinks about these things? That TikTok PR tries to get people in the company aligned on how to respond? Thats what PR does. It'd be WAY weirder if they didn't.

If this document had "The Chinese Government reads all of your posts", I'd say there's something here. However, all this doc that says is stuff like "our CEO is American" and the only leaked out info is basically "The daily spending limit is $1000."

Watergate, this ain't. Yawn
Most big companies use "everything" in some capacity, which is why "X uses Y" type statements are meaningless. The question is what's primary, what's supported, what's common in practice.
I always thought the Car Thing looked cool, but never really understood who or what it was for.

If it requires a phone with Spotify to be connected, why wouldn’t I just connect my phone directly to my car stereo (or whatever the preferred input device is, aux cord, etc)?
Actually, let's switch to that from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock.

Wikipedia pages usually aren't as good for HN submission as more specific in-depth articles, and you're right, this is a nice one.
Senate passes major chip funding bill
Yes, I take it's a hypothetical scenario, at least practically, if not theoretically also. My point with that hypothetical scenario, which I should have more explicitly stated, is to counter points of views I often hear on importance of life to the universe, etc.

In my understanding, it's not about the universe as a whole; only about the impact left predominantly on the lives on the earth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
My comment did not deny Ukrainians ANYTHING.

Also, your claim of oppression needs to be cited or else it's hot air.

Again, I didn't say Ukrainians didn't exist: they were called Russians the same way Bavarians are called German now.

finally, once again, I didn't say Gogol didn't reference Ukrainian culture: he did, but he never called it a "Ukrainian" culture. In his writings, he always said: "My Russia". It is the same as saying a Texan says he is American. Does that mean we are denying Texas their Texan culture and dialect?

And for reference, Germany has always been called that--Germania.
Show HN: Mvsqlite – Distributed, MVCC SQLite That Runs on FoundationDB
Hardest things to do in SQL – with examples
Incorrect title. Not the nest, Google here is allowing thier devce. Google is the one handing over data without a warrant.
Just don't push to GitHub. :) You can also pick and choose what you want in the repos with this method. It's a very useful technique for tracking and rolling back changes to dotfiles that you care about. You can even make backups of the directory which can help you bootstrap new machines really quick.

In a similar vein, I also have a git repo containing my todo list, journal, etc. and review and commit the changes once a week. Very helpful for catching accidental deletions/modifications. I have never been tempted to push these repos.
There are plenty of tools to manage secrets in VCS, so that's always an option. As an aside, most programs now have a method to move sensitive information outside of the configuration file, so you can minimize what ends up in there.
React/RN is the largest web & native cross-platform framework, Jest is one of the main testing tools as well.

The Facebook app itself is massive, it's the most used classifieds, basically replacing craigslist, still used for many groups and many local businesses use it solely, their ad business is still raking it in. Event coordination and connections are maintained on FB since most everyone has it.

Instagram isn't dying either, it's very popular for both advertisers and influencers, TikTok stole some but they are really two different services, one static images one short videos with some overlap to compete.

Your social circle may not use those apps but A LOT of people do.

I don't use any social media because I'm not social, but I have to use FB to see community updates, to coordinate with groups, to sell/buy things, to lookup businesses without websites, etc. I don't see TikTok or others having that moat or even attempting to dig it.

Facebook has the businesses, the users, and the developers. In no way are they dying.
Interesting q. I thought about this a lot after watching a relative quit work for a defense contractor. His job was to make sure bombs landed in the right spot, from what I understand. Eventually he burnt out and left because he needed to switch to what I guess you could call creative-offense. Green energy projects, that kind of thing.

IMO it's important to keep in mind a proportional balance within the individual's life & energy expenditure. Within that total energy expenditure there's necessarily a system of personal values or even passions, and within that is Ukraine for example, and within that there's "working to directly support outright warfare" among other things like humanitarian donations etc.

For this reason I think 1) it's important to process and decide, 2) it's important to take change over time into account, and 3) it's important to embrace the change and make even experimental changes to one's standpoint when those changes come.

Flexibility is key, but also there's this holistic look at one's focus and interests that is really important.

If you're referring to something like code, and how your code is used, it may be more a matter of a specific license change or a license-time proclamation for example. In this direction I'd offer that it's a good idea to be flexible in making changes to a license over time, as needed. The first big changes in any given direction will always tend to be swingy and generally need adjustment.
> This is a very interesting example. If you're a global company and you make your product, say, snow-themed globally during the Northern winter, it's simply inaccurate for Southern hemisphere users. I don't really see how that's a political correctness or language issue as much as a factual correctness issue.

I mean, it's also inaccurate for people in Florida, or when it's brown out etc.
This is the reply among all discussion I've read about autopilot that captures my thoughts best, well said
People like this are why I'm working remotely from a rural area and never want to set foot in an office again.
The federal government previously gave the telecom monopolists billions to build out nationwide fiber-optic internet infrastructure... and they just took the money and ran.
(We changed the url from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Lovelock - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32253402)
Best policy is to hate everyone equally, right?
He's just replacing "don't stand so close to that person" and "I found your joke offensive" with a weird personal-responsibility-avoiding phrasing.

Do we do that here?
That would be Modern C++

/s
> If the choice was to be invited to participate in the conversation
or not, wouldn’t you tone down your public statements in order to
have a hope of influencing policy?

An interesting bind is called "The Critics' Dilemma", best understood
through a (Chinese) story.

One day some farmers see an invading army coming over the hill. They
rush into the city to tell the emperor. "Emperor, a huge army is
approaching, we're surely doomed!" Not wanting to have the whole city
panic the emperor has the men executed to silence them. Invaders enter
the city and slaughter all the imperial soldiers.

Many years later two farmers are watching the horizon when they see an
army gathering. "Quickly, let's warn the citizens" says
one. "No. Remember the story of what happened to our grandfathers."
says the other. So they return to the city and tell the emperor, "We
saw a few bandits gathered by the woods". The emperors soldiers go to
confront them and are all killed, The city is raided again.

The dilemma is "Tell them too much and they will deny you out of fear.
Tell them too little and they will be unprepared."

This applies, along with the Cassandra effect, right to the heart of
all intelligent critique. People are happy to die from ignorance so
long as you don't upset them with cognitive dissonance. Later, when
they are in imminent peril, they'll blame you for not speaking up
sooner.
One of those Spock moments - it would be impossible to discuss the subject without a common frame of reference...
Matches my experience - first kit I got with minifigs was the #575 coast guard station which various sites say was released in 1978.
Even though I disagree with the article, a variation of "not here," is appropriate in a bunch of different contexts. The way the article presents it is just as a thought terminating cliche (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A..., which itself is an oddly circular reference), but there are a bunch of legitimate ways to recognize what are essentially personal epistemic boundaries.

However, someone collecting catchphrases to re-use as cliches in discourse is only signalling they are beneath the bar for engagement. Cliches are the torches and pitchforks of cognitive tools. "Please not here," I would evaluate and accept. "We don't do that here," just begs one of dozens of responses that would humiliate them and reinforce their sense of aggreivement.

What I think triggers people is the passive appeal to authority in the use of "we" that doesn't exist. If someone addresses me from the royal "we," without establishing some kind of bona fides, it's just a threat that earns an insult.

The funny things about a lot of the words that are now policed is that those words themselves were informal shorthand or euphemisms for much more serious accusations. As if to say, "I'm not going to issue an ultimatum to your integrity, but your behaviour is a bit <euphemism>." These weren't challenges, they were collegial and polite. The sentiment behind many of the words that are now policed can be adequately (if less satisfyingly) captured in terms like fatuous, pretentious, unctuous, perfidious, pandering, ingratiating, pusilanimous, inferior, morbid, infra dig, perverse, lurid, oily, prefect, errand runner, unmasculine, unfeminine, impetuous, disgusting, dishonest, misleading, back biting, patronizing, matronizing, histrionic, low, cunning, brutish, proletarian, palooka, bumpkin, predator, seducer, sleaze, lazy, fraudulent, sadistic, animus, avarice, petty, small, spiteful, vengeful, begrudged, aggreived, etc.

These are all important concepts and values, and I can see why someone invested in behaving this way would like to remove our words for them, but the concepts and sentiments are there whether we use a shorthand for them or not. Our species uses words as an alternative to violence, and if we want to dissolve language we can, but the outcome seems foreseeable.

I talk to people all the time who repeat phrases they think are powerful, and they're not trying to be enlightening, they're invoking an imagined power. They want to be humiliated because it reinforces their sense of self righteousness, and the more absurdly they behave, the more of a burden they place on others not to give them the humiliation reinforcement they are seeking. Personally, I've shrugged. I deal with individuals, and not groups, symbols, or identities. The rest is small.
If a cop sees someone being murdered through a window, they don't need the Nest camera footage of it.
Meta: What structures built today will be thought important/sacred/useful enough to be kept around for several hundred years?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Paris
> Haskell because elitism

Was there really a need for this comment? How about: for correctness and expressivity
Setup the sentry gun from Aliens :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQDy-5IQvuU
> If you're a global company and you make your product, say, snow-themed globally during the Northern winter, it's simply inaccurate for Southern hemisphere users. I don't really see how that's a political correctness or language issue as much as a factual correctness issue.

If you're a global company then you should already be used to localizing products for various cultures and/or regions. Political correctness would be criticizing the North American branch for selling winter-themed products in the North American Winter months - and variations of that criticism do happen. People doing X in X country where X is normal get criticized because it is not normal in Y country despite taking place in X country where it is normal.

A small, loud, and extremely obnoxious group has mistaken speaking alongside minority groups to help advocate for them and make sure they are heard as speaking for minority groups even if it means speaking over them. They take the far extremes of everything and pretend that's the norm. It's been especially common for people without dyslexia to speak on behalf of those with dyslexia about a particular "puzzle" (Enter the Nth Word of the Nth Sentence of the Nth Paragraph to prove you've read this.) And as someone with dyslexia phrased so well: "I'm dyslexic. Not illiterate and unable to count. I don't think you realize that you come off as patronizing and condescending wanting to "dumb down" the puzzle for me. More likely I think it is because you failed to read and now feel stupid. Please don't speak for me or people like me in the future."

For some context - the "puzzle" occurs when you fail to follow directions on how to continue setup. If you read the instructions - it tells you to hold CTRL while clicking the "continue" button. If you fail to hold "CTRL" while you click it will give you a 2 minute timeout, remove the "continue" button, and provide you a message to please read all of the instructions in order to proceed or you will need to solve an obnoxious and time consuming puzzle. Failure to do so will result in the obnoxious puzzle where you must enter three randomly selected words from the setup instructions to make the "continue" button visible again. Failing to follow instructions will repeat the puzzle over-and-over until instructions are read and followed. There have been no complaints from any dyslexic users about this puzzle in the support Discord - but several complaints from people who do not have dyslexia speaking on behalf of those who do who "might" struggle with the puzzle that would never be encountered in the first place if people followed the setup instructions.
How the Merge Will Impact Future Ethereum Upgrades
While this is cool to see "how the big guys do it", this article is worthless. Specifically, it lacks one fundamental thing: why.

Why isn't Go in this list? It is very surprising since it feels like all off tech jumped on the Go bandwagon, though I won't complain. I can only guess at why, but it would be very interesting to see why.

Why is Rust in the list, other than "so many people started to use it internally that we were kind of forced to officially support it" (at least that's how I understand their article)? Similarly I won't complain, but it'd be great as to what real benefits they pull off. At least it's great to know that Rust is considered mature by Meta, which adds them to the list of Big Corp endorsing it (Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Mozilla, ...).
> don't see any language around how we're going to recover those funds, if they are not spent in ways that align with the requirements laid out in the bill

Implementation is left to the agencies. We're only seeing the Congress appropriating money. Contract specifics are being developed.
There are disputes about the accuracy of telomere length as a marker of aging, but it's great to see this kind of research advance.
> And in the future, Dr. Lawrence would receive $20 for every gross (144 bottles) sold. This was later amended to be based on ounces sold to equivalize different container sizes.

Since it's denominated in USD, wouldn't inflation have eaten up a large percentage of the royalty over time?
Note that on Android it is only endorsed for system code by Google itself and OEMs, officially there are no plans to support it on the NDK, or Android Studio.
Your comment is sufficiently vague and mealy-mouthed so as to be useless.

All the I see here is you complaining about shifting social mores. Toughen up.

Maybe if you weren't so "sensitive, easily offended, and brittle" then the notion of a window of acceptable social behavior, that changes over time, wouldn't be so radical and hurtful to you.
Right, it's the standard "racism is privilege+power" argument? 1984 is (this particular toolkit for controlling how people behave)+power? Am I understanding that correctly?

Because if I am, I'd say that you're building tools for your enemy to use. There's no reason the alt-right can't use the same tactics on LGBT teens as you'd want to use on alt-right nutjobs. There's no inherent reason why these tools can only be used on the guilty. That's why fairness in discourse is important (to me at least). Think of it as a social Geneva convention. Once you start thinking "the ends justify the means" and using saran gas you're giving the hated enemy permission to do the same.

Take a look at the playbook of the trump subreddit before they got banned as an example.. They learned most of those plays they used to dominate the front page and silence outsiders from leftists, often even using automated moderation tools that were initially created explicitly for leftist subreddits.

"We don't do that here", if it becomes a normalized part of the discourse, will be used by the hated enemy once they're powerful enough to do so effectively.

Enlightenment and free speech are the Geneva convention of discourse. I really don't think it's in anybody's best interest to erode those protection, but I suppose time will tell. Still, it feels like the left is building the social infrastructure for fascism that the right will inevitably figure out how to co-opt...
Use Orgzly on the phone. Orgmode/orgzly somehow fits my needs like a glove. I feel like the app is nearly perfect.

I sync the flat files with keybase e2e encrypted git via termux command.

I try to make note taking "pipelines" also - trying to ensure I dont just dump notes on a pile and forget about them but that there is a process/habit/location for me to pick all notes up again later for use. I rearrange/reorg the notes with a view to this pretty regularly.

I shove them all in an archive folder once Im done with them.
What has been asserted without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.
It's a summary list of key/value pairs, with the values being terse codewords for the well-know arguments.
Folder with txt documents, tied together with some bash aliases to make note-taking more convenient
Yeah, it's more humid in central Texas, but also there is a lot of stupidly designed architecture that doesn't cool well without AC.
> I’ve been holding off learning Rust.

Rust is quite an easy language to learn and a pleasurable language to use, due to its modern ergonomics and internal consistency. Give it a try. The only trick is that Rust newcomers actually need to read up on Rust borrow checker and lifetime annotations first, as opposed to learning Rust only through hacking with it. Those two concepts are unique to Rust and need to be well understood beforehand to avoid frustration.
I look forward to seeing Rust# (or R# for maximum confusion).
I don't know if it's still true but at one point it was said that unlike in the US, the corner office was a mark of shame, because you go into that office, you close the door, and from then on your interactions with the rest of the employees are curtailed.

You get that office not because you've done things they thought were great, but because you've done things they thought weren't and they want you to slow your roll. You're a fish in a bowl.
That indicates that a local monopoly exists.
Do you think prohibitions on "whitelist" etc are a strawman?
Thank you!

I find it personally helpful to get points of data like this.

Living in Switzerland, the cultural standards are sometimes astonishingly different between countries (e.g. I still regularly see job application forms that require both a headshot of the candidate and a date of birth).
Thanks for the comment :D

> There is no “testing” going on here, unfortunately. You’re just taking turns placing users in the treatment or control group, arbitrarily, depending on when they visit the page. How can you measure any treatment effect when everyone is part of either group?

This is not a perfect solution, but I have found that it is good enough to be able to identify clear winners (if there is actually a winning version). A lot of followers won't visit your profile multiple times anyway. They visit it, and they either follow it or they don't - and they will of course be influenced by the currently displayed version :). They won't just come back to your profile over and over again for no reason, but if they do, they will also convert better on the version they prefer. So a version might nudge the user into following you while another one might not. I would disagree that this is not testing. I think it is for the majority of the profile clicks you receive.

> I guess you could try something like switchback testing, but I’m not convinced visits to the average Twitter profile will yield enough samples.

I don't think that would be possible with the current Twitter API capabilities anyway.

> I think it’s a well-executed idea, but I don’t think it’s fair to sell results under the guise of statistical validity when they don’t appear to have that. (although it’s just Twitter profiles, not eg medical treatment, so no real harm done)

While the results might not be perfectly accurate, I think they are accurate enough to provide value, especially if you let the test run long enough to get a big sample size. I personally use Birdy (obviously :D) and I have noticed much better conversion, which is why I'm confident.

I'm looking forward to seeing new capabilities appear on the Twitter API to always make the process more accurate though.
The best toy was those plastic rockets that you would fill with water, then attach a pump and pump them with air to absurdly high pressures before launching. The idea was to launch them vertically and they would land nearby, but if you launched them at a 45 degree angle they'd go over 100 yards. Absolutely insane.
> brain being unconscious

That's circular logic no?

In any case, a good counterpoint would be blackout drunk people. They are somewhat conscious, and can interact with their environment, but if you ask them after the fact when sober what happened, it would appear to them as if they were entirely unconscious.

Anesthesia proves the brain is (at least mostly) unable to access experiences that take place when it isn't recording, and that, while our mind is present in the brain, we rely on it for recall. That might be enough to draw the line for some, but obviously not everyone.
They get more state funding, grants and incentives for focusing on things like drug crimes. Enforcement and investigation of crimes are completely at their discretion, so they choose to go after "sexier" and "fun" crimes and criminals.
TPMs were often separate chips so you could just eavesdrop on a few pins and with that you could pretend that you are running an OS you are not.