skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh yes, every bit of news reporting that doesn't show the Democrats in the worst possible light, and Trump in the best possible light, is the result of "media bias", facts be damned.

The constant whining by Trump and his supporters over "the media is so mean to me" has long since passed Chicken Little proportions.
Wow, that's one great dashboard. Thanks for sharing.
Black unemployment vs White?
I thought that AWS availability zones were intentionally not canonically named to prevent everyone from adding stuff to AZ “A”. So my us-east-1 zone “A” might be your “B”.

But that system breaks down here when you need to know whether you are in an affected zone. Is there a way to map an account’s AZ name to the canonical one which apparently exists?
I agree with you, but the problem with this approach is there a vocal minority (in the US at least) that vehemently opposes this as it hurts votes for "their side". The last thing they want is an educated, critical thinking, populace. They want people who will fall in line, and do as they are let to believe.
If you don't pay as well as the market pays, you're not going to get competent people. This notion that good people would do it anyway is naive.
> In contrast to earlier approaches, the implemented protocol, which was developed by researchers at NUS, uses two measurement settings for key generation instead of one: “By introducing the additional setting for key generation, it becomes more difficult to intercept information, and therefore the protocol can tolerate more noise and generate secret keys even for lower-quality entangled states,” says Charles Lim.
With conventional QKD methods, by contrast, security is guaranteed only when the quantum devices used have been characterized sufficiently well. “And so, users of such protocols have to rely on the specifications furnished by the QKD providers and trust that the device will not switch into another operating mode during the key distribution,” explains Tim van Leent, one of the four lead authors of the paper alongside Wei Zhang, Robert Garthoff and Kai Redeker. It has been known for at least a decade that older QKD devices could easily be hacked from outside, continues van Leent.

https://www.lmu.de/en/newsroom/news-overview/news/quantum-cr...
I'd be curious too but vapes would have to never exist in the first place probably. None have moved on to smoking, and 100% of my group finds smoking to be gross/smelly/etc "will never, that's disgusting", including the ones that have had a vape since they were 12.
EdgeQL is very nice. Will there be a Haskell client in the no-so-distant future?
This isn’t my area of expertise by any stretch but it seems to me the important word you left out in the quote is “comparatively highly regulated”. Surely the SEC has flaws but it is still more regulated than the crypto space
We'll be working on (3) soon and maybe (2) shortly after.
It's not justification not to do a thing either.
Everyone should watch one of Martin's last public talks in 2021 on Youtube:

MonetDB: Scale Up Before You Scale Out

https://youtu.be/vjWRE0UnJDQ

https://db.cs.cmu.edu/events/vaccination-2021-monetdb-scale-...
Axie Infinity CEO Moved Crypto Tokens Before the Company Revealed Hack
Resoto: An open-source alternative to Google Cloud Asset Inventory
I've had multiple people comment on my workstation setup at the office, mostly because I have a variety of input devices on the table top that always catches peoples eyes: magic trackpad, Contour Roller Mouse Red, Goldtouch right hand semi-vertical mouse on a mouse bungee, and a Philips foot pedal. I have a left hand vertical mouse too but something with the driver or USB hub nullifies it while some another device is connected.

Since work from home took over I've moved all that equipment to a budget Costco standing desk that seems to be a popular model on the warehouse floor
https://www.costco.com/tresanti-47%22-adjustable-height-desk.... I think I paid like $275 on sale sometime last year.

I've modified that desk by fabricating a bracket on it to secure a Workrite Banana Board keyboard tray. I've also ceased using the mouse bungee at home since the bracket serves as a cable holder with a cable clip routing the wires. There's some other minor stuff like an old KVM switch and a DC barrel plug switch to restart the KVM switch when it misbehaves.

Does that sound like something interesting to feature?
Looks good :)

Only downside (ok more philosophy choice ?) is that it seems quite strict on schema ?

Ive been exploring none-strict schema dbs xtdb or solr. And for unexplored problems (are they not all like that ?) schemaless has been an interesting tool in my toolbox (ymmv)

Scemaless does sound like an 'absolute' and the opposite is probably 'struct-to-table-mapping' which is okish in a dynamic language and downright horrible in my second favourite language Go

I like the query 'language' of EdgeDB but then if you looking for sql alternative (language + methodology wise) look into datalog-like dbs and their query language. Datahike, datalevine, xtdb and of course datatomic. Datalogic-query-lang really offers a nice alternative in my view.

All of the above is not a silver bullet but a worthwhile alternative to at least investigate for your needs :)

Once again Well.done to EdgeDB as a solo or just a dev in general i know how hard it is to release or just get something out there, nevermind opensource
Are you saying alchemy and spirituality is not as important as science? If that's the case, good luck with that view. Understanding and contemplating on both creates a Wisdom. Intelligence can only take you so far, the world is way bigger than science could ever be capable of containing.
> Because many smokers, probably in the millions, have successfully used vapes to quit smoking.

You don't quote any source, so I'll feel free to use anecdata liberally as well.

I know very few people who have successfully quit smoking for more than 6 months by start vaping; on the other hand, until 5 years ago it had become exceedingly rare to see people under 20 smoking; now I see a whole lot of youth with vapes and e-cigs.

I believe the tobacco industry saw the writing on the wall and found a knew way to peddle habit forming poison to kids.
Huh. I haven't read anything else by him, though I've heard many gushing recommendations of his works (by other authors!). So that's up my list.

Edit: Awesome! It's Taklamakan by Bruce Sterling

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taklamakan_(short_story)
Here's an example from one of my repos that mostly uses the repo's own installed dependencies so that I don't need to manage those in more than one place:

https://pastebin.com/raw/0SP3NvBS
Leaders have power through influence. Unless you are suggesting Biden has no influence, which in his specific case unfortunately might have some truth. But that's not generally the case with the president of the US.
Not able to find any proof Starsky was successful in legally and remotely operating trucks at speed at any distance on public roads without special constraints that would not representative of normal daily driving conditions.

For example, this test was on a public road, but it was closed to the public during the test:

https://www.thedrive.com/tech/28520/starsky-robotics-becomes...

Please don’t depend on a single source, especially when that source is biased and likely has an agenda.
You may be right, although a part of my heart wishes for Burrough's Barsoom.
Along with product-market fit you also seem to have found the elusive founder-product fit! Do you think this happened by chance, or you had something in your background that made you decide to build a Proxies service?
It would be great if more people would develop at least basic cooking skills. You'd be surprised how many people wouldn't even know what to do with a bag of rice if they were given one.
Well if MMT goes too I’m all for it
> “government-grade” security, whatever that means

It means a back door so the USA can crack your phone as conveniently as possible
This is actually an interesting problem for collectors of old currency.

The government will deposit the face value of the currency as opposed to its collectible value. So someone who stored an old $1,000 bill doesn’t get the actual value of the bill (probably twice that on collectibles market)
Trying to get clarification, as a layman here I think I'm missing your point. My understanding is that laws are by their nature kind of vague because the world is full of edge cases and they always require interpretation as they encounter new cases.

> hand over the actual rule-making to unelected government bureaucracies.

Are you referring to the judicial branch? Isn't that the system laid out in the founding docs?

> We jiggered with this

What jiggering are you referring to?

Without understanding your point, I'm all for this legislation as we've seen so many recent US officials enrich themselves with the power they wield.
Google’s In-House Desktop Linux
"You will own nothing and be happy" [1]. I think the general idea is that the idea of private possessions is being phased out for the average person. You'll rent your car, eat the bugs and get your Big Corp tokens to rent items.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/worldeconomicforum/2016/11/10/s...
Safari is generally in favor of facilitating sites making money from ads, as long as the privacy impact is minimal. For example, they proposed and implemented https://webkit.org/blog/8943/privacy-preserving-ad-click-att.... So I could see them implementing Topics if they were convinced that its specific tradeoff of better monetization for publishers vs leaking some bits about the user was worth it.
Big Mac is $8 with tax. Let’s say Uber takes $4. If I texted you right now and said I’d pay you $8 to stop what you’re doing, drive to McDonalds, then drive to a stranger’s home 2 miles away, would you do it? Not a lot of people would, there are nice jobs in America.
Yeah, at this point it is impossible to determine any intermediate host unless you have lucky backdated samples in a freezer someplace.

And I'm still skeptical that bats gave it directly to intermediate animals who gave it to people in a nice linear fashion. Humans going into mines (like the Mojiang miners) or bat guano farming could have become infected and given it to farmed animals that they were around first, and the pandemic could be the result of spillback once the virus got good at infecting humans (not needing to be particularly good at infecting the farmed animals because of massively crowded conditions).
MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body
> extends the relational model to eliminate the objet-relational impedance mismatch

Anyone remembering object databases and the ODMG standard? It had even a query language called OQL which was an OO superset of SQL.
It might suit them, but it doesn't suit us. The desire for public service is in no way a qualifier for competence.
Can you clarify when/how a KPI ever not a target?

Bonuses and promotions always go to those who exceed them, and "improvement plans" or "restructuring" is reserved to those who miss.
I'm not so knowledgeable about this space, but is Retool aiming in a similar direction as Airtable?
It could be just me: But I see MBA as a means of acquiring networking with go-to folks if that part of your professional career didn't pan out with a Bachelor's (+Masters optionally). With social media, Y-combinator, startup culture - MBAs are going out of fad for tech ecosystem. They exist - but not exactly the superstars they used to be a decade back. Tech companies identify tech superstars in the present trend. People who build their things are directly managing businesses. Many tech CEOs now are PhDs instead of Management crop. Watch out for these signs. People who build their products and services usually invest building their karma around it. That commitment is rare to see from someone who is trained to manage others invrsting their souls into their love. Plus, management degrees cost a pretty penny.

MBA teaches you a lot of soft skills: I feel the important part being how to do better cost performance, choose the right communication, manage your employees & so on. That you already probably did to an extent as EM.
alternatively, you realize the runner/observer is not infinitely small and that effectively puts a finite, lower bounds on the steps, because most of that approach to zero is too small to matter, practically.

learning that infinite things could be finitely bounded was mind-blowing back in the day however.
We have always been at war with us-east-2.
I am just wondering who the “institutionalists” you speak of were in East Pakistan in 1971.
I'm guessing your Tennessee friends live in a city (or not even in TN at all, since you say they're "from" there).

In my experience there is much more conformity in rural areas in the mid-south, especially in middle class spaces. I even notice it if I take a flight from the east coast to Tulsa, Oklahoma. The first flight to a hub like Atlanta has a normal variety of people in a normal variety of dress. Then the second leg you suddenly notice a significant decrease in variety. It's just kind of obvious if you see it, so idk why you haven't noticed it unless you're not very well travelled in the USA.

It sounds like you are making inferences about Tennessee based on what your friends from there are like, but they are your friends (and it sounds like they chose to move from TN to wherever you are) so this is in many ways a biased sample. A more accurate way is to observe random people. I would be more interested in hearing your observations from when you actually visited Tennessee than your inferences you think you can make from knowing someone who is from there.
> I think OPs point is valid if the algorithm is really just giving humans more of what they want.

What makes people engaged and what people want are not the same thing by definition. If you want to state they are, you should say why you think it.
> One interesting and troubling aspect of this that I read in other reporting is they asserted a lot of the cash seized was drug money on the basis of drug contamination

Civil asset forfeiture is generally used under this premise - that having large sums of cash suggests some criminal intent.

But of course, that only makes sense on the surface if you're out in public with it. (There are of course, many reasons you would have a large sum of cash in public other than drug deals.)

Seizing cash which is in a safe deposit box is a few steps further, which raises the hairs on the back of my neck. What is next? Having more money in your bank than the police believe you should have?
Tried a quiz. I'd be nice if there was more explanation about the things I missed. I get a question about naming ingredients. I get some wrong. Afterwards it might be nice to get an explanation about the missed items so I don't have to google myself. Even an in-app link to wikipedia would be enough. I also suspect that most things I got wrong were because of language differences, so translations might be nice as well.
I tried the app too and experienced exactly the same thing. I’m surprised the app is getting as much positive reception on here as it is. Sure it is cute and “gamey”, but I don’t particularly think it’s even useful. I’d rather have the knowledge graph displayed to me in a way I can easily find information or navigate it. Why would I EVER want to use this to learn something new when I could just read the information and ingest it.

To be fair I feel the same way about duolingo but the knowledge graph is so deep and dense there that i wouldn’t be able to consume information in a couple of sittings. With recipes, I am pretty sure I could “learn” everything I wanted to learn about eggs or tomatoes or bread in just one evening. There’s probably real life experience that would add to that knowledge but that’s not something I would get from this app anyway.
Thanks!

> is that it seems quite strict on schema ?

Yes, it is. But you can use JSON in your schema, we have amazing support for it on all levels (the query language, std library, schema integration, client APIs, etc).
Sounds to me like intolerant groups that abuse tolerance to push their agendas, or authoritative regimes that invoke free speech to push propaganda that undermines freedom. Would you say those belong in the same category.
You're right in focusing on the diversity of the parts. After all, a large pile of sand has a lot of parts, but they are all (to a decent approximation) the same. Therefore (?) they have the same small set of interactions, and the whole system has a 'small' set of states. (However, see 'self-organized criticality').

Software is where the diversity is, for computers. A cells systems are a set of interlocking networks of DNA, RNA, protein, small molecules, and signalling. As you say, these diverse parts then interact in diverse ways.

Another aspect is the large number of 'levels' in biological systems - humans have around seven; atoms, molecules, organelles, cells, tissues, organs, whole system. The interactions within and between these levels is a further source of complexity.
You're talking about a known "malicious philosopher". Is that shorthand for someone arguing in bad faith? I think most of the time, you don't know if you're talking with a "malicious" philosopher or not. Let's say in the course of a discussion with someone you don't know to be malicious, you feel they are setting up a strawman. Maybe they don't fully understand what you are saying, or maybe they are malicious and arguing in bad faith (or both). How do you determine this? Certainly not by saying "strawman!" at them (to tie this back to the article).

Why is this important to me? I like to see if I'm communicating my ideas in a way most people can understand, so if it is just a misunderstanding, I know maybe I need to be more clear in what I say. I feel like if my arguments aren't clear, my other communication may not be clear, and that's important to me, professionally and personally. However, if they're just arguing in bad faith, well, then yeah I don't care and will walk away.
I'll admit its been many years since I was a novice at cooking but it seems like its going to be a big challenge monetizing something you can get for free from hundreds of thousands of sources with detailed video instructions.

You might have a very narrow niche of 'nerdy enough for cooking app, not nerdy enough to search on youtube and doesn't want video instructions' which is a lot more limited than any beginner cook.

From my experience once you find someone on youtube whose videos you like their video history is a huge library of recipes from them, so it isn't always difficult to look through youtube and find recipes - I have a double handful of channels I know and like and earning credibility isn't their challenge given their videos wide success.
Yep! https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ram/latest/userguide/working-wit...
There was a time (some 50 years ago) that such products would be restricted to advertising in the back of comic books. X-ray glasses, "sea monkeys", and the like. A lot of it was bullshit, but when it's just a week's allowance out of a kid's pocket, who cares? When you grew up, you could graduate to the special magnet you attached to an automotive fuel to increase fuel mileage up to 20mpg! Oil companies have killed people to keep it a secret! Refer to the full-page ad in this month's Popular Mechanics.

Point is, to this old guy it's the same ol' shit, just a different advertising venue and different products.
Good step.. does anyone agree the US lobbying system needs to go sorted as well. What could be done here?
RStudio Unveils Shiny for Python
How to Pronounce JSON by Douglas Crockford
Making shameful normal things like breasts seems to go hand in hand with the kind of self loathing bullshit that shapes people into useful corporate or government drones.

Move at the sound of the bell. Punch in punch out. Be ashamed of your body. Loyalty to company/flag is supreme. etc etc
Bringing “no-code” cells to Hex
I'm sure its not an original idea but I always thought a more "fair" system would be all 18+ citizens would automatically be entered in a lottery every year that would fill 1/5 of the seats of a unicameral legislature of 500 seats. The winners would be given something insane, like $1 billion dollars for each member, at the end of 5 years of service with a yearly stipend of $1 million a year during their service. This would get money out of politics the only way I can think of, which is randomly injecting ridiculous amounts to random people.
Someone who studies ents?
OP’s post was deleted, can anyone share what they wrote?
I am asking you to define "good effect" precisely because it seems to be subject to the kind of cherry picking you don't like.

I'm a median to upper-middle American, and I get great value from my healthcare. It's not obvious to me that a system that raises the experience for mean, or even the bottom end, of the distribution would be a good thing for me in many respects: emergency wait time, access to top percentile specialists, out of pocket costs, just to name a few. It also seems to me that you neglect to factor in that people of means, the world over, come to the US to access care from world leading treatments in many conditions. So they might not want American care in their country, but plenty surely want it for their own bodies.

Put simply: your "good effect" often smuggles in assumptions about which part of the curve to treat, and implicitly undervalues degradation of the status quo for others. You, as is the habit of liberals, would like to have a debate wherein your moral values about who deserves what and who should be deprived, is taken for granted. I'm sorry, it's not immediately obvious to me that a system where 10,000 people wait 6-12 months for lifesaving operations is better than one where 1,000 people can get the operation in a month and the other 9,000 might have to go into debt to do the same.
Rather the opposite - us-west-2 is big but not the biggest region, or the smallest, or the oldest or newest, it's not partitioned off like the China or GovCloud regions. Because us-west-2 is fairly typical it tends to be one of the last regions to get software updates, after they've been tested in prod elsewhere
Not trusting others' turn signals seems more like defensive driving than bad driving.
They gave up on that, now there's an extra "zone ID" you can read that maps to an absolute address. They used to be extremely cagey about giving out those mappings for your account.

Examples about how these relate: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63283340/aws-map-between...

I'm also pretty sure that GCP's identifiers are absolute (and this time, throughout) as well, since their documentation (which renders the same in incognito mode or whatever) makes reference to what zones have what microarchitectures and instance types.
That’s not what the Phantom Tollbooth told me.
So, someone hired you to try and monetize their inbound spam? How lucrative is that?
Please type out your words in full, using so much texting shorthand significantly detracts from what you are trying to say.
I agree that it's a thing, but the difference between a chargeback and small claims court if you're a person who wants to charge back a company is night and day. Almost nobody is going to use that avenue.
> He effectively got lucky that he didn't mess something up and accidentally force the crew to work longer and harder than they have to.

You got that backwards. It's the film crew that got lucky, since they apparently didn't provide any indication that he shouldn't be in a place he is otherwise allowed to be.
Not sure why we're on that list. We run our own infrastructure and are not built on AWS.
Not quite a Python replacement, but yeah, Rust hits a really interesting spot on the language spectrum.

I sense a lot of Rust envy among Swift people. Just my impression, of course. They have much in common, but I think Rust has more merits on its own, particularly in memory management.
Obesity is much harder to deal with. You can't stop eating food.