skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of ‘Fitter Happier’ by Radiohead. Some loose guide on how to succeed in life, although the Radiohead lyrics are more cynical. Here’s the lyrics:

"Fitter Happier"

Fitter, happier, more productive
Comfortable (Not drinking too much)
Regular exercise at the gym (Three days a week)
Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries
At ease
Eating well (No more microwave dinners and saturated fats)
A patient, better driver
A safer car (Baby smiling in back seat)
Sleeping well (No bad dreams)
No paranoia
Careful to all animals (Never washing spiders down the plughole)
Keep in contact with old friends (Enjoy a drink now and then)
Will frequently check credit at (Moral) bank (hole in wall)
Favours for favours
Fond but not in love
Charity standing orders
On Sundays ring road supermarket
(No killing moths or putting boiling water on the ants)
Car wash (Also on Sundays)
No longer afraid of the dark
Or midday shadows
Nothing so ridiculously teenage and desperate
Nothing so childish
At a better pace
Slower and more calculated
No chance of escape
Now self-employed
Concerned (But powerless)
An empowered and informed member of society (Pragmatism not idealism)
Will not cry in public
Less chance of illness
Tires that grip in the wet (Shot of baby strapped in back seat)
A good memory
Still cries at a good film
Still kisses with saliva
No longer empty and frantic
Like a cat
Tied to a stick
That's driven into
Frozen winter shit (The ability to laugh at weakness)
Calm
Fitter, healthier and more productive
A pig
In a cage
On antibiotics
I think VC funds operate on the basis of greater fool theory.

You don’t need a product or a capable team, you just need a shiny yuppie team, an easily marketable idea and then keep selling it to greater fools that will invest in Series B / C.

I do wonder how much money has been lost by Series B / C investors in this fundamentally broken market but then again mostly likely Series B / C investors are too rich and well connected to be effected by downturns, so it balances out itself.
> astronautery

gonna borrow that phrase.
The market is SO inefficient. While you’re right in describing the principles of supply and demand, the reality is that buying a car should be 10x simpler and the price should just be the price. No games, no haggling, no BS add-ons that increase dealer profits. Retail auto is due for a wake up call, and I sense it’s happening right now. You wouldn’t need markups to make extra profit if the cost infrastructure associated with selling cars was lower than it currently is.
Show HN: Nomad Atlas: Curated travel advice from your friends
Over the last decade, I travelled to over 65 countries. Everytime I landed in a new city I would look up which of my friends had been there and ask them for some recommendations on where to eat, where to stay etc. After doing this many times I realized others could benefit from this too so I created Nomad Atlas.
On Nomad Atlas you'll find curated travel guides from your friends, celebrity chefs and taste makers.
During Covid I wanted to learn Golang so I wrote the backend in Go and this is the result
It seems the author is taking the experience of Science PhDs, and realistically, a specific kind of Science Phd, and tarring the entire notion of a doctoral degree on that basis. US Universities grant PhDs in a wide range of academic disciplines across the Humanities and Sciences, and quite a few professions (Engineering and Education come immediately to mind). My children both have PhDs and academic careers (one as faculty in top-ranked University, and one as a research associate in the Health Sciences, an neither's experience is particularly close to that the author outlines. The author's one-size fits all criticism really doesn't fit all.

That's not to say there aren't abuses and inefficiencies in Science doctoral programs. Just that "Abolish the PhD" is the wrong rallying cry.
Relevant to this thread, Robinhood numbers are way down yet the CEO still made significant salary by historical comparison. To me, that points more to a change in social norms than in productivity.

But you bring up an interesting point. The CEO may be incentivized to promote wealth disparity. If they are measured by profitability only, without regard to the larger systemic effects, it incentivizes them to take a myopic view. This could mean implementing policies that help hit short term targets without regard to long term health, suppressing wages, etc.

To a certain extent, whichever side we’re on is really just a narrative we tell ourselves since there doesn’t seem to be conclusive data about CEO impact.
Well, okay corrupt, but still capable of self-repair. meanwhile others have the corruption build into the very system of thiefdoms handed out to nobles.

Also there are quite alot of ideals at work, for example when it comes to free trade. Anybody can sell his product and ideas in the us, meanwhile alot of beligerents, have walled of their societies from free discours and sabotage any external market contenders.
No discussion is about the architectural model, not only frameworks.

Do client side rendering of HTML and you’ll need libraries, just like you do on the backend.
Ask HN: Do you assign a higher value to high order macro stuff vis-a-vis micro?
Examples of this bias and how it leads to subpar outcomes:

Worrying about inflation vs. carefully curating a collection of discount coupons

Both inflation and coupons affect the bottom line, but only one you have control over, and yet inflation dominates thoughts and lives rent free in the minds of everybody.

Yet another example:

The general direction of the big company you are employed at vs. making sure you are the most beloved and respected person in your department
You could say... missing the mycelium from the flowers
A problem with these reactors using TRISO fuel is it greatly increases the volume of waste. The spent fuel is now mixed with a large amount of carbon. Cask storage becomes less practical.

Also, any time the temperature is above 550 C you can't use ordinary steels, as they will creep. So these reactors have materials challenges.
There's a large and substantial difference between "Google has your data" and "Google abuses your data".

You might have doubts whether the limits set by Western authorities on Google's use of your data would be effective, or about the ability of those authorities to investigate and enforce, but I think we can all agree the odds are much better than for TikTok where no chance exists at all.
they lied to us
this was supposed to be
the future
where is my jetpack,

where is my robotic companion,
where is my dinner in pill form,
where is my hydrogen fueled automobile,
where is my nuclear-powered levitating home,
where is my cure for this disease
Why do you not have a problem with them having technical issues (if they were technical) given that people lost money because of it?
Its ability to use cookies from your browser is so much better than the original yt-dl it’s not even funny.
The US government is a menace so the American people have no reason to feel threatened by a foriegn power? Am I understanding your argument correctly?
Yikes must be really bad, eating a 70 mil loss is insane.

Imagine if a tech company did something like that!
Andrew Yang's proposal in the last Democratinc party primary of replacing GDP with a 'national report card' seems like a realistic-enough approach. In fact, I'd say if one views Andrew Yang's platform as a whole (particularly the heavy value-added tax) through an environmental perspective, I'd say he had the best environmental proposals I've seen for any politician in my lifetime.
It's worth noting that whilst Liz Truss wants to do this, the other contender this week has come out and said that he'll use the counter-terrorism task force on people he disagrees with politically.
Basic concurrent.futures.ThreadPoolExecutor solves this problem.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html#co...
TV has been a wasteland as long as it's existed, because it's an advertising medium pretending to be an entertainment medium. The S.S. Minnow on Gilligan's Island was even named as a dubious tribute to Newton Minow, an FCC head who famously referred to television as a "vast wasteland" in the early 60s.
> once a user has paid you the money, you need to keep their data. Their right to demand their data be deleted doesn’t matter as the other legal rights override it.

Crap, I paid Google $0.01 to activate my play store account.
We all know what passwords are and how important they are to keep secret but new research on when to expire passwords may surprise you.
Is it expected that a junior employee will remain as such for 5-10 years? Of course not. Junior employees are promoted and given more responsibility, or they are fired quickly if they are not performing well.

Do companies let junior employees work on whatever they want? Manage their time as they want? No, one of the key indicators of an employee status is that their time and work is managed by their employer.

If a junior employee works on some passion project related to their work but on their own time, do they own the intellectual property of that work? Probably not; many employers demand that all IP created by the junior employee belongs to the company.

I think this is a case of “be careful what you wish for”.
It's not the "standard of living" that is unsustainable.

The USA wastes a lot more resources to achieve similar standard of living to Europe. And even Europe is putting a lot of effort into policies that simultaneously improve their standard of living and reduce waste or pollution.

Saying that "standard of living" is synonymous with "amount of fossil fuels you burn" is standard climate change denier rhetoric.

People with efficient cars and well insulated homes have higher standards of living than those who don't.
Sure, I'd join, also just a casual player -- still rated 1700 on lichess (1200 on chess.com) despite 15,000+ games :p
People who can no longer buy the new car will instead buy a lower priced car, encouraging an upward trend in general car prices.
So at least now you accept that it does scale and it's just a matter of cost. Glad we could reach an agreement.
There was that headline that half of all Americans are expecting a civil war. Or maybe it’s the on-going showdown with the CCP. Or Russia’s disqualification of itself as an energy supplier. Or maybe it is climate change?

Seriously, what’s driving these market trends, I don’t know.
AMD had V-EZ which seemed interesting to me when I played a bit with Vulkan, but unfortunately it has been unmaintained since 2018...
So it's a social credit score, but not their social credits score, its our social credit score, and that makes it okay :)
It also has ads that ublock didn't catch

Edit: Creator commented in here that it's a for-profit LLC and the title is wrong
Shorts have never been usable for me. They're 90% tiktok reuploads and add zero value.
I looked up how to pronounce a word the other day and found a 30-second YouTube video. I expected it to be a looping track of someone saying the word over and over, but what I got instead was 25 seconds of someone describing the word's origin (without saying the word itself), and explaining how many people want to know how to pronounce it. Only as the thumbnail overlay popped up at the end of the video did they actually say the word.
If I had a dollar for every time I heard this I would be having lunch with Jeff Bezos right now.
> Some days ago, I was sitting in a dark, neon-tinted, pleasingly nerdy computing club in Berlin, with several Linux hackers around me. Most of them either had a PinePhone or a PinePhone Pro, someone else had Librem 5s plugged into their laptop as they tested out new software.

I wish C-Base (the venue in question) were "pleasingly nerdy" enough to ban smoking indoors. Berlin is so maddeningly stuck in the uncivilized past in this regard; I would love to participate in these events and communities but cannot do so until this problem is fixed. There seems to be no will to do so in Berlin.
Taking it twice a week is a waste of a dose, unless one is microdosing or threshold dosing (where tolerance, in my experience, doesn't quite kick in as hard).
Cleanfeed Wins Emmy Award for Engineering, Science and Technology
i recall reading ken thompson's reply to what he thought of virtual machines.
something like "they are such a good idea that i wrote unix".
> That doesn’t magically make it a democratic election. In fact, the way you describe it working is a relatively new way of doing things and varies from state to state. It is not uniform. Also, if you paid any attention at all in the last election, you’d realize how tenuous it all really is and in multiple elections, the actual person voted in wasn’t even the winner by popular vote. So by definition, it can not be democratic.

Now I am by no means a fan of the electoral system and I think one van argue that the US fails to live up to being democratic in practice for several reasons (I consider the electoral college a very minot part of the issues), however saying that it can not be democratic by principle or definition it can not be a democracy. I mean let's remember that in Athens (where the term comes from) only a minority of male citizens was allowed to vote.
What about CEOs like Jack Welch, who everyone lauded as a paragon of management? He was handsomely paid but his decisions crippled the company years later because of bad foresight? I think the main issue ITT is that it’s very hard to measure and distinguish a good CEO from a bad one, yet they are almost all paid as if they are great leaders.
Based on my experience:

- many frontend engineers would run away from companies that hire for jQuery skills. Frontend engineers nowadays usually want to write React and use Vercel and what not (even though the product may only require jQuery)

- many backend engineers would run away from companies that hire for PHP. Backende engineers nowadays usually want to write Python/Go/Kotlin/Java, well, anything except PHP, even though modern PHP is well-suited for most SaaS/web-products

- many infrastructure engineers would only apply for companies that use K8s, modern CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub/GitLab) and cloud providers (e.g., AWS, GCP) and run away from anything that smells like on-prem installations using Ansible/Chef/custom bash scripts, even though the vast majority of web products out there do not need K8s/AWS/Terraform/etc.

I think in general, engineers do want to build useful stuff for people but only if they get to play with the coolest tech.
Thanks for those links! Back in school, I loved wondering about whether things like the inverse square law for gravity could be (have been) discovered from raw experimental data via ML - cool to see that it's actually been done already.
Machine learning probably had something to do with it. It notices videos with thumbnails of people with their mouths and eyes wide open doing some kind of shocked expression with red arrows pointing to something perform better than average. Then it starts recommending videos with thumbnails like this preferentially. YouTubers take notice and start producing thumbnails like this for every video.

Go to the front page right now with clean cookies and you'll see most of the thumbnails have "reaction faces" in them for no apparent reason, usually pulling some kind of exaggerated expression.

Clickbait used to mean that you baited the viewer into clicking, now it means you baited the algorithm into recommending you.
If one of your main selling points is 'prettier' output your really should include a screenshot on the landing page.
It is absolutely the fault of PHP. You absolutely can compare IEEE floats using equality. Often it isn't what you want but this totally should work.

In this case PHP is unexpectedly rounding floats for display.

~ python3
Python 3.9.13 (main, May 24 2022, 21:28:44)
[Clang 13.0.0 (clang-1300.0.29.30)] on darwin
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> b = 46333.48000000001
>>> b
46333.48000000001
~ php -a
Interactive shell

php > $b = 46333.48000000001;
php > echo $b;
46333.48
Javascript or Typescript. They are universally available and great languages to learn
FAANG is an acronym and talked about a lot because those companies seem to never stop growing. It will take a long time for FB to lose dominance. They may be entering a period as a company where the growth has slowed/stopped to the point where its not growth anymore. It will probably take a few quarters to understand if that is the case.

As for the big bet they are taking on Metaverse ... I think it will flop. I don't think AR/VR will catch on beyond gaming. There just isn't practical uses for it for entertainment/social which is where FB/Meta operates. Any new devices are likely going to link to smartphones. Smartphones have become ubiquitous and people treat them as appliances to get things done - shopping, talking/texting, etc. Adding an AR/VR layer to any non-gaming activity someone does with a smartphone will be a gimmick. I just can't see how your average (edit: meaning non-technical) construction worker, lawyer, doctor, grandma, auntie, etc. is going to want to put a device over their eyes to view cat vids, order stuff from Wal-mart, etc.
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We’re a hybrid team of +40 people based around the world but mainly in Helsinki and New York.

Our stack: TypeScript, Node.js, React Native

Some of our open positions:

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I work for an AI company.

And .. yeh .. the Chinese research is essentially our secret sauce.
Bret Victor's essay [0], "What can a technologist do about climate change?", has great ideas of where you can start.

[0] http://worrydream.com/ClimateChange/
Do dealers all pay the same price for a given make/model/year regardless of volume?

If not, while I get consumers only care about markup over MSRP, it’s likely dealers are not all paying the same price wholesale.

As such, if data like this becomes the norm, likely lead to small dealers who pay more wholesale going out of business — which long-term would likely be worse for consumers; to be clear, not saying that selling the markup data wrong, but it’s likely to impact the market in ways that may ultimately be a net negative.
Bob's Your Uncle
You could bookmark the Airtable link in my post where I keep track of DevRel roles https://ayewo.com/exploding-career-opportunities-in-devrel/
What they tell you and what the reality truly is, are very different things. Venture capital is a hustle, and once you learn how to dance the hustle you can find a partner.
My dad's company reduced pay in the 2008 recession I believe. I don't think they laid anyone off, at least in his department.
Why would you block a process that could use CPU cycles to do something useful just to wait on I/O? With the right primitives async is not "hard" nor inconvenient. Maybe you're referring to concurrency?
I'm no expert but my understanding is that a lot of these specialised databases' strengths and weaknesses come from laying the data out on disk differently to how a relational database would.

A relational database saves data by table, and within each table by row. This means it's very good at getting a row of data out of a table, and pretty good at column operations (e.g. sum the "price" column in this list) and pretty good at joining data (e.g. "fetch me related data from these other tables").

A document database such as MongoDB saves all the data per-key together, so it doesn't have to do work to relate data. It just reads and returns it. That means it's exceptional at getting related data (as long as you saved all the related data in one document), but terrible at joining to other documents by field, and terrible at column operations across documents (e.g. "sum the price of these books, where each book is a different document").

A columnar database is amazing at column-oriented operations (e.g. "compress this data" or "sum this column", but bad at getting all the data for one record, as it has to traverse all the columns to find the right data, and therefore bad at relating data, as it has to do column traversal across multiple tables.

A graph database is amazing at getting related tables or entities (e.g. "I'm a person, now through a self-referential edge back to the Person node get me all my friends of friends of friends"). I can't think off the top of my head what that would be bad at, but perhaps it's bad at summing columns, that sort of thing.

Again: I'm no expert. That's just my understanding.
Irredeemable Batgirl movie unexpectedly cancelled despite being in final stages
yknow typical startup answer: the one you are comftable writing code in where you can iterate fast and ship to users fast
Indeed. It takes a tremendous amount of hubris, doesn't it?
Developing a new approach for building quantum computers
Very much agree re: the aging advice in the song, my gosh the difference past 40!

I sorta followed the advice of the song and spent around 10 years in California (LA + Bay Area). Have spent the following 10 years living in the NYC area (mostly, there was a short break in the middle). Wish the song gave a suggestion after you leave both! I tried the “live in a large RV” life in 2021 traveling all over and it was great, but it isn’t something that would be a multi-year thing for me I don’t think.
The iPhone has saved me insane amounts of time over the years by simply being a fast device. It also has been kept up to date in terms of software for years. On Android, I upgraded every second year.
Because you want to write Elixir instead of Python/R?
Doesn't the final sentence suggest that the list is more than slightly cynical? To me it seems like Radiohead are sneering at this safe middle-road existence.
That seems odd to me. If the service can’t run or emulate locally then I wouldn’t use it.
Our problem was we had a less than 24 hours to transition to work from home. Someone came down with COVID symptoms and spread it to the office and no one wanted to come in. We didn't have enough laptops for 250+ employees. Developer equivalent 16-core, 32GB RAM , and GPU instances is radically different from general compute web front ends. And we couldn't get enough of them. We had to tell some staff to hang tight while checking AWS+Azure daily.

These weren't the typical cheap scale out, general compute but virtualized workstations to replace physical, in office equivalents.
N,N-DMT is my preferred psychedelic when my intent is a strong, "reset" trip. It's given me the absolute highest amount of focus control and seems to diminish the effects of my dopamine deficiency almost entirely for the better part of a couple of months, and the positive effects are still very slow to fade from there. Even today, three years after my last deep DMT trip, I find I still pull personal philosophy from it that guide me in the direction of kindness and warmth towards others.

Especially for such a short duration in consensus time (my trip was about 45 minutes, a bit on the long side but again I smoked a cigarette directly before consuming DMT, which I understand has MAOI properties and thus can extend the duration of DMT), DMT is one of the most powerful substances known to mankind. Perhaps 5-MeO-DMT might be more powerful, but there is physical risk involved there in such a way that isn't present with N,N-DMT.