skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope you can ship to more countries , including mine of course !
Indeed, this is the sort of stupefying discovery that hints at something deeper
Me too. Too many subscriptions all over the place. I cancelled all of them except my mobile phone and internet plans last month.

OP have you considered a pure yearly plan of say $20/yr?
I love the idea of being rescued from 5-page shaggy dog stories and tall tales about why this recipe is ostensibly important to the author....
Have you considered containerization for the application? That would obviate the host OS issue mostly
I’ve been working on a music visualizer that runs in the browser by listening to the microphone on your device. Right now it looks just like the bars on Apple Music but I’ll be adding more visualizations like the ones from cool old stereos from the 90’s.

https://soundq.co
I've noticed this starting to carry over. I watch some Mr Beast things after listening to an awesome interview with him. But his videos are almost unwatchable. It's like 20 tick toks strung together. They just edit it that way to get the tik tock crowd. Very infuriating. How do you learn or digest good information if you get blasted with 99% shit every 15 seconds?
EDIT: I originally wrote that I didn't think any of your examples were highly processed (having made them), but after writing it, I think I convinced myself that you are correct on three of them.

Even though tofu is just curds from soy milk (soy beans and water) curdled using a tiny bit of something like lemon juice / nigari [minerals from evaporated sea water], you are losing the fiber just like you do with the white bread / burger buns.

Wine (fruit/flower petals + water + yeast + possible added sugar depending on what is being fermented) also loses the fiber of the fruit in the making.

Cheese is just curds from milk curdled by culturing bacteria with the milk. With sometimes salt added. But, you are losing the vitamins, minerals, fats, sugars and protein in the whey.

Whole wheat bread is the exception. Unless the bread is made with dough conditioner (usually mainly isolated wheat gluten; you get similar effect by kneading for 15 minutes). Whole wheat bread is just whole wheat flour, water and yeast. You are getting all of the grain. With sometimes salt added. And, if using dry yeast, a tiny amount of sugar is sometimes added to the yeast+water to kick start it before adding flour.

The white bread and burger buns are highly processed. And, contain only the starch and gluten from the wheat with bran and germ removed. And, they probably have quite a bit of added sugar too.
We have a societal bias that some good/bad leader takes over and they then gain all the credit/blame. This is histories “great man” theory[1]. It seems in contrast to the “blame” free culture espoused by many in tech where we look at the full system and not place credit/blame on one person.

This bias cuts both ways. We seek out miracle worker C-level execs and simultaneously blame them when it all goes to hell. We don’t see the full ecosystem people operate in, which is typically more complicated than one leader. We overvalue the “strong man” style “leaders” and undervalue selfless, humble leadership that focuses on creating a healthy ecosystem where people don’t spend all their energies jockeying for credit or to avoid blame.

Sadly the selfless leaders don’t sell themselves as well as the egotistical sociopaths

1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
I'd challenge this assertion. Rio Tinto has been on the forefront of automation, but there's a long list of equipment they operate that they don't have an immediate pathway to automate.

To my knowledge, the main players automating ultraclass mining trucks are Caterpillar, Komatsu, Hitachi, and ASI. CAT has been working on autonomy for a long time, and to my knowledge only offers full driver-out autonomy on a handful of models. Sandvik also has some really cool see-and-repeat autonomy in underground mining. It doesn't surprise me if Rio Tinto is talking about a full zero entry mine (worth it just because no people to hit = faster driving vehicles = more production/yr), but to my knowledge they buy their autonomy from others and no one I know of (besides us) would automate all the various types of equipment that go into running a mine.

A different large mining co had an initiative to build their own autonomy, but the project got cancelled when it wasn't making fast enough progress and the CEO was replaced with someone more Caterpillar friendly.

We don't have in house mining experience - but again we're not building autonomy just for mining. We're building generalized basic autonomy so the folks starting mining-specific autonomy projects don't get stuck re-building the basic autonomy wheel.
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Yes! We’re built on top of Kubernetes and piboxes ship with our agent preinstalled.

We sort of have two personalities: pibox is the hardware and some people hate the idea of it being bundled with software: they just want a tiny Linux server. But all piboxes have a default image with https://kubesail.com preinstalled. It displays a QR code on the screen for easy setup :)

Ideally - no one needs to know it runs kubernetes. We’ve had success as an awesome little home lab but we can’t expect every user to learn greek!
Seriously. I do nothing in one of my jobs. But I make a lot of noise to the point that managers think I am overworked.
if you're not playing the meta-game, you're losing.

i use GTD and this may be just the tool i was looking for. hats off!
Default Do or Default Don't?
Multi variate statistics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivariate_statistics

Typically performed by marketing research companies. What factor has the most impact on sales?
No mosquitos is new. I grew up in the east bay, with a view of the GG bridge.

When I was young 25-35 years ago, I would get eaten alive at night.

I did get one bite earlier this year in downtown Oakland. It was the first in a while.
Perfect for a first-year programming course at university.
This is why adding language features needs to be carefully thought out and explored to great lengths. Sadly C++ never got that memo. Here's hoping Python remains "simple."
The Great Resignation has proven that companies don’t give one whit about attrition.
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We're a small company, so there are always many things going on at once. This means there will be the opportunity to wear multiple hats and there will always be something new and interesting to work on!

You'll be helping us build web services to make Fantastical and Cardhop even better. We work in Django, Python, and occasionally Go. Expect to be creating new features, making improvements, and occasionally troubleshooting customer issues.

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> it's actually comparable to Evernote at $7.99 USD/month

No, it's not remotely comparable to a product that's had millions of customers for years and years, after basically creating this industry. Most Evernote customers pay $70/year. And for that matter, Evernote regularly has sales to get new users at $42 for the first year.
For that to work there would need to be a liquid market with clear valuation for those types of Rolexs.

Which sometimes there is, sometimes there isn’t.

eBay in particular is full of scam bids, over and under.
It's not "technically" true, it's simply true.

As for enshrining rights, Canada has the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms[1] which is a constitutional document that includes the freedom of expression. New Zealand has the Bill of Rights Act[2] which includes freedom of expression. As mentioned before, it's not entrenched law (though it was originally intended to be) but since most countries don't have constitutional bills of rights, this is hardly unusual.

As for Australia, I personally do think we should have a bill of rights of some kind (currently the basis of freedom of political speech is based on a High Court ruling about the Constitution's preamble which is in my view incredibly flimsy). I personally wouldn't model it on the US Constitution -- I would base it on the NZ Bill of Rights, but that's a minor detail.

However, it's simply not true to say that those countries don't have constitutions when you actually want to say that they don't have constitutional protections of certain rights (and in the case of Canada, they actually do!)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Charter_of_Rights_and...
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Bill_of_Rights_Act...
There are probably many reasons why this engine was not adopted by devs. For me, the last time I tried, the performance was terrible even in the most trivial test map. I dropped it instantly.
Definitely a real discussion to have here about the actual long term value of busting your ass at work. I've seen people who were sloppy and didn't work hard but are outgoing and friendly get promoted over hard workers and had managers admit in private that it's to get them off the production line because they're not as strong. I've also seen multiple people burn themselves out by just consistently working too hard unprompted, and nobody wins when that happens, and the business isn't thankful either.

People need to periodically examine their career goals and decide whether they're actually doing the right moves that align with their goals, or just satisfying mental memes they have about what work is supposed to be.
I'm the opposite, my work machine has ~740 tabs over 14 windows, my personal machine at home is well into the 6000's... not sure how you get anything useful done with so few tabs.

Admittedly only a hundred or so tend to be actively in memory at a time, mostly they get lazy-loaded as I go to use them.
The two reasons

- if you copy and paste stuff from Office a lot (like Office users tend to do) it's nice that the formatting will be consistent

- being feature-rich can be a bug and not a feature when dealing with marketing emails
Everybody thinks differently. This naive idea that there should be one-size-fits-all workflows is counterproductive.

Whilst "insane", the results speak for themselves in terms of output.
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Looking to leverage my time/exposure to such a wide range of tech as a background for work with a company/team that values open communication & has a clear mission.
Here's one from 2011- no mirrors in their method, but they cite a range of other relevant studies

Visual experiences during paralysis. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3232712

(What was that "humor-related task not presented here"? Why even mention it, and in the abstract too? Studying jokes so bad that they had to paralyse their subjects to tell them?)
Is it work? If so, what does she do? Always curious to hear about fellow tab hoarders.
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I have just under 3 years of professional experience working on a compiler. Currently taking time off between jobs but looking for a fully remote position. Occasional travel would be fine as long as my travel expenses are paid by the company. Not interested in onsite/hybrid positions. Willing to consider contracts, full time or part time.

I'm programming language agnostic (prefer to use the best language for the job) and can pick up new languages quickly. Domains that I'd be specifically interested in include web browsers, robotics and game dev but I'm also open to other domains. I prefer low level and backend development in general.
Not exactly sure what you are getting at but it does remind me of the Cauchy's Integral Formula which shows that differentiation is equivalent to integration.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%27s_integral_formula
What a delight.

Still like pattern matching in python though. Seems super useful.
I am not J* W*
> The stone bore a Khmer epigraphic inscription that included the date for the Khmer year 605, reckoned within the Hindu Saka system, a historical calendar based on the rule of the Indian emperor Shalivahana.

Seems there is a pretty good chance that the origin of zero is still Indian and was adopted by the Khmer just as they adopted the Indian calendar.
German tanks in Ukraine don't recognize the Norwegian shells developed for them
We've been using a serverless stack on AWS for a while (API Gateway, Lambda, S3, SQS, RDS) and it's been a good experience overall.

I can't recommend Serverless Framework. The abstractions are leaky and it's quite opinionated about architecture. We regularly need to step away from Serverless Framework to use various features offered by AWS. Meanwhile, it's led us to build an infrastructure that reflects our org chart in some really unpleasant ways. I wish we'd used AWS CDK from the start.

Lambda currently makes sense for us cost-wise, but we are approaching an inflection point where that will no longer be true (something like Fargate will probably be cheaper). Problem is, the cost of migrating from Lambda to Fargate will be non-trivial for us. I wish we'd used containers on Lambda from the start.

We struggle regularly with global state in the Lambda runtime. Some devs avoid it assiduously, which can result in costly inefficiencies which have bitten us badly a few times (think hitting API limits due to calls happening on each Lambda invocation rather than only when needed). Other devs make use of global state for efficiency benefits, which then bites us by causing difficult-to-reproduce bugs. I don't think there's a great solution to this in the Lambda runtime.

Overall I think the benefits of security, process isolation, scaling, cost, etc. have all made it worth it, but there are things I would do differently if I was setting up a project from scratch.
Is it possible or likely that the folding process is more procedurally deterministic than it seems? (given sequence, temperature etc) The degrees of freedom perhaps seem intractable because we don't know what steps the structure takes between the linear extrusion and final fold. AlphaFold, if I understand correctly, doesn't attempt to solve this problem. Your comment implies we should be skeptical of it because it's solving a potentially-intractable problem; perhaps it's both tractable, and AlphaFold doesn't solve it.

Let's say you have a car (or lego set etc). The number of possible ways the parts could go together are astronomical! Does that mean it's not possible to figure out how it fits together, or how you might build one?
I never got the impression that Big Car wanted to maintain the dealer franchise laws. I thought that was something the dealers themselves buy from state representatives.
Yup, I use Unhook and it was a game changer.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/unhook-remove-yout...
They also just got the OK from the NRC: https://www.protocol.com/bulletins/nuscale-smr-approval-nucl...
I’m not sure I understand the “this is why” part. Python wants to let you override almost everything. It’s a feature and a powerful and occasionally helpful one. It’s also a feature you never ever have to know about or touch.
The problem with focusing on CoL as an "excuse" for low pay is that people really overemphasize how independent they really are from the world economy. It all seems like it works out evenly until you realize that if you ever move or take a vacation, your years of hard work amount to very little.
In that case you can export WP to static site. I think some of the plugins can talk directly to mainstream hosts, like S3, Github pages etc. so there is no fiddly downloading and uploading to do.
Heads up, clicking the iPhone on your website opens an unrelated Themify YouTube video.
"If the United States were 100 percent committed to defending the island democracy, why would it be looking for economic alternatives?"

To me, the author seems willing to use "second order effects" to bolster their argument but does not consider such effects that may cut against their argument. So, building American microchips signals to China that we have alternatives to Taiwan and therefore aren't as committed to Taiwan's defense. On the other hand, if America develops a credible alternative to Taiwan then maybe invading Taiwan isn't so attractive because you no longer take a crucial monopoly by the conquest.

The author also seems to assume that the US is, or should be, 100% committed to the defense of foreign nations. I don't really understand this. America's first priority should be America itself. We can meet that priority by bringing microchip manufacture onshore, so that if Taiwan is lost to us, we will not be ruined by a lack of microchips.

I also don't think it is guaranteed that America could defend Taiwan if push came to shove. We recently lost a two decade war against Afghanistan. Why are we so confident in our chances against China? Much better to have options, and to supply the Taiwanese with weapons, as in Ukraine, than to say we have "100% commitment" to the defense of Taiwan.
That's why you always capitalize it when you write about Boolean values. :)
This hack also seems super useful if used judiciously... perhaps one could write a spicy DSL.
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Sites like this belong in a museum!
Thank you! I am not reading a single text like a book, they make little sense to my workflow.
LOL, how could two "emeritus professors" write an article like this without a single mention of the Mayan civilization, which is regarded by many as the earliest use of an explicit zero in a numerical system. Are they not aware of this?
> Good point. I’ll start reading menus from random locations each time.

Not sure that will do the trick... Imagine a long list with the only two satisfactory items being right next to each other... You'd almost always end up with the first in the list.

Picking a random direction is slightly more robust, but still fails sandwich scenarios... You need to shuffle the menu entirely somehow...
This looks good. I am really trying to be better about staying on task with things, but I think like a lot of people I tend to have ADHD tendencies that seem to have worsened with the pandemic, which can make it hard to track progress. I’m going to give this a go and see if it helps. Thanks!
>Lost thousands of dollars

There are plenty of markets that averaged monthly price increases in that order of magnitude. My city, as an example, is up 71% over 5 years. So a 300k house became a 510k one over 60 months. An average of 3.5k per month. Couple of those years saw 20% growth.

It's been well known that this was the only thing keeping the iBuyers alive. They weren't great at pricing but it didn't really matter much. If they were off 5%, well wait 3 months and now you're right.

It also matches the anecdotal data. Plenty of people reported getting offers from Opendoor for more than what agents were telling them they could sell for. Obviously these people sold to Opendoor while those that got lowballed declined. If you only count the latter and ignore the overpayments then yes obviously it looks like Opendoor was consistently low balling people.
Personally, I like the strategy of flipping a coin as soon as the preference is not obvious, and then picking the other one if you realize you don’t like the coin flip.
That's why you don't hire on resume, you look at track record and reputation for a public figure like that.
idk why hosting costs should factor into your value consideration. obviously if this doesn't support any calendars then there's no utility there, but i can't imagine being more eager to pay for something because it seems like it's expensive to host.
Not really a fan of having the tax break at point of sale. I don't want dealers knowing my income.
Capy – Cross-platform library for making native GUIs in Zig