skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I lived in SF for almost a decade, NYC for a decade, and seattle now for a decade. Of those places I would stay in seattle (as I have). In fact I face a lot of friction because I work mostly for high end finserv companies who rarely hire remotely to stay here.

NYC is wonderful for restaurants, and maybe for bars but I don’t drink. It’s great for museums and cultural activities in ways that make SF and seattle look provincial and backwater. It has a Gotham city vibe that you can’t replicate and if you like that it’s great.

What I didn’t like and drives me away today:
* public transit while complete is frustratingly time consuming. To go distances around town I sneeze at in seattle takes at least 45 minutes each way, turning shopping for a new shirt into a full afternoon activity, and commuting to work 25% of your workday.
* loud. It’s chronically loud in all dimensions. I hate discordant noise, it stresses me out. Seattle is quiet. New York is maliciously loud.
* I like having a garden. No go in Nyc unless you’re independently wealthy.
* it’s expensive for what you get for housing. Seattle and SF is too, and maybe SF has moved beyond, but generally NYC expect to always feel house poor - both in spending too much of your base income but also in the quality of location of where you live.
From the blog post:

> Tailscale here is optional as Syncthing does the NAT traversal for you and also uses a secure protocol. Syncthing will do its best to establish a peer to peer connection and that’s great!

> However, with Tailscale I can access my “shared directory” via SAMBA on my other devices, anywhere. And also don’t need any “Relay Server” only if my device can’t talk peer-to-peer as Tailscale will do it for me :))
> Anything to reduce the friction from thought to working software without having to worry about syntax

I think that the text/notation based representation of programs (or state machines) is the most effective way.

The reason is that it leverages the human ability to use language. I think our intuition for language and thought is much better than our intuition for 2d/3d spaces.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but if you need exact precision, as programs need, no amount of non-text-pictures would give you that flexibility to describe exactly what you want without losing details.

There is a steep learning curve to languages, but once you have learnt the language, these concepts get attached and integrated to your thoughts. This allows you to design increasingly higher levels of abstraction, until you are working with concepts in your current domain.
I don't think hasura allows unbounded queries by default? I'm not 100% sure though, I didn't set it up at where I work.
Guess I mispoke, if everyone adopted it, then that quality of software would become the new average. this software is just inferior, which in software usually means that its harmful.

Adj. 1. mediocre - moderate to inferior in quality; "they improved the quality from mediocre to above average"
In Cybernetics there's a result: every efficient self-regulating system must contain a model of itself. It's true even for the system of thermostat-and-room (although it's subtle.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Regulator
If you can't with 100% certainty determine the number of real users you have you shouldn't be putting out any number, and second to that, you have to be open to challenges that "your"/their analysis isn't reasonable; from what it sounds like, based on what Elon had said or alluded to, the way Twitter determined bot % was they had staff manually and "randomly" select literally just 100 accounts, and based on their own observations, decided if accounts were bots or not. If that's true, the obvious problem with that, is bots are designed to mimic to blend in and look like humans - to have the same or similar behaviour patterns to not be outside an expected range of behaviours.

So, what might really be going on is: Twitter's able to detect that less than 5% of users are unsophisticated bots, but they're unable to determine how much of the remaining 95% are sophisticated bots that accurately enough mimic human behaviour; and so it's not possible to genuinely say "less than 5% are bots."
Rubbishing someones character for a design choice is just too extreme. Sounds like you have something personal against Rob Pike rather than anything constructive to add
> I encourage all of you to visit your nearby library and spend some time there.

I go to the library pretty much every week. I would describe it as quieter than the open plan office I used to work in, but much louder than my home office. People frequently carry on full conversations on their phones in the library, and some people just sit and chat with their neighbors.

I don't think the stereotype of libraries as hushed temples of study is true anymore, except in some specific cases. In the 2000s, a lot of local library branches in my area pivoted into being community gathering places and general resource hubs, and the norms around making noise changed a bit. I've never heard a librarian shush anybody for talking.
Humans need a minimum amount of UV exposure. Glass blocks almost all UV.
Will watch, thanks so much.
Eh, none of the bookworms I know ever had drastic changes in their personality consistent with anxiety or depression, or somehow became angry and bitter after binge-reading a 6 book fantasy series. It just isn't a thing that happens.

I also don't think the internet itself—we didn't see this problem with blogs/wikipedia/trashy chain emails from your uncle.

It's the feeds. Because everything is tuned for engagement, if there's a type of content that's going to mess with your head in particular, the algorithm will find it and hammer you with it.
The unreasonable part is that this does not seem to be necessary on literally any other laptop.

People just kept doing what they have been doing for years with their old laptops, but now their very expensive new laptop broke -> unreasonable.
> and coding is only fun when the code is clean.

I wish I could upvote this more than one time.
It's about 28% of US homes which are under community associations, this includes condos and HOAs. My home is not; it's the city which gets interested in my lawn when it's looking wilder than statute dictates.
> This was IBM. For fundamental, structural reasons, they were dethroned.

They were dethroned because they opened up the market to clones, and allowed Microsoft to gain control over the software side.

See, this is about control. TSMC has less control over the market than their clients do. And if they don't act on it, it may become their demise, just like with IBM.
No one is going to pay me to slow sail around the world on a modest blue water sailboat. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with an economic system where people who did not consent to exist are mandated to take part in an activity to acquire income for survival (or be homeless, starve, and not have access to medical care).

Sitting at a desk for decades, regardless of what you’re sticking into the digital box, sounds like hell.
What worked for me with Facebook is doing "Facebook Fridays" - as much Facebook as I wanted on Fridays and nothing the rest of the week. It didn't take long to realize I was not missing much.

With other sites like HN, I have short-term success with going cold turkey for a specific time-frame (e.g. a week). I can stick with that, and my use afterward is more moderate but eventually I come back to over-use.
Show HN: Using Mamba to manage R dependencies on AWS Lambda
If I measured all of what is said, spent, and done in national politics, I would probably conclude that national politics is more about messaging and money than policy.
I’m well aware that Nix can produce container images. Xe has a great post about it.

People use Docker for a lot of reasons, but mostly? Same Dockerfile, same outcome, mostly every time. No one is moving /usr/lib/x86_64 around under you. It’s a real sea change, on the order of revision control: we hadn’t even realized that we were living with constant low-level anxiety that someone was going to break our computing environment at any moment. “sudo apt upgrade —whatever”, eh, maybe next week, we’ve got a release coming up.

Calling Nix a souped up package manager is like technically correct maybe?

It’s ‘git reset —hard HEAD^’ for your whole computer or fleet of computers. It’s utterly fearless experimentation, it’s low/zero runtime cost isolation and reproducibility.

It’s early days ‘git’ for systems: pain in the ass to learn and use, frequently and credibly accused of being too hard for mortals, but profoundly game changing.

Whether Nix per se remains the plumbing, someone is going to do good porcelain and end DevOps as a specialization, along with Docker and Canonical and mandatory glibc nonsense and a thousand other things that have overstayed their welcome. Disks are big now, we can have a big directory full of hashes. We can afford the good life.

It’s going to be a big deal.
> Even military hardware uses very outdated chips.

I could be wrong but I thought that some of the ML stuff for military is causing more demand on the high end?
That ... looks like it would be pretty neat if I could distinguish the colors.
It's not solved, but it's just not a particularly VR specific problem, and current tech is pretty good. The oculus doesn't have top of the line graphics capabilities and games tend not to go for photorealistic people. We can handcraft moments to jump outside the uncanny valley imo. We cannot do it dynamically at run time in a game. We can do a good enough job that I don't think it should matter and VR will catch up. It likely will not be good enough to mimic intimate facial movements. So... you know it's a goal setting problem mostly.

To a large extent we could make some photorealistic humans in VR, under some definitions, but we don't.
Debate isn't the way to prove or disprove anything. That's what lawyers use to argue and convince. You want to know what's what, you have to study the thing itself, and gather evidence. Not listen to ego's shouting in the marketplace.
The assembly video for that is worth a skim: https://youtu.be/zh2Z11miQ0w
I don’t think mixing up the two was parent’s point at all. He/she just made an analogy of where Nix currently is vs where should it go to “take over the world”.
A few days ago the Spiegel covered a similar story, although not from Baden-Württemberg, but from Bavaria: https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/bei-sonnenschein-w...

Since the article is in German, I will give a short summary here:

The solar panels of the person concerned are not completely off the grid, but the connection was already deactivated for more than 90 days this year. However, he is entitled to compensation for the electricity not taken, which so far amounts to 35,000 Euros.

The article predicts that the problem will worsen rather than diminish in the near future, as grid expansion cannot keep pace with new installations, affecting wind more than solar. However, there is disagreement about whether this is a general problem or only a regional one and how long it might last. According to the article, a total of 6.1 terawatt hours of electricity was lost in Germany in 2020 (the latest available figure) due to downward adjustments.
It would be more interesting if we started threads about TFA instead of rehashing the same generic complaints about X just because X appears in the title.
Neat ideas, thank you for sharing. I'll think about it!
As long as you have four fingers on each hand, a fist is about the same height as four fingers, so I think the math checks out.
The issue is we don't want them having direct db access. Aside from multitenency, permissions, and configuration issues (all solved by graphql) they could easily bring down a database instance (avoided via limits we impose via our server). If we didn't have multitenancy then it wouldn't be a problem.

But there's also the issue that some presentation and business logic is also provided by the graphql schema. Graphql knows which nodes connect, the db itself doesn't. And special cases like overrides, formatting, etc can be handled by the graphql server.
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I tried learning using several different resources, but what did it for me was the nix pills (https://nixos.org/guides/nix-pills/). I'd say it's becoming a bit outdated now with the nix standalone command, but the fundamentals are still mostly the same.
I used to do walks in Nyc and sf regularly when I lived there. I think the SF walk was a lot more interesting to be honest. The views are amazing, the architecture is always interesting, and there are weird shops throughout (note this was SF 20 years ago). NYC was interesting but it lacked the “oh wow I will just keep going until I hit water” drive for me. Also I found doing walks in Brooklyn can be more scary than Manhattan - I did a walk through Brownsville and it did not go well.
Iron Dome shoots down home made slow moving rockets literally powered by sugar. the difference is almost as large shooting down an ICBM vs a paper airplane.
Pluribus. Their switches crashed all the time . The best thing they did was port FreeBSD bhyve to illumos .
Exactly. Industrial designers are trained and then paid to solve these kinds of seemingly intractable (to us mere mortals) design problems.
DALL-E + GPT-3 = ♥
Wait till you hear about the "milky way"...
I'd assume TSMC chose the practical optimum there: given current events, having all leading fans physically in Taiwan was no longer a tenable option.

So they re-balanced for a volume play.

If some (read: national security volume) fabs in EU / US are enough to assuage governments, but most (read: global economically important volume) are still in Taiwan, then that's the next best thing.
Bazel uses "sandbox-exec" on macOS, and has a more generic POSIX compatible sandbox if you can't use the Linux sandboxing tool too.

> And it _is_ possible to do something like this on Windows.

Are you able to point to any open source examples of this? Bazel supports Windows, and I'm sure they'd love to be able to support sandboxing on Windows as well.
I use mine on occasion. It's particularly useful when targeting architectures that don't have modern intrinsics for special operations.

It's worth noting that some of the solutions aren't optimal for modern devices with conditional moves. In some cases you can get equal or better performance with straightforward code than some of the stuff in the book that goes out of its way to avoid branching control flow.
Just to be clear, it’s still much smaller than the whole military, and nowhere near the size of the military-industrial complex.
That's the phoenician alphabet, paleo hebrew does not have a unicode block yet
I recommend looking at already existing package descriptions for programs written in the same language you are looking for. Chances are, you can hit it enough times to make it package up your program as well.

I don’t think learning nix from its internals is worth it, especially not for beginners.
Yes, nice to meet you
Oh also, being able to tell how things visually change over distance is useful too. I use these less and less, but generally looking at a person at 100 meters you can make out a face. At 200 you can't see a face but see a head, shoulders and arms. at 300 you start to not be able to make out arms so well, and at 400 a head blends into the shape of the body.
There's like a stack of different things you can use to create you're own references as well. Cities are great because generally if you can look down a long street you can see lots of things and people and start picking the differences in what you can characterize over a set of blocks.
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I have several years of Elixir experience and maintain an open-source project called Periscope, which is a debugging utility for Phoenix Liveview. You can find it here: https://github.com/caleb-bb/periscope

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So would you categorize it as "news" addiction rather than internet addiction? I put quotes around news because today's news isn't really news, just over dramatization of current events, IMO.

I select "not interested/don't recommend channel" on all "news" type stuff on YouTube, and it's a much better experience. I learn more about all kinda stuff that I'm interested in. It took a few weeks for it all to filter out, but YouTube has a bunch of interesting stuff that's not news/current events related.
He admitted the hoax in the next tweet. He didn't try to get it published or anything.
> or even locksmith (yes, I've seen that, as ridiculous as it sounds), that might actually help them

As it happens, in the UK there's a chain of locksmiths (they do a few other things, but key cutting is their stock in trade) called Timpson that employs many ex-offenders:

https://www.timpson-group.co.uk/timpson-foundation/ex-offend...
Did you keep your shoulders facing the object, or did you rotate one shoulder towards the object?
Ask HN: Where should I move to meet interesting tech people?
Hey everybody,

So after about 8 years of various unsuccessful startup attempts I bit the bullet and got a job.

Classical 6 figures tech job in AI for bigtech. Fully remote chill work hours you know the deal.

I used to live for work pouring all my heart into an idea talking to customers iterating working day and night.

Now, I want to work to live travel and most importantly I want to meet as many interesting tech people as possible.

Now my question. Where should I go? Ideally, I want to be able to go back to Germany at least for 3 months a year the rest I am open for suggestions.

Should I move to a digital nomad place like Bali or Portugal? Or a tech hub like San Francisco or Austin?

Time zone wise Hong Kong would be ideal but I am mostly working on my own so it isn't a deal breaker.

Also wherever I am, should I go to conferences ? Meetups? Dm random people on Twitter and Hackernews? Otherwise, il just keep chatting up a bunch of people in co-working spaces.

I feel like nowadays there must be quite a few people in this situation. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Searched YouTube and got many pages of folks sailing around the world, and being paid (by YouTube views etc) So maybe not so far-fetched?
The creator of Bitcoin probably never intended for things to play out this way, it's hard to see into the future when a new form of technology is shared with the world.
Linux has a few app store style GUIs, e.g., Discover and the GNOME Software Center.

Btw, aptitude includes an ncurses TUI, but it's also an improved CLI frontend for apt that includes a few really nice features. Check it out next time you're on a Debian-based distro and try some of the special search patterns at least.
Ukrainian, not Russian.
It's not a perfect system, it's a estimate system.
Generally it'll work generally well.
Having a set of optics with a mils reticle really too, because then you can take the human element out of it.
Not a pivot table equivalent. Most useful for calculating multiple related aggregates at once for reporting purposes, but ROLLUP doesn't substitute values for columns, ie. it doesn't pivot results on an axis.

MS SQL Server has native pivot support, and Postgres has a limited emulation of it through the crosstab(...) function.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/11751905
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/tablefunc.html

For folks just learning about ROLLUP et al, I highly recommend this comparison chart for an overview of major features offered by modern relational databases.
https://www.sql-workbench.eu/dbms_comparison.html

There's a whole constellation of advanced features out there that arguably most application developers are largely unaware of. (Which explains why most app devs still treat relational databases like dumb bit buckets at the far end of their ORMs.)
Humans are literally addicted to narratives.

It doesn't matter, but "x did y to z" is critically important to many people's monkey brains, and so the referent for the first term matters more than anything else to most people.
I have this rule that if you aren't sure where a famous German was born, it was Austria, and if you aren't sure where a famous French person was born, it was Belgium. Maybe I can add a Russia/Ukraine pair to that?...
Please append '2013' to the title.
I bought one of these to use Immersed[0]. The software was fine, but the display was too blurry outside of a small area in the center, so I couldn't really use it.

0: https://immesed.com/
Apparently I’m supposedly interested in golf, skin care, and oh so many bracelets.

Whatever algorithm is in play is suboptimal.
Not quite sure what "terminally online" really means...
It is portable. That's the whole point of cosmopolitan binaries. Sure, there's probably a bunch of ugly hacks in cosmopolitan libc, but it works.
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Women's fingers tend to be appreciably thinner, yes, given that this is infantry lore it's safe to say that it's calibrated to men in fighting trim (which implies no extra fat on the fingers).

There's still some variation but (the only reason I'm commenting) larger hands tend to be on longer arms, so this normalizes well enough for a rule of thumb.

Last point is that with a rangefinder one can calibrate this to one's own body, which is, after all, what gets used as a metric.
Few popups could also help. It doesn’t feel like I’m seriously engaging unless there is a cookie consent.

Btw, you can share the page with a reminder app and set up daily notification.
If you went to some public place with a fairly representative sample of the population, like a supermarket or something, and asked 100 people about that phrase, how many do you think would know provenance of it?
Seems like they're not the most immature one in this situation.
You're right, that isn't worded very well. Thanks for the feedback.

Edit: I've updated the sentence to one which is arguably better but still not good. Writing is hard!
Its weird, because the city i live in as great bike infrastructure (except in the historical center, but paved roads are bad for bikes anyway). No issue at all with ebike, despite being like 5 ebike shop within 5 minutes of where i live (by bike obviously), and the city bikes are now ebikes too.

It might be because the bikes are capped at 25 kmh? I mean, its already faster than my average speed when i take a car to move stuff within the city (there is no traffic jam, the streets are just very narrow, with a lot of turns and pedestrians)
More pics here: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11072455/The-black-...
With EVs becoming more common this plus chargers at every parking spot should be a complete no-brainer.
In practice this is mostly avoidable. There are many libraries that do not allocate at all by forcing the caller to provide the memory. The library may tell in advance how much memory is necessary, or report in hindsight whether it was enough for the operation. This leads to a style of allocating ahead of time and also considering worst case memory size.

Otherwise I prefer libraries that allow setting the allocation function at least.
This is fun! Thanks. I've added it to my little folder of daily puzzles (along with Wordle, PlusWord, Shortyz, Weaver, and 7 Little Words).
You don't, but it won't work until the answer is three fists or less, and glancing at the sun in the evening isn't going to hurt you for the time it takes to put your fist/fingers next to it.
That's correct, but my comment was basically an indirect suggestion of using peepee as a syntax keyword or language name.