skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, that's what I was meaning to say. There's a difference between "the schema evolves" and "there is no schema (not even implicitly)". And it can also be "parts of the schema are fixed, others are not".

> I think for me the clue was when we introduced Mongoose to ... enforce a schema onto our schema-less Mongo collections and help out with the relational querying.

I agree that when you're doing things like that you're not really taking advantage of "schemaless", and that's probably a sign that that's not what you really want.
Door dash gets their employees to do 3 deliveries a year
Can you give an example of a "necessary" thing? You brought up the square having four sides thing, but that's not about existence.

Furthermore, why does a contingent thing have to depend on a necessary thing?
Obviously! That’s the whole reason they don’t just use the Safari modal
As always. What could go wrong with a such setup.

> The GIFCT was formed by Meta, Microsoft, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube in 2017 in a joint effort to stop the spread of mass shooting videos and other terrorist material online. When a member of the group flags a photo, video or post as terrorist-related, a digital fingerprint called a “hash” is shared across all its members

In effect, that means a bikini pic wrongly flagged as jihadist propaganda on Instagram can also be quickly censored on Twitter or YouTube, all without the poster or public knowing that it was placed on the list — much less how or why
Your employer is not your partner, come on. The employee - employer relationship is just business. Why should you feel grateful for getting your market based compensation?
> It is not unusual to meet "developers" whose company calendar is 80% filled with meetings. Well no wonder they don't get anything done!

IMHO, if you're a developer and have more than 8h of meetings a week then you are no longer a developer. In the worst case, you are a body to fill a seat in a meeting to fluff the self-importance of your management. In the best case, you're on track to being management yourself.
I'm with an ISP that is fairly well known for having poor support. I have never had an issue with them. They deal with problems on their end efficiently and without complaint. I would never expect them to deal with a problem on my end, so they never have an excuse to provide me with poor customer service. It all works fairly well, particularly since I am paying about the half the price compared to a major telecom company.

Compare that to a major telecom company. Even if I took the same approach, I would have more issues to deal with (typically issues over billing, rather than technical problems).
Thank you!

(the money is in the envelope on your desk)
They're supposed to be restrictive as to not confuse the user. An in-app browser isn't there to give you a full browsing experience, it's there to do a quick web-only task that somehow cannot be done in the native app itself.
Why should some imaginary line decide who gets to vote? Isn't it wrong that people on other side of state decide what happens at the other border. Wouldn't it be better to allow also the people on the other side of the border have fair vote on things.
From what I remember, WPF basically does tessellation on the CPU and then sends draw lists to the GPU.

I could certainly be wrong though.
> "I have at least two homes where I have to build a half-mile to get to one house," Mauch said, noting that it will cost "over $30,000 for each of those homes to get served."

I did a lot of investigation some years back hoping to start an ISP in a much more dense city where options were still limited. I had quotes from electrical companies of $25k-75k to run 2,000ft of aerial fiber on telephone poles (no drilling even!) The electrical company (who owns the poles) said that only certified installers could do it but that list was rather short and the person I spoke with didn't seem to know what that certification actually was. I wonder if this guy simply figured out how to legally do the infra layout himself.
You Can Contribute to Thunderbird Without Knowing How to Code
"When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich". - J.J.R.
> If there's not enough work, why don't you find something for them to work on

Or why don't they bring back the 20% rule and let the smart folks they have hired to come up with new projects? Some of them may end up bringing revenue.
> A metaverse where these skins are transportable game to game.

I question how desirable that even is. So like some rich kid buys a golden suit and can wear it in a bunch of games...I mean, sure, ok? Not really groundbreaking stuff. Would you buy a game because it lets you do that? Assuming the total cost is the same, I'd just as soon buy different skins in each of my games...assuming I care about skins at all.

And that's setting aside the really significant implementation challenges.
I suppose it makes sense if the NFT is used as a fundraising method for a Free/Open source game, but the mentality that games should respect each other's NFTs is a bit in-congruent with that.

There's this idea of the "metaverse" which I think is informed entirely from fiction and hype. It's very detached from the actual incentives at play.
Is there any Android alternative that works with Android Auto? One of the primary uses of my phone is plugging into my car to play music and navigate.
Yeah this - it just takes time, and some don't reach that point, but it's a natural progression after you get your first glimpse at how things are. I often forget how dark it can get when you first face that dread.
Cleary the writings of a brilliant and disturbed mind.
> our universe requires a "sustaining cause" (as with a picture on a TV set).

Diving further into this, there's a hot debate about whether the universe does require a sustaining cause (the Existential Expiration thesis), or whether it can just exist unless something stops it from existing (Existential Inertia Thesis)

Personally, I am inclined to think that things tend to keep existing unless something stops them from existing, and that the universe therefore needs no sustaining cause.

https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHEIA-20
Native-GUI distributed system in a tweet
Convenience is the only reason. I wonder if the sweet spot is a macro on the desktop clients, that will insert the username, then the password, then submit for you.
Firefighting used to be very lucrative as people was willing to pay a lot to "solve the problem" when their house was on fire. Also one house on fire could possibly mean the whole city could burn down.
The implication that smart people don't desire the balance to be with their families every day is bizarre.
> Jared Mauch is expanding with the help of $2.6 million in government money.

> Mauch told us he provides free 250Mbps service to a church that was previously having trouble with its Comcast service.

That's interesting, he's taking money from the government and giving free internet to a religious organization? Do all "churches" get free internet or just the ones he prefers? Taxpayers are OK subsidizing a specific church based on one person's personal whim???
You said "there is only the point", which means there is something. That's not nothing.
284 loc + however many LoC in tensor flow + however many training weights.

I think "X in Y LoC" should be limited to where Y is the LoC to do the work, not the LoC to setup/interface with some other library. We're getting ever closer to "SQL DB in only 200 LoC" that simply forwards to sqlite or some such.
Mostly a case-by-case thing, I think. I know (from watching Time Team) that in Britain there are a fair number of fields which the farmer can farm, but can't dig deeper than that due to the archaeology. Other cases have existing buildings ("Oh, by the way, you have an iron-age cemetery under your house. Enjoy!"). In cases of new development, it would be investigated pretty thoroughly to determine whether it should be protected (involving negotiations with the developer), or either entirely excavated or just left and the development continues.
Isn't it just pip install selenium then download the correct driver version for your browser (place it in a path or supply path when initializing client)?

I use Selenium every few months so I have to update the drivers but otherwise it is pretty painless.

Selenium is much slower than BS4 which is much preferred for static sites.
> I have never heard any normal person ever talk about data privacy.

I hear normal people talk about it all the time. The only place where I hear that only people on HN care about privacy is on HN, constantly.

edit: I suspect that tech people who work on privacy-invading technologies live in a rationalization bubble that tells them that the complaints that they constantly hear are from a vanishingly small nerd contingent that they themselves just happen to immersed in. They don't believe their lying ears.
I use carnauba wax for finishing metal and have heard about using it on chains.

right now about every two weeks I clean the chain with a light mineral oil, then a day later I clean again and put down heavier oil. keeps the mud away.

would be I happier if I just cleaned the chain and dropped it in a pot of hot wax? is there anything to look out for?
Yeah it’s the “pretending to work” part that’s soul crushing. If you could be explicit that “this is what I need to do this week, it’ll only take 4 hours. The rest of the time I’ll be available but I won’t do make-work”, that’d be awesome.

Also a lot of people don’t realize that being available for questions or if something comes up IS work - it severely limits what you can do with that time even if working remotely.

So were you near your computer 9-5 today and could respond on short notice? Well then you worked 8 hours basically. And that availability itself is hugely valuable to employers.
The part positing the existence of a hypothetical set of all possible formal rules sounds a lot like the cosmological argument for the existence of God.
> The other half is that agile makes you iterate through pseudo productivity before you actually understood the problem, accumulating cruft that you need to maintain and extend as you go on.

Well said!
Which would you recommend around $150?
So far the play more seems to be "demonize 'wokeness' and use it to drum up support for undermining and defunding institutions, then blame their failures on the wokeness alone."

> Until then, colleges will continue not caring whether they’re preparing students well for the workforce or merely puffing them full of the latest political buzzwords.

What colleges should care about re their students' preparedness for different vocations remains a somewhat open question: that their role is to prepare students for the workforce is a popular view but not the only mainstream one. If you're going to caricature one end of that spectrum as "puffing them full of buzzwords" then the other should be described as vocational training.

I think most people would agree that a college education should have some amount of both professional preparedness and abstract learning for its own sake. Why so many outsiders feel so invested in where these institutions find balance here is confusing and unsettling to me. There are something like five thousand colleges in the US, many of them originally founded explicitly to pursue or reject a specific ideal of what is worth learning and how. I didn't pay attention to any of those controversies, conflicts and schisms and iirc neither did the national media.
The "while balancing on a ball while holding a cane in their mouth..." thing really resonates with me.

Something that really surprised me at Google is how many core services had very thin test suites. I'm the kind of person that sees 100% code coverage and thinks "that's a good starting point". If I don't have that, I'll definitely break something important in 6 months. There were a lot of people at Google, though, that definitely didn't need those guard rails. The entire team could read a changelist and know exactly what the consequences are; they could just read the diff and run the complete test suite in their head. So there was no need for them to spend the time actually typing in a test suite.

It wouldn't work for me but there were a lot of people at Google that absolutely didn't need to follow "good engineering practices" to do good engineering. I was impressed. A lot of people less smart than them try this and fail, but they made it work.
GPUs have evolved away from being strictly triangle rasterizers. There are compute shaders that can do general purpose computing. The approach described here could in theory be set up by "drawing" a single quad - the whole screen, and it doesn't even need compute shaders but can be implemented using conventional vertex/fragment shaders with global buffer access (in OpenGL, UBOs or SSBOs).

There is a well-known paper that describes an approach how to draw bezier curves by "drawing" a single triangle. Checkout Loop-Blinn from 2005.
Reddit has gone through many periods of regular unplanned downtime as they hit various scale issues over the years. It's certainly something to avoid, but not necessarily something that's catastrophic - like most decisions there are tradeoffs.
Im not going too much into detail because fighting against the obvious pro apple bias on here is pointless, but you can read plenty of reports about lower battery life given more load, screen brightness, e.t.c. Keep in mind that just because you are "running" stuff, if a thread/process sits idle without interaction, its drawing minimal cpu load.

And yes, the M1/M2 is definitely more efficient given sparse loads, but its not groundbreaking in any sense because phones have been like this for quite some time. Take a bone stock android phone without any apps, leave it on for a day without use, and you will come back to minimal battery drain.
Makes sense to not spend resources and money on a browser that is used by so few.
FCC cancels Starlink’s and LTD's rural development grants
If you do % 1000 there'll be a bit of bias from the modulus, but not anything meaningful for the use case, and it affects MD5 and SHA both.

No argument that for simple incrementing integers a raw modulus is better, though. Even if hashing is needed, a cryptographic hash function probably isn't (depending on threat model, e.g. whether user inputs are involved).
No: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_ejaculation#Censorship
I have seen it in many places. It's like you can watch the emergence of Orwell's Animal Farm in every human setting. A small fraction doing more and more, which in turn let the others do less and less.
> threatening to sue if we don't do what they say.

I do love the occasional power trip. I'd look them straight in the face: "here's our lawyers number, have your lawyer give my lawyer a call. Since you seem to be so adamant about suing, you should have no further contact with me. I'll see you to the door." and if they don't go? Arrest them for trespassing.

Sounds like a great power trip.
I think that in times when user just quickly checks some website the better UX is to stay in the app, so there would be legitimate use cases.

e.g. Apollo by iamthatis here on hn does this and I very much doubt he is doing it for tracking reasons.
> To me, quality of life is working hard and smart during the 8h, and keeping the rest of the day for you and your family

Mate, I browsed your profile and you live in Australia. Why would you want to spend the better, sunnier part of the day inside of an office? How is that "quality of life" better than spending an hour or so to play some basketball with some friends?

> Of course we still do team building activities, but these are occastional off sites. Or optional after work things (drinks, workouts, indoor football etc)

So it's not okay to intrude on "work" by playing an occasional basketball game, but it is okay to push mandatory work activities that eat up one's personal time? Also, if you think those activities are not work, you are deluding yourself -- no one likes to hang out with their boss or coworkers for "fun" after work hours.
Maybe I have to elaborate a bit here. Neural Network sounds fancier than it really is. The steady state visually evoked potentials work as I recall in the way that when a person stares at a light source which blinks in a particular frequency then one can measure an EEG signal over the visual cortex which has the same frequency and multiple of it, as the light source.
For example if a person concentrates on a blinking LED with 4Hz then a signal with dominant 4Hz and 8Hz, 12Hz and so on can be measured over the visual cortex. I think in this explanation are some details missing ;-) We used LED sources with different frequencies which represented different actions like left, right, up, down etc.
The Neural Network was trained with the frequency spectrum as input and not with the raw EEG signal. However I think the correct and easier solution was to use a filter bank (comb filter) to determine the frequency of the currently measured EEG signal. But back then I read the first time about Perceptrons, XOR problem and Neural Networks. It was cool and I wanted to try it out. The challenging part back then 2010 was that there was no TensorFlow or Pytorch. I was equipped with Matlab, the Signal Processing Toolbox and my dangerous superficial knowledge about Neural Networks. I implemented backpropagation and gradient descent myself for fun and the output was a matrix which represented the weights of the Neural Network. The "inference engine" was a matrix multiplication. The matrix with the weights multiplied with an input vector and as the activation function I used tanh(). Surprisingly the classification worked very well and it was fun to implement all that stuff. This all sounds like grampa talking about WW2 again :-)
I'm not a 1pass user, but perhaps the explanation is that its a niche browser and they don't have the bandwidth for it right now? This is the first time I've ever heard of Orion browser. Should they also be building plugins on every other non-major browser? There are several bigger than Orion
It’s unclear to me at this point why people are contributing to Wikipedia and certainly wikidata, but they’re getting something out of it (perhaps notoriety), and a lot probably has to do with contributing to the greater good. It’s all non profit. The rest of the web is unlike these stand out projects.

Meanwhile, why would say Mouser or Airbnb pay someone to markup their docs? WebMD? Clearly nothing has been compelling them to do so thus far, and when you’re talking about harvesting data and using it elsewhere, it’s a difficult argument to make. Google already gets them plenty of traffic without these efforts.
A Python package to visualize Sanger sequencing data
1/10 of an hour.

Not sure if this is changing with all the time tracking software now but it's easier to bill by tenths than it is to track/calculate exact minutes and any larger unit might involve too much rounding up. e.g. .1 for a quick email reply is more palatable than a .25 (1/4 hour, 15min) minimum.
Hopefully they are planning to start the productivity witch hunt at the top, not at the bottom. I mean, what the hell does Urs even do, from New Zealand? Cut the fat at the top, save billions.
I will briefly plug my library `unsync` (https://github.com/alex-sherman/unsync#quick-overview) which wraps all these methods (multiprocessing/threading/asyncio) into singular/simple-ish API.

It's a bit overly simple, but it's helped a few times writing code the makes use of several concurrency methods and combining them together etc.
"Plenty" is not a good measure, and often seems more based on role and type of firm than just related to a lack of drive.

I've observed whole teams that are effectively 'dead weight' and ones where there is all killer, no filler. Of the DWs I've seen, many are DW not always by choice, but because other factors shove them into odd corners and they can't figure out (or are too constrained by other factors)

You are never going to 100% all-in motivation even from top performers in perpetuity, and even anecdotally most people don't want to be moribund for decades on end, and certainly not the majority of workers.
If we take outliers into the account, then any statement ever regarding human behavior would be false.
Thank you for taking the time to write that and explain the concepts so clearly.

How do you know that concepts/categories like "necessary" and "contingent" apply to the universe? Specifically, if the universe is everythibg that there ever is or ever will be, how can it be contingent upon something external to itself?

Could it not be the case that there concepts come from a causality-based view of reality that may be far from universally applicable?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVG

Mesa removed support in 2015:

https://docs.mesa3d.org/relnotes/10.6.0.html

> Removed OpenVG support.
Yeah, it only prevents taking for non Google and gives them all of the tracking instead.
"made a big mistake twice" does not correlate with "bad person who is not smart or capable of learning"—hope you're not in management
I think it comes down to the marketplace. The Apple/Google "app store" allows that model to work, and the consumers don't seem to mind. It is basically the flash games that were popular years ago, but now with immediate access to parents' credit cards.
At its foundation it sounds like rent seeking.
Turborepo 1.4 (High-performance build system)
Thankfully I took a horticulture class in high school. We had a huge green house at the school. It really gave me an appreciation for plants. I have 2 plots at a community garden and a couple small ones at my house. Watching seeds grow is fascinating.
>Sure you can say something is required but it's rather arbitrary.

It's only arbitrary if there aren't good reasons.

Dozens of reasons have been given in philosophy, it's up to you to decide if any of them work.

One of the big differences would be to point out that the universe is completely composite, whereas a foundation could be purely simple.

Josh Rasmussen is a great communicator about this!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX79xXgi44o&ab_channel=TheUn...
It seems like for all the effort we've put into stopping terrorism it's primarily being used against our own citizens rather than to stop any actual terrorism.
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How dare you bring full quotes and context to a discussion :)

Seriously true, though. What's usually missed is the first bit, about "small efficiencies", combined with the last bit, the "critical 3%". He's basically saying don't spend time in the mass of weeds until you know where the problems really are, but conversely take the time to optimise the smaller areas that are performance-critical.

Almost the opposite of the carte-blanche overly-minimal MVPs often thrown together by those of us who forget what the V stands for.
I'm glad it's useful!
This is contrary to the universally understood meaning of E2EE (as in, end to end between the two participants in the conversation). I'm not one to blindly take Facebook's PR statements at face value, but if you're making the claim that Facebook is deliberately advertising E2EE while secretly redefining the term to mean non-E2EE, you should have some strong evidence. Those sorts of linguistic gotchas don't work in real life or in a courtroom.
Fungus gnats only reproduce in the top layer of the soil. Keeping the top of the soil dry, by watering from the bottom helps a lot. You can also sprinkle diatomaceous earth on the top of the dry soil to kill them through dehydration.
Scientists Reveal New Info on ‘Giant Jets’ of Lightning in the Atmosphere
A Boy Bosses of Silicon Valley Are on Their Way Out
I think the wall is just a political symbol. Everybody understands that a wall alone won't reduce immigration as people can easily go over, under and around a wall. At most, a wall might slow down or redirect migrants, making the violent enforcement more effective.
Very interesting. I would like to see pricing, specially for the stringchair. I have a few buddies that could use it.