skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can still download the old versions all the way back to NeXT:

I had no idea Launchbar went back so far! Thanks for this. My respect for that app has been enhanced. I was also on the beta of OS X, but didn’t run into this until many years later.
>We’re living in a world where nearly everything is low quality.

Can you actually list items that, on a price-adjusted level, are lower quality? Nearly everything is of higher quality and cheaper than it ever was.
Ending pandemic unemployment aid connected to 'substantial rise' in employment
In the bitcoin blockchain each transaction includes the originating address, destination address, and amount.

In the ethereum blockchain each transaction includes the originating address, the destination address, and the amount.

Both blockchains have all the information you need to avoid spending tainted coins, and it would depend on the wallet implementation to do that for you.

There are plenty of bitcoin wallets that just present the total coins present in an address and it's on the user to look at the lower layers or use a wallet that does that for you.

This whole thing seems like a distinction without a difference.

Hopefully a judge would see it that way as well, until it's tested in court we'll never know.
Good point. I'll do better in the future.
Magic Mail (2018)
It probably got flagged for national security reasons.
Answer my question first, why would they choose the blow themselves up? and it is close to Moscow

I'm trying to understand the situation, of course i'm not there to check

That's how we become smart, we try to understand a situation before randomly trusting a twitter post, human nature!
Barbados, Singapore, New Zealand...

Also, with regard to Sweden, they have been a destination for poor refugees who on average integrate less than ideally into their society, given social, economic, political and spiritual differences between host country and new arrivals.
How "direct" does the direction need to be? "Hey, here's a knife, use it to go stab this person" is pretty direct. What about "So-and-so ought to be stabbed" or "Golly I sure wish someone would get around to stabbing $whoever"
>If you take TypeScript and add pointers, you'd end up with something like Java, or maybe Go.

He's not just talking about pointers. He's implicitly talking about allocation and free.

If you want facilities similar to just pure pointers without memory management then you have this already with all high level languages like JS or python. In fact the garbage collectors in these languages work by counting the references (aka pointers) pointing to a primitive.

Thus from this reasoning he's talking about more than just pointers.
Good question.

I’m the meantime before such a site exists, the (imperfect) solution is to do research as well as you can, and only buy products from vendors who offer a good return policy. In the US, Costco comes to mind.

And be brutal about returning stuff that is not great.
The system is 100% deep learning, but most our our spend going to app lovin was in a new product that isn’t use deep learning yet unfortunately. You’re correct though :) we bid to roas/cpa and the affected campaigns were bidding to cpc!
Protected category in your location.

Plus I still don't see the problem. Surely protected categories are there to protect people, not give them cover to do otherwise illegal things.

People can discuss mein kampf without getting to hate speech, the same should be true of a religious text. And if that is impossible maybe that religion shouldn't have special protections.
With a fixed rate mortgage? Uh, no.
Where do you get this "fact" that Russia won't surrender? More powerful armies have been forced to retreat from unsuccessful invasions.
> My previous plan was 8c per kWh, it's now 16c per kWh

Didn't ERCOT allow the Texas energy resellers to "recoup" the winterstorm losses (running into billions) from their customers over a decade? That increase was not primarily driven by inflation, but by good old socialization of losses while privatizing profits.
Guess not. This must be why some organizations maintain warrant canaries. Of course Meta probably receives enough search warrants to make a canary useless, but it begs the question: if they had one, how many times per day would it need updated?
I for one think this was a very well-executed PR, with the caveat that I lack context as I am not aware of the referred reporting and still am. As someone without preconceptions to set straight, I can look up the backstory to fill in the blanks elsewhere should I be so inclined.

It's concise and to the point, mostly factual with a twist of putting in their understanding and framing. No fluff.
I'm sure everyone noticed .. but the ONLY index that actually deflated (decreased) this past month was gasoline. .. Not energy (electric, nat-gas, gas).. JUST gasoline.. It declined nearly 8% (significant) net-nulling the rest of the indexes which all continued to increase (food, building, all-other-energy-forms).
Anyone who I disagree with is fascis…oh a Russian troll now. Got it.
Kiss the 'ol Blarney Stone
I found having 3-4 streaming subscriptions is still quite a bit cheaper than cable tv or satellite. Also I get to watch what I want to watch when and where. Like many others, I cut the cord 3 years ago when I was paying $100/month for just basic cable with mostly useless channels or content that didn’t interest me. Now my total cost is under $50/month for a family of 4 for streaming subscriptions.
modern cannister vaccums will also contain multiple filters on the bag, motor, and exhaust. The ridgid might have more suction, but that is only part of the engineering that goes into canister vacs.
>Is it nihilism?

Yes.

>You are probably like almost every other person who has ever lived, you don't matter at all. Nothing you do will meaningfully echo throughout history.

That sentence is basically the definition of nihilism. I don't see any possible interpretation of it which isn't categorically nihilistic.

>I suggest simply you engage in "nihilism" on a few more things you have no control over.

I get what you are saying, and broadly agree with it, but that wasn't the point of my comment.

I wasn't commenting on whether or not your take on the subject is helpful or not, just that the delivery of "you don't matter [...] enjoy it" is off-putting to the many people who don't take such a nihilistic viewpoint, and probably does no favors in convincing them such a view would be beneficial.
To claim that having kids makes you happier in the long-term requires comparing against the control group of childless adults. Last I checked, there was no appreciable difference in happiness between these groups in middle age.
In Central Texas, gas is down from $5/gal in June to under $3/gal now.
That sounds like a nice setup. I once worked with a system that was about 10X bigger and geared towards fruits a & flowers, it required a lot of management, but was quite productive. Cherry tomatoes are a good option, they mature fairly quickly.
It took me a few tries to read “MFs” as “manufacturers”.
Wow, no offense, but this is an insane level of mental hoops to jump through to insult people who are putting forward the MOND hypothesis. It’s almost invisible, but I think it’s there.
72% globally, sure. iOS dominates where I live https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/united-sta...

I would estimate iOS has 99% market share among my social network, including nuclear and extended family. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen a green bubble.
I wonder if snail mail will ever become dynamic. AMP for snail mail?
Living Closer Together
Eric Weinstein says it better than I could, with helpful pictures that make it obvious why the inflation metric we see must always be bunk. https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/155093416819585024...
Thanks for reading. I did indeed think a lot about leaving this sentence in / writing it like this. What I think you mean is that compromising is necessary to move forward in a team. That is 100% true, in fact most (if not all?) technical decisions are just not based in fact, as much as I would like them to. What matters is that everybody understands why a compromise has been made, and what the pros and cons were that led to that decisions.

I am fine shipping the most horrible code if we all agree that we discussed the pros and cons. This also makes it easy to avoid the “I told you so”-trap which further degrades work climate. Instead, we can go back to the original design document, see that a con we expected has happened, and pick the discussion up from there.
Well, thanks to HN's durability and Google's crawler we can count on being able to find this site as "that unbelievably ugly wet-dry vacuum database" hereafter.
It's not a bribe, just a donation!
I am at a loss for words if people expect Facebook of all companies to not access the data on their platform. Of course they will access the data on their platform. Texts and apps like Signal are a different story.
https://archive.ph/xdlSH
>If you're at millions of revenue and haven't made the switch to a more robust setup I'd have questions.

Companies with more revenue than "millions" are still running AWS RDS.

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/customers/
I only have a single choice in S.A., Spectrum (or DSL with AT&T). Google is barely rolled out in the city and most of the rest of the city is heavily segmented to either favor AT&T or Spectrum. Grande is cool but serves a tiny piece of the city.

Its basically the same as any other city unless you live in a few specific spots.
In every comparable instance the company will provide a “make good” where they don’t bill you for that same amount on the next billing cycle.

My company didn’t because the US is a small fraction of the company and they aren’t too invested in spending time/resources here.
After 15+ years of being an SRE in finance across firms ranging in size from 2 people to 350K people, I've come to the following conclusions:

1. There are no solutions, only tradeoffs.

Sure. You win in the OP example of easy to add things but you lose in the relational aspects.

You could say the same thing in reverse, using a RDBMS make it much easier to do join based lookups but then it's harder to update

2. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter b/c some other layer will do what your base layer can't

I've seen some really atrocious approaches to storing data in systems that were highly regarded by the end users. How did this happen? Someone went in and wrote an abstraction layer that combined everything needed into an easy to query/access interface. I've seen this happen so many times that whenever people start trying to future proof something I mention this point. You will get the design wrong and/or things will change. That means you either change the base layer or you modify/create an abstraction layer.
Cisco router flaw gives patient attackers full access to small business networks
I think part of the problem with this is the common characterization of rural people that we are "farmers".

I live in rural NYS. I know farmers, to be sure (there's a community-supported agriculture farm just about 5 minutes' drive away). But despite the fact that a lot of the land around here is farmland, the vast, vast majority of people here are not farmers. They are teachers, shop owners/workers, factory workers, computer programmers, doctors, lawyers....basically everything you get in most places in the country. The only types of people we don't have are the types you only get in the very biggest cities, like hedge fund managers, and the types that only make sense in certain areas, like sailors.

The question isn't and shouldn't be about "should farmers have as much political weight as not-farmers;" it's "should people who live in a mostly-rural state have as much political weight as people who live in a state with big cities"?
What do you do when the sound of your own voice being played back terrifies you?
Definitely true, but I'll add that you still need to do price comparisons. Even supposed staples like pasta are often substantially more expensive than at nearby grocers.
I never said it didn't. You're arguing a strawman.
The steps outlined don't go far enough in my opinion. They stop at 'deliver' as if that was the goal.

I've had several roles that involved a lot of presentations and public speaking. I've also been subjected to hundreds of terrible talks.

I think I'm reasonably good at it, and my best advice is to start from a place of "think of the audience first".

Clarity of the message isn't just an ordering of facts, but people's brains expect a story. I don't mean padding, or a made up narrative with characters. You need to set the stage, deliver your message in a way that engages, and you must have something compelling.

But if you can put yourself in their shoes during the preparation and presentation you will find it easier to chop out unnecessary content, change the dynamics, and engage.

You are there for them; they may or may not be there for you.

This is a tangent, but ... tangents are your enemy. The people I struggle the most to understand never complete a thought they started. That clarity of thought and speech comes from knowing the objective of the next sentence you say, even if you don't know what words you are going use just yet. If even you don't know the point, no one else will either.
People in tech tend to forget that proper tech doesn't actually need 100s of engineers to keep it operational. That's the whole point of a computer. It does what you programmed it to do, and it does so automatically.
Surely with utility plans you can just use a mole? Dig a few trenches and just use a mole to go between them. No need to dig the entire length. I'm pretty sure this is what utility companies use in the Uk if they can't drag the utility through the existing duct/pipe. Imaging installing fibre to a neighbour and having to dig up every single pavement/road to do this.
Which privacy tools are not "mobster joints"?

When lack of privacy becomes the default, everybody with a sense of privacy becomes suspicious.
That is essentially saying that autistic people can't learn. That's not really the case.

Furthermore everyone has to adjust to the people around them, often causing untold stress for everyone. This is one of the aspects of the neurodivergency movement I am less impressed by because I feel it's just handwaving away any issues as "suck it up, not my problem, deal with it". I've worked with a few people like this over the years, which also caused untold stress for the entire team.

To give an example from this post, "is our checkout page not performing well?" to the React rewrite manager comes off as a rather dismissive "why would you want to do that?" While certainly a valid question – and I wasn't there and I don't know if it was phrased like that exactly – but I'm sure those questions could have been asked in a way that came off as less challenging and dismissive, resulting in a more constructive conversation. You really can learn these things.

Or, maybe the manager was just an asshole/idiot and the unconstructive interaction is all completely unrelated to the author's autism. Could be too.

The first point – "the non-autistic person is not hearing what I'm saying" – sounds like the author might benefit from trying to understand why that is, and adjusting the way they say things. Sometimes small changes can make large differences, and it really doesn't need to cause untold stress. Effective communication is hard and also something everyone has to learn.
Yeah, i mean it's a false premise, in my opinion.
We could revisit the ancient practice of hosting websites.
https://www.importyeti.com/supplier/suzhou-alton-electrical-...

Here is the likely chinese manufacturer
Who doesn't need a bucket of guacamole? I jest, but Costco is awesome, they also have pretty good vacation packages.
Correction: the Daily Mail and Daily Express newspapers' editorial directors would prefer ten innocents suffer than one bogneyman[1] enjoy free roam of the nation.

[1] Substitute "paedophile", "Islamic terrorist", "asylum seeker" as per this weeks' dim-right-wing national outrage.
I don't see what the problem is.

(1) HOME CHARGING. In sparser areas where people live in houses with garages, duplexes, and even to some degree rowhouses, it's easy to run an extension cord and get a full charge nightly.

(2) STORE PARKING LOT CHARGING. In denser places where people live predominantly in apartment buildings and perhaps some rowhouses, there is enough density to have rapid chargers in store parking lots. You drive to the grocery store, park for half an hour while you shop, and you have enough charge for the rest of the week. There is also enough density that daily milage is much less so you can get away with charging once or twice a week instead of daily.

(3) OTHER TRANSPORT CHOICES REDUCE RANGE ANXIETY. Also at least in the USA TONS of households have multiple cars -- especially in sparser areas that are more car dependent and have plentiful parking. This creates an easy in for the plugin EV -- if one of your (typically two) cars is still ICE or hybrid, you don't have to worry about range anyway (while still putting most miles on the EV). Conversely, in denser areas (USA or EU) it is common to own zero cars or one car that isn't even used every day because public transit covers some of the transport needs. In either case, range anxiety becomes not much of a problem because the EV isn't your sole option for getting around (but, at 250mi range, range anxiety is kind of obsolete anyway)

So once again, whether you're in a sparse or dense area, there are dynamics that make it easy for many people to get started with an EV. Does it work for 100% of people, today? No. But that's how change works. Once a lot more people, starting with those who can easily do so, get EVs, it becomes more normalized, and there's more infrastructure, and the cycle continues.

Good plugin EVs like the Bolt or Leaf with 200+ mi of range are now in the $20-$29k range. It's starting to become pretty practical. They're not competitive with getting the cheapest camry shitbox you can find on craigslist and running it into the ground, but they're competitive with a lot of ordinary cars ordinary people buy.
> Perhaps a dog-level of self-reflection is still quite a big deal, when compared to say a fish or whatnot.

Fish are probably conscious.

> Anyway, can you elaborate on why you think dogs ar "clearly" conscious?

Unless you think it's ok to torture dogs, you already agree with me that dogs are conscious.

Or, a more philosophical response:

1. I am conscious

2. My consciousness is, broadly speaking, seated in my brain

3. A dogs has a brain broadly similar to my own

4. Dogs respond to stimuli in a way similar to the way I do. Both of us appear to be able to respond to painful stimuli, for instance.

5. It therefore seems reasonable to conclude that the dog is capable of subjective experience such as suffering, i.e. dogs are conscious.

Of course, dogs appear to be much less intelligent, and it doesn't seem justified to assume that dog consciousness is on the same 'level' as human consciousness, whatever that might mean.

This is broadly similar to an argument like anyone who wishes to argue for solipsism needs to explain why they, one human being among billions, are the only one with consciousness.

edit: tweaks and additions
There are some marketers out there selling memes as a strategy, seems more like a growth hack than real content strategy
Yeah it's amazing how much you can accomplish just by minor things like not using DoorDash constantly and having caps on spending on electronics on Amazon.

YNAB is much nicer than Mint IMO. Mint feels more like a toy.

With YNAB you do something called "envelope budgeting" (just a digital version) https://www.thebalance.com/what-is-envelope-budgeting-129368...

I've found being obsessive with tracking expenses is a good way to lose motivation (like going to the gym) so it's good to have a simple pattern to get used to.
Russell T Davies's Years & Years feels like a plausible near future. Bananas are extinct, baking systems failing, refugee crises.
What do you think roads are?

Snark aside, I spent years being angry about every government subsidy until I learned that some subsidies are pork barrel spending and some are just the normal allocations required by a functioning government to maintain the expected standard of living.
I don't think academic success only involves well-defined problems even if your work doesn't involve research and just teaching. Being able to convey properly ideas, concepts and information to students is not a well defined problem...
I realize I forgot the second half.

“giving in” without forming a compromise and making sure everybody agrees on what the compromise is however is just appeasing a bully (say “we do it this way because I’m the manager and you’re not” or “we do it this way because I have 10 years of experience and you don’t”).

I should probably have given it a bit more context.
Yeah, the problem with inflation is that it compounds year after year. If the inflation rate remains stable at 7%, it only takes 10 years for the value of the dollar to halve.
I think the "ability to think clearly" is a bit too vague of a concept.

* Is it really important that the whole process of thinking is "clear" or do you wish for a more structured outcome in the end?

* Why do you assume that having a more "clear" process of thinking leads to better results? Based on the research I know in pedagogical psychology, "clear" thought processes are only a thing for persons of mid-seniority. Actual experts don't explicitely construct solutions to problems in their heads but rather recall/recompose them: They can just extrapolate a solution. But to add a caveat: Actually the peak performance of mid-seniors is sometimes better and one explanation is that they actually (need to) think about what they're doing. Experts get a bit more sloppy on single tasks but are more productive overall.
https://www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/News-Releases/2001/CPSC-Announ...
Sure. I may have misphrased my previous explanation, but "country" is still far bigger than "community".
I read the piece. Leaving aside the weighty issue of whether Milo Yiannopoulos' presence can violently shorten people's telomeres or methylate their CpG sites, there's the question of whether broadening a definition licenses broadening a prohibition. People who accept without question that the govt should stop interpersonal violence in the narrow sense may well not accept at all that it should stop it in its broader senses. Think about the friar's famous line from Romeo and Juliet, "These violent desires have violent ends". "Violent" has two different meanings in this line. It should be clear to anyone that the violence of Romeo and Juliet's love or sexual attraction for each other is not susceptible to the same legal sanction as the clan warfare that erupts in its consequence.

The common law prohibition of violence pertains to physical violence. Defining speech as "illegally violent" is absolutely a redefinition.
Its mildness was offset by its prevalence. In many US states with higher vaccination rates deaths/capita was actually higher during Omicron than during any prior wave.

In states with lower vaccination rates deaths/capita tended to be higher during Delta, but not by much.
Reading your comments I understand better now where you're coming from. My suggestion is maybe look into the best way to respectfully disagree with someone. I am not implying or suggesting you don't, I am just thinking of new approaches to this situation. I know most of us want to avoid conflict at all costs, but being able to debate without becoming frustrated and affected is a skill as well. I am unsure if it's necessary, but I can't think of another direction you could go.