skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would you read my comment if I paywalled it? Seriously doubt it.

It's not like these little journal articles are the ultimate truth we all need to read. It's just a guy publishing his views on some topic. Views likely biased by his stakeholders at that. Views likely manipulated by PR firms if not government entities. Essentially propaganda advancing some narrative. When governments want people to view propaganda, they pay for an aircraft to airdrop leaflets. Yet we're expected to pay for the privilege of consuming their information?

Truth is on the internet if they want people to read their views they have to actively go out there and post them. They have to pay money and/or time to make it happen. They don't get to demand payment because opinions are infinite. Paid journals are a relic of the old world and its media where they had printing presses that made literal newspapers with columns on them and that was the only way to get a mass audience. That's over now. They need to deal with that fact or go bankrupt.

Hell, I don't even care about the articles posted here most of the time. I come here for the comments. I want to know what the people on this site have to say. The submitted article is just a conversation starter really. Anything notable or important in it will certainly be quoted here.
> don't want to pay a lot

Don't want to pay a lot up front. You'll pay a lot to run it.
We know quite a lot about Greek music theory (Thomas Mathiesen's Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory in Antiquity in the Middle Ages is the go-to source here: https://archive.org/details/mathiesen-1999-apollos-lyre/page...). Of course we don't have recordings, but we do have a solid understanding of the theory, and some very good guesses as to the scales and intervals.
Teacher's job is no doubt stressful. Therefore I think we must invent new ways of automating the teaching, amplify the powers of a single teacher. That way there will be enough teachers to provide for every child. Not sure how to get there.

But what about the adult population? I think large swaths of it are in need of more education. Math literacy, evidence-based evaluation of propaganda. Large portion of US population believes last election was stolen.
>So perhaps fascism doesn't fit perfectly, but it's pretty damn close in my opinion (especially if you use definition 3 by Wordnik "Oppressive, dictatorial control")

Few to none of the loudest users of “fascist” describe Cuba, Venezuela, or China with the term according this definition. Can only conclude the definition is given in bad faith, and used by people with a silent exception for “states and organizations I find ideologically appealing.”
What is this? An article spoiled with 4000 in almost every sentence. As if that amount is attracting someone to start something.
Money is never the motivator.
I created several products on my own. All solo. Some make 30k a month. I never thought about becoming rich or making this amount or that amount. I always wanted to create a product people enjoyed. I never used any so called accelerator tools. Analytics usage very basic. I spend all my time in development. Frontend , backend , infra everything.
Please don't believe these annoying articles or products they represent. They sell air.
I’ll add too that it’s better to end a work convo with pleasantries than to begin one.

“Hey I’m blocked on xyz, thanks anyways how was your weekend?”

Is far more pleasant than

“Hey how’s the weekend? anyway I’m blocked on xyz”
It might be limitless, but Gerald O’Neil did point out that there’s only so much heat the Earth can radiate into space, global warming reduces this even more.

The main alternative would be to move a fair amount of industry into space, but even then thermal management is not trivial.

Dumping heat into the air as cooling is one of those things that’s taken for granted.
There was another hackernews comment today about a similar phenomenon, on an article about AI

> All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident

(source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32538563)

I distinctly remember some other comment a while ago showing how the Reddit hive mind drastically changed positions around certain covid topics (I think about masking?).

It's fascinating how groups can be so adamant about their positions one instant, and then switch positions later on with zero repercussions. We need more accoutability.
Ask HN: Do you *love* your job?
It’s not uncommon to hear people (or rather, guests on various podcasts maybe) say that they love their job, or that they love what they do.

I personally like programming and problem solving, and in theory should love my job, but I really don’t.

Intuitively, I want to blame daily standups, the obsession with JIRA and microtasks, and OKR and the like, for sucking the joy out of it.
However, thinking about it more, I’m starting to suspect that it might be somewhat inherent to the fact that these jobs are part of the economy, and as such, the day-to-day is eventually driven by doing whatever makes money for the company.
Maybe that’s why many of us have side projects.

So my question is, is there anyone here who can say that they love their job?
If so, what is that you do? How did you get there?
How can you claim nuclear cannot compete on costs? We have no idea how much any of these things you're talking about will cost, because they either don't exist, exist only in research labs, or have never been deployed at the necessary scale.
"a python"?
That is some 4D chess on your part. Well played!
Show HN: Nevermind XOR – Deep Learning Has an Issue with Sin
The "Perennial Philosophy" school of thought [1] says that people rediscover these ideas over and over again. It takes a particularly prophetic individual to stumble over them de novo, but once the idea takes root it spreads quickly.

There's a great quote from William James on the cycle of religious discovery, diaspora, corruption, and rediscovery, but I can't find it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perennial_philosophy
Given the time, effort and hard dollar expense they put into development of BedrockDB - I have to imagine they do more than 1 QPS.

Why else would they benchmark to show they can achieve 4,000,000 QPS if all they need is 1 QPS?
If you believe this, Prodigy and CompuServe combined had over a million users in 1990: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prodigy_(online_service) Probably the vast majority of those users also called local BBSes.
I think that at least for B2B it's key to have someone among your founding team who either is/was a potential customer (e.g. has worked for some years in the role&industry who would be buying this) or personally knows a few such customers (e.g. because they have worked in a different role but in the same industry, or in a similar role in a different industry).

If you don't have that, you can "import" that knowledge but that will take a lot of effort and time, and you risk making some very wrong assumptions early on. And IMHO there are no shortcuts, to understand your market you have to walk a mile in their shoes, and if you haven't already done so before starting the startup, doing that will take out a big chunk of your runway. So it's not about some specific activities, but about choosing a project that fits your team or a getting together a team that fits your project.
That's what TFA is about.

> 1. Users are offline; experiencing latency issues or are in unreliable network conditions.

> 2. Fetching the data over the network will be slower than fetching it from a local source.

> 3. The app users should be informed about the low network conditions but it shouldn’t be a hindrance to their objective.

> 4. Users’ network and battery status are taken into account, and thus only the data that has changed since the last synchronization should be synced.
> the ego industrial complex

Did you come up with this term? I might have to steal it ;)
go-sqlite3-stdlib is influenced by sqlean but is written in Go (not C) so should be easier to contribute to, has 95% test coverage, and is easier to integrate with Go programs than C extensions.
Yeah but really I work 5
Many employers are looking for the hours to be filled, without necessarily specifying that each employee works the whole hours. That is especially the case for enterprises that work 7 days a week or (say) 12 hours a day.

In those cases, you either negotiate upfront before you start that you are only available for 3, 4 or five days a week or whatever number you want. Or you state at some point that you want to reduce your hours to whatever figure suits you, in which case there is an opening for another person to fill those now-unstaffed hours.

If the employer is only open for business 40 hours (5 x 8 hours) a week, then there is a situation which is more difficult to vary. But it's still doable to have two or more people sharing that single position: that's called "job-sharing".
Build secretly
Both origin and epic do not support having a space in your password.

I'm sure the rest of the code is top notch as well :D :D
Hello, author here. That's a database driven DNS server alright. (Bonus: it's got a web admin interface.) There are DNS implementations with various backends; that's kind of the point.

I'm not sure that a mainstream SQL database is really a good target for network telemetry and e.g. access logging artifacts. Not talking about a time stream database either. There is an architecture here, and it's predicated on not collecting "all the things" in a central place.

Example: In this model, a service / server you're monitoring might have a couple of Redis keys which get incremented every time there's a successful or unsuccessful login. Maybe there's a redis hashkey with fails for individual accounts too.

There might be a graph somewhere of the login / attempt rates. It would query the summary redis keys (via the DNS) once a minute (doing whatever it needs to keep historical datapoints for however long they're needed).

If the rate skyrockets, maybe the hashkey with account-level granularity is consulted but most of the time it wouldn't be.

There might also be a Zabbix alarm somewhere querying the same keys, and if a threshold setting is exceeded, then an alarm is sent.

It's pull, not push. It's easy enough to write something to make the periodic queries and post them to e.g. ElasticSearch and graph it with Kibana.

So the question concerns the SIEM part. Something like Splunk is married to its database (their pricing model is based on how much data you want to put into that database). Something like the Yeti Threat Intelligence Platform (TIP) (https://github.com/yeti-platform/yeti) comes with the ability to manage and orchestrate a large number of periodic or event-driven tasks and therefore has the capability to generate the periodic DNS queries; it's been a few years, but its graphing capabilities didn't compare to ELK when I looked at it.

There's a lot of overlap with SCADA as well. All of the necessary features I've mentioned can be assembled from open source projects.

Is there some SIEM, TIP or Ops product out there, with an active userbase, which has the periodic task capability, alarming, and graphing?
My parents' 2005/6 Panasonic 1080i plasma looks better than my much more recent Samsung non-OLED LCD, both are fine, but the plasma is better. Similar usage to yours probably, more earlier in its life.
The Nature of AI
I've worked formal 3 and 4 day week arrangements. Net experience: it's pointless, if you're working 4 day weeks and you're feeling behind, you may well end up working that 5th day without anyone asking.

Similarly in a 5 day week arrangement, I've never felt compelled to actually work the full week especially when I'm ahead.

Ignoring any formality, I think most folk work a 2-3 week if they were honest about it.

I wouldn't sweat having a 3/4 day arrangement as a reason to pick one company over another, especially if the offer is implicitly part of attempting to screw you on salary
related "Ask HN: Books that teach you logic building skills" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28500951
Never seems to define what a "tool for thought" is supposed to be/do. Seems like a pretty big problem before moving on building them, let alone building "transformative" ones.
The same thing is true of Zoom meeting passwords. When you share a URL to a meeting with a password, a hashed version of the password is included in the URL. That hash works the same as the password. You can manually type it in the password box when joining the meeting and it will let you in.
I worked in a retail lumber yard in the mid-1970s and learned to be very patient with crochety old pharts who complained that "a 2x4 used to be a full 2"x4" dagnabbit..." Am now a somewhat crochety old phart myself, and was surprised to find that 1.5" x 2.5" actual (2"x3" nominal) is considered adequate for some studs. Source: https://www.homedepot.com/p/2-in-x-3-in-x-96-in-Select-White...

Am pleased to see that effective hacking has a long history:

> Dimension was fitted into place by the carpenter, more often than not with his hatchet.
I don’t disagree and it’s purely anecdotal.
This is killing the employee productivity metric because of how it’s calculated
Seems to work a bit different in the west. I would've laid hands on my mother if she asked me to study in the morning before school instead of watching dragonball Z or something.
Are you sure it's actually cloudflare pages you're seeing and not malware?

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/wordpress-sit...
Double in GDP terms means a massive increase in real terms because GDP is so much higher now. Our GDP in real terms has increased 5x in that period, so double funding relative to GDP is a 10x real terms increase.

The point from an affordability perspective is, has NHS funding relative to GDP actually fallen since the end of the last labour government? The answer is no, it’s about the same.

Now it’s reasonable to argue we should be spending more of our GDP on health care, but we’re in the middle of a major global inflation crisis. The recent rise in NI which partly funds health care was slated by the left. How is the country going to afford a significant increase in health spending right now?
Every day there's more evidence that we live in a simulation. ;-)
I try to maximize Omega-3 intake, primarily by making and eating lots of Chia Seed puddings and preferring quality sourced sardines for protein.

Sorry to be subjective, but all I have is my opinion: I feel better when I maximize Omega-3 and do some other easy diet things like avoiding packaged foods and eating plenty of berries and fresh vegetables. I used to be fussier about my diet but now I just do these simple things.
This is how I understand it too - though "the rules of counterpoint" as they are taught today were really codified after Bach (who was already ~50 years out of date!). Typically (not always!) the "rules" of a style of music are malleable and flexible and argued over while the music is still relevant and codified into unchangeable standards after they have fallen out of fashion. Blues is a good modern example. Dubstep and the 100 related genres and vaporwave and it's 100 related genres, are counter-examples, instead slightly changing the rules becomes a new subgenre, which I feel is the same effect but manifesting itself differently.

Bach himself "breaks" at least one rule in every piece, and I can think of one rule that was really due to technological limitations of the time - not modulating to more than 2 keys away, because they didn't have 12-TET and going more than a few keys away sounded more and more dissonant - keyboard instruments were tuned to a specific key.

The story I'm trying to tell is people arguing about the rules of music is no different than how composers/producers/song writers about music today with modern genres, and when some genre dies, the old guard tries to keep it "pure" by zeroing on a set of commonly used stylistic techniques and calling it "the rules" which makes the music more bland and uninteresting by smoothing out the rough edges.

I was taught counterpoint by one of Shostakovichs last students, and my opinion on rules is greatly influenced by him - it's good to learn the rules, even though they aren't really rules, and all the greatest music from that time was written decades before the rules were even codified.
Oh my god.

Mirror moment for me.
Does anyone do this in a management role? Team lead or better, department head?
Developers, Please Nurture Your Coding Experience
I've still got a Panasonic plasma from circa 2008, which still seems absolutely bomb proof. It's only used occasionally now for some retro (Dreamcast or MisterFPGA gaming), but the picture, UI, remote and everything about it still screams of rock solid engineering. It does weigh an absolute ton - I would guess around 40KG. It's impossible for one person to lift/move. By comparison, we have a 65" 4K HDR panel in the living room, which I can easily lift & move around on my own without breaking a sweat. The 65" feels nowhere near as well engineered though. The OS seems to lockup and become unresponsive at least once a month, which the Panasonic plasma has never done once in its whole lifetime.
Finally, idiomatic and, most importantly, safe implementations of textbook algos and data structures!
"ah, the presumptuous teacher" .

That is a perfect example of bad discourse.

Why is it bad? Because it is "Ad Hominem". It attacks the person making the comment, not the reasoning in the comment.

https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/ad-hominem
I finally dumped Mac completely for Ubuntu LTS on a Lenovo X1 Carbon about 12 months ago. My experience is that I'm now tinkering with things less on Linux than I used to on macOS/OS X.

I have an external Thundebolt dock that actually works. I'm not on the Xcode treadmill forcing me to update an OS because Apple dropped support. Updates are on my schedule instead of Apple's. I can use an actual standard 3D API (Vulkan) rather than the undocumented pile of crap that is Metal. My Bluetooth speakers are more reliable than they were on macOS. I can set my monitor resolutions without buying a dumbass Mac App. My printing system never gets confused forcing me to reinstall all my printers. I can go on and on.

Is it flawless? No. About once a week, my cursor response goes to absolute shit for about 90 seconds for no obvious reason. Occasionally, I hit one of the Wayland corner cases. Lots of software still doesn't run on Linux--so I have to keep a Windows box floating around, but I had to do that even with macOS. I've had 2 hangs over the last 12 months.

But, overall, while I can list grievances about my Macs endlessly, I have to actually think hard about what has genuinely pissed me off about Ubuntu.

I'm not going to deny anyone's experiences because when that's done to me I just get pissed off. In addition, I made a point to buy somewhat more expensive hardware that was a decent match to Ubuntu (better quality laptop, i5 for better thermal performance, max RAM and SSD). I'm just providing a counterpoint that for some of us Linux is a better environment than Windows or macOS.
That's still work though. You might know all you need to know on the subject you will teach, but if the standard you have to fulfill changed, that means you have to change your plans.
I'm reading Stephen Kotkin's book "Stalin - paradoxes of power". I just read the section set the mid to late 1920s. Guess what? One of the many dirty tricks the communist party used on its population to keep power was the idea of "capitalist encirclement" (compare to "NATO encroachment"), alongside the undermining of foreign nations by supporting communist parties with the goal of overthrowing governments (compare to supporting the Tucker Carlsons of the world).

None of this is new, these people (Russia establishment) cannot be trusted ever.

Now, cue someone saying "whatabout the Americans". To them I say - I'm happy to discuss the Americans, in a thread about them. This thread is about how the Russian government is dishonest and an enemy of freedom and liberal societies.
Neither of those statements make any sense no matter which direction one tries to go with it (they are just blank statements of no significance, no validity and neither is rooted in reality -- just spending one day at wikipedia may help to be less ignorant (as Tim Minchin says in one of his songs). [Start with the political parties of UA in recent pas, throw in some Yarosh and other western UA figures. They should balance your view and get you to scale better the political power of the said ideology]. Of cause, 'freedom' you have to remain uniformed, and that is ok, we can exchange short messages as this one.

However, already Jefferson put it strongly back at his days "If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be".

... and I leave off with a latin proverb: "where there is doubt there is freedom". Lets leave hypocrisy of demagoguery at the door in civilized opinions.
I find it interesting that all of your examples to help define the broadness of musical theory as you see it are all, themselves, descended from western musical thought. That might speak to the point being made in a different way than any of us consider it.
You are proposing to solve a massive ecological crisis by intentional causing another massive ecological crisis.
> Why does every web site default to aggressively paginate their information?

You get to see more ads while flipping through pages.

Timing metrics for loading smaller pages make marketing happy.

Timing metrics for time spent on the website make marketing happy.
what is TFA? not a familiar acronym in this context (usually it means The Force Awakens)
I think he’s trying to say that you shouldn’t let outside validation or invalidation affect your decision to build a startup.
You as the founder should know (via research, interviews, insights and industry knowledge) whether your startup is solving a real problem. Don’t let someone with less expertise than you talk you out of it, or converse, talk you into it.
this works until you lose or break your "supercomputer in your posession".
True, if someone in the conversation wasn't at that event, it's very hard for them to care, unless there's a punchline or its somehow actually related to them...
I used to be that way too. Now I see that there are depths there that I didn't see. I was blind to my blindness. I try to keep my cool now. Reply with something soft and cool.
I know several people with very limited tech skills that were able to at least make something that got them some income from a tech product. It sounds like you are over filtering ideas. Throw a few apps or pages out and see if any get traction after some outreach. Either ads or cold emails, etc. Like the famous quote saying noone would use dropbox because you could do it yourself. You probably come up with good ideas but are like "Why would anyone pay for this?"
Sure, the old giants use Windows (and some Linux) but those are exceptions. There are plenty of Mac and Linux use in younger tech companies here.
I hate mongodb with a passion. It may very well be that we are misunderstanding ops use case and making assumptions. My assumptions are: 1) many types of reports (as such many tables, es can create docs on the fly), 2) reports are made of many rows (otherwise why compare them with spreadsheets). My second assumption is that once you add pagination you can no longer ctrl f for content, you need full text search.

For a set of reports with consistent column names and values made of aggregate or static data what you are proposing works fine - since you can just increase counters or cache values as data comes in.

But for a use case where different types of reports have varying columns you can just dump everything into es documents and run basic aggregate queries. Or you can precompute data when making inserts.

Anyway, i am assuming too much about the use case, my bad. I’d have to hear more about it to defend my point.