skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a common anti-pattern that goes like this:

1. A higher-ranked person (e.g. Agrawal) is screwing up in some way (e.g. not addressing security issues)

2. A lower-ranked person (e.g. Mudge) tries to get the problem fixed (e.g. addressing the security issues)

3. The higher-ranked person refuses, and it turns into a conflict

4. The lower-ranked person gets blamed for "not maintaining good relationships" or "being hard to work with" or something like that.

See this article: https://lethain.com/hard-to-work-with/

To be clear, maintaining good relationships is very important. Good relationships are the lubricant that keeps the machine running smoothly; if someone has poor social skills or doesn't make an effort to maintain good relationships, they'll cause unnecessary friction, and they'll end up wasting time and effort on a conflict when they could have solved by problem by maintaining a better relationship.

But, not every conflict is an unnecessary conflict that could have been solved by maintaining a better relationship! Sometimes people refuse to fix problems, and the only options are to apply pressure to them or let the problem go unfixed. Sometimes "lack of lubricant" isn't the reason the machine is broken.

(One way to see this is to note that Agrawal did not maintain a good relationship with Mudge. If maintaining good relationships is part of the job, did Agrawal fail at his job? Or do you think only the lower-ranked person is responsible for maintaining good relationships?)
I think the point is that if you aren't mindful and deliberate with your actions, you'll descend into behaving according to habits and desires instead of what is in the best interest of your future self.

Without being mindful, you'll just have another handful of chips instead of remembering you're trying to be not fat.

Without being mindful, you'll watch another Youtube video instead of doing something on your todo list.

Without being mindful, you'll jerk off instead of reading a book or interacting with another human being.

It's not that doing any of the above is inherently bad in isolation, it's that if you aren't mindful in the aggregate and just default to impulse, you'll find yourself drifting much farther from what you think you will eventually become than you otherwise realize.

We live in a world where distraction and dopamine hits are so accessible (sometimes even out of our control) vs even just 50 years ago, so we find ourselves needing to be more deliberate in our actions.
Allowing anything useful would subtract from the joke
And hence a reason why "learnings" is so powerful: it doesn't make it clear that you have actually learned your lesson.
I think I agree with you, as much as I don't want to.

I am a C programmer, and I think I do know what I am doing. (I implemented safe, UB-free two's-complement arithmetic in C using only unsigned integers.) I prefer unsigned.

But for someone who doesn't know, as long as they're not working on anything critical, signed might be "good enough".
It shows that there is groupthink at play and that the overall HN commentary on subjects, even when they should know better (tech), is not particularly correct.

Being wrong once is one thing, but HN commentary seems consistently wrong on a whole litany of topics. The biggest source of bad hot takes seems to be something new/different. HN seems to be consistently conservative.

It’s a shame because I used to think that i would gain some insight on future trends from the fact that a lot of the people who comment here are in tech, but now I’m not so convinced.
you know the pi is pretty amazing for what it is. the hdmi 1080p output alone was groundbreaking with the first pi

The other side of the puzzle is software. I'm pretty sure there is a lot of headroom in the rpi hardware, if only someone re-write and re-optimize the os and software for it.

That's part of the magic of Mac - they got to hire as many people to optimize the os as they did to build the chip / computer itself.
> All I see is that people accept the default behaviour of their devices.

There is no default though. The popup gives you two options like “Ask not to track” and “Allow” with no way to dismiss it.
The UK isn't thriving - 18% inflation, low salaries (except in the money laundering industry), bad and very expensive housing, no infrastructure investment, etc.
Would that be on mobile devices for offline usage? I'm thinking that for typical backend use cases one would use a dedicated key value store service, right?
a few power cuts is not the end of the world
Yesterday, during a bi-weekly sync, someone said that they would take an action item to research something and follow up offline.[1] There were three of us on the video chat, and we ended ten minutes early. After nearly three years away, I know I romanticize the office, but it seems like everything is taken offline nowadays.

[1]: Sure, this meeting could just be an email thread or Slack channel, but it's one of my few recurring meetings where everyone turns on video.
May I have a list of those German subreddits.

Other than r/German and r/ich_el I only follow r/Mediathek
Despite a 24/7 media campaign to suggest otherwise, there is no proof that Russia actually did this. The first line of your link agrees.

I think the relentless scapegoating by Western elite of Russia/China/Iran/COVID/$CURRENT_BOGEYMAN/etc. is the real problem. They are avoiding responsibility for a collapsing system, which is only going to allow that collapse to continue.
I only see one role here that is even ballpark for a SWE in SF.

https://h1bdata.info/index.php?em=&job=software+developer&ci...

The prevailing wage test fails to account for stock and bonuses and is basically a joke.
Other publications show the i7 1280p in the XPS 13 Plus getting more like 10,000 in Geekbench 5 multicore, well ahead of the M2's 7,360 score.
https://www.windowscentral.com/hardware/laptops/dell-xps-13-...
Australia might be one of the most responsible places on the planet. Small population on a massive continent, so so much of Australia is just still wild and undeveloped. Heavy emphasis on renewable energy. If the whole world was like Australia we would have a lot less big crises
People DEFINITELY don't know what e2ee means, and it's wildly abused as a buzzword. Explaining what it is and what complementary requirements are necessary is just universally positive, no matter where in the privacy debate you sit.
The article is about Stripe's valuation.
lmao, the author doesn’t explain how we naturally become 1% worse everyday so 1% daily improvement is just like an equilibrium point of net 0 improvement.
Of course giving the option to opt out without consequences will entice people to opt out. But what if the software stops working unless you pay for it after you opt out? That changes everything.

Then the question is no longer "Am I okay with tracking if I can shut it off and everything's still the same," but becomes "Am I okay with tracking if it means I don't have to pay for the software or service?"
What's the most you've done to find a piece of media?
Wouldn’t having an ion like this be useful? I’m not an expert in Chemistry, but most ions will either return or gain an electron at the first opportunity. This compound, on the other hand, likes having an extra electron.
One thing: Intel produces chips. Apple produces hardware with bundled software.

Apple doesn't design chips, they design functionality.
Intel design chips that are as much flexible as possible.
Food is more than just nutrition; it’s culture and art and probably more. Substitutes are important for these reasons as they allow people to enjoy without violating their diet/ethics concerns/whatever.

They’re not harming anyone by existing so I frankly don’t see why this complaint comes up in every thread on the internet. Just don’t eat it if you don’t want it, meat isn’t going away.
When you think your job is to tell your boss's boss (and their promotion committee) why your boss is doing a bad job, you're not in for a happy time.
Nope is more attention-grabbing, the real question is whether it is better to optimize for civility or attention.
We have an accompanying article that goes into that in more detail here:

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-rise-of-sql

I've added a link in the TPL article to make it easier to find.
It's the opposite of what you'd be doing if you wanted the system to function correctly... But what if you didn't? Because you wanted to replace it, but it was dangerous to say that out loud?

The Conservatives (and to some extent some Liberals as well) have been playing a long game -- since the 70s when it was introduced -- to get rid of medicare.

It's incredibly popular with Canadians as a whole, but if you take conservative leadership aside, get them drunk, and get them to speak honestly ... they want it gone. Or at the very least, severely curtailed and a private option introduced.

Klein tried to do it in Alberta in the 90s (bring in more extensive private services) and the feds (under Chretien) beat him back in the courts. But now they're getting quite open again about it in both Alberta and Ontario and pitching it as a solution to a crisis. A crisis they helped creat.

EDIT: again, I think the system needs reforming. But likely not the way they want it reformed.
Lol hell no. Scientists (and the scientific method) have brought us the wonders of modern medicine and communication technology with their right hand while bringing us new ways to kill, manipulate, and oppress us with their left.

"Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart—and through all human hearts." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Just checking, this experiment *confirms* that there's a lone electron inside the cubane cage?

- "At very low temperatures (77K, matrix isolation) in an ESR apparatus, though, you can indeed see the spectrum of the predicted "electron in a cube", split just the way that you would have drawn it out."

(It's written for an audience who doesn't need to be reminded that "ESR" means Electron Spin Resonance, and that is not me!)
Checkout Notable https://github.com/notable/notable
I don't dispute that. However the fact that predictive models work does not prove that people have choice and conciously choose to forego privacy. Look at apple/android there are huge scale effects/entry barriers at play so it's very hard for a more privacy-oriented competitor to emerge. Another thing is that people certainly don't understand how much data they provide and to what extent they are profiled.
> And we thought things were bad in the US.

That inflation is mostly driven by energy costs, which are a direct result of European policy failures on nuclear and fossil fuels. The US is mostly a net neutral producer/consumer of fossil fuels and energy, which is why it's insulated from the impacts of Russia cutting off gas.
Intel’s Arc GPU issues run much deeper than performance
I really hated that he called Another World a rip off.
Folk talking about austerity as a tory thing are going to be in for a monster shock if energy prices persist through the next elections, and when they realize the size of the Covid bill vs the GFC bill. It may very well be Labour sitting as the final nails are driven into the NHS, just by sheer luck of timing
Central planning across a large geography failed miserably and killed hundreds of millions in the 20th century. I'll take hundreds of localized solutions/experiments any day thanks.
Earth’s water cycle is being bent to breaking point
Great then do it!

You can get out right now if you want. Yet here you are arguing with me on the internet and providing more data for the ad network.
The lottery is still a thing but not for India and China.
That’s my interpretation, too. “We don’t have the time to go into this right now”
Me either. I'm not a vegan or vegetarian or anything. I do know some vegetarians who are also pretty confused about the imitation meat stuff. It is these companies coming up with these products, not the potential customers -- clearly the companies have customers, but their products aren't necessarily universally beloved, right? Maybe they just assume that creating a good replica of a popular meat product will result in a popular vegan product?

I wonder to what extent the customer base of these products is mostly curious people who are just dipping their toes in, not quite ready to take the plunge into veganism/vegetarianism. Or well-intentioned parents/friends who want to include vegans in things like cookouts?

I dunno. I'll observe that people who've successfully been vegan for a long time (the kind of recurring customers you'd presumably want) have been following their dietary restrictions that whole time, I guess they don't have an overwhelming hankering for bacon or whatever. But then I guess they are hard to address, if they are already happy!
> I'd much rather talk to people about their hobbies, travels, creative pursuits, kids, etc.

Yeah , this gets exciting only to people who can afford these things. It's possible that one only meet these types of people. In most context I have seen asking people what they do is not out of some deep interest in other's jobs/work but just the safe topic to broach with an adult.
Gray interiors are also optimal for making a neutral space for doing color-sensitive work like photo editing because surrounding colors can taint your perception. My office space is mostly gray with a lot of wood and small accents in earth tones so I don't ruin the atmosphere for anything related to design.
Yeah, not what I expected.

Here is my result:

https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/16820778

Given that I didn't stop anything and was playing Dota 2 while running it ...

Still, I believe at some point once newer iterations of X86-64 drop support for legacy instructions (they still have to support code running on 8080/8086 through 486) - we will have smaller, more efficient X86-64 chips.

Actually, it is darn impressive that the latest Intel/AMD chips keep up with the brand new M1/M2 chips that have zero legacy instructions and the Intel/AMD chips carry 50 years of legacy :)
Ok and so have you ever noticed that quite often when people refer to "the globalists" they have a different group in mind?
https://9to5mac.com/2022/06/07/macos-ventura-clock-timers/
> If each drone costs US$50 then you can launch 180 million drones for the cost of an aircraft carrier.

In a world of frictionless pulleys and spherical cows yes, in the real world, no. In the real world aircraft carriers and their attendant battle groups do not just park within visible range of a coast. Your drone swarm needs to find the carrier's battle group, get within launch range for your $50 drones (without being shot down), maintain some sort of identification of the carrier (or whatever ship), and then make a terminal approach.

A carrier's air group maintains a perimeter hundreds of miles away from the carrier group. Not just fighters flying CAP but AWACS planes keeping track of the airspace. No one is going to hide a million drones launching towards a carrier group. It would be unlikely hide even a hundred drones. A drone carrier large enough to launch a non-trivial number of suicide drones is also unlikely to go undetected.

Even if everything went right and someone managed to damage an aircraft carrier with a drone swarm, the carrier group alone has enough land attack weaponry to seriously hurt the source in retaliation. A nuclear response to an attack of a US carrier would not be outside the realm of possibility either.

Attacking a US carrier group is a really dumb idea even if you've got a really clever weapon.
> The strips get salt, sugar, coconut oil, beet juice, and liquid smoke added to them, and presto—they’re ready to be packaged and sold as MyBacon.

Unfortunately, that's my impression of most meat replacement products I've come across so far - they're what I would consider mostly junk food. Highly processed, low in naturally occurring nutrients and rich in salt and additives (liquid smoke??).

I'd much rather have plain mushrooms, even over normal bacon, which I find super easy to cook and delicious even with very little seasoning.
FWIW, it's possible to program multimedia using Java via the ISO's MPEG-J framework. It's not as easy as PureData but it's very flexible and you get all the goodness of Java to boot.
https://mpeg.chiariglione.org/standards/mpeg-4/mpeg-j-extens...
https://www.ddj.com/jvm/the-mpeg-4-java-api-mpeglets/1844050...
First thing I looked for and I laughed when it wasn't available but there was a pro handle.
When Recovery Goes Awry
I view life as a I do my farm. There is always work to do to make it produce; there are times of intense work and times where I enjoy just watching the chickens…not that I don’t enjoy the intense work too; but sometimes I don’t as well but it must be done. I am always looking to do things better and more efficiently…so over time the farm does produce more, it does get better, it is not the same farm as it was a year ago. The change is sometimes fast; sometimes slower but it is always there. I think the point here is to make the general direction of change for the better at a pace that is reasonable.
Are we really referring to data records as dossiers now? I think of a dossier as a record of things like suspected infidelity or membership in a dangerous political group. Do credit ratings and purchase history really rate as a dossier?
100% agreed. TIL that mysql uses RocksDB under the hood.

Here's another example of a realtime database which uses RocksDB under the hood: https://rockset.com/blog/how-we-use-rocksdb-at-rockset/
In the end, isn't the answer relatively simple when phrased in terms of supply and demand? In by far the majority of these cities, the number of new units built pales in comparison to the number of new people moving to these cities, and as such you have a larger number of people competing for the same number of units, thus driving up prices. Cities like Montreal, Canada have a much larger housing stock due to middle density housing (multiplexes of 6-10 apts), and this is reflected in these cities having much lower average rent compared to other cities in North America.
But neither signed or unsigned ints can represent all ints. It's a question of what subset of ints you want to be able to represent.
Why is this getting upvoted?

Even if you find the headline thought provoking, the article puts no effort into sharing it or exploring it.

It’s just a list of self-enrichment things the OP is proud of having done lately. This is effectively just resume spam.
Practical Tips on Scaling Prometheus
Practical and beautiful, married in seamless harmony.

https://i.imgur.com/QCY5Oa6.mp4

Yes, that's the lightning port.
If someone is not qualified as an expert on a given topic themselves, they have no rational basis for evaluating competing and mutually incompatible claims generated by two parties who are each qualified experts. The process devolves into mere sophistry.
Yep. Less anti corruption
I think if your country's politics can be this badly steamrolled by a kleptocracy with the GDP of Italy then maybe, just maybe, you live in a failed state.
Also try actually using the level.
I think the pollution, weather, water quality, noise, dust, and overall lack of high quality public spaces is a big deal.

India is amazing and dynamic in a lot of ways, but there are major intangibles to account for (like how much one values a quiet evening walk in fresh air).
It's probably true that many Visual Studio Code extensions are Open Source, but there are plenty that are not.

Here is one from a random person on the internet which has the license "All rights reserved": https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=LiamNevi...

Here is another by Adobe that doesn't have a license linked to it (presumed proprietary): https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=com-adob...
I'd love to see a Stripe style wrapper around Authorize, but I don't think it exists. Just thankful we can use JSON now instead of their XML API.
The Indian government is weirdly protectionist about technology companies operating inside its borders. I remember stories of people from trading firms having to carry servers they personally owned across the border in order to deploy them to trade stock, and also having to completely disclose trading algorithms to the Indian regulators.
I have been cycling sportively (MTB, road) for about two decades. Bounce your bike. Just a couple of bounces on the wheels. It’s just a thing where you would instantly notice any slack on the wheel tension.
Absolute nightmare fuel. I would pay a lot to never have a device like this.

I want more control over my hardware and software, not less. I want less connection to or dependence on any sort of ‘cloud’.

Give me liberty or give me a dumbphone.
If signing commits becomes popular, it would be one of the very first tiny cracks in the stronghold of bigtech over the internet.

So far, we trust GitHub that a certain repo is under control of a certain individual or organization.

We trust Twitter that a tweet was done by Elon Musk and not by Joe Doe. We trust Instagram, that Sue really got a like from that famous influencer and did not fake it. We trust HN, that I wrote this comment.

But if signing these things would become the norm, commits, tweets, likes and posts would become eternal. Independent of any central authorities.

Unfortunately, it will probably not become popular. As there is nothing to gain for the author of a commit by signing it.
Investors bought a quarter of US homes sold last year
I am building a general-purpose data management system called Didgets (https://didgets.com/) that extensively uses KV stores that I invented. Since it was primarily designed to be a file system replacement, I used them for attaching contextual meta-data tags to file objects.

My whole container started to look like a sparsely populated relational table where every row/column intersection could have multiple values (e.g. a photo could have a tag for every person in the picture attached). I started experimenting with using the KV stores as columns to form regular relational tables.

It turns out that it was relatively easy and was extremely fast. I started building tables with 50+ million rows and many columns and performing queries against them. Benchmarking the system against other databases revealed that it was very fast (and didn't need separate indexes to accomplish this).

Here is a video showing how it does a bunch of queries 10x faster than the same data stored in a highly indexed table in Postgres: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVICKCkWMZE
I‘m very new to web scraping, can you explain what the use cases are for each and how you can switch between them? As far as I understood you can use HTTP scraping for static websites and need some kind of browser/headless browser to scrape dynamically rendered websites. How would you do that with plain HTTP? By figuring out the ajax network requests and then sending those directly?
What percentage of these country breakups end up in some sort of destabilizing violence and lowered standards of living for a generation?
And it all boilds down to:

JC
JNC
JE/JZ
JNE/JNZ
JO
JNO
JP/ JPE
JNP/ JPO
JS
JNS
JA/ JNBE
JAE/ JNB
JBE/ JNA
JG/ JNLE
JGE/ JNL
JL/ JNGE
JLE/ JNG
JCXZ

at the end :)
Sri Lanka is an interesting case study. President Rajapaksa suddenly banned using pesticides and synthetic fertilizers. It caused significant reductions in crop yields and ended up costing the country a great deal of money. This article in Vox seems to cover it in a pretty balanced way (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2022/7/15/23218969/sri-la...).

I like organic farming. I use an organic approach for my home garden. But yields are lower than with conventional farming. Even the most positive studies agree on that (see https://news.berkeley.edu/2014/12/09/organic-conventional-fa...). It also takes more effort, which means more people would have to be farmers than currently.