skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, it’s been like this since the 10.0/public beta days at least. I remember wondering about it back then. I believe the command the system updater always runs is something like update_prebinding -root /
Thanks for the link.
This unfortunately is not what I am looking for. Faceted filters are a different beast.
I actually met this guy before, he's been making these custom eyes for as long as I can remember. He said it took him a while to get comfortable making something water-tight enough to stick it in his eye. Last I talked to him he was talking about scaling up, hope the popularity leads to good places.
Amusingly specific comment on that post: "A one eyed plumber working in sink cabinets would like this."
If the MVP isn't good enough to get useful feedback from customers, you need to either 1) narrow the set of people you consider as early customers or 2) it's not an MVP yet.
Excel and spreadsheet software in general is great for certain things.
It just scales horribly, it is inherently opaque and naturally hides the relations between its parts. People actually use it as a general programming language, which leads to inherently unmaintainable and hard to understand software.
I promise to leave more high-value comments if you can get me a deal with Whatever.
> That's traditionally called a "demo."

Also colloquially known as the "rigged demo".

Let's be clear, there is nothing wrong with a rigged demo. A rigged demo is no different than a magic show. Folks love magic shows.

However, there is a big difference between a rigged demo and lying to the audience. All of those slide decks, static screens with "just one button that works", "demos on rails", they're all legit. It's ok to talk hopes, dreams, future capabilities, and what it should be capable of. But you can't (shouldn't) do that and tell them that "this'll be done next week". Shouldn't give false expectations.

It's a fine line, to be sure, but it's marketing. You can have honest marketing without highlighting all the ways you currently fall short. Everyone needs to do due diligence. A rigged demo may seem like 3 Card Monty, but it's not. 3 Card Monty is designed to deceive. A rigged demo is designed to highlight and exemplify. Yes, there is a difference.

In the end, the hard questions will come, and you need to be prepared to answer them honestly. If they don't come, you should be upfront about them. Address unsaid concerns. But that doesn't disqualify the use of the "rigged demo".
alternatively: https://archive.ph/rSnvn
It's the NY Post (aka Fox News print edition, same conglomerate) 'reporting' on a Fox News story.
I figured out my sleeping problem was stress/anxiety.

I would be thinking about whatever argument I had had that day, or perhaps something I was dreading about tomorrow.

I took up reading before bed (fiction! Don't try to be productive by reading textbooks!). Focussing on a story for 20-30 minutes really helps me cache-evict all the stressors that keep me awake.

I also stopped programming after around 8pm or so. If I programmed later than that I'd still feel wired at bed time.

I'm also trying spending a little more time in single-player games rather than multiplayer. There's something about constant racial slurs over chat, mic spam and general toxicity - it seeps into my mood and I wish I'd realised it earlier.
> Is a mouse responding in a pre-programmed way?

All life is to some level – including your and me – but that doesn't mean there aren't distinctions.

> a whale isn't necessarily smarter than a monkey just because it has a much bigger (physically) brain

I claimed that brain size is deterministic of intelligence, but it's not as if any brain of any size can do anything; there are real physical limits here. Ant brains are tiny, and ants are probably the smartest insects: others have even smaller brains.

Either way, I'm mostly interested in the emotional experience of insects and other animals, rather than intelligence. I think that's a more important factor in deciding whether inflicting harm is morally acceptable or not.

Mice, of course, are also not especially clever or have rich emotional lives in the same way that a dog or pig might have, but there does seem to be some of it, whereas I'm not seeing any in ants or other insects.
thank you foone
>> is banned from volunteering at their local soup kitchen every evening.

Is that a real thing in the US?
Many "green laws" like plastic bags are signaling>effect. This is true. Sometimes this is even recognised. Awareness-raising and such.

That said, externalities don't generally get solved without laws. I totally agreed that human progress, technological and otherwise cannot be ignored.

On plastics... It's undeniably true that a large portion of the garbage you might find in the woods, streets, fields, lakes or oceans is plastic. Meanwhile, a lot of landfills and other waste disposal systems suck. They pollute by design, aren't used properly or designed correctly.

It's also true that a lot of that plastic is pretty low value... It doesn't add much to a consumers' wellbeing. If it wasn't available, we'd find alternatives and be fine. Not all the plastic. Some is good value and some is essential. Most though

So... people look at all this mess. Some say "we should just stop making/using it." Others want to stop littering and improve waste disposal. In our inspired age, a common take is "market correcting." Try to internalize externality costs and "let the market work."

None of these are unreasonable. Lame or failed attempts at implementing them are not disproofs of concept. They're just failed attempts... and "politics" is often to blame, making everyone extra upset about the whole thing.

So, yes, I agree. We are progressing technologically, and that is very relevant if we're talking about ecological issues. OTOH, for all our current might, we're pretty impotent when it comes to simple basics like garbage. If plastics did not exist, we'd forgo the convenience of using plastic. We'd gain an end to our plastic waste problems.

So perhaps/probably there are ways of ending our plastic waste problem that are more efficient. If they are higher, than it makes sense to just ban plastic. Where are they? Why haven't they happened? The cost ceiling isn't that high. Low performance.
Nice to tuck primarly argument against ABM in the footnote - it incentivizes others to increase stockpiles to reestablish mutual vunerability, and missile exchangfes / economics favours attacker.

>1. Assuming, of course, that the number of warheads remains constant. This was probably the best argument against missile defense during the Cold War, when it was at least theoretically possible that the Soviets could double their arsenal in response to the threat. It’s a lot less feasible today, given arms control treaties and the shaky state of the Russian economy. It’s plausible that China could pull it off, but they’ve long taken a rather more minimal approach to deterrence than Russia has, which means a reasonable missile defense system probably wouldn’t worry them too much. Also worth noting that yes, it’s possible to overcome a 50% effective system by shooting two warheads at each target, but the number of targets is cut by 50% either way. ⇑
If you're going to talk about vulnerabilities that you don't know about yet, then you should be looking at how you're running old kernel versions and unpatched software. Hiding your hostname doesn't protect you against anything other than insecure application code. Old httpd or openssl will still be exposed.

There are plenty of ways that your secret hostname can leak. It's just a weak, low-entropy, guessable password that can't really be rotated. And moreover, if you're going to choose one thing to do (or time box your efforts around security), it's the highest complexity I can think of for almost no real return. I mean, if you're so concerned about leaking the hostname from your HTTPS cert because your site is that insecure, why are you even using HTTPS? What are you even protecting?

Is that the best way to spend an hour securing your site? Even just slapping the six lines to put hard coded HTTP auth credentials on your nginx virtual host will do more than that.
I think about this a lot and one thought experiment would be to imagine yourself time travelling 10 years into the future and question if you would know how to use email or phone without being confused. I’m pretty sure everyone on HN is considered as tech-savvy as one would get but I’d also imagine that many people would be lost.
Seriously: APL!

Yeah, it takes a bit of time to become really comfortable, but our accountant was (after the initial take-it-away! phase) really glad i have her introduced to it
> has journalctl -xe ever dumped any useful information for anyone ever

It can be useful when there's potentially multiple things leading up to the error in whatever you're running, as it is showing and explaining nearly every action that's recently happened in the system log. But if you're just wanting to look at logs related to nginx starting at the most recent then just query for niginx's system log instead of the whole system.

sudo journalctl --pager-end --unit nginx

or:

sudo journalctl -e -u nginx

or:

sudo journalctl -eu nginx
Live Free and Die (2005)
It might not be a mistranslation but if you wanna construct a "haha people are dumb" narrative or drop a "well akschually" it can be construed as one which is sufficient for that purpose.

The above statement applies to a hell of a lot of things, not just the whole 666 was/wasn't a mistranslation factoid. Comments like the top level one are what platforms incentivize when they "keep score" of discourse like many/most do.
that's not what happened

foone asked for it to be open sourced and then it was

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/1521698902579159040
Great article.

> data engineers have been increasingly adopting software engineering best practices

I think the data engineering field is starting to adopt some software engineering best practices, but it's still really early days. I am the author of popular Spark testing libraries (spark-fast-tests, chispa) and they definitely have a large userbase, but could also grow a lot.

> The way organizations structure data teams has changed over the years. Now we see a shift towards decentralized data teams, self-serve data platforms, and ways to store data beyond the data warehouse – such as the data lake, data lakehouse, or the previously mentioned data mesh – to better serve the needs of each data consumer.

I think the Lakehouse architecture is the real future of data engineering, see the paper: https://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2021/papers/cidr2021_paper17.pdf

Disclosure: I am on the Delta Lake team, but joined because I believe in the Lakehouse architecture vision.

It will take a long time for folks to understand all the differences between data lakes, Lakehouses, data warehouses, etc. Over time, I think mass adoption of the Lakehouse architecture is inevitable (benefits of open file formats, no lock in, separating compute from storage, cost management, scalability, etc.).
Well, I'm a right-winger: a one-nation Tory to be precise. When I say globalism I mean: "structuring society and the economy around the free movement of capital, people, and goods across borders. Generally with the belief that these are good things." (I'm paraphrasing Rayiner's comment above). I do not mean: 'The Jews control everything and $(event) is part of an evil Jewish plot.'

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33317480
My TV (TCL) also switches to the last input, but it first has to boot into Android, which takes some time. :(

(I know I could leave the TV on standby but I don't like doing that, especially just to work around poorly designed software.)
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No. At 1024x768, a 19" screen was perfectly usable.
Dark humor would be to downvote this post :)
>I don't know how accurate that 1 billion number of users is exactly

Ask Elon Musk to offer to buy it, then we'll see how accurate those numbers are.

In reality, I never believe people's published numbers. OF COURSE they are inflated. Their entire (maybe majority?) valuations are dependent on those numbers being as high as possible.
How could this be achieved against an airborne illness that children are largely asymptomatic for? This is true of many adults too - you can't really guarantee that the elderly will be safe unless they can be quarantined, which for almost all simply wasn't possible. Assisted living homes were the first place COVID tore through, which are largely sequestered from children.
I’m sure this has been said, but I think the Tories are headed for an election loss. Boris has stepped aside rather brilliantly, recognizing that the Tories are going to lose power, so that he can then assume the leadership and reclaim power later
Is there a way to subscribe to these technical notes postings? I (and I assume others) would be quite interested in being alerted when a new one is posted!
> Mysterious constants in formulae, unexpected quick side calculations left over, and poor structure.

This could be about any programming language/codebase.

In Excel, you could move those "mysterious constants" into named/described cells in a constants sheet if you wanted. You could also put your formulas in one place and reference them.

This reminds me of the old "Why does Visual Basic suck? Because it attracts BAD programmers" discussions. The reality is that almost no language stops you writing bad code, and older codebases often are worse in terms of maintainability regardless of language choice.

I've seen some absolutely terrifying C code for example.

PS - Excel's CSV support is complete trash. If you open a CSV and just hit "save" it may corrupt data in an unrecoverable way. For example turning long numbers like UPCs, medical codes, or DNA sequences, into scientific notation or dates, dropping leading zeros even if you convert them back.
Or the ethical aspect of forcing people to give birth
> how do you ensure that an employee is doing what they are being paid to do during the hours they're contracted to work?

Why do they insist on measuring effort instead of impact? Surely the business doesn't want that. Clearly these middle managers are working against the businesses that employ them. So the problem must be those leaf node employees who aren't punching time clocks. /s
> The article largely contradicts the claim that cameras stolen in Sweden are ending up in Russian drones.

To clarify this part. The article claimed that Sweden has Nikon cameras while the drones have Canon. (The article does also make the claim that the stolen cameras may end up being used in drones but always with the word may).
I've done some Excel wizardry on the side for small businesses. I charge a flat fee and it has always worked out to be somewhere in the range of $500/hr when done.

And they all thought they got an amazing deal.

You gotta be careful though. If you automate too much, that just frees up more time for the Excel folks to make more spreadsheets.
> the uneducated rube

It's a widely-accpetable abbreviation of 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland' amongst many well-respected and intelligent institutions, whether you agree with it or not - ironically you're the ignorant one for not knowing that.

And there's no need for personal abuse in any case.
The way Excel lays out data and intermediate states visually is pretty intuitive (compared to, say, using a step-through debugger), but the formula editing pane has an atrocious UX. I would love to see Excel but with a scratch/snap-like interface for authoring formulas.
And free share link - https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-first-rule-of-microsoft-exc...
Did you actually use w9x at 800x600 or 1024x768? It was perfectly fine.
You linked to the UK. Great Britain is explicitly excluding Ireland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Britain
In my experience, the best way to discover the good content from TikTok is to simply wait until somebody reposts it to reddit and it makes it to the front page.
if this means BRender is open source too, and I get to play the first Carmageddon with 3DFX Glide on conveniently, happy days. I can hear the CD spin up Fear Factory already.
Software companies' bad behavior has trained me to no longer trust updating. I would love to auto-update my software if I had some kind of assurance that all I was getting in those updates were security fixes. But instead, companies abuse auto-update to shovel everything else at me too: Unnecessary UI changes, new features I don't want, removal of old features I regularly use, larger binaries, slower binaries, and so on.

More software companies need to get on board with the idea of having a separate maintenance branch and "next version" branch. Too many of them just develop on trunk and every time you update for bug fixes and security, you get all the other crap their developers have been working on too.
> the official APIs were so convolutely braindead that it was impractical to work with them

Examples:

- https://docs.huihoo.com/symbian/nokia-symbian3-developers-li...

- https://www.developer.com/mobile/mastering-symbian-os-descri...
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PMaaS with PMs supplied on demand by the lobbying group/think tank of your choice.
I think we are about to see a huge wave of innovation in spreadsheets.

Coolest new one I've seen so far is 6gunz: https://pldb.com/languages/6gunz.html
Four paragraphs in and this is pretty obviously bullshit, since Biden wasn't yet elected at the time they allege his administration was pressuring social media companies:

> Victims of the Biden-Big Tech “censorship enterprise” include The Post, whose Hunter Biden laptop exposé was suppressed by Facebook and then Twitter in October 2020 after the FBI went to Facebook, warning it with great specificity to watch out for a “dump” of Russian disinformation, pertaining to Joe Biden, with an uncanny resemblance to our stories.

> “We allege that top-ranking Biden administration officials colluded with those social media companies to suppress speech about the Hunter Biden laptop story, the origins of COVID-19, the efficacy of masks, and election integrity,” is how the lawsuit was summarized by intrepid Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is leading the action.

Biden took office in January of 2021. So it makes no sense that "top-ranking Biden administration officials" would have "colluded with social media companies" in October of 2020… because the Biden administration didn’t exist yet. The FBI that "went to Facebook" would have been Trump's FBI!
Direct link to the source code: https://github.com/microsoft/Microsoft-3D-Movie-Maker
I've looked up tantivy and quickwit. Quickwit uses tantivy as the engine.
It has decoupled storage (awesome, only recently elastic announced something comparable) but is oriented towards log processing and esplitly warns against its use to power an user facing site search.
Do you happen to know if there's anything like that with the same minimal footprint that can scale up and, importantly, down to serve the needs of highly variable traffic websites?
Right now I'm looking at something with clustering capabilities and decoupled storage (e.g on s3) like quickwit
A famous guide to evaluate your APIs:

- https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-03-30.html

- https://ozlabs.org/~rusty/index.cgi/tech/2008-04-01.html
> “This is not about side hustles or moonlighting," and said these were people holding down two, full-time synchronous jobs "trying to be in two meetings at once, etc".

Tough to juggle two 8 hour jobs during the same 8 hour time slot
It appears Google implemented the records type65, but not type64. Also Youtube. I am curious what browsers are leveraging this currently. I can't find many other domains using it yet. It seems Apple use it on some subdomains [1]

dig +noall +answer -t type65 google.com
google.com. 2857 IN HTTPS 1 . alpn="h2,h3"

I see some hits in my name server stats for https/svcb types so I guess bots are looking for it. Perhaps scanning how widely adopted? The list of types has grown since I last looked. [2] People have been busy.

[1] - https://serverfault.com/questions/1075522/whats-the-use-case...

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_DNS_record_types
One third is used for animal feed, a third for ethanol to blend into gasoline and a third for food consumption directly.

To me it seems like the ethanol production part would be the easiest to put towards human consumption.
I love these so much, there are so many cool geometrical patterns and the colorization makes everything look very psychedelic. They also make amazing desktop wallpapers, I think the majority of mine come from here.

Interestingly, all the submissions of circuits dropped off after 2009.

https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/circuit

I'm thinking that has to be because features shrank too much with process nodes to be able to take a photograph without something like an electron microscope, since the rules require light microscopy only.
i just want my qwerty tmobile sidekick back :/
Having worked as a data scientist at multiple companies (From FANG to startup), the first thing I look at when I get my hands on data is the existence of the Pareto principle.

I still haven’t found one company where this principle didn’t show up.
A simpler way to search for everything startup related
When searching for anything related to startups, I often find a lot of unrelated content from blogs or low-quality websites that distract me from what I actually wanted to look for. Being fed up with Google, I started using this niche search engine https://you.com/for/startup that only shows information from a select number of apps and websites (TechCrunch, Crunchbase, AngelList) at once. It's pretty simple and clean.

Here are two example queries:

Earlybird VC: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Earlybird+VC

Simulate: https://you.com/for/startup?q=Simulate
I personally vote R + Tidyverse only because I know a ton of older people in data/stats background who have done work in SAS and R, but struggle a bit with knowing what to do in Python. If all you're doing is tabular data all day, R handles that pretty well by default and RStudio is a much better IDE than even a Jupyter notebook for a more interactive paradigm.
capitalists are the thieves stealing the true valaue of your labor and rationing out your pittance. corporations can generally fire you for any reason - like an ugly shirt for example - and it's perfectly legal.
I have a Macbook Air from 2008 that's still going strong.

I have Windows machines that do all the weird things people are posting in this thread.

Windows is a bother of epic proportions compared to MacOS. It's not even close.
I meant the relationship is not symmetrical so it's not such an obvious gatcha that the people at the other end of the relationship aren't expecting to divulge their professional engagements to you but ask for the reverse. Your boss also doesn't have to submit a request for taking time off to you either.
Yes that will bring back the insects, in droves. It's a nightmare and you won't enjoy being in your yard at all.
I won't be surprised if DE ends up just falling under the "software engineering" umbrella as the jobs grow closer together. With hybrid OLAP/OLTP databases becoming more popular, the skillset delta is definitely smaller than it used to be. Data Engineers are higher leverage assets to an organization than they ever have been before.
Not so sure, https://www.biostars.org is like stackoverflow for bioinformatics. For Physics learning discussions - https://www.physicsforums.com
This has been discussed multiple times over the weekend.

The title here is incorrect.

The email in the screenshot says some features are restricted such as sharing. It does not indicate the file was removed.

Is that right? I’m not here to say, but many of you are basing arguments on faulty information.
This "Teleperformance" company keeps showing up at the mention of sweatshops. Remember that name.
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