skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have given up the fight. I have pihole. It blocks ads. I can see the broken ad square on my sony android tv/google chrome. I disabled the recommendation. I just scroll down to my favorite app "Emby" and start watching my stuff.
Show HN: MVP as a Service
This should be a comemoration of the things that are easy for computers to read and look like a representation of hell for humans. We can't in any way find meaning in what 1,666,666,666 seconds are, we can only atribute some magical evil meaning to a number.

We would start the party with google deep dream, move to algorithms hiring and firing people, crime prediction, some guy ranting that his life was ruined when youtube close his account and the impossibility of talking to a human, and then would end with a bang reaching 1,666,666,666.

I am a fun party planner.
One strategy on this is to lay out post-it notes on your wall (real or digital when screen sharing) to not-so-subtly inform people about the projects you are supporting.
EVs Start with a Bigger Carbon Footprint. But That Doesn’t Last
Wow, this is still going on? I remember it being the case for Windows laptops and pre-builts ~15-20 years ago.

I've been using self-built desktop PCs and Apple laptops for so long I've become out of touch. I'm - somehow - surprised this is still going on.
Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview
Plastic is a great material superior to glass & metal (for a world where every product is shipped to destination). Its mass production and lack of reuse is the problem
If you want to se the ultimate MVP demo of a product look no further than the 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone - https://youtu.be/MnrJzXM7a6o

It was not a finished product and the dev team was terrified that the system would crash. In fact you could argue that the first iPhone was an MVP released to the public.

These would help:

- Be upfront that this is an MVP. Do not try to sell it as a product that is a finished product

- Create a script that shows the core working functionality

- rehearse the script and make sure the feature list demonstrated and that you can run through the script

- In your case, is it possible that you can dictate (you need to control the variables)?

- Ask for feed back. Listen. Do not try to defend the product.

Hope this helps
> It's stuff like this that leads people to just "give up" and buy an expensive Apple device

It’s usually not even “expensive” when you consider the frequency with which people replace low-end hardware. All of my Android-using relatives replace their phones and tablets 2-3 times more frequently so they end up paying more for slower hardware and then having to spend time playing tech support instead of using their devices.

To be clear, that’s not Android’s fault in the sense that the market is broken: Apple is fine with you having a 6 year old device because you’re probably using the App Store, iCloud, Apple Music, etc. There’s also some lesson about how consumers want the ability to install things outside of the App Store but statistically a large fraction of us can’t do that safely.
As I said in my other answer: our facet filters are nothing more than hidden inputs in a form. So nobody consults "the state of multiple facet dropdowns", except htmx when it generates the URL of its XHR call. Everything else (filtering items according to querystring parameters, fetching user favorites, etc.) is done on server-side.
Eh—it wouldn't really work.

Do you want to hear about a 1mm thick polymer when overlaid on a w-section of a certain size and brought up to a certain temperature has certain properties that make it better for loading patterns of structural members of a floating ship?

Me neither.

HN works partially because almost all of us code and almost all of that code, code at least some of the time with concern for the network. This unites the focus to certain types of companies and subjects.

Scientists go down their own, squirrely rabbit holes.
I don't know. I've not looked at it.
I have considered launching something similar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25853298

The problem is that bootstrapping takes significant effort without full time funding from a VC or institution. Most of the applied sciences are done right now on private/semi-private Slack groups.
The farmers' protests are insane. They either flat out deny science, or frame biodiversity as some "left wing bleeding heart liberal" hobby.

Despite that they get offered millions to stop their farming activities.

Despite that they dump asbestos on highways and threaten politicians by visiting their homes.

And despite that our politicians cheer them on.

It really is the worst of times.
Pollsters Try to Learn from Mistakes of 2016 and 2020 Elections
So you are equaling forum moderation to prohibition of an entire platform?
If this is satire it's brilliant. I don't doubt it's factual, but the last sentence is a slayer.
Also non-enforceable in California
I would, if Apple would just make a MacBook w/ a stylus --- I don't want the hassle of multiple devices, but I'm not willing to give up a stylus --- at this point, I'm considering just breaking down and getting a Mac Mini and Wacom Cintiq Pro 16 and giving up portability/battery.
Sounds like you live in a water scarce region (e.g. the southwest). If so, think about moving if water scarcity disturbs you, because there will be a lot more of that in the upcoming decades -- the problem is the number of people trying to live with the same finite resource.

Water is plentiful in many areas of the earth. Where I live, it was common just 20 years ago for sinks to just have continually flowing pipes with no faucets, since the water was diverted from streams or springs that just flow into the sea anyway. This rainy season we've had well over 200" of rain.
isn't convenience a practical benefit? Cost as well, particularly for lower income individuals.

Plastic bags actually are practically superior to the alternatives in many ways. They are stronger, smaller and more water resistant than paper. They may use less material per trip than reusable bags which take ~50x more resources but are still prone to eventual breakage.

Basically everything about one time use plastics is amazing, except the potential for environmental harm.
Frustrated with Polling? Pollsters Are, Too
Reddit probably has the best moderation system out there from the big subreddits I have moderated. But even reddit is slowly starting to get gamed a bit and it takes a lot of investigative work from the moderators themselves to find out if certain individuals or entities are bad actors or harmful to the subreddit or wider community.

There are some hilarious stories, and I haven't encountered such an individual yet. But I have heard one story where one individual has managed to evade a certain subreddit over 62 times. Enough for the moderators of that subreddit to send a public complaint that other moderators like me probably picked up on.

But they are working on improving their ban evasion tooling so who knows if that will do anything against that one dude that managed to evade over 62 times. Where there is a will..there is a way...and that's what frustrates me about Tiktok. I couldn't imagine moderating a video based platform mainly, just takes too much of your time. Imagine having to deal with ban evaders on top of that and related.
Because most of us don't work in anarchist co-ops?
But even her desire to be fired drips with privilege. She wanted to be fired and 'paid off'. She should realize that it's a privilege for an employer to give her money for getting rid of her. That's not how it works in many, many places.

If she was that humiliated, she could've quit.
It's a polyglot file. JPEG decoders will ignore data that comes after the end-of-data marker, while zip decoders ignore data that comes before the first archive entry.

Essentially, they ran `cat pic.jpg arch.zip > output.jpg`.
I can stroll through acres of local meadows and not find any ticks. Once I dare come close to bushes or go off tracks in the woods though, it's a disaster. I.e. I don't know why, but in any case the 'grass is riddled with ticks' seems highly location-dependent.
Sorry, can you clarify? What is the "they" in that sentence?

EDIT: a sibling comment jogged my memory; the thing I was doing a bad job of remembering was prebinding. https://opensource.apple.com/source/cctools/cctools-622.5.1/...

When a new version of the OS is installed, the OS re-runs prebinding for applications to the dynamic libraries they rely on because the dynamic libraries may have changed. The alternative is to have a big latency bump every time an app is launched for the first time as the caches are rebuilt on-the-fly.

(I think this is the step that used to be called "Making Your Macintosh Happy" during an install, but the veracity of that notion has fallen too far down the Google search hole for me to easily pull up a reference to confirm or deny it).
I worked for a government agency for just shy of a decade that was extremely behind the times as far as technology goes. My official capacities were never directly tech related, but I quickly excelled to the top as the "go-to" SME for anything technical almost solely because of my ability to automate the ridiculous amount of monotonous repetitive paperwork through Excel.

I would have never used Excel and macros as the tool to automate the things that I did, but these systems were completely locked down without the ability to install anything or use many online services. I eventually started building more complex tools in Access, and improved or was able to do away with many processes that took many man-hours previously. Without the system constraints I never would've had a practical reason to do such a deep dive on Excel and Access to learn ways of accomplishing things that I usually did through programming.

In the grand scheme of things, those basic "computer applications" skills have been a huge asset to my career and eventually allowed me to break into some more advanced tech related positions with other agencies off of those accomplishments alone. Sure, there were some annoying requests from people to fix some old spreadsheets they had limping around, but in my situation it was completely worth it.
I think they sell short the destabilization argument. In practice these systems aren't going to be able to shoot down a fixed percentage of a strike. In a strike all missiles are going to be coming in more or less simultaneously, and the ABM system will be able to shoot down a fixed number of them. So it's not a case of shooting down 50% of a strike, it's being able to shoot down 12 missiles from a strike. And that number isn't far off from how much GMD is going to be able to do.

And that's the thing about GMD and other BMD systems: they aren't going to be much use against a full nuclear exchange. But what they are great for is the ragged second strike scenario. If the US goes first in a nuclear war and catches Russia/China off guard, it's possible for most of their hundreds of missiles to be taken out in their silos. And they might only be able to answer with a dozen or so missiles in response, which GMD could take care of. And that's the destabilizing aspect of this, it encourages the holder of the ABM system to go first in a nuclear exchange. Because no one cares if 12 out of 400 missiles are shot down, but they do if 12 out of 12 missiles are shot down.

It then encourages the opponent to make more survivable nuclear delivery systems. Which is exactly what we see from Russia and China: hypersonic glide vehicles, fractional orbital bombardment systems (basically sending the ICBM all the way around the planet so it strikes at the US from the south instead of the north and away from where GMD is deployed), crazy stuff like nuclear-powered cruise missiles and the Poseidon bomb. It encourages further development of nuclear weapons, meaning creating an arms race.

In short, I don't think the ABM systems help us very much in the nuclear war scenario (conventional short-ranged and theater ballistic missiles are a different story).
The on-disk format can evolve, and new features can be added. It being a breaking change is not a big deal as long as you don't mean to rollback to an earlier version of ZFS.

The problem with this change is not that it's breaking, but that it essentially forks too many code paths in ZFS to be worth doing.
How does a "a very good programmer".. "spent over five years looking for a job after graduation" happen?

A lot of companies are hiring right now, and for fresh-out-of-college grads, the requirements are pretty basic and basically cover the schoolwork. And there are (paid) internship opportunities too, whose internal goals are to convert the person from intern to full-time, and the requirements for interns are even lower.
FTFY:
The last TWO competitors to the current duopoly failed because they didn't gain traction, and they were both a multi billion dollar companies.

Windows Phone and Fire Phone.
Swach is now open source
Swach is a modern color palette manager built on Ember.js, TypeScript, and Electron. We recently open-sourced it if you want to check it out!
At one point during the development of California agriculture, there was an idea that farms should only be 160 acres in size, since that was what was manageable and profitable for a smallholder family. I wonder what the land would be like if we had managed to enforce that. There would probably be more crop diversity at least, and habitats in between the farms.

Kind of like anti-trust enforcement for the land itself
HN is essentially for CS people. The number of non-CS engineering, even electrical/hardware engineering, discussions done here is abysmal.

There is Hackaday but that is more like a blog...
Why do you think farming is a linear game?

What makes you think it’s impossible to get food from other sources that we didn’t invent yet and would probably not even call “farming”?
> If you're getting jordan peterson and andrew tate videos its probably related to what you've been watching.

Well, or their model isn't very good.

To take an example, let's say I watch "Race Highlights | 2022 United States Grand Prix" on the official F1 channel

Then the algorithm recommends "The Internet's Best Reactions To The 2022 United States Grand Prix: THAT WAS EPIC" with a thumbnail of gurning man.

If the model had accurately captured my viewing habits, the model would say: Formula 1, yes; Reaction videos, no; Things that call themselves epic, no; Gurning thumbnail, no. And it would not have recommended that video.

One possibility is that Youtube knows me better than I know myself, and though I think I don't like reaction videos and gurning they've determined I secretly love them. Another possibility is that their algorithm merely knows that people who watch F1 videos watch F1 videos, and because I watched an F1 video they're showing me an F1 video.

I know which I think is more likely :)
> and it paints humanity as being far darker than it would seem from the surface.

Unless a person intentionally hides from the world, it is hard to not be aware of this. Human trafficking, cartels, pollution, there is a myriad of ways in which humans are just not "great people". Why act disillusioned by it?
The more I use Excel, the more I feel that its primary limitation is its UX for working with formulas.
Ah yes, krokodil, meaning clandestine made desomorphine with skin lesion causing impurities in it the very existence of which is a direct result of authoritarian prohibition.
Foone managed to have BRender open-sourced too https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1521574394761383936
Every time I try do do anything even slightly complicated in excel I get super frustrated and pissed of because of localized function names.
Makes it impossible to do any sort of debugging or googeling for help.
So I always end up writing small (and sometimes not so small) programs instead.
The ratio of people talking about how great functional programming is compared to real accomplishments is poor.

I imagine a bizzaro world where Common LISP became a dominant programming language and everybody is resentful about various details CL got wrong and the cool kids are talking about "what a genius Noam Chomsky was", "recursive descent parsers are so cool", "I switched to PHP and became so much more productive", ...
Wouldn't it be easier to use yottadb or some other MUMPS derivative instead zapping it onto an AS400 cloud?
What does this prove? If you have lots of data and dimensions, I bet you could just as likely find distributions that are roughly 50/50, 60/40, 90/10, 100/0 if you looked for them.
Her humiliation clearly wasn't so bad that she'd forego her severance. So how bad was it, really?
No one educated at Winchester, a public school that costs £45,000 per year, comes from 'the most modest background possible'.
Hey co-founder of Explo here, would love to help out and give you a tour of Explo
I think both too much tenure and too little are both "warning signs". Nine times out of ten I'm going to prefer the two year per role candidate to the 20 years at the same enterprise dev shop candidates (who I've universally had the worst experiences with). But if they can't manage at least a year per engagement? That's a bit too active for me generally. I have more confidence in my ability to build an environment that'll encourage people to stay than I have in my ability to rehabilitate a developer with twenty years of ingrained bad habits because they've only seen how one (likely dysfunctional) environment operates.
I understand what you mean, but this sounds like it could quickly degenerate into gatekeeping: "You're not a scientist [by my definition]! No posts for you"
Nooooo! The Y2K38 problem is already here. It is not a problem that will happen in 2038. It is a problem with storing and processing dates past 2038. For example, if you work in a bank and you have a system to store mortgage information that includes the epoch timestamp that someone's 25 year mortgage will end that means you need to store a date that is in 2047. If you do that using an epoch timestamp on a system that's using a 32 bit timestamp it'll overflow and return a date before the epoch instead.

Do not imagine that Y2K38 is something to put off until nearer the time. You need to be thinking about it right now.
Meilisearch supports ES-like document access control.
> There are only two kinds of programming languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.

Now replace programming languages with products.
Anatomically modern humans have only been around for ~300,000 years. Behaviorally modern humans, more like 150,000 years (or as recently as 60,000 years, depends who you ask). We are really a very young specie.
It's not surprising that Jasper makes more $$$ than OpenAI
I would love that to be true, but I'll be honest -- I consider myself a good programmer, but a couple of times I've tried Python + SQLite and ended up just giving up and using csv or JSON.

Is there a nice library which makes it easy to use SQLite in Python even close to as easy as Excel? Or even as easy as Python lists? Anything which requires me to fill my Python code with SQL strings is (in my opinion) disqualified.
Same with developing drivers and sendmail config ;)
Sounds super fun :D How often does that happen?

But then, the first time I met him, was at Wacken 2007. The legs could do nothing but walking at a measured pace (though I thought that was still pretty impressive), and had to be recharged every evening.
This is the opposite of what I have seen, but I work in materials tech and not software.

If you leverage your position as a point person well, you can find a lot of collaboration opportunities and expand your knowledge-base quite efficiently.
And what’s his rationale behind such behavior, motives, goals?
It wouldn't be 10 million videos/month, it would be 10 million active users. This is a notable difference because each of these users can be uploading numerous content and tiktok users who have posted content are much more likely to continue posting content far more frequently than just one video per month.
You wouldn't be the target audience. That sounds pretty interesting to me, and I'd be particularly interested in the science that underpins physical engineering — structured and systematic knowledge, rather than ad hoc engineering.

Science HN would be for scientists, first and foremost, not hackers
US DOE awards funds for nuclear recycling projects
I've worked with some designers who were coming right up on what's typically 'retirement age', who were basically still individual contributors, but just at a very high level. They bring an incredible wealth of experience – everything we think is new has probably been tried at one point before. But the best ones don't take a jaded "we tried that already" view – they're just able to riff-off the new ideas while sharing insights and learnings over an incredibly long time window.

There's being physically young, and then there's having a 'Beginner's Mind', which is something that one can have at any age – or never grasp at all.
I'm sure there are, but do we want there to be?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minority_Report_(film)
These days I simply can't recommend anyone (especially nontechnical people) buy a computing device that isn't either:

- An Apple device

- First-party (Microsoft Surface, Pixel phone, etc)

- Running Linux (assuming they can deal with everything else that comes with that)

Even these aren't perfect, but everything else I assume to be hot garbage unless you're planning to install your own OS anyway. The problem, though, is that this mostly excludes the real budget-tier devices (at least for nontechnical folks), which is unfair to those who can't afford anything else

Burn it all down
It's about China... Everyone that can (US, China, etc.) tries to guzzle as much data from online users as possible. That said, there are checks and balances in the US, there is a certain level of accountability. China is an absolute black box setting up an Orwellian social credit system for its own citizens, and with no accountability whatsoever about the data they might collect from foreign citizens. So, even if everyone is playing a similar game, ultimately there are differences.
FYI story from May

lots of previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31256676
Well my understanding is that a Data Engineer is basically just a DevOps engineer but instead of building infra to run applications they build infra to process, sanitize and normalize data.
Overall about an half of all smokers die of tobacco-related disease. It may be lung cancer, throat cancer, various digestive cancers, heart attack, aneurysm and all sort of painful diseases. Lung cancer is just the most obvious one.

My neighbour looked like just out of a zombie film complete with rotting, stinking lumps of flesh hanging from the side of his jaw and slime / pus dropping from his mouth for two frigging years (throat and jaw cancer, got fed by catheter for 18 months too). He had to get sure no child was around before getting out, because the view would have traumatized them.

My sister-in-law died three months after retiring of a blazing-fast brain cancer, just a couple of days before Christmas. First symptoms mid-November. At least it was somewhat fast.

Just don't smoke. Don't.
Perhaps you could add a temperature sensor as well? Heck it might be neat to go full tricorder-in-eye...
Maybe go to a pub a few times, you might lighten up and understand why it's been a foundational part of civilization.

Some time in Europe or Asia might open your eyes a bit.
If you're generally interested you would benefit a lot more from reading about the old stuff that everyone knows.
FWIW, I've tried doing the same thing with Twitter. People hold that site in the highest regards, and whenever I read/post I'm always having the most miserable time. The longer I spent, the less sense it made to me and eventually I had to just leave it alone once and for all. I get where they're coming from when they want to enjoy something but don't know where to start
Honestly looks more impressive