skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know and like Rails and ActiveRecord especially, then one possibility, which I intend to try on my next thing, is to build an API-only Rails app (JSON only; no HTML views) and a separate Next.js app that uses the Rails app as its backend. Although it’s two apps, it seems like it would be a really nice, clean setup to work with. You can easily deploy the Next app on something cheap and serverless like Vercel, and deploy the Rails app separately on something like EC2 or Fly.io.

I have written Next apps that just connect directly to PostgreSQL, but I always end up adding other tools in an attempt to recreate something like ActiveModel and other aspects of Rails in Next.js, and it ends up turning into a mess. I think Rails+Next would avoid this problem. It would be two apps, but each would very clearly focused and would be built following the golden path of their respective frameworks. (One thing I’m not sure about yet is how I would DRYly share endpoint schemas from Rails in order to have strong typings in the Next app based on the API endpoints. But I don’t think it should be too hard to find a nice way to do this.)
I need to send this back to me in 1982, trying to convince my high school English teacher that A Scanner Darkly should be part of the curriculum.
(Sorry to be that guy) Tolstoy.

All happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way (Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina)
> to overcome his grades and emerge a genius on the SAT/ACT

Isn't it usually the opposite? Artificially high GPA from grade inflation and favoritism is "set straight" by a standardized test?
Love Cloudflare or not, the transparency and frankness from the CTO in comments sections like these, is a rare and welcome sight.
Scientists publish major study on near-Earth asteroids
It'd be nice if lead-acid could see some progress on the deep-discharge durability front. AIUI whenever people currently size lead-acid PV systems for boats/RVs/homes they basically get double the battery capacity they intend to use to preserve the batteries. That really sucks, and oftentimes they still end up accidentally damaging the batteries due to a long outage or other oversight/circumstances.
Do you have a source for the rights being sold? I've only been able to find evidence that it was licensed, and the status quo for copyright is most photos have one and don't transfer it automatically on sale of any particular copy.

Unless there's an ulterior motive like trying to set a precedent to solidify the position of other works on shakier legal foundations, I don't know why the Warhol Foundation wouldn't take such a clear-cut defense if they actually owned those rights.
If you believe that punishing political dissidents is an acceptable way to operate, your just priming your political enemies to become brown shirts.
Hey CM30, I feel you are using too much internet.

I started writing tweets with Ruby tips and engaging with people for sometime and I've noticed most people tend to find a way to monetize their activity. I only do it for the pleasure of learning with the community. I don't care about writing ebooks or making people pay for things they don't need.

But I can definitely conclude that on the internet, most people are looking to make big bucks. But have you tried going climbing or doing outdoor activities? There is always plenty of amateurs that never dream of becoming a professional climber or anything like that.

Also depends on where you live, but I live in Europe and here you see people having hobbies and doing random stuff everywhere you go, people just drinking a coffee and staring at the sky.

It could be that this is what you need. Disconnect.
> What would the ε character tell me?

That's epsilon, not ypsilon (it just occurred to me that it's more common to see it called "upsilon" in English, though I don't know why based on how the letter is pronounced - "eee-psilon")
One of the weird complaint in the article is the number of laptops models sold by Dell. I agree that 285 models is a bit excessive, but people also complain that Apple doesn't have touch screen models, which would potentially double the number of laptops in their lineup. Different people have different requirements, and Dell is basically willing to cater all of those people. Apple will tell you to bugger off if you want a laptop that's also a tablet for $600.

Again 285 models seems like way to many, but I also believe they'd turn away a number of businesses if they didn't have a fairly high number of models available.

Regarding the support, I have a theory: Don't f-ing use WhatsApp! I have a sneaky suspicion that it's much the same as the laptops. Someone complained about WhatsApp being available as a support channel, so Dell added it, rather than risking losing customers. The result is support channels spread out and somehow WhatsApp has either been outsource to the only company willing to provide that or a team of less professional supporters because of the low volume. Personally I've had only had positive experiences with Dells support, but via their website.
> This points to the real problem with GPA. The institution assigning GPAs to students have a strong incentive to inflate GPAs.

I think it is even worse -- the inflation is not universal. At Cornell (undergrad), most engineering classes set the mean to B- or C+. You had to go 1SD higher to get to A- and near 2SD to get A+. Imagine how shocked I was to hear my friends at Princeton had a mean set to A-. Consider the pressure this puts on some students and not others, esp when you're all applying to the same graduate programs. Is a Cornell B+ worth more than a Princeton A-? Statistically yes, but in reality no one is harmonizing the distributions.

There is also the issue of fancy private prep schools which have 10 or 15 "Valedictorians" which many of us public school students were shocked to learn when we arrived at college. You'd meet multiple people claiming to be valedictorian from the same school's graduating class until you learn that private prep schools stretch the meaning of valedictorian.

Some reason life lessons: pay enough and you get to bend the rules.

Some reason life lessons: more elite, less pressure.
Anecdote: I do.

Background: I work full-time as a computer programmer to support myself, my wife, and three children.

Hobbies…

I collect and digitally archive MCA DiscoVision laserdiscs. I currently possess one of the three largest collections in the world.

In addition to this I digitally archive anything (books, brochures, and other paperwork) related to the early development of the Laserdisc format from MCA DiscoVision, Philips, et al.

I am also involved in film and video digital restoration projects, but not as much nowadays as I once was. I started an online community dedicated to 35 & 16mm film restoration back in 2015 which is, thankfully, still alive & kicking despite me having passed the torch several years back.

I've considered creating a YouTube channel to help fund things, but my interests are too niche to turn a profit.
No, because an old and crusty term like that isn’t common knowledge anymore.
> Apples fees just happen to be higher.

And just happen to be mandatory. 30% is indeed higher than the few percent VISA may take.

> And as always, facebook has an option to make their own phone instead of the metaverse nobody is asking for.

Guess we need the Spotify phone, Amazon phone, Facebook phone, ...
Just to be clear, I am not defending Meta specifically (I do not use any of their product) but this argument is BS. An operating system used by +25% of the population (higher in the US) shouldn't enforce such fee.

Please do not forget that modern phones aren't just phone. They are a mandatory part of living in society. The "just buy android" or "just don't support iOS" arguments aren't reasonable.
1. Top tier product and technology
2. End product is meaningful
3. Interesting technical challenges
On the other hand, not everything really needs to be a free market, there are tradeoffs. It might be worth having a airplane duopoly if it ensures airlines arnt trying to buy airplanes that are shoddy with a few corners cut risks be damned (of course, if the reality is that the duopoly gets to make shoddy airplanes anyway, this doesn't apply). Some things are just very, very safety critical in a way that's more important than maximal money saved
But in that case did the chemistry student actually learn the chemistry, or just learned the tool? What's the goal for taking that class?
Linus Torvalds suggests the 80486 architecture belongs in museum not the kernel
China’s R&D spending almost matches the United States.

So, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, it’s almost as if the R&D spending has doubled. Isn’t that a good thing?

China competitive in semiconductors makes the entire industry better.

Someday India will match the US and China in R&D spending then world output triples.
All those lawyers in the product development process must have cost Spotify a lot of money. All five of their top choice books are available DRM-free on Downpour.com for significantly less.
Good question. In my case, I talked to the person in admissions who was making the decision and explained the situation and why I thought they should disregard the earlier grades.

But absent that conversation and direct evidence, GPA is a start. Assuming that the high school curriculum is at least passably similar to what they're going to expect from you in college (of course it isn't, exactly, college tends to be more heavily focused on tests than homework), a good GPA demonstrates that you will do the academic work required to succeed in class.
I can't imagine other way of dealing with database rather than using a single class per table. Projections are a way to optimize some niche queries which are too slow otherwise.
The ones responsible for this would not really care if you highlighted them.
I've worked at startups and big tech companies and I am still trying to find what I consider "good". It is something that changes a lot during someone's life because one day you are single and don't have any kids, in the other you are a father and don't want to risk unstable companies.

As a naive student, I've tried to find the perfect company: good people, smart coworkers, humanized vision, challenging opportunities, career growth, etc. Today, the only thing I can guarantee is that you have to pick your poison.
Speaking as the son of someone who runs operations for the a federal district court, every ounce of the “violence” bit is covered by pounds and pounds of cultural norms and a fair bit of ritual as well.

Our aversion to violence is not new. In ancient Rome, it was sacrilegious to bring weapons inside the pomerium.
> Never assume malice when incompetence will suffice ;)

Please stop saying this, especially if you have no actual evidence of incompetence. It's the equivalent of clicking your heels together three times because you really, really don't want to live in a world full of casual malice. Wishing doesn't make it so.
As many people mentioned my work computer is a mac chosen by the employer. My major issues with iMac Pro, which by the way is nice piece of machine overall, rises when I'm using non-commercialized applications, open source mainly, github projects, conda forge etc. My personal laptop is refurbished dell latitude 7470 which I bought for less than 300$ at 2019 despite the fact I replaced many parts does the job and I like the sturdiness.
> Tests are sexist, so we need to adjust for that to give men a boost

This is the first time I've heard this opinion and I would be very surprised to find out that it's what the HN hivemind thinks. I would be even more surprised to find that the same people who think this also think the other part about racism.
> Make then not defenceless.

This, simply put, doesn't work in an enterprise context. I'd argue that relying on people for security doesn't work in any context, and that it's about as effective as relying on programmers to not code memory leaks, but in companies where there's people whose _only_ use of a desktop computer is at work, as is increasingly common nowadays, it's simply not possible to get half the people out there to learn more than absolutely required to do their job. Go look at /r/sysadmin or /r/talesfromtechsupport: for some people it's a critical emergency if their desktop icons are rearranged because then their muscle memory to click on Chrome is broken. And that's not to mention executives who believe they're above things like "phishing awareness campaigns". Technical measures are much cheaper and vastly more effective than social measures directed at people who don't want to learn
Not all policy decisions would necessarily result in "upend[ing] everyone's lives".

Many person years were lost: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

I sat in the ICU as my father died and listened to the many ventilators as a result of policy failures. I had lots of time to contemplate possible policy decisions. Pretending that the only possible choices were "do nothing" and "do something stupid" is not useful to the discussion or any future policy decision.
Yes but bringing down a database should not be among those things.

Surely we can agree on that.
As a Swede I love this openness. It puts everyone on an a level playing field and makes it much less dramatic and reduces the value of the data.
An admin has responded. It's predictably a non-answer.

I can't stand PR language anymore. Have we collectively forgotten how to speak like humans? Is there no business value to straight talk?

Reddit seems hell-bent on making me not want to use it. It's working. I went from always have reddit open in one tab to ignoring it for days without trying. My visits are much shorter, and I contribute much less. Perhaps I'm not the sort of user they're looking for anymore.
Sucks to be a rat, I guess.
Martian microbes could survive up to 280M years buried underground
Running a law firm on Linux – a year or so in
Does this exist online? When I searched I only found physical copies
Some of the hype has disappeared too. I remember when there was a general idea that cloud would "eliminate" your need to have ops teams, because you won't need them, Amazon just takes care of it for you! Now everybody knows that's not true. It might reduce it vs. a datacenter but certainly you need people setting up cloud resources and diagnosing problems. I also remember when the idea was floating around that simply being in the cloud made your software resilient, period. Now I think there's a greater understanding you still need to do some things to get that result, even if it's easier than doing it all yourself.

Also haven't heard as much about it being cheap. Again, it might still be cheaper than some other options, but it certainly isn't the case that it's just magically cheaper. The thriving field of companies who help you reduce your cloud spend is evidence of that....
It's not bad but I much prefer a desktop keyboard. For me most laptop keyboards feel clunky or cramped.

Running 9front is a pretty bare bones experience but a great OS learning experience. Plan 9 is "unix built on top of a network." I LOVE the simple design which distills everything down to files you read and write data to. Those files can then be shared over a network. Its wild and fun to think of your OS as a host for servers that multiplex resources transparently without machine boundaries. Fun example: IP lives in /net so you dont need NAT on a 9 lan. You simply import the internet facing /net and bind it over your local /net and now you are using the internet facing ip stack. Everything truly is a file.
I'm going to disagree with you.

> A tiger can also quite actively exploit weaknesses and imbalances for the harm of its prey, yet we don't judge the animal as malicious

A tiger is not malicious when it harms prey, because the intent is survival, and it cannot have that without harm. The survival of abusive CEOs and managers does not require harm to be done to anyone, yet they do it (sometimes for no tangible benefit).

> To have "malice", you need "intent"

You need not intend for your actions to be malicious, for them to be. If you are willfully ignorant of malicious consequences of your actions, your actions are still malicious. This is why "I didn't know what I was doing was harming people" defense doesn't fly, not in the legal sense and not in the moral. At some point it is your duty to determine the consequences of your actions, and something being your job is definitely over that threshold.
This is what the collective peoples have projected as their “wants”.

Is it really?

I think it is empowerment that peoples want, and democracy is a system of choosing, and choices make peoples believe + feel empowered.

Is that the same thing?

Online first anything is a treacherous snare for us to find ourselves.

A desire for dependence upon brands beyond the consumed commoditized product is a marmalade sky of make believe.

We will always struggle through changing times to relay these messages of codependence.
Oh man, if we've exhausted the pool of people willing to work for scammers so much that you can't pay people to scam any more, that's the best news I've heard this year.
Very interesting to see a GPT-3 summary used as a way to summarise public opinion.
Not really. Generally, you can tell whether "fifth of November, at midnight, local time" is equal to `now` or not as long as you have reasonably accurate information what "local" means. This is a problem of time encoding, because we do define what midnight is, but keep relationship between it and seconds passed undefined as long as possible
I don't think this is true. You can apply for "Skyddade personuppgifter" (Protected personal data) which means your details won't be publicly viewable. Here is the documentation from the police: https://polisen.se/utsatt-for-brott/hjalp-och-stod-fran-samh... and here is the details from the tax agency: https://www.skatteverket.se/foretagochorganisationer/myndigh...

I know bunch of other people who have protected identities who are not findable via the usual services, who applies for either "Skyddade personuppgifter" or "Sekretessmarkering".

Details default to being public though, which the argument can be made both for and against it being a good idea. I love the idea that salaries are public on a national level, but less loving of the idea that everyone's address being public. At least there is some form of protection if you need it.

I'm more worried about the national DNA database (PKU-registret - https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKU-registret) where literally every single citizen who been born in Sweden after 1975 is in. Seems usage by police and others are increasing while the purpose was suppose to be only for research.
> There is retreat & regroup, away from the eye of sauron, while the parasite devours the host.

Especially when the CEO publicly brags about being called the Eye of Sauron by employees, as Mark Zuckerberg did.
> it's also the thing standing in the way of progress.

The luddite attitude is orthogonal. Does it happen? Sure. But I also have the expectation that senior staff should be identifying the New, Better Way all the time. And are well-positioned to measure “better”. It is part of providing engineering leadership. An old bird that isn’t keeping up needs a job performance message.
Is there a system that does allow you do to do this? I can't think of one that would.

Local time requires a time zone, times zones are defined in relation to UTC, and there is an unknown number of leap seconds between now and 3 May, 2025.
I use MacBook Pro given to me for work and Thinkpad P52 for personal use where I boot Windows and Linux. I also have MacBook Air for occasional personal use.

If I had to choose only one it would be the Thinkpad.
> If browsers get great sandbox features and hardware acceleration with access to all sensors will there be a future for apps?

Sounds like surveillance hell. Websites already abuse "location" permissions to scoop up data on their users. There's no way this pattern of behaviour won't extend to every other input on a phone. And you can't firewall an SPA from "phoning home" because phoning home is often essential to its basic function. Not that apps are much better in this regard thanks to the lack of user freedom on iOS.
Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're melting power cables
This reminds me of a point I feel progressives (usually steeped in several generations of western living) tend to miss.

The underwritten currency of human society is violence. Using it, you can take what you want and the only way to stop you is more violence. If you are part of an ideological tribe that wants to protect humans from each others' petty brutality you must seize land, establish the rule of law, and murder or expel people who challenge your regime.

Organized crime like gangs, cartels, the mafia, corrupt cops--these are not "unfortunate byproducts of imperialism and capitalism", they are the basest, fundamental expression of human dominance. If they central government weakens, they will take over.

I deeply hate people who violate the safety and freedom of civilized society, and it sometimes frustrates me that so many westerners who believe in "human rights" are convinced these problems can be solved with a light touch.
Then they have no business complaining about how hard it is to find qualified candidates.
Non-superconducting electrical transmission lines don't want to be buried, it's really expensive and harder to handle/deal with when stuff breaks.
You also can't have forest on top of it.

One can hope we get by with the current approach until superconducting lines have been sufficiently figured out (it seems they don't need to run the voltage as high due to current being somewhat easier to deal with than voltage and losses not depending (significantly) on actual current (so thicker cables don't loose as much of their current rating to thermal limits than with traditional cooper/aluminum)).
Full transcript of the Lex Fridman Ye interview
And it is. Newspapers do this all the time. "These people earn the most in your neighbourhood!" "These people earned the most in Sweden!" "This 1 27 year old earned THIS MUCH... And nobody knows who he is!"
Why would you want a weather compensation probe? Surely it's indoor temperature that matters.

Is it for heat pumps that work slower? It still implies to me that insulation is lacking.

I'm still somewhat dubious of 'better' thermostats though. I just turn it on when I feel cold. I don't see how a thermostat could improve on: 'The heat only goes on when it's cold enough for me to turn it on'.
I too highly recommend getting a laptop with an OLED screen, they reduce eye strain, especially at night. I run an ASUS Zenbook and am mostly happy with it, except for trackpad palm rejection which is probably not ASUS's fault. I haven't tried tuning it yet.

I run Linux, which means I made sure the laptop didn't have any Nvidia products inside.
Whats good for the goose is good for the gander.

Too fucking bad they don't "like it". I don't give one bit of care to the centimillionaire and up club.
Because a board member works like 12-15 days a year if your super diligent about it, and way less if you half ass it.
Silly Earthling. The Pylons were built by the ancient Altrusians, who devolved into the Sleestak. Do not tamper with the Light Crystals in the Matrix Table, or that will disrupt the weather and summon the Skylons.

https://landofthelost.fandom.com/wiki/Pylons

https://landofthelost.fandom.com/wiki/Altrusian

https://landofthelost.fandom.com/wiki/Crystals

https://landofthelost.fandom.com/wiki/Skylons_(episode)
I have lots of hobbies: painting miniatures, video production, making music...
One other case I've seen of a 'useful' cover letter was from someone who wanted to completely change fields. The cover letter explained while they had no education on the field and had never worked in the field, they where passionate about it and spent the past several years of free time doing it as hobby. That was enough to get them an interview, despite their 'irrelevant' CV, and the interview was good enough to get them hired