skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm still hoping to use multiranges to add temporal tables to Postgres, but life has been busy the last year. I apologize to you all for the delay.

The coolest application of multiranges I've heard about is for astronomical observations. The authors of this paper were kind enough to share an early draft with me, and they say it greatly speeds up comparisons of sky objects. It's very accessible and a fun read:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2112.06947
Ron Paul. That is literally it.
It’s a forecast of the best spots to have a picnic in the bay :) Basically a proxy for the best place and time to be outdoors.
UK has massively de-industrialised, as has most of Europe (but Germany). However global industrial production, energy consumption in general and fossil fuels in particular all enormously increased since 1998.

Global numbers are all that counts, climate-wise. Plus I'm pretty sure that including imported emissions would annihilate (or even worsen) the apparent reduction for countries such as UK, France, etc.
For a long time now I have tried to sum up the differences between the US and Canada in our founding principals. Canada's is "Peace, Order, and Good Government". Contrast that against the "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" and the fundamental differences in our approaches to government make a lot more sense.

We're much more like the UK than the US in the function of government and the construction of laws, though Parliamentary Sovereignty is expressly subject to judicial review in Canada, something the UK is going to have to grapple with over the next decade now that they are no longer subject to the European Court of Human Rights.

The government can't just override the charter as they please using the language in the Guarantee. The charter allows for things like hate speech laws, but they have to fall under "reasonable limits", something the Supreme Court of Canada rules on all the time, nearly always in favour of citizens compared to the government. A recent example being medically assist death, where the Supreme Court ruled bans on assisted death violated the Charter.

The US is a free speech extremist country, but since even the US Supreme Court has ruled there are limits on speech (like threats) this isn't a night and day difference between our countries in my view. The US allows far more speech than Canada does, yet we rank higher on the press freedom index.

The thing that really lets the Charter down is section 33, the 'notwithstanding clause'. It allows the federal and provincial governments to pass laws overriding certain rights for a period of 5 years. The charter itself would likely never have come into being without it, but it does take some of the teeth away.
Assuming inflation is being calculated accurately...
Jerome Powell said this several times to Congress.

You’ll be able to find it, I believe in you.
I believe Java also got record classes, beginning with version 14.
Depending on where you live, population collapse is either a myth, meme, overblown but remote possibility, or absolute certainty.

In most western nations, it's not going to be that big of a deal, I wager. In areas with net emigration, especially those that are not good at sharing true demographics with their leaders, it'll be devastating.
This is the kind of nonsense that is produced by the US Constitution:

https://vividmaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Texas.jpg
It really is starting to feel like the fringe of the environmental movement have really been the bad guys all along. Blocking nuclear starting in the 70s, focusing only on recycling in the 80s and 90s (consumption doesn't matter as long as something could be recycled), blocking natural gas/oil in favor of coal in the 90s-2000s, blocking wind farms ("think of the birds!!"), batteries, and solar panels (too many chemicals/can't be recycled) in the 2010s, and now pushing the plastic straws will kill us all narrative in the 2020s (at the direct expense of the climate narrative).

I'm being a bit hyperbolic here, but only a little bit. It's a decades long story of not seeing the forest for the trees and focusing on minor environmental impacts rather than the big climate issue staring us down. Like, this is exactly the strategy I'd take if my goal were to create as much warming as possible without anyone catching on...
Is it even possible to fry a device with the wrong USB c? I thought at worse you get longer charging times or slower data
And all the others also work on privacy issues!
I wonder if the decision in the US around Epic and external links[0] will benefit spotify in Europe or not (when it is eventually resolved).

[0]:https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/8/22814147/epic-apple-app-s...
Because there is an homeostasic relationship between the co2 in the ocean and the air, and it always end up balancing out automatically.
Right, these are awful I totally agree.

There were even some incorrect type casting specially with numbers and "numeric strings", which were fixed recently.

I use strict typing in every new piece of code I work on, which largely fixed the problem.

Laravel, while being extremely popular, isn't exactly the flagship choice for "quality code", not even Laravel claims it to be. Symfony framework gets a lot of things right, and IMO the showcase for more modern PHP.
This link is likely advertising, but they are on the verge of their 3.0 system software release which substantially adds to the functionality of the device. It goes from page-based notetaking to an optional infinite size canvas, and text boxes are now allowed that can be edited on desktop. Users in the beta stream already have the update.
VR encourages staying in as opposed to going out - the whole thrust of technology should be that - so that humans could be more... human. The timeline where VR fits seamlessly in the latter is decades, away and betting on it as a company right now is madness.
"A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer" is a device (smart book for educating) that was created by a character in a book. The book itself it not illustrated
Yes, yes, yes. Great. Thanks. Bookmarked!
You should learn cloud platforms, not a cloud platform.

Also avoid to waste your life learning proprietary technology that will become obsolete and discontinued. Software containers are likely there to stay, the latest serverless framework from a cloud provider will likely not.
Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community. [...]

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I clicked the link to the script at the bottom of the blog post thinking it would be a github link. It downloaded a file with the contents "Please provide your databaseURL." Seems like the script is being executed by the author's web server instead of returning the contents of the file. It was also a (hopefully) friendly reminder to myself to not click random links on the internet without checking where they go.
This seems like an easily accessible conspiracy theory but I think all the fed wants to do is bring down inflation.
> the former is a fake metric.

I am using M2 money supply. Basically trying to proxy how much money more we printed this past few years.

Source: https://www.longtermtrends.net/m2-money-supply-vs-inflation/
Thanks for visiting! There are a few of these scans in the works that I linked in the comments if they're interesting for Ancient Egypt or elsewhere.
AR is a very different beast compared to VR. Such that, I agree moving to a HUD can be nice for many things. That said, requiring full body interactions for anything is a laughably bad non-starter. Looks great for performance art and movies, but is far from effective.

And, as I said elsewhere, also not gaming/entertainment focused. Arguably anti-social.
Was Elon M. referencing Mark Z. in "What lesson took you the longest to unlearn?" A lot of technology has changed since Elon M. lost Mark Z.'s quarter of a billion dollar satellite on the launchpad.
I think it could be ok for conferences; if you're too lazy to go to DefCon for instance.
If not, it sounds like you have a potential opportunity. Best of luck. :-)
Yep. They weren’t a low-friction experience before though.

Have you compared headsets lately? Because just recently I have, and this shit is changing. A 2017 Vive is very different from a 2021 Oculus from that friction POV. With nm chip architectures and battery tech improving, it really doesn’t take that much imagination to predict where they will be in 2025 or 2030.

Personally, I think one of the killer features for this category will be matured inside-out hand-tracking. Not having to do anything but put the headset on your head makes a huge difference.
fun - but I am reminded of the excoriation that Windy-dot-com got here on YNews when facts-oriented people started comparing the visualization to more quantitative sources.. snipes aside, no doubts here that they will sell this and be paid for it.
The US might just ease up on immigration.

There is no shortage of people willing to start a new life in the wealthiest economy on the planet.

The end of population growth is certainly going to shake things up -- but who is to say how policies won't change to accommodate the new reality.
That isn't a property of fiat currency, that's a property of the bank/credit card you use.

Someone could make a service with delayed settlement that is denominated with Bitcoin, and it would work just the same.

If you pay someone with a $100 bill, your only recourse is to ask for them to return it: the same as Bitcoin.
> Must make split second life and death decisions and if you are wrong, you can go to jail for lifetime.

This is not even remotely a good-faith description of the reality. The police brutality cases where there are charges filed are always very obvious deliberate murder by the police. And very few of those go anywhere, only the most blatant receive any kind of sentencing.

I challenge you to present cases where a police officer making an honest split-second mistake has been sentenced to jail.
This happens all the time. You're doing something risky, which has no consequence to the rest of the system if it fails. Sure you could catch it and log it out, but why?
PHP is getting good, sometimes I feel better than Typescript even.

You can't do named parameters in Typescript unless you put every parameter as a dictionary and destructure it at the method.

I just want array of class type hinting or else every return value returning an array of a class is treated as an array of mixed values unless you complement it with PHPdoc.
Uh...are you forgetting that Valve owns Steam?

There's no way Valve would ever be sold to Apple.
Yes, and the suspiciously low inflation numbers we're given are just low enough to indicate there's growth.
That is impressive. Pretty accurate about the early morning cold spots. Not sure how much of this is just matching historical trends (SF has a pretty consistent climate), but the level of spatial resolution on the data is amazing. Not sure how they did it really.
Spoken like an engineer with no real understanding of what it takes to host Reddit let alone an understand of the business side of things. You have zero idea what you are talking about.
I read the article and don't find any of the points compelling. I think it has more to do with factors other than the language itself. For instance there are other languages both using the JVM and not with good frameworks.

Perhaps Spring Framework/Boot is declining in popularity, but that's just wishful thinking--and my real beef is with Hibernate+JPQL.

Oddly Java itself as a language is better than ever and still improving.
Isn't that just because of the steep rise in labor costs? It's just another sign of how strong the labor market is right now.
I will set aside the discussion of whether or not it is necessary.

My point is that even if it were sometimes necessary, any incidental benefits derived from it do not suddenly make it desirable or good.
Isn’t captcha the usual default for that goal? At least for the read-access.

For write-access, some kind of identifier is sensible.

Also the View Rates pages fucks up the back button — that’s not very considerate of you
Sure, if by unobservable you mean in the same way that we can't truly "observe" the population average height of humans, even if we can probably get a pretty darn good estimate.

You can observe the results of the experiment and then make statistical inference about the "true" incrementality. You don't even have to perform inference necessarily, you can just provide the direct results of your experiment to the advertiser and let them do the inference.

But I do fail to see how a third-party could possibly infer this measure, given that they have no capacity to do a true incrementality experiment on the platform.
That's decidedly not what "nonprofit" means. A nonprofit can absolutely fundraise like that, and pay the employees above market salaries, or they can use the funds for other things, they just can't return them to shareholders (of which there aren't any), or the board.
Related:

Choosing PHP in 2022 and beyond - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32280057 - July 2022 (80 comments)

Whats New in PHP 8.2 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31153698 - April 2022 (136 comments)

Modern PHP - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30786927 - March 2022 (263 comments)

PHP – The Right Way - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30219984 - Feb 2022 (332 comments)

PHP in 2022 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29889705 - Jan 2022 (306 comments)

Others?
Well, this is an international forum, so I think it's a good idea to remember that many people reading are not from the same country and may have different interpretations of some terms. Also, maybe looking outside and gathering new data once in a while may put the problems you percieve your country to have in broader context, and help you find new solutions that actually work.
I'm not going to defend either of those dinosaurs! However, I happen to know one prominent startup that used to be in Palo Alto has major problems with toxicity and tunnel vision and lack of meritocracy despite having only a few thousand employees (tiny next to Exxon, and makes even less per employee despite being a flagship SV firm whose chief asset is software), and there are plenty more Silicon Valley companies like it. I've also worked for a giant profitable Manhattan company which is slow to innovate. I've worked in several startups and also large companies, and simply put, large dinosaurs have problems that tiny companies don't have, so don't just wave your hand and say Texas.
Brazil’s Presidential Election Will Determine the Planet’s Future
Ask HN: Suggestions for academic/research journals discussing AI-generated art?
I'm a first year engineering student, and for my technical writing class we need to write an informative paper. I chose AI art and it's influence on our society as my topic.

One of the criteria is to have at least 5 academic/research journals in your references. I'm having difficulty with this because AI art is such a new topic. Does anyone know some academic/ research journals that they're willing to share? Even if the article is just about generative algorithms in general that's a great help. Thank you in advance.
Yes. Alpine ash shell (the default),macOS zsh shell (the default), and Oracle Solaris sh shell (the default). The systems are enterprise regulated, so a typical user cannot easily install a different shell. POSIX works great.
A CPU with Java? What chip does this refer to? A quick search on RPi's did not answer the question.
Say you consider a column vector to be an actual physical vector in space. The geometric way to think of this entity is as a direction (n-1 degrees of freedom) and a magnitude (1 DOF).

Because of the definition of matrix multiplication, if we have two column vectors of length n, u and v, and u' denotes the transpose of u, then:

u'v = |u| |v| cos \theta

where \theta is the angle between the directions determined by the vectors u and v. This means that the matrix u' (a row vector) can be thought of as a linear transformation mapping v to a measurement which encodes the angle between u and v (it's proportional to the scalar projection onto u).

For this reason, it makes sense to think of column vectors as "vector vectors" and row vectors as linear transformations, which are not the same thing. Sometimes these linear transformations are called "linear functionals", but this point isn't particularly important. The important distinction is between "geometric objects in space" and "operators which encode actions on that space". You can think of these things as having different types.

To actually answer your question: in the above, there is no reason I couldn't have decided that row vectors are "vector vectors", resulting in column vectors being thought of as linear functionals. There is no technical reason motivating this distinction as far as I know. Column vectors are simply the convention in mathematics, while computer graphics did it the other way around for a while.
> it would be nice to produce more expressive diagrams to convey more complex ideas

Focus on your reader. It does no good to create an "expressive diagram" if it's too complex for anyone else to understand it.
Trademarks are domain specific, so it wouldn't be an open and shut case.
The Quest for Perfect Collisions
JavaScript did that too in the last couple of years. It's thoroughly confusing that we'd want to catch an exception and toss away all knowledge of WHAT exception was thrown. Unless one really just wants to log, "bad things happened".
The stock market, interest rates, and advertising spending are leading indicators, while unemployment is a lagging indicator.

Business leaders know the financial structure of their company, and many of them know that they can't survive at 2% rates, let alone 5 or 10% rates. The gloom from business leaders is forward-looking. They're fine for now, while consumer spending holds up and they can run on old debt. But as soon as they need to roll over their debt, everything collapses. They'd need to increase revenues by 2-5x, and they can't.

My prediction is that we drive off a cliff. CEOs know their companies can't survive high rates, so they manage as if a Fed pivot is coming. If the expected Fed pivot happens, they bank windfall profits and get huge stock bonuses. If it doesn't, they go bankrupt, everybody is out of work, and it is not their problem anymore.
The remote for the new AppleTV is also USB C.
Great post. I wish there was a site where I could consume endless posts like this:

A page or so of text, showing code, showing how to do something cool or useful using code.

This one is perfect, in terms of my interests.
I’m loving the picnic mode!!!!
OK, that's historically interesting, though it really doesn't change my point.
> It's almost like there is a class of business leaders who are just trying to wish a recession into existence, and I can't figure out why

You may find a clue in the results on Nov 8th.
> Jerome Powell said this several times to Congress

No, he didn’t [1]. The Fed’s statements to Congress are tightly scripted, in part so professionals can pick the meat from such popular nonsense.

[1] https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/testimony/powell20...
The world is wacky right now. Normal patterns of behavior have been disrupted by 2 years of lockdowns. Some people are spending out of spite. Some people are not even leaving the house. There's a certain levity about work - no one seems to be taking it seriously.

Strange times. Really hard to capture in data. Only increases possibilities of a major economic catastrophe because the tea leaves are just too hard to read right now.
I'm old school, Visio was been the gold standard for so long that I still use it. Draw.io/Diagrams.net provides a good enough solution that that has been my goto lately.

I don't think there is any problem with too much detail, you can always "dumb it down" for your target audience. I regularly work on the super big detailed picture diagram and export relevant parts to other pages as the audience demands. If i'm in an engineering design meeting, we are looking at that big detail. If I am working with release team, then we probably are only looking at high level components. Likewise the DB team may want the detailed view of migrations. To get those smaller diagrams its just a bunch of command-clicking and copy/pasting to a new sheet!

Also as a side note, at least with Visio, you can throw some python at the file to read/write your own diagrams. While I never automated the detailing aspect, I have programmatically created visio rack diagrams from excel spreadsheets
This is years overdue, but better than the current state of affairs. Wondering how this works for orgs that don't easily fit in the "operator has a medical license" but offer legitimate healthcare advice. Examples:

- A physical therapy practice

- A private company that operates healthcare offices but uses contract nurses

- A local nonprofit with no full-time doctors on staff ("Northern Arizona Association of Cardiologists").
This is the broadest view of the economy growing. So there may be some business leaders who work in still growing industries who are trying to "wish the recession into existence" as you say..

But on the flipside you have things like housing taking a downturn (not just home prices, but actual housing construction) which negatively impacts all of their suppliers (HVAC equipment, lumber, contracting companies, etc etc).

So there are some of those leaders who have a likely justified negative outlook.
Observatory on Mount Everest Must Be Saved, Scientists Say
Seems like any industry views its IT as a cost center by default until said otherwise, even if their revenue comes from software. There is no cure for shortsightedness.
If housing prices go down, but mortgage rates go up, are we still screwed?
The hysterical headline alone makes me not want to read this.
> Natural gas prices just dipped below zero.

> Those ships [are] carrying about $2 billion worth of LNG.

Really?
Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in Conversation with David Krakauer
I have never seen this before, I think it was released because his two new books were released this year. Quite a treat!
This is a better situation than the reverse. It’s fortunate the winter has been mild so far. Will be interesting if the LNG industry can keep pace and replace Russia for good.
neither is 95% number, it was a joke
I’ve kept a daily log for the past six years just in a Google Doc. All I do is a bullet list of what I’ve done in the day and collect a bullet list of TODOs. Then comb the TODOs at the start of the day.

Works great, makes sure I don’t forget what I’ve been doing or should be doing and means the entire team can see what I’m working on and what I’m thinking about.

I don’t really get all the obsession with structure, style and having a specific application for notes. For me this is mostly a way to keep organised with a brain that’s prone to lose things without regular reprompting.
No, you misquote me. I said that is is impossible to observe incrementality. It is rather trivial to estimate incrementality, statistically, but all statistical models produce estimates. Not observations.

How do you get the data if you're not a supplier? You contract for the supplier.
Yes, but not directly. If you listen to the last FOMC meeting, Powell mentions there will likely be significant weakening of the labor market and a rise of unemployment. As well as his famous "there will be pain" remarks.

I don't think he directly said "he won't stop until" though.
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