skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very similar except:
:s/40s/50s/
:s/is a horror show best avoided/is fun/
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8. Really love what I'm doing.
Hey there, I am on the market looking for an SRE/Cloud Infrastructure opportunity, my email is on my profile, could you please share the name of your company or a link to the job openings? Really appreciate it, thanks
SQLGateway – Access SQL Databases over HTTP
I wanted to use Cloudflare Workers, but also the Postgres ecosystem (specifically CockroachDB Serverless).

The idea was to keep the HTTP layer out of the way and make it feel like you are talking to a normal SQL database, but maybe add a few superpowers.

For convenience, there are automatic rollbacks on transaction failure, query tracing, query retries, pooling, soon caching support, and more!

I won't dive into it more here since the README talks plenty about it :P
Not pytest, but for ordinary python tests I have often got them running in Jupyter for prototyping purposes, it's pretty useful.
Startups that aren't profitable (ie: most of them) are in even more trouble than large still profitable companies. There's less VC money and they need to preserve runway or they'll go out of business.
The alternative to The Economist is a well curated collection of RSS feeds. Identify a set of intelligent blogs/columnists who post regularly, put their feeds into an OPML file, and you have a great alternative.

Added bonus: you can have X and anti-X perspectives for most values of X.
I'm curious to know if compiler exposes internal API for external client to listen to its events ? The purpose might be useful for data mining and learning.
Launch that bottom drawer project
> only works on java edition

Yes, as the project says, Minecraft. Not the cut-down mobile game with microtransactions that claims to be Minecraft.
That sounds like pretty much the opposite of an healthy eating behavior.
A person is schoolteacher by profession.
The same person holds a personal belief.
The same person writes about personally held belief.
There is some distance between job/profession and expressing personal beliefs.
Thanks, that made it click! Also, now I see it's pretty applicable to building a predictive model...
Excellent, thanks for this. If I had the funds, I'd read everything from Adweek to Zeit Online, but paywalls mean I can only pick one or two.
What are your thoughts on the journalism in The Atlantic?

https://www.theatlantic.com/
Surfaces and essences
- Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander

A great book about how all communication and thought is mediated through metaphor.

Douglas Hofstadter's books in general tend to be very thought-provoking.
Not sure what it's worth in English but the French version is indeed very good. My only complain is that they are sometimes a bit too complacent with US rivals and competitors.
> On the third hand, the empty wooden crates took up a lot of space to be shipped back, which required a lot more fuel and labor to re-use them rather than recycling the cardboard.

Wooden crates also have a lot more mass than cardboard, hence would require much more energy to move.
That sounds like a great example of the confines of "actions they would take under their authority/power/employment or while on the job", if those racist beliefs are relevant to their teaching job. Or at least something that the school should follow up on to determine if their expressed beliefs lead to unjust actions in the real world.
eCommerce is what I'd consider a core value proposition though, so I would expect steady long term growth in balance with bricks and mortar. There's also lots of products and services for which bricks and mortar retail doesn't make financial sense, which provides a base level of participation from sellers (in my opinion).
> etc is seen by most people as something much simpler

The solution here really is simple. Eat less move more, and preferably eat healthier. It doesn't mean it's easy. And this is coming from someone who's been about 50 pounds overweight for 3 years and I'm finally losing the weight, down 25 pounds but still a long way to go.
Do not care. The more jobs for me ;-) I only worked about 100 hours this year and already made more than the past 3 years.
(Not just any such pattern, though -- a still life also means that it doesn't change when you evolve it according to Life rules.)
Perhaps Mother Jones would be an interesting alternative?

https://www.motherjones.com/
Industrialization via the profit motive has been the single greatest lever of increasing humanity's quality of life.

The people who say that the rest live in shit in my experience have never been to a third world country and actually lived there. If they did, they'd realize just how shit the first world is.

As long as we have scarcity of goods that must be distributed somehow, communism only works in theory, not in practice.

Edit: Ah, I see, so you're a tankie who grew up in the USSR yet still supports them. Thanks, I have no need to speak to you further.
What a timely post. My subscription to "The Atlantic" is coming up for renewal in a few months, and I plan to simply let it lapse. That was my last magazine subscription left standing, and 2023 will be the first time in roughly 40 years that I won't be subscripting to any magazines.

The writing has always been center-left, but with introspective tendencies. Articles would generally critique conservative political positions, but thoughtfully in a well-reasoned manner. And they would be just as likely to examine excesses from the cultural left also.

After Trump entered office, the magazine began a rapid descent. Today you find as much "clickbait" in the printed magazine as you do on the web property (they were previously quite distinct). Articles are frequently hyperbolic, and read like Reddit comments on /r/LateStageCapitalism. But most damningly, the REASONING seems to be gone now. It feels like reading a propaganda outlet.

Maybe this is an artifact of emerging authors coming of age during the social media era? Maybe it's a byproduct of print media's financial decline, and pressure to compete with online entertainment? Whatever the case may be, everything feels like a lazy echo chamber now. I dearly miss writing that makes me think.
The simplest method is to use Adobe Acrobat to make a OCR'd PDF. There is no work to that process other than combining all the PDFs you want into a single file -- and that's something you can do inside Acrobat, too. It has OCR built in and will save the OCR'd text inside the file.

Once you have a PDF, that is an eBook. There are several online converters that can turn it into other formats. As for indices, etc., Acrobat won't make them automatically but your OCR'd eBook is searchable, so it may not matter in the same way it would with print.

I'd say the world would be better off with your rough-and-ready PDF (and yes, in the Internet Archive would be great!) than waiting for a perfect hand-made version.
Nostalgia mode enabled
when X marketplace becomes valuable, it becomes a worthwhile target. we see this everywhere. remember pinterest and rapgenius polluting google searches? etsy opens up and becomes a crappier and more expensive aliexpress.

we yearn for curation and expertise, but aren't willing to pay for it with money. instead we pay for it with behavior modification attempts (ads), time (bad ux), and unintended societal side effects.
I agree with everything except for the billions of dollars part. It seems quite obvious (but maybe I'm wrong?) that most of that investment went into the hardware that Meta has been developing over the years, and some of the "platform" capabilities that surround that hardware (think their app store for example). Sure, the virtual experiences are part of it. But I think it's not where the majority of the money went.

They currently have the most popular VR hardware platform. And it's the only piece of hardware that Meta really has, everything else they make is software. If Meta wants to keep growing, being the leading producer of "the next big thing" in hardware would certainly help. Zuckerburg is betting on VR/AR being that next big thing. Only time will tell I guess. But I find it a little weird when I see people commenting on Meta's investment as if all they did was create a basic second life clone. They're building some of the most innovative consumer hardware at the moment. I'm not hugely into it because Meta doesn't really seem like the company I'd like to entrust with cameras pointing at my eyeballs, but you can't deny that the hardware they've built so far is quite impressive.
In most scenes, the refresh rate is matched (Slightly off from the presenters computer in the internet cafe with the computer all most all other computers in the cafe set to a different refresh rate).
Can you elaborate on why you perceive him as unhinged or sinister? What were his specific actions which you observed?
I was hiring until a few weeks ago. The market is flooded with candidates right now and it wasn't three months ago. Lower supply and increased demand means it's a much worse job market for candidates. It doesn't take much to tip an equilibrium like this.
My mother is still occasionally using my 2008 iPhone 3G.

> either bricking the phone

The only reason IMO not to replace the battery is that buying a refurbished similar iPhone would not cost much more.
Don't let your dreams be dreams, start coding!
Totally agree! We used this book for our 3.5yo son and then even faster with his 2.5yo brother. It somehow gets a layer deeper in terms of understanding, empathizing, and managing behavior.
It's very much possible to overeat foods that you don't find delicious. That's not what it's about. Think of it as an addiction.
The phase: "Losing weight is simple, not easy." Sums it up nicely.

Just like, your example of poverty, or smoking/drug use. Addictions are often "simple" to quit, just stop doing [bad thing], but they're far from easy because it ignores the underlying reasons people are addicts or have emotional regulation issues to begin with.

A common online solve-all is: "Just go get therapy." Which, while better intentioned than bullying, or yelling "CICO!!!" is often suggested by people who don't realize how expensive, inconsistent, and uncommon good therapy is. People treat it like a "just talk to a therapist, and you'll be fixed" rather than more realistically: "just spend $100 a session until you can even find a therapist who could help you, then spend thousands on that therapist."
I've found the opposite. Print media publications seem to be higher quality with better editorial review. There are of course exceptions and outstanding blogs out there.

I've seen some reporters go from working at a "big" publisher to Substack and I can tell the difference in their writing. Usually more extreme and alarmist. I chalk it up to less review.
Easy and I've never really used it before so I can add that to my skillset.
This was a project I wanted to finished in two weeks so I didn't put a ton of time into it.
From Ireland, it feels like the _page itself_ is loading faster, but the actual info (timeline, replies to tweets, sidebars) are loading much slower and sometimes erroring out. I'm sure a metric on a graph somewhere has improved, but the user experience as a whole feels slower and more fragile than it did a few months ago.
Could you give examples of what you mean? I've had a look through and there are certainly stylistic things I'd do differently, such as using "var" and LINQ more, and capitalising method names. But it's easy enough to understand despite that.
True, "cereal" is a catch-all term here for many things. I usually make oatmeal/porridge with a little bit of fruit. But using just 40g of oats.

Of course the Nestle-style cereals you're talking about are not ideal. But especially bad for you if you're eating 100g and not 40g.
You could look at the LRB (London Review of Books). While obviously it is mostly book reviews there are other essays in there too. The writing is rather literary, which may or may not be a positive, but it is entirely free of clickbait. It's probably the nearest thing to a left-wing equivalent of The Economist.
Twitter currently seems on the road to withdrawing from every market...
Here are some classics in cognitive psychology with direct quotes that illustrate some of the main themes:

Richard Rhodes (1986) Making of the Atomic Bomb

"In scientific work, creative thinking demands seeing things not seen previously, or in ways not previously imagined; and this necessitates jumping off from 'normal' positions, and taking risks by departing from reality. The difference between the thinking of the paranoid patient and the scientist comes from the latter's ability and willingness to test out his fantasies or grandiose conceptualizations through the systems of checks and balances science has established – and to give up those schemes that are shown not to be valid on the basis of these scientific checks. It is specifically because science provides such a framework of rules and regulations to control and set bounds to paranoid thinking that a scientist can feel comfortable about taking the paranoid leaps. Without this structuring, the threat of such unrealistic, illogical, and even bizarre thinking to overall thought and personality organization in general would be too great to permit the scientist the freedom of such fantasying." (p. 151)

Daniel Kahneman (2011) Thinking, Fast and Slow

"In the current view of how associative memory works, a great deal happens at once. An idea that has been activated does not merely evoke one other idea. It activates many ideas, which in turn activate others. Furthermore, only a few of the activated ideas will register in consciousness; most of the work of associative thinking is silent, hidden from our conscious selves. The notion that we have limited access to the workings of our minds is difficult to accept because, naturally, it is alien to our experience, but it is true: you know far less about yourself than you feel you do." (p. 52)

Thomas Kuhn (1962) Structure of Scientific Revolutions

"One suspects that something like a paradigm is prerequisite to perception itself. What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see. In the absence of such training there can only be... a 'bloomin’ buzzin’ confusion'" (p. 113)
> the non trivial effort to normalize morbid obesity

Now, different cultures I'm sure, but do you really experience "fat acceptance" proselytizing in real life, as opposed to in news articles linking to some bizarre part of Tumblr and its terminally online relatives?
flatpak can be considered similar to android API levels. if the app doesn't get updated to use the security provided by the latest versions (or xdg portals in flatpak case) but uses old API versions instead (like flatpak apps requesting wholesale home permission) security guarantees are not materialized.

Sounds like an ecosystem problem not specifically a flatpak problem.

And as Android's case has shown, moving the ecosystem forward, is not an easy task.
Yes indeed. The SEO industry has finally worked out how to beat Google and get their stuff pushed to the top.

Meanwhile the real experts, who don't have any SEO skills at all, are disappearing down the results. It's a tragedy.
zerohedge.com? /s

It'd probably be FT for me, they follow a "just the facts" approach mostly.
Isn’t dynamic’s primary purpose is multiple dispatch methods? In an OOP language (not caring about primitives and non-objects), you can go “dynamic” typed by using Object, and casts.
Showering them with water from a bucket.
> This needs Tim Cook to retire.

The problem is that there's no good replacement, because Cook has cooked the entire company. It's "Tim Apple" now. Next in line is likely someone like Cook clone Jeff Williams.

The stockholders own the company, and all they care about is money. Remember way back when Steve Jobs forced Apple stockholders to choose between him and John Sculley? Well, they chose Sculley. Jobs only returned many years later when Apple was desperate and had to acquire NeXT (their second choice behind Be). Apple would have to be in desperate straits again to choose a non-traditional (i.e., non-MBA) CEO candidate.
Great article, this hits at the heart of 'it's not okay to offend' and why it's just dribble.
It's weird this is an issue. I don't think I ever edited a page when I posted on a blog and I maintain a couple WordPress blogs for businesses and associations and they never update posts after they've published either. I don't think it's as uncommon as you think, that or maybe people need to proofread before publishing?
And all while we're ignoring the fact that many foods are engineered for increasing appetite and higher caloric content.

Or that there just might be an environmental issue as well. (Endocrine disruptors, perhaps?)

Otherwise, how the heck does one explain the obesity epidemic? It is not like most if any people choose to be fat.
And no, amount of physical labor is still considerable.

It's very easy to individualize a systemic issue.
Who said anything about a friend-enemy distinction?

I'm talking about when someone writes things which reveal that they hold values or beliefs which make them unsuitable for a role they hold.
Not only phishing, but too many people have the terrible habit of using the same password everywhere. So with public breach data, it's not a stretch to think bad actors would try, and probably be successful way too often, to use said credentials on bank sites.
Could you give examples of how quality has declined? I'm scared if a rag like Jacobin is in the running.

When people say that the quality of a publication has declined they often mean they disagree with things that are published. Many also say that they seek out blogs and other sources that I assume they agree with.

I read these publications because I often disagree with their opinion pieces. It's a value add. Why would I pay to read my own views regurgitated? It's a danger inherent in trying to micromanage and curate a very narrow source of information. You end up only ingesting things that you agree with.

My 2 cents. Sorry for the big edit
At one point when I was in academia I had to write drivers for Windows to control some scientific equipment for our experiments. I remember it being a damn nightmare compared to even the VAX we had (which, granted, was basically just a toy we had in the lab, and didn't do much serious with).
I find Quillette - https://quillette.com/ very solid, all clear bylines so you can understand the background and perspective of the author.
8 on desktop, 3 on mobile.

The 100's/1000's people have real issues
How has LINQ performance enhanced in .NET 7?
Bitcoin on ‘road to irrelevance’, say ECB officials
And the mobs kissing.
There are solutions like sorbet[^1] and sorbet-rails[^2]. Have you tried them?

[^1]: https://sorbet.org/

[^2]: https://github.com/chanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails
I'm not excepting much traffic. It's 100% hosted on aws so no maintenance and is basically free to run indefinitely.
> They all were wrong by assuming that this trend would continue.

> As it turns out. Humans love meeting other humans in real live way more than meeting people online.

That's one way of putting it.

But the economic implications is way more severe. This reasoning about constant economic growth has had the world fooled for way too long.
I maintain this project in my spare time. It currently handles thousands of daily requests and costs less than a cup of coffee to run. I wouldn't recommend using it for anything mission critical but it should be fine for a side project. It isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
DoorDash to lay off 1,250 employees
Have you looked into how vanguard/blackrock claim to decide these things? My understanding is that they used to just go with what the company management wanted and now contract the work out to some specialised firm that tells them the reasonable vote to make whenever they come up. There are a few of these specialised firms who are shared by the big investment funds.

I don’t think blackrock/vanguard exercise much influence. Do they even meet with management? But each year, Larry Fink writes a letter to companies black rock holds saying they should be sustainable or whatever. But I don’t think there are consequences for the companies for ignoring the letter. Big funds are mostly passive and so just follow their formula. S&P surely have a bigger influence on vanguard’s holdings by what they choose to include in their indexes.

But I do weakly find the ‘index funds reduce competition’ theory plausible. Eg in 2020, Pfizer’s big investors probably most wanted Pfizer to cooperate with competitors to help end covid, causing share prices everywhere to recover, rather than working to get a bigger share of the covid vaccine pie.
I wish Haiku would target Raspberry Pi so we would be able to build a real modern BeBox rather than just a BeBox-looking Linux computer.
> it's probably because you drink vodka that is made with distilled water

The Vodka that you said is one of the best you've ever had is

"Bei dessen Herstellung wird bestes Dinkel Getreide 4-fach destilliert."
This is cool! You can actually get a hint for Kubrick‘s use of symmetry in his movies (except for „Dr. Strangelove“)
Very nice!
This should have the [2020] in the title, but it was interesting at the time to read for sure.
How does the landfill usage compare to the extra energy used to transport the greater mass of glass? And the extra energy use of the frequent stop and go of a smaller residential delivery truck moving heavy liquids and glass, and the resulting brake/tire dust.
My three favorites from Gerald Weinberg:

1. 'The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully' I was put off for a decade by the click-bait title but this is a profound little book that helped me get perspective on problem solving in my work and myself.

2. 'Becoming a Technical Leader' The text is great; working the exercises for yourself will make you a stronger thinker.

3. 'An Introduction to General Systems Thinking' One of his densest, driest books, but a great summary of the highlights of the field with plenty of thought problems in the exercises and plenty of pointers for digging deeper.
Yeah but that's not the hard part.

Figuring out that you need to eat less than you burn to lose weight is nothing substantial (not to slight the method, the advice on keeping the calorie intake it gives is sound).

The hard part is doing it without going crazy and figuring it how to fit it inside your lifestyle while still keeping morale high.

Like simple act of going to a party, it sucks to have to keep calorie count and skip on this or that.

So I just... don't. I got used to doing one meal a day so I just shift the time of it (with maybe a tiny snack if I can't really keep it up, but that's rare) to the party evening, and shift the next day meal to later in the day so I can burn off the party.

> and as such devloped an excel sheet which would show a rolling average of weight (like the way they guess the weather or some stocks). This he found, helped with motivation, instead of seeing big swings from day to day, a steady small reduction is seen via the charts instead.

I use Libra Weight Manager for like 10+ years now for that. I think I read this article back then too
China's former president Jiang Zemin dies at 96
> people that are unreasonably attached to this standard and try to use it everywhere without being level-headed about its usefulness

This is certainly a better way to put it!

But it's possible that they indeed mostly had the POSIX standard in mind when trying to create their software, possibly because that's what they were developing on (e.g. one of the *nix distros or something compatible) and that's what was available easily.

Support for Windows might have been a bit of an afterthought, or something that was added later. It's still better than nothing, even if not always viable.
Roughsf – Sketchy Maps with Ggplot2
Right. Catch yes, do something actually working about it, not really.
I find it funny that you did a conversion for stone, but not one for kilograms.