skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really a program, but this year the Tabu [0] heuristic saved me at least on that order of time. I work on combinatorial optimization problem (think traveling salesman), typically we use local search heuristics like simulated annealing or parallel tempering that work well but require a lot of hyper parameter tuning. Tabu is super simple, has very few parameters to tune, and works great.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabu_search
I second this question.

If nothing else, there are various kinds of wastefulness: money, pollution during manufacture / delivery, landfill, opportunity costs, etc.
Drop these quick notes into a folder (can be automated with Templater). Create another note that uses the DataView plugin to show you a table of all the files in this folder sorted by the creation date.
On windows, http://symbolclick.com/index.htm is great for XML and JSON viewing. Use it pretty much everyday. Really love the way it display data in a table format.
High quality tools are absolutely a joy! I love the high end tools that I get to use in my professional life as a mechanical engineer. (less frequently now that I am a manager, but you never get tired of using a well designed Festool, Bosch, or Wera product)

However,I don't need the same level of quality in the things I have at home. I've built, repaired, and otherwise tinkered away on countless projects over the years with things I found/bought on sale/picked up along the way with no issues. I'm not a professional [plumber, carpenter, electrician, mason, machinist, etc] and I don't need the same tools they have to get the job done safely.

There's nothing wrong with choosing to spend your personal money on high end tools. In general I find the attitude around tool ownership to be one of gate keeping though, and I'm more interested in getting started and discovering what I really need with less expensive tools than I am in spending my entire budget on high end equipment only to learn that I don't need specific expensive features after a few uses.
I'd say that Charles Proxy (https://charlesproxy.com) is my "secret sauce."

It allows me to quickly evaluate server interactions in my software, without having to program in all kinds of logging.
I am not convinced that self replicating machines spreading out between stars is possible. There's rather a lot that the machine has to be able to do on a destination planet to set up mines and factories etc before the first extra machine can be made,and it has to survive landing.
The Force Engine 1.0 Release
Law generally follows technological advancement, if you try to do it the other way you’ll end up passing laws for things that will never happen.
Also, performance is mind-blowing.

Still I am not really sure that the tradeoff makes it worth against non-FP frameworks a la Rails.
I’m seeing the opposite at PE-backed firms. Blackstone, for instance, have been firing anyone who costs anything, and moving every technical role to the lowest bidder. I’ve watched the entire technical and leadership teams for businesses get fired this year, and replaced with $10/hr coders.

It’s going to make them look rosy for the next few Qs while everyone else haemorrhages cash. Long term, not so much, but the long term isn’t important to the market.
Who the fuck are those people overdosing on crack cocaine, and how? This is literally one of the most difficult drugs to dangerously OD on.

You can't snort crack, you can't IV crack. You can only smoke crack, the onset is super fast and doesn't encourage you to rapidly redose. Dosage tends to be limited by your lung capacity.

Maybe with some very impressive lung capacity?

It's easy to overdose on Cocaine HCl using any of the popular RoAs. Insufflated, the onset is very slow, enabling you to take way too much before you actually start to feel the effects. Intravenously, your dosage is not limited by your lung capacity as it would be while smoking crack.
Congress blew its last chance to curb Big Tech’s power
They’ve also got a point. The skills may not be technologically valuable, but they can teach critical thinking and give broader context for life. Philosophy majors tend to do better than average salary wise as well.

That said I also believe many fields have gone bunkers. The whole everybody needs a degree also creates incentives for degree factories.
Mozart's Alla Turca can be performed in around 3:30, and has tons of repetition.
There are procedures for this. If the votes in the legislature reflect reality, a veto can easily be overturrned.
Kudos to ProPublica for doing this even though they don't have any legal obligation to do so.
WIth two massive scandals within 5 years I think this bank should be broken up as part of its punishment. It's clearly too big to run an honest consumer safe business.
k9s makes me feel like (and look like to my coworkers) a k8s wizard, the parenthetical especially when I'm sharing my terminal and zipping around using keyboard shortcuts

https://github.com/derailed/k9s
https://www.amazon.in/Art-War-Sun-Tzu/dp/8184950888

I think this is one of the most underrated book and one should read it at least once.
You can always use `gj`/`gk` instead of `j`/`k` to move down/up a visual (soft-wrapped) line. If you find it inconvenient, you can always remap bindings to work however you like [0]. You can even limit the mapping to specific file type (e.g. markdown).

As for copying to other formats, I stick to 80-character line length limit, so when I need to copy markdown text somewhere else I simply copy it from a rendered markdown document.

[0] https://vim.fandom.com/wiki/Move_cursor_by_display_lines_whe...
https://archive.md/sy0Ys
>I wonder when we will see variable frame rate films where film makers can use the frame rate as an aesthetical choice on a per scene basis..

There’s this. It looks like they used it in Avatar 2 actually. Not sure how widespread it is otherwise.
https://www.pixelworks.com/en/truecut
>A tail might help with swimming but won't propel you through the void.

No offense, but I feel like if you're criticizing ai-written poetry for a lack of absolute realism, maybe you're the one that doesn't quite grok poetry. Next you'll be telling Poe that ravens can't actually enunciate human speech.
It's not something you really need to keep track of. The recommended approach is to use your brain and consider all of the context available to you on a case by case basis. But I suspect this is more about not wanting to accept the ever increasing evidence that Elon's characterization of what happened was largely a farce.
It's interesting to see that you agree the most with the one term you are actually personally afflicted with.

Maybe it's the same for so many other terms when the people are actually affected?
WordPress testing official SQLite Support - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34020786 - Dec 2022 (73 comments)

Related:

Let’s make WordPress officially support SQLite - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32807601 - Sept 2022 (115 comments)

Wp-SQLite: WordPress running on an SQLite database - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31396732 - May 2022 (97 comments)
Do you have a demo/link to one of your games? I am interested in learning more about multiplayer experience for web games and would love to see an example with these tools mentioned.
Try doing that with a lot of parallax movement and DoF and it will look like a fest of weird blocky artifacts, because different depths of the image move at different speeds which means you would need to blur them into the dorection of the movement at different depths. Moving objects can become semi transparent at the edges which means generating that will involve knowing (or guessing) what is behind objects. This is non-trivial and very hard to solve in a general way.

The current best way to do this that I know of involves a ton of manual masking of elements at different z depths and the results will look still worse than if you had done it in camera from the start.

Nobody wants to have to do that to 40 minutes of a 90 minute movie unless there is a really good reason to do it.
I feel so much cognitive dissonance realizing that there are hard working people literally losing their home and shelter wrongly while I might be sitting across from them at any time, expecting them to behave within normal social boundaries.

Imagine a family with a new born, working 50+ hours at a physically demanding job, making $80k/yr combined, and then losing their home for no reason... and then being expected to do everything else right while dealing quietly.

Incidents like this make it easier for me to understand "protest voting" against the system politically. Not sure of constructive ways to prevent this more broadly.
Right wing TV in the US stays afloat by being part of basic cable packages.
Ultrafast, super lite file search on Windows, Voidtools "Everything": https://www.voidtools.com/support/everything/

I haven't touched the Windows Search utility since I found it.
However I got a harbor freight pneumatic nail gun, oiled it before use, and every night before putting it away. It almost lasted the building of an 80 foot fence, almost.

Funny enough I did buy some jack stands that looked good, and we recalled for catastrophic failures: https://images.harborfreight.com/hftweb/recalls/Jack-Stand-R...

If you need a single or low use unpowered tool I consider harbor freight. Generally anything powered, which is more expensive, I want to keep longer, and has a higher chance of damaging itself, what you are working on, or you I buy something name brand.

The harbor freight rolling tool chests are quite nice, and features on various tool/garage forums as a great deal.
The false positive rate on quality facial recognition is actually very low. I'm not weighing in whether or not it is proper to always use it, just as someone that's deeply experienced in commercial applications of facial recognition.
It should be obvious from the massive scale of the illicit narcotics industry that most users are not dying or becoming problem-users.
> Who cares what technology they use?

As you say, they could accomplish the same thing by checking IDs at the door. Given the choice, I'd personally prefer an explicit ID check that I know is happening and is inconvenient for everybody rather than one that leaves me oblivious to the fact I'm being tracked and researched.
Any extremely well-funded private initiative that seeks to influence governments should be watched closely.
> and the alpha is sucked up by extended hours traders

That's a bizarre claim. If I buy and hold for weeks/months/years, no alpha was sucked from me.

If I day-trade, well, I get what I deserve if I have no edge or don't understand how the market works.

And extended hours trading has minimal liquidity, just because AAPL jumped 10% in after hours doesn't mean someone made billions entering/exiting during this interval, because it's just the market makers repricing minimal volumes.
Terraform: mainly because my organization used to make everything manually, using boto3/sdk scripts, and poorly tested/constructed cloudformation templates
So we agree, housing affordability and housing as an investment are incompatible. Not sure what you're arguing here?
D2 Playground – Online text-to-diagram runner
Not all bargain tools are bad. One of my favorite YouTube channels to find decent quality/affordable tools is Project Farm. Funnily enough he did recommend a Crescent brand wrench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyOd05PUix4
not that i've found and upwork/freelancer seems pretty shit to be honest
waiting for the update!
Very nice!

How do you handle backup?

You don’t seem to me running RAID on the NAS?
It's a bit more focused on AI/data driven projects but sometimes they look for full-stack folks @ tribe.ai
i concur it is unclear and hard to understand the intention.
In my experience at least, the LLM-based "search" is super unreliable, because it makes up "facts" half the time.
Example number ten thousand of why the "vote with your dollars and don't do business with them" defense of capitalism fails completely in practice.
Is that a joke?

Then again, the country has taxpayer funded university positions reserved for minority candidates (because apparently that's legal over there?).
This title was badly editorialized. Submitted title was "Beware of Bargin Bin Tools". You can see from the earlier comments here how badly that skewed the discussion in a generic direction that was dominated by the rewritten title. This is why HN has a rule excluding this type of title rewrite:

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."

If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but do it by adding a comment to the thread. Then your view will be on a level playing field with everyone else's: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

It's actually a good submission, but you need to use the original title so that can people can figure out for themselves how to assess the content and what they want to say about it.
This is a great option IMO, I use it myself to host multiple services. A VPS can be had for $5 per month or less
The traditional back up process is 3 steps, 1) lock the file 2) copy the file 3) unlock the file.

A second option is to use the SQLite command line tool, it provides a backup command.

If you need something more complicated, SQLite provides a backup API you can make use of.
Everything Search by Voidtools.
It's also possible that things start with good intentions and get taken advantage of. I'm just saying that it is possible MacAskill got conned along with everyone else that invested and used FTX. I don't want to stop you from being skeptical (please do), but I want to suggest that there are alternative and mundane explanations for things. It helps us actually solve issues with the system instead of promoting conspiracy. People can be doing both good and bad at the same time. People are often well intended and end up doing wrong (quite common actually. I guarantee both of us do this). As for the Gates Foundation, it is also possible that Gates is trying to use the money most effectively to solve problems he thinks is important, while not having a good grasp on what is important to the median person, while also getting major tax benefits, and is influencing the government (it is possible that Gates's interests may not align with the public's and thus that influence is harmful despite them thinking it is beneficial).
'I had Craftsman power tools until battery replacements were only available from fly-by-night companies and a couple of the tools started failing (after 20 years). I wound up buying a couple of DeWalt tools on sale and they've been rock-solid. So I added a couple more as needed.'

I think we are in complete agreement! After 20 years of use are are more than qualified to know what you need and go get it regardless of the price point!
> Look, you don't want to use a table saw like that. For... all the common sense reasons.

For example, you might have an increased risk of wood kickback, very nearly lose a leg, and spend years in physical therapy trying to replace the muscle mass that died. (I knew a guy.) Or you might bleed out.

Seriously, a few extra safety features on a table saw can make the difference between life and death. Assuming you don't just disable them.

(I have a cheapish table saw, but one that isn't complete garbage. I treat it with about the same caution I'd treat unexploded ordnance from World War II.)
hell yeah, I love you Obsidian.
Contrary to the popular myth, immigration hasn't led to salaries in the tech sector (which has the most immigrants) to go down. In fact, in the last decade they have increased due to an increased competition and high demand.

Immigrants also lead to increased demand and job growth:

"Contrary to popular belief, immigrants do not take away jobs from American workers. Instead, they create new jobs by forming new businesses, spending their incomes on American goods and services, paying taxes and raising the productivity of U.S. businesses. Immigrants are good for the economy, not the other way around." [1]

"However, although immigrants increase the supply of labor, they also spend their wages on homes, food, TVs and other goods and services and expand domestic economic demand. This increased demand, in turn, generates more jobs to build those homes, make and sell food, and transport TVs." [2]

"Most empirical studies indicate long-term benefits for natives’ employment and wages from immigration, although some studies suggest that these gains come at the cost of short-term losses from lower wages and higher unemployment. Standard economic theory implies that while higher labor supply from immigration may initially depress wages, over time firms increase investment to restore the amount of capital per worker, which then restores wages." [2]

[1] https://www.aclu.org/other/immigrants-and-economy
[2] https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2016/1/27/the-e...
Ok, fair enough — was a public API at the time, which was subsequently removed/limited and apps that had been using it in that way were termed "abusive".

And I should correct myself that the phrase used by Zuck[1] was "breach of trust" not "data breach," though several other sources (articles, etc[2]) at the time did in fact use the term "data breach."

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180326162844/https://www.facebook.com/zuck/posts/10104712037900071
[2] (example) https://money.com/facebook-cambridge-analytica-data-breach-numbers/
> The most annoying thing to me was how certain neighborhoods flat out do not accept Visa / Mastercard. Basically every other developed nation accepts Visa, I was annoyed and decided to not go back to areas where they literally couldn't take my money.

This is mostly legacy from earlier decades, when VISA/MasterCard would charge around 1 to 3% of the transaction value (and AMEX even higher), whereas debit card fees (processed on the Maestro network, owned by MasterCard) was around a flat €0.10 or so. Since pretty all domestic clients had a bank issued Maestro debit card, where was very little incentive to accept Visa/MasterCard, except for specific merchants (hotels, larger restaurants, car rentals). For most of the country debit cards still work fine, but in tourist-heavy Amsterdam (probably the least Dutch city in the Netherlands) this creates a lot of friction.

Nowadays Visa/MasterCard fees in the EU are capped (I believe at around 0.3% plus some minimum) so the fees are somewhat less outrageous, and acceptance is a lot higher. But on average credit card fees are still significantly higher than debit card fees, there are still many holdouts.
> That's good for homeowners so they won't repeal it, but it's very bad for the state and everyone else.

Homeowners are a big part of the state. "everyone else" must be a small minority. If you think it is a big enough part of the population, feel free to bring a prop to repeal prop 13. My bet is that any attempt to repeal it will lose in a landslide based on what happened in 2020[1] when they attempted a partial repeal.

[1] https://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_15,_Tax_on_Co...
I went for the paid syncing because I want it to "just work" while still having the futureproof way of storing the data locally in an accessible way.

So far it has worked absolutely flawless. If I change a file it's changing on my connected device in seconds. Not exactly like working on a shared google doc but close enough that I would even use it as a hack to quickly share links between my mobile and my desktop
It could include the fact that Stanford has 17000 students and 15000 administrative staff.
How come it saves 100 hours for you?

In the old days we had paper maps and I checked routes before I left: not doing that anymore has cost me time rather than saved me time. Many a time Google maps has sent me to the wrong place. Once to the middle of a mustard field in France which was a destination it changed to mid-route to a house called La Mutardier. 5 hours wrong lost there.

Less than useless on a motorbike due to its UI, actually quite dangerous.

I would say it has cost me many hours and saved me from carrying a map.

Evermore useless adverts, and now hiding places that it doesn't get a kick back from.

Oh and it's cost me money in fines from taking me the wrong way down streets I was not allowed to drive on. With no way to feed that info back into the system. When its wrong it stays wrong for years sometimes where I live, and we have street map, it ought to be half decent and at least safe for drivers.
Obsidian Sync is by no means cheap, but I've never used a better syncing service. I'm on my second year and can't think of a single issue I've had across laptops, desktops, an Android phone, and a Chromebook.
You are conflating centralized exchanges run by scammers like SBF with crypto. Crypto isn’t “run” by anyone.
Knipex are awesome, a good example of quality resulting in a tool that lasts much longer than the cheap tools and causing much less damage to the nuts you are working on.
Please see Raymond Hettinger's keynote on efficiently handling bugs[0]. He makes the case that static type checking is a boon for Python except for in specific programs that make extensive use of covariant and/or contravariant types.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARKbfWk4Xyw
> For most things being sold you'll want an account attached.

Who is the subject? Because in my mind, for most things sold, as the buyer, you actually just want the product/service.

> I don't recall ever getting out my credit card and paying $5

Even if you never shopped in a retail store or dined in a restaurant and paid with your credit card (which seems somewhat unlikely) you are familiar with the concept of paying for something "random" as a one of. What's the conceptual hurdle?
The database code, though, ends up being a crazy mishmash of Wordpress' existing faked-up/string-escaping wpdb_prepare() then auto-translated from mysql syntax to SQLite. I'm sure they will test it pretty well, but it's a bizarre setup.
Speaking as a Californian, where our ballot is always filled with propositions [1] [2], I can confidently say this is a bad idea. I think it works tolerably well for issues that are something an average citizen can understand with a little research, but otherwise just ends up as dueling propaganda campaigns.

For example, this year San Francisco voted to decide whether one of the major streets through Golden Gate Park should remain mostly car free after we tried that for the pandemic. That seems like a fine use. But there was a state prop titled "REQUIRES ON-SITE LICENSED MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL AT KIDNEY DIALYSIS CLINICS AND ESTABLISHES OTHER STATE REQUIREMENTS. INITIATIVE STATUTE." This was some sort of high-dollar fight among vested interests fought via sketchy ballot proposition and it absolutely should not have been on the ballot.

(You also can quickly run into tyranny-of-the-majority issues. E.g., famously liberal and tolerant California in 2008 voted to strip an already-existing civil right from a minority. [3])

For complex issues, I think it's better to have the decision-making concentrated in the hands of highly supervised professionals with staffs who have the time to understand the issues enough so that they have a chance of understanding the impacts. Rather than more direct democracy, what I'd like to see is more transparency and accountability for those professionals.

[1] In our most recent election we had 7 state propositions: https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/ballot-measures/qualified-b...

[2] And 15 local ones: https://voterguide.sfelections.org/en/local-ballot-measure-a...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2008_California_Proposition_8
Not aging is not the same as being invincible. There would still be turn over. You can also legislate things like mandatory retirement from a position so that others get a chance to move up. The legal aspects of longevity are easy to solve compared to the task of curing aging.