skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a complete misfeature from start to finish.

They put in an "attempt to evaluate strings" feature. Literally as bad as someone doing a `console.log(eval(input))`.

Not only is it that bad, but also it's something with just a tiny bit of inconvenience you can get with either String.format or the likes of slf4j's formatting ( `logger.info("{} value", foo.get());` )

They took the worst case for an injection attack and applied it everywhere.
The problem is that objective reality has a well known left wing bias. If ChatGPT starts saying that gays will go to hell or that the earth is flat, then you've done something wrong, even if a large number of ordinary people do think that way.
> Hop on a plane and look at what the foundation is actually doing in places where they are doing it. I have never seen anything useful.

You're prasing this as if you've flown to Africa, examined something like an anti-malaria program, and decided it was useless for unstated reasons. Somehow I doubt you've done so.
> You're describing certainty. This is a prediction, not reality.

I was being concrete about atoms, in particular, not about what gets named as a "scientific fact" in general.

Yes, in general you don't reach that threshold of being able to produce a stream of evidence that is always compatible to a theory, and you should not call that theory a fact (I also pointed that out on a different message). However for the existence of atoms, specifically, I do believe we have reached this level.

> Certainty does have interesting properties, from a Bayesian perspective: if you are certain of something

I don't literally believe with 100% certainty that atoms exist (because I may as well be a Boltzmann Brain hallucinating my entire universe). I say there will never come a time when we'll disprove the existence of atoms (at their level of abstraction).
Twining School selected for technology program excellence award
The American left is not handling its turn at being the Moral Majority very well.
Why is Eric Schmidt one of the biggest hypocrites alive?
why wikipedia? I can see reddit + pinboard.
The challenge is that you might only need 6 hops to find that person you’re looking for (on average).
Probably even faster when the calls to string_to_uint64 are moved outside the function.
Ask HN: Subscription manager that work for Latin America (Colombia)?
I need to support subscription for my current SAS app and most of my customers are in colombia. I wish to offload this part but don't know which library/app can I use that could work with Colombia (my main income) and latin america.
Cursory?

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-...
I went there once or twice but it was a fraction of the size of the San Jose store on 1st Street. At least the Togo's was nearby ;)
I assume they interpreted the second part of the GP comment (unplugging the cable) more in the attention/distraction sense, as I initially did.
Blessed is the GPL. We need more of that and less of MIT.
The energy cost of extracting oxygen is higher than you'd get from burning it.
They could just cop on and use the meter.
Are you arguing the tarot cards have any bearing on what you tell each person, or are you admitting they are just an excuse and what you say to each people is based on other things?

Because I can sort of understand the latter, but how would you even justify the former here on HN, a forum for tech and science oriented people?
I think there was also a Lotus Notes server for NLM.
Well, at least the Morris worm wouldn't have happened with PL/I.
We use a high-end Miele dishwasher, model 6875. It's amazing (though expensive) and it's the only dishwasher I've had that I didn't kind of hate, and it has lasted perfectly for several years now.

Miele Model 6875 (now discontinued):

https://www.designerappliances.com/miele-g6875scvisf.html

We don't use it for knives, pots, or non-dishwasher-safe items. For those items, I wash them by hand. For years I have used this scrubbing cloth:

Crown Choice All-Purpose Cleaning Scrubber

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07YP16LK9?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_...

That scrubbing cloth is great because it dries out quickly, never gets smelly, does not scratch anything even if you scrub hard, and lasts a very long time (at least 6 months of daily use, but probably a year or more).

For gummy stuff, I usually use a dish brush before the cloth to knock the gunk off of the dish so that I don't have to later clean it off of the cloth. I've never found one that I like well enough, so I won't post a link.

For stuck-on stuff, I use a Progressive scraper:

https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-GT-3300-Gadget-Scrapers-D...

Those are sold out, but these look similar:

https://www.amazon.com/Multicolor-Silicone-Dishwashing-Multi...
Not to mention that `log.info(eval(input))` made it effectively impossible to determine if you were compromised. If you weren't vulnerable you'd see "eval(input)" in your log, however, if you were vulnerable you wouldn't see anything.
I’m not a “they.” Truly, I have no team and I sort of feel bad that others do.

Soros didn’t make his money in a very honorable way, nor did the Koch brothers. They both have decided to use politics to exercise the same avarice that made them rich, perhaps deluding themselves and others into thinking that it’s ok if they are “doing good for the public.” Unending greed for political influence isn’t much better than greed for cash. It’s all just will to power. I feel similarly about most professional politicians, which is why I don’t have a team.
Enjoying something, choosing it, and choosing to do things based on what feels joyful are three different things.

Getting to a place where one can find joy in dark torment is absolutely in their best interest. So is learning about universal human needs, so as to be able to make choices based on that, rather than purely emotionally-driven choices.
Sounds like work that should be built upon, but also, the "both sides" bs it plays to is morally and intellectually weak.

I'm pretty moderate (in the sense of having a weird basket of views, some quite "left", some rather "right"). I would vote for a center-right party, if we had one.

I can somewhat see where the moral intuitions of both sides of the standard political divide arise from, but it's also pretty clear to me that the American political right is now marked by an almost pathological lack of empathy and compassion, as well as a blatant hatred for truth, fact, intellect, and basic good character. Morally, it's become totally inconsistent with the traditional values I believe in. While liberals definitely over-index on empathy and compassion, it's pretty clear they are more balanced overall. And at the very least, I find them incorrect in a more mundane and acceptable way. They haven't succumbed to evil.
I would love this as a browser extension for HN
It's the opposite. The absolute occurence of stroke was higher in people who got the vaccine, but other risk factors were also higher; adjusting for those, they found a "less-higher than expected" amount of stroke, which they attribute to the flu vaccine.

If you have a lot of faith in these sorts of statistical adjustments and the assumptions behind them, then you may find this result compelling.
In a sane country you are innocent until proven guilty. That fact you exist as a human being is all the evidence you need to prove you are innocent.

If you have to "prove you are innocent" the government is the one violating the law, not you.

Seizing your family's wealth and denying you ability to make a living is punishment for a crime you are not convicted of. That itself alone is beyond violation of justice.

And yes it is "standard" for the government to leverage administrative law to seize assets before a court case. The true purpose of this is to deny a person ability to defend themselves against the government. This is the very definition of evil and tyranny. There is no excuse.

> Third, it seems entirely fair and reasonable for Amazon to have pressured the DOJ to seize/freeze assets. Isn't that very standard in any case of fraud (or whatever this is ultimately prosecuted as)?

Well just wait until somebody decides to seize everything you own with no explanation, no crime, no evidence, and no ability to appeal and see how you "fair and reasonable" it feels after that.
My physics teacher used to joke that the standard horsepower was James Watt's horse, forever preserved in a vacuum in France.
It's interesting that tech experience was the negative cited by these companies, but it sounds like the positions were high-level ("founding PM").

Product management has a wider spectrum of actual responsibilities than engineering, in my opinion -- "product manager" is akin to "restaurant manager." It depends greatly on what the company is looking for in their PMs. Having tech experience will always give you a head-start over PMs who have no formal tech roles on their resume (me), but some companies really value the more religious, navel-gazing side of product management, and if you're not boned up on that, you'll get humbled quickly. I'm not saying that's you, mind you, but I've worked with technical PMs who are engineers-turned-PMs and really are just well-spoken engineers more than true PMs who love problems.

I only know what you shared in the post, but the last paragraph is interesting -- it sounds like you'd like to target FAANG companies, but you've gotten contacted by startups -- again, much different environments. I wouldn't overanalyze what the startups said about your tech experience. Have you gotten any PM interviews with big tech companies? It's a bit of a bloodbath right now with layoffs everywhere, so you might have some waiting out to do.
House Democrats release six years of Donald Trump’s tax returns
Another variable that causes issues in the results is the effectiveness of the vaccine and the evolution of the virus over years with retained immunity.

For example:

A flu shot from years ago can protect against a flu from this year or in the future. So even if the flu vaccine isn’t effective in its current year, the immunity lasts for many years to those antigens. The strain of flu that’s currently dominant can fluctuate to newer or older variants. Controlling for this is even more confusing

A guess this year could help in future years
If you're hosting video on the internet and don't have a team of 50 engineers to make sure it streams smoothly on every type of device and internet connection speed on every continent, then please just embed YouTube or another streaming site who do have the necessary resources to make sure it plays properly.

That video explanation pauses for 10 seconds every 5 seconds of playback for me, which makes the content almost useless.
For those looking for context: https://www.geekwire.com/2021/former-aws-real-estate-manager...
If they can white label CloudFlare as part of their iPrivacy for everyone with iCloud+, they could white label kagi as well.

The catch, of course, is the $15B (billion with a B) annual payment from Google to stay the default.

That's (a) not insignificant even to Apple bottom line, (b) tells you a little something about the value to Google of even the nearly last place marketshare of searches using Safari.
Are you going to rename "mincemeat" while you're at it? or the meat of the nut?
https://archive.md/pVMT7
I send myself emails or text messages.
Interesting. I have a strong subconscious urge to keep my mouth shut -- not kidding, I think inspired by watching Mary Poppins as a kid: "Mouth closed, Michael, we are not a codfish." So even when I am most focused, my mouth is always closed.
I was under the impression that law enforcement has established a large number of Tor exit nodes, allowing them to unravel the onion (so to speak).
The cynical take on this is that Microsoft has pivoted hard into being a services and advertising company, so it is more important to them that you run Windows with all of its data gathering and advertising and cloud BS then it is that you paid for Windows at all.

They could easily break the fake KMS but choose not to. It speaks a lot to their priorities.
I also feel the same way about the book, very easy to implement some of the suggestions in the book.

And your comment is also easily applicable, haha. I implemented the same strategy while running after the book. One of my favorite books.
Gates was against sharing vaccine technology with India while the country's hospitals were literally running out of oxygen and people gasping for breath. Then after finally acquiescing under intense pressure, his foundation ran illegal medical trials on vulnerable groups. Honestly it's a lot more concerning than the various Twitter dramas (or any web app dramas) so many here are obsessed with.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/why-are-indians-so-angry-at-...
True.

Yet so many ORM's come with "soft-delete" built-in:

- [Golang Bun](https://bun.uptrace.dev/guide/soft-deletes.html#introduction) Lightweight Golang ORM for PostgreSQL, MySQL, MSSQL, and SQLite

- [Golang GORM](https://gorm.io/docs/delete.html#Soft-Delete) The fantastic ORM library for Golang

- [Typescript DeepKit](https://docs.deepkit.io/english/database.html#_plugins) High performance typescript framework

- [Java Spring](https://www.baeldung.com/spring-jpa-soft-delete) How to Implement a Soft Delete with Spring JPA

- [Typescript TypeOrm](https://doug-martin.github.io/nestjs-query/docs/persistence/...) Easy CRUD for GraphQL

- [Typescript Sequalize](https://sequelize.org/docs/v6/core-concepts/paranoid/) Sequelize is a modern TypeScript and Node.js ORM for Oracle, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite and SQL Server, and more.

- [Typescript Prisma](https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-client...) Next-generation Node.js and TypeScript ORM

- [Rust](https://docs.rs/diesel-softdelete/latest/diesel_softdelete/) Diesel query builder

- [Python Django](https://github.com/scoursen/django-softdelete) Soft delete for Django ORM, with support for undelete

GDPR is a good point. Also, do people really go back and delete?
Ah ofc, Clazilla, SSH stacks and stuff for System6.
But there isn't a lot more. OpenBSD can run scummvm, mplayer, openttd...
just avoiding the flu once in a while is likely enough to be an overwhelming benefit

No one is getting the flu on purpose, if people could avoid it they would.

It depends a little on how you react to the vaccine

Statistically it doesn't and this is about statistics, not 'what if' scenarios. What is this supposed to mean?
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Arata Isozaki dies aged 91
Thanks for the explainer.
I think one key issue here is that no justice has happened yet. We cannot be sure whether it was a miscarriage of justice to take the funds until a court hears the case. Maybe it's a miscarriage to return them?

It makes sense they are returned because at this point it should be a default win for the plantiff. But 17% are being kept (unjust) and no one has actually HAD their day in court either (so there is no innocent/guilty party here). Default wins are still wins but they tell us nothing.

I think all of this could be solved by NOT taking 2 years (and counting) to file charges.

C'est la vie.
C++ should be even better in those categories.
I'm not sure any mathematician would agree with this page: https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/mathematics/irrational_numb...

It says

"An irrational number is a real number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers, i.e. as a fraction. Put another way, it can never be specified with absolute accuracy."

I guess their thinking is that since the decimal expansion goes on forever, the irrational number can never be "known." But that's a really narrow view of what it means to "know" a number. Similarly we can't ever "know" 1/7, for instance.

A better set of numbers to focus on in the spirit of this would be the uncomputable numbers.
I dictate them to my watch and let them transcribe to my notes app.
I'm imagining someone in the US saying, "I've always wanted to go to Austria!", hopping on a plane, and arriving the next day.
How much did the war in Afghanistan cost?

I’m seeing estimates around $2 trillion.

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-01/costsofwar
> Gates went into philanthropy

And what does that mean to me? Successful businesses like Tesla and Spacex have done much more for the world through the technology they have developed than any donation ever has. I'm supposed to value charity more highly just because it's not profitable?
According to that list 2023 should be even more amazing. They have ~50 commercial or gov customer flights scheduled vs the ~30 they did this year.

I wonder how much they can increase the flight rate, if they can't they'll face the dilemma of not having enough capacity to also launch the same or more Starlinks.

What are the odds Starship begins launching Starlinks next year? If it doesn't they may want to open another pad, there's one available in Kourou.
The average passenger likely paid far more than $10, so I think their point stands, sort of. I would add that trains for longer than a few hours in many western countries often cost more than the typical price of a Ryanair ticket, so I’m not sure the class difference is very large in some countries.
"travel & outdoors" > I do the same thing, Google Maps stars for me.
Most maintainers don't want to offer paid support though. It comes with expectations of support. I just want to hand someone $50 for many hours of work already spent. But that's tricky.
This is entirely shocking to me and definitely doesn't just promote a sigh, an eyeroll, and a disturbingly-existential internal observation on the futility of getting anything non-money-related done in good faith when money is involved.
I’d like to post the Apple GitHub account where you can find quite a few repositories Apple is developing open source for not only Apple platforms. They even just announced that the new Swift native Foundation framework will be completely open source. I think that’s pretty significant.

https://github.com/apple
This is a fantastic resource, thanks for posting it. Using it, I realized that in 2022, SpaceX had no landing failures. Their rockets nailed every landing they attempted, which is even more impressive when you realize they flew twice as many missions as in 2021.
I highly suggest to add medicine, cooking and nutrition to that list. You can't outsource health generally.
What about a large reflector dish grabbing sunlight at some distance from the Moon in a geosynchronous orbit, bouncing energy to a receiving station at the new Artemis site?
Millennials are shattering the oldest rule in politics
s/the crowds/sports journos/
https://archive.vn/H0Rk8
I've been trying to get my son to take notes forever. He doesn't, except in one area -- his video channel ideas. He's gotten pretty good at pulling my phone (he doesn't have one) and sending himself a note via our family slack.

We were skiing last weekend and I had a really good idea for him -- I shared it with him and he said, "Get your phone out, write that down!" I said, "There's no way I'll forget, it's too good..!"

Neither of us can remember what it is.

Parental touche, hardcore.

--

I remember working for someone a couple decades ago who would go on long road trips to his vacation house and use a voice recorder. He'd record hours and hours of his thoughts, and then have his assistant transcribe the recordings.

One thing I've struggled with -- I have a lot of ideas. I write a lot of ideas down, but I do less well at capturing the level of detail that made the idea exciting at the time. That's what I'd like to develop further.
Maybe. Reference link(s), please.
The docs you linked say that IDLE can help with indentation, not reindent code for you. This might surprise you, but students don't necessarily know how to preserve indentation or reindent code as they cut/paste around.
Naturally, this and a CPAP are in consideration, but getting to that point is profoundly difficult without health insurance in the US. I am seeking solutions for relief in the meantime.
how is this better than just using asdf where i can just put a `.tool-versions` file in the project and have it swap ruby+node+whatever to the appropriate versions?

(honest question)

https://asdf-vm.com/
Since I already have the flask app set up I could inject the items into the page with a render template before serving it. Or write directly I guess since I already have the html snippet I want to insert! Good suggestion. The current architecture is partly just an artefact of the order I developed things :)
I would love to read a minute by minute breakdown of what happens the 48hrs before a launch and 48 hrs after a launch. Like to the level of detail of the order of attaching straps to lift the booster off a drone ship and the individual commands to bring the flight computers online.

edit: actually, i'm goign to ask that everyday astronaut guy to figure that out :)
Yes or that, didn't mean to preclude that, just that 'somehow linked' table is better than bunging it all in main one IMO.
Mastodon–and the pros and cons of moving beyond Big Tech gatekeepers
> Santos was an above-average team before he arrived. Same as napoli with Maradona. They took average teams to new heights.

Santos won Campeonato Paulista in 1955, the season before Pele's debut and also in 1956, when Pele debuted towards the end the season. Santos finished second in 1957 when Pele became a regular. They were a dominant team but being a consistently dominant team takes more than one all-time player.

This isn't like Napoli with Maradona, who were a mid-table team when Maradona joined that had never won the top-flight league.
Yes, compilers for C++, BASIC, Pascal, Ada are around, mostly commercial and people pay to keep those companies in business, for powerfull microcontrollers where real time GC is an option, there are Oberon, .NET and Java as well.

There are surelly other factors that weight in using C, but not for lack of options (in many cases).
Yes, it's also used to hide implementation complexity and diversity: the advantage of a standard (even a "weak" one).

> SQL is used to reduce network roundtrips.

What I mean is: the database has an API that allows the client to specify (almost) arbitrary complex queries and operations. Regular REST APIs don't support this. GraphQL also supports it. The client sending queries to the database is a great way to reduce network roundtrips. Key-value stores that only support get/put/remove/list require a lot more network roundtrips for slightly complicated operations.

> it makes sense to try a better language.

I argue that the language itself (the syntax) isn't the main problem: part of the problem might be that SQL (even with a better syntax) would _still_ have very similar problems: missing indexes / wrong query plans, missing encapsulation which results in a complex mess of entangled code, things that work fine with small data sets but are extremely slow with large data sets,...
That would be the “dated” interface, then. I prefer it too.
Thanks for expanding. I am a big fan of the book. Some of Nestor's podcast appearances after the book are also great - similar content as the book in podcast format, some hosted by docs and other experts.
from scratch or with wlroots?
Can you share some examples of your "art"? I'm trying to wrap my brain around the concept of writing code for any reason other than work or trying to build something.
TCP_QUICKACK is mostly used to send initial data along with the first ACK upon establishing a connection, or to make sure to merge the FIN with the last segment.
Apples open source repositories on GitHub
What if some people decided they're better off without you and your opinions? Should we cast you from society, de-bank you, and make sure you're destitute?
Great idea for a website. I tried it with ‘jeopardy’, ie the concept of being in perilous trouble, but it only suggested things related to the TV show