skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think that once you put enough countries on both sides of your line, https://xkcd.com/1170/ starts to apply. Do you really think that all of the countries with basically good governments will vote for the wrong side of a resolution and all of the countries with evil governments will vote for the right side of the same resolution?
I always assume the author or publication stands to gain from being right and is attempting to influence things for their preferred outcome.
I am not so convinced that 2023 will entail a “soft” anything. The average American is financed to the gills and layoffs are coming. I went to cash in my taxable accounts and am buckling down for the worst.
Hilarious to hear that we are justifying something that naturally occurs, but let's indulge the train of thought--

The elimination of death would necessitate that each individual would consume indefinitely, whereas the planet has finite resources. So, at some point, children must stop being born, and governments must either enforce infertility or make having sex illegal.
I implemented in the app layer so had the user available to implement the new audit record. I suppose doing it in the DB layer would impose a challenge. The few ways to solve that that I’m aware of would require a) your app to kick off a function with the user id of the mutation or b) pushing user auth into the DB layer and principal switching your DB connection. Both have downsides IMO.

I don’t typically favor DB level solutions because bleeding app logic beyond basic schema and integrity means you lose some portability and/or your architecture messes separation of concerns pretty quick. Maybe that means you don’t get the full benefit of the DB but it’s a trade I usually make.
> My latest issue is that Firefox

Firefox defaults to XWayland - you need to edit a setting to switch it to Wayland (MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1).
Because tube amps emphasise certain frequencies/harmonics that are more pleasing to the human ear? Hence the "warmer" sound effect.
Show HN: Ensemble – BeReal for Music
Hi everyone! Over the past few months I've been working on a social music project called ensemble.

ensemble is a mobile app to help people discover music by sharing one song daily with friends. Here's how it works: each day at a random time, everyone is notified to share one song with their friends, listen to the songs shared by others, and give out their single “fire of the day” to let a friend know their curation was awesome.
I've used Ubuntu since 2016 and the only issue I had (which I couldn't solve at the end and had to give up) was to install a driver for an old laser printer. Apart from that, I've had absolutely no issue for installing something and I am not a geek by any means.
The main reason is that someone needs to make decisions about hiring, firing and negotiating salary
>> the monthly cost of housing hasn’t changed as a percentage of take home pay,

That is by design. Banks figure your monthly payment as a percent of income. Then based on interest rates they figure out how much you can borrow. Then everyone - the sellers, the agents, even the bank - push you to borrow the max allowed and spend it. This is why lower interest rate cause higher house prices.

Interest rates are going up. Home prices have slowed. Speculation is over. Still waiting for the drop. The economy seems to have gotten really good at moving ahead in spite of pressure to slow. I fear there may be built up negative pressure that's about to give. Not sure though.
That depends on the industry.

In finance or medicine, it's often illegal[0] to delete customer information before the end of an expiration period (minimum several years).

There are ways to comply without soft-deletion, but in practice they are much more expensive to implement and never used.

0: "Illegal" is the wrong word, really "non-compliant with regulations, resulting in significant fines but except in case of gross negligence or fraud, probably not criminal charges".
He's never going to pay and then use it as an excuse to move everyone to Texas.

I mean that's not a difficult or outlandish guess.
Generally from my experience, people saying "fuck cars" aren't just talking about cars alone. They're talking about all poorly designed towns, cities, and infrastructure that completely cater to cars while disregarding the necessity of human movement, transportation, and health.
Berkeley teacher sent 15,000 letters to students' future selves
More Americans died during the Civil War. Life expectancy has increased, and will continue to increase, because of science.

Antibiotics only started appearing in the 1940s, for example.

Jimmy Carter survived cancer in his 90’s. That likely would not have happened a few decades ago.
I have run Linux as a daily driver on probably 50 laptops/ desktops over 25 years. I have never found a problem I could not solve. Sometimes that required me to use a search engine and understand a bit about debugging. In a few cases issues required my to gain an understanding of how the Linux kernel works, and make some patches. I got code upstreamed in the kernel before I was old enough to drink.

These days you can buy plenty of computers that ship with Linux and everything will work great. If you just want it to work you can pay money and even have a support plan.

That said, if you work in tech you should take note that the whole world runs on Linux now. You will do yourself a major favor just buying any random machine off the shelf, build a DIY distro like Gentoo on it, and learn how to make it run rock solid.

The ability to fix anything about Linux to adapt it to virtually any hardware it was not designed for is a feature, not a bug.
When they announced this I switched over to the weather app to prepare myself and it honestly isn't bad. The interface is different but all the data is in there.
I'm up in LA, but I'm strongly considering going up to SF (or down to SD) for a day or two to learn as I can't seem to find anything where I am.
I started doing exactly this ~20 years ago, namely getafreelancer.com, fighting with developers at 20$ an hour.

Over time I kept some good contacts from there and supplanted the low paid jobs with better clients.
Show HN: I created an AI clone of the philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti
My wife didn’t mind Ubuntu on her laptop, except for the initial install had an upside down screen so I had to reconfigure the gyroscope to know which way is up and down, and when her RAM would get full, the system would just lock up and she’d have to restart. She could even use Microsoft Teams for calls with our daughters doctors!

To be fair, these laptops were quite old and I installed windows on another identical laptop, but Windows had totally broken Bluetooth and you couldn’t change the display brightness, which was way more annoying than the relatively minor Ubuntu issue with RAM. I never managed to fix those issues on Windows, so I’m not bashing on Linux here.

Eventually I bought her an M1 MacBook Air. She hasn’t complained once.
Apply to smaller companies, show them your skills, learn how to firefight, learn how to navigate “small bosses”, spend some time learning the skills that aren’t just programming - a lot is not just “can you do x”
Looks like they're using https://themify.me/themes/elemin
> House prices have increased significantly above inflation for decades to the point of absurdity, many multiples of a households income

True and yet, compared to house price/income multiples in other developed countries, the US metric is remarkably low (yes, Fannie Freddie etc). Perhaps Americans are just catching up
@bitwize et al answers the question much much better.
Linear algebra. Also refresh Calculus.
you'd be up to your ears in false positives, which can often be worse. screening is hard.
Ask HN: Android or iOS, which one do you prefer?
I hope this isn't a low effort post and I'm not wanting to start a flame war but I was wondering what the HN crowd uses as their daily driver phones.

I only had Android smartphones but I'm currently in the market for a new one because this old dog I'm using is slowly dying. I'm considering an another Android smartphone (Pixel 7 probably) because I'm so used to the whole OS experience, I like the side-loading app feature and I'm not heavily invested in the Apple ecosystem.

But what I don't like about Android smartphones is their short lifespan in comparison to iPhones. Most of my Android phones lasted 2-3 years and I find it wasteful in this time and age to change phones so rapidly. OTOH iPhone doesn't precisely play the whole planed obsolescence game and I really think the Apple hardware is more superior.

To make my choice easier I would love to hear your thoughts and experiences about this dilemma.
It's not so much an "illegal question" - it's asking about something that's illegal to take into consideration when making hiring decisions. So there's no legitimate reason to ask it and any answers can't be used.
You don't need to be rich for that. Even if you're struggling financially, going out to tech events where you could meet potential partners vs. sitting at home with your head down could be the difference between "getting lucky" and spending the rest of your life in a W2 situation.

Business is about connections and rich people get a great head start on the rest of us, but the average person does a lot of self-sabotage, as well.
Yeah man I love winter running/walking! I went out during the -45C wind chills too. That's why I had to get some ski goggles. My eyes were freezing shut! Plus during blizzards the snow is like little razors on my eyeballs.

That's the last bit of winter gear I think I needed. There's something about it though that I love. I can't force myself to get to the gym a block away but I'll go outside in blizzard conditions and really enjoy myself!
If your not looking for an audience why bother putting what you wrote online at all? Writing has a purpose, one of those is sharing an idea. If there's no one to share it with why would you write it then?
3 weeks ago, I had just bought a mechanical keyboard for the first time in my life. I didn't have a chance to use it properly until I found out about this site. Thank you.
Conference demographics and footprint changed by virtual platforms
I have a theory that people who want to get in shape but don't know where to start will gravitate towards running, because it's what we all remember doing in grade school gym class.

Running is great, I'm not knocking it at all. But I would also try other activities to see what sticks (hiking, weightlifting, rock climbing, social sports leagues, etc.)

There's also lots of free beginner-friendly workouts on YouTube (where you follow-along with an instructor).
Is this specific to running, or just any kind of daily strenuous exercise?
This really resonates with me; it makes me realize that I've been too caught up in the subjective things you list here, and not focusing enough on what's more objective.

This applies to conversations about performance a lot, too - so many debates on performance happen without any benchmarking or attempts to measure.
But this assumes your only option is employment, which is exactly the opposite of my point.

If, as another commenter said, I'm generating $600k of value and only being paid $300k, it's easier now than it ever has been for me to reduce my effort and generate, say, $450k, and still get to keep $300k of it working for myself. I can reduce my output my 25% without reducing my income.

That's not to say it's easy, just easier than it ever has been, and people are figuring that out.
cf https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2023/
Hampton from Hybrid Calisthenics (find him on YouTube) has some of the best content I’ve found, personally, for calisthenics, both informational and his routine is free and made a huge difference for me!
I like some time to think about just whatever is on my mind and let my mind wander. I find it kind of relaxing.

For me, running is consuming enough that my brain can't really operate at 100%, and it's more like 75%. Sometimes this is wonderful because normally my mind tends to go overboard with stuff, but while running my mind doesn't have the appetite to make things heavy and involved.

Another thing is to just stop focusing so much on your inward thoughts and look all around you. Running is a great way to explore and observe an area because you can pick up way more detail than while driving but you can also cover more area than walking.

It also helps to avoid focusing on whether you're done. A watched pot never boils. Asking yourself "how much distance do I have left?" every 2 minutes is sure to make the run seem like it lasts forever.
There is no PMF in anything web3 related. Web3 is a mountain of trash. Token economics is a rebranding of ponzi economics. Really can't take seriously the investors who made a quick buck flipping trash coins and still talk their book. Web3 isn't going to zero, but its going to an industry wide marketcap of like 1B or less. Its only use cases are evading capital controls, KYC, and taxation. Decentralization writ large is not useful, it doesn't provide any interesting product benefits, and customers don't care about it.
https://docs.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

Pencavel, "The Productivity of Working Hours", 2014

> The conclusion from the work presented in this section is that the output-hours relation is decidedly non-linear: below 49 weekly hours, variations in output are proportional to variations in hours; for those observations corresponding to 49 or more hours, output rises with hours at a decreasing rate and a maximum of output occurs at about 63 hours. Output at 70 hours differs little from output at 56 hours and, therefore, the HMWC’s recommendations about the innocuous effects for output of hours reductions are consistent with these estimates.

Note that this is about manual labour, not knowledge work.

I guess you think they are ignorantly damaging themselves.

Not the OP, but I would think they are deliberately damaging their workers. The effect on the company itself is of no concern relative to that.
The issue with this sort of broad-based testing is specificity. If these tests aren't highly specific then you're going to get all sorts of false positives clogging up the medical system. That can be such a large burden that proper care for sick people gets negatively affected.
Almost 50 years ago in fact. And there were alternatives all along that timeline and many before it.

SQL is the first and possibly the only successful fourth gen programming language, and the most substantive complaints generally boil down to "SELECT should have been after FROM and WHERE". The vast majority of the seekers to the crown have been third generation languages trying to fake it with relational algebra, and data is just too important to allow side effects.

In short, don't assume because something has lasted in the computing world for 50 years that it is fundamentally flawed and only due to inertia. That would be a very foolish assumption indeed.

SQL is a DSL for set theory and as such any viable replacement will look substantially like it. When the differences are subtle, the impetus to retool/rewrite just evaporate.
https://archive.is/tdKcy
Jim Cramer has been shouting stock picks on television since the 90s. Just in case you were not aware that he is still around.

You have to treat these people with a certain kind of detachment to exactitude. If you run into Fred Wilson I suggest nodding along knowingly to every single thing he says.
I still have a personal blog.

However, blogs were essentially a seminar where people could get caught up on topics that had escaped them elsewhere in their education.

Now that one is caught up, there seems little to add.
Yep. My biggest peeve is that google never returns more than 400 search results now. Either you find it on the first 3-4 pages of 100 results or it stops and gives you no more. You can go 36 pages at 10 results per page but it's still only ever <400 results.

It makes serendipitous web search and surfing nearly impossible and like you said, the first pages of results are stuffed with corporate sites and things that changed in the last week.

Bing, btw, will only ever return <900 results.
Yeah that is not really the idea here, that means a lot of overhead for introducing another system to have to call via http, deploy etc
From close experience of watching friends I'd say this is unreasonably
effective and well designed fitness programme. I've seen two people
who really struggle to exercise massively benefit from c25k.

It's all in the psychology and Josh Clark is on to some good ideas wrt
motivation. I listened to a bit of the audio, of the "personal trainer
Laura" - an excellent voice artist for the role fit (I worked in radio
and know what I'm talking about). Plus there's been a few celeb
motivators doing the narration including Jo Whiley who is pleasant to
listen to and not overly jarring. Personally I'd probably prefer Lee
Ermey.
We need to get some crossover between virologists and economists. Virologists always seem to know when pandemics are coming.
They are young. No generation is perfect, and they may yet fail to address it.

But still, if the issue isn’t even recognized then the only way it might be addressed is accidentally. At least they have a chance to look it head on.
If I understand your point correctly, you say that suspend keyword gives you a hint for which functions are long running, so that you run them in a background thread.

I think that’s a very flawed assumption. Some IO operations are pretty fast, like reading a local filesystem, and can be done in the UI thread, while some heavy non-async functions are accidentally O(n^2), and freeze your IO thread.

And if you say that “of course you should know what you’re doing”, then I think that suspend syntax just adds extra complexity without much semantic benefit.
I believe there is a potential market where contemporary celebrity laden media is personalized with automated actor replacement. Fans can have the fantasy of being in the media: in the fantasy, sci-fi, superhero and pop music media they already consume. Side by side with their idols, plus further personalizing treatments such as localization and product placements. This may sound Orwellian, but it is also wildly open ended and a creative uncharted territory for narrative story telling. The potential for education is profound.

I've been working on fully automated actor replacement for over a decade now, exploring the aspects and potential of such personalization. I think it has the potential of being an entire recognized separate medium from traditional story telling.
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Why I Could Be Wrong
I doubt it about the accuracy but I could be wrong. It's in Apple's best interest to push people to use App Store applications so that might have something to do with it.
It amuses me that they felt the need to add the words: "after death" to the title.
Ubuntu is truly awesome as a completely free product, and a huge number of people would be perfectly fine running this, as they basically just do browsing, Facebook, write and few documents etc., however the majority of these people still use Windows as it's pre-installed on their sub $700 laptops (clever move by Microsoft).

Having said that, Windows just have SO much more software, making that OS a preferred choice for most people who use their computer for more "advanced" tasks.

Linux, still, offers only a tiny fraction of the software available for Windows. Generally the quality of software for Windows is MUCH higher (an often comparison by Linux fans when I mention Photoshop is Gimp, which makes me wonder if these people simply just are used to low quality software, or just don't know better?).

It's not a choice between Linux and Microsoft, who cares about the OS (the point of a OS is to be invisible anyway), it's a choice between the software which can solve your problem / work / task.. And in that light, Linux is still lightyears behind Microsoft.
Think it was intended to be surrounding
Aim for big tech companies. They regularly hire engineers that can pass coding challenges but otherwise have no experience or CS degree. I was hired at Google this way and many of my colleagues have similar backgrounds. It's a bit harder in this environment with hiring freezes, admittedly.

If you're more interested in startups that seem to require more practical experience, you'll probably need to do some personal projects or contribute to open source.
> One of my favorite book quotes:

> > “Science is not enough, religion is not enough, art is not enough, politics and economics is not enough, nor is love, nor is duty, nor is action however disinterested, nor, however sublime, is contemplation. Nothing short of everything will really do.” - Aldous Huxley

This is what AGI will go. It will know everything, and at an above best-human level at that.
> Also you probably want to run content moderation from somewhere a little less lopsided ideology-wise. A little more normie like Salt Lake City, Phoenix, or Austin. Ideally a content moderator should be able to have a civil lunch with 80% of the country.

Musk fired a significant number of content moderators; I haven't seen any indications that they plan to rehire those roles elsewhere.
• Music theory and production

• Improve my Finnish to B1 level
There were some comments yesterday on tracking subs, talking about the throughput requirements. It made me think about another bit of orbital infrastructure: in-orbit inference engines on satellites, so processing on vast gobs of data can happen without beaming the reams of data down.

But yeah, seems like interoperable space protocols are starting up. BACN-Mesh works. Maybe not quite so important & I forget the name but I feel like there were some command protocols starting to emerge into semi-standard form as well.
Agreed it is tough to answer. Highly polymorphic code is often not that diverse, for one. And many languages that encourage polymorphism are run with a jit. Which can be seen as a higher level branch predictor. And, predictably, benefits code paths that don't have a lot of diversity in the types being sent through code.
Nest is impressive. Especially if you came from .Net or Java. I just started a new project with Nest recently and it was a breath of fresh air. It has all the bits I had to add manually to other Node projects in the past. I feel like they go a bit over the top promoting design patterns in their documentation, though I appreciate how methodical they are with them in their own code.
From my original comment,

>Just to preempt misunderstanding: HTTPS is great. But HTTPS only, with no option for HTTP is very much worse than HTTP+HTTPS for human people. Despite being great for for profit companies and institutions.

Using LE is great. It's problematic that literally everyone uses it but it's better than it not existing. But using LE does not solve the problem of not being able to use plain HTTP.
> If I search for a big Canadian bank, the first page is entirely their own website and their own social media properties.

My expectation is that most people searching for the name of the bank are doing it because they are trying to find the official bank pages.

If searches like [bankname fraud] etc also mostly got the bank's own pages, that would be a problem, but this sounds like giving people what they're looking for?
I had an issue with a wifi card in my self-built win 10 PC and I'd agree there's nothing I could do myself to fix it. I'm not competent to even help write drivers but at least in theory the Linux community could write me a new one if the same issue happened on Linux.

But the reason I'm on windows in the first place is that I left Linux several years ago when I bought a second monitor and Linux would sometimes work great but sometimes fail to display anything on either of them at startup. That just was not useable. I tried again about a year after and same issue - I would like to go back to Linux but I don't have time to roll the dice on being able to start work in the morning or have to ssh in from another device to figure out what happened to my display.