skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for your reply and I apologise if you feel offended. I was trying to summarise many experiences I've had over the years in one place and for sure, it sounds like what I've seen before doesn't apply to you.

To give a couple of examples, I've had someone tell me that they'd rather buy every dev who signs up for their platform (for free) a new iPhone, rather than write a desktop app to let them manage their API keys. I also worked on Bitcoin for a while and had to warn people that their users would lose large sums of money in avoidable ways if they implemented their idea as a web app, I was ignored because I was assured nobody downloads desktop apps anymore, and then people lost large sums of money in exactly the ways predicted. Note that Bitcoin itself was a Windows-only desktop app! This sort of thing is what I was thinking of.

Still, I'd ask you to reconsider the conclusions of your project. Yes it would of course be convenient to have it all run as a web app, but the alternative you faced wasn't a tradeoff between something more convenient and something less, it was between something a bit less convenient (albeit same number of clicks in many cases) or, apparently, nothing at all.

You clearly have the skills to try again with an alternative approach that runs outside the browser. It would be a cool feature, and even if in the end you conclude without being in-browser it's not convenient enough, it would be interesting to learn how users reacted in usability studies. I spend my time trying to make the desktop app UX as fast and smooth as possible, and if Shopify are up for the challenge then I'd be happy to work with you guys to try and build the most optimal UX possible for this project. Not every EXE is Autodesk! This kind of problem is exactly why I quit my job to make a new product for shipping desktop apps. Projects like this one don't have to wither on the vine.
I can imagine it, but it would require a lot of worldbuilding to explain.

I reckon the primary means of computing for the lay person becomes interacting with prompts to make the computer do what you want, but the actual knowledge of software engineering and computer science is gone. Even the prompts, due to linguistic evolution, are in a language that regular people don't understand and people's mastery of the language is akin to moderns trying to reconstruct something like Akkadian. We sort of know what specific words mean and the general grammar, but we simply don't know 90% of the vocabulary to express most ideas. Whatever the language model was populated on training data from an archaic language and is also full of weird idioms and phrases and misspellings that we can't reconstruct in an organized way.

In this context, the computers might be able to solve some basic problems for us, but everything we do with them is basically just received incantations from other crusty old people. Innovations keep happening, but they're small scale and mostly revolve around finding out new ways to tweak the incantations to do novel things. But the most we can do is say, like, "draw a picture" or "sort this list."
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They also have a business plan. Perhaps that's how they make money and afford the free users?
ohh i see why my google search failed, I was adding the word "go" or "golang" because I thought these were GO rails frameworks.
That's not falling apart, I know several people who have made both decisions.

But I'm sure the vast majority of Americans fall into the same category as I do.

I drive more than 5000 miles a year, therefore buying a car is cheaper than Uber'ing everywhere.

I need a truck less than once a week, so renting from U-Haul and Home Depot both saves me money and gets me a more appropriate vehicle when I need it.
South Korea’s government would surely prop up Samsung.
You may have gotten it confused it for a recently created university by the same name. Just putting it out there.

https://nalandauniv.edu.in/
Science is uncertain endeavor. Especially when it comes to phenomena / events that occur within a certain region of spacetime scale close to what we experience. But people tend to not like uncertainty. They like the word to be predictable.

The main type of science denialism I see is people ignoring the error bars / qualifications on scientific claims. Part of this is done by press offices and the media trying to generate buzz and prestige. Another more cynical group of people do it for profit.

Typically the people I see who cry about censoring of science are the same type of people who cry about free speech when they get banned from a board. If you are a tenured professor you can research pretty much whatever. Just don’t expect a big time journal or conference to broadcast your work if it’s not addressing a “hot” topic. But at the end of the day that’s fine right? We scientists do this for the love of scientific inquiry, not money and status right? /s
^ This is roughly the point I was trying to make.
About two weeks ago my father (76 y/o, technologically-savvy) nearly got burned by this scam, with the "caller" impersonating my nephew who is currently residing in Holland.

The "caller", crying, indicated that he had been in a drunken-driving accident the night before, was currently in jail, other party (a PREGNANT WOMAN) in critical condition, and in need of $9000 cash in short order. Oh yeah, the caller also indicated "whatever you do, don't tell my mom!"

A call to "mom" with a subsequent text message to my actual nephew showed the entire situation to be fabricated.
They might not be able to find someone to pay that rent. In which case they might be forced to sell. Ideally someone who doesn't own a home will purchase it and won't have to pay the tax that caused the original owner to sell.
How much you bring in makes an upper bound on comp. How much you can be replaced for makes a lower bound.
Is it truth if it's just a theory? I don't think so... It has to be proven first and that can take decades or centuries.

I prefer math where it isn't truth but fact.
You would need an 8.1 ft bed to fit a sheet of plywood. Most trucks don't have that. Plywood isn't usually laid flat in a closed bed for that reason.
It's either:

1. Hoisted onto a roof rack (I do not recommend this but I've seen people do it)

2. Lays flat with the tail gate open and overhangs the bed. Secured by ratchet straps.

3. Lays on top of the tail gate and overhangs it a bit. Also secured by ratchet straps.

I guess my point is that plywood isn't an issue for mid-size trucks anymore than it is for full size trucks.

Heck, one of the selling points of the cybertruck is that you will be able to lay a full sheet of plywood with the tailgate up. It's only a selling point because it's an uncommon feature:
https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/e60oxq/tesla_c...
Thank you so much! One more question if you'll permit me - and then I'll leave you alone I promise. Social networks are often recommended as a use-case for a graph database. How well would Memgraph perform on generating an activity feed of all of the posts of the people I follow ordered by post date descending, for example (hopefully with pagination)?
i'm now a club member too
Unbelievable, the crater is visible from Earth

Score: 324.3 point crash

Speed: 2900.4mph

Angle: 16.7°

Time: 1943 seconds

Flips: 56

Max speed: 2900.4mph

Max height: 751071ft

Engine used: 14 times

Boosters used: 170 times

https://ehmorris.com/lander/
Lol apples relationship with the world is like being with an abusive partner. They want to control everything you do, control who you interact with, control how you spend your money. Apples toxic af and the red flags have been flying for years.
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Do We Need a National Algorithms Safety Board?
Cool but why send people to space? Keeping humans alive in space makes the problem so much more difficult. Just move all our industry into space and have the humans stay home.
If you just want to experience the topic of the original post, go to https://github.com/unum-cloud/ujrpc.
I dont think thats what software evangelist mean ^^
Disagree, your suggestion sounds anything but calm. It's like the computer is angry at me and it's fed up of my inactivity.
They offer a mix of audio-only, video-only, and video+audio. Here is a list for a particular video (great music btw)

> youtube-dl -F https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMiaVo_x1EY
[youtube] Extracting URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMiaVo_x1EY
[youtube] GMiaVo_x1EY: Downloading webpage
[youtube] GMiaVo_x1EY: Downloading android player API JSON
[info] Available formats for GMiaVo_x1EY:
ID EXT RESOLUTION FPS CH │ FILESIZE TBR PROTO │ VCODEC VBR ACODEC ABR ASR MORE INFO
──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
sb2 mhtml 48x27 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
sb1 mhtml 80x45 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
sb0 mhtml 160x90 0 │ mhtml │ images storyboard
599 m4a audio only 2 │ 13.42MiB 31k dash │ audio only mp4a.40.5 31k 22k ultralow, m4a_dash
600 webm audio only 2 │ 16.34MiB 37k dash │ audio only opus 37k 48k ultralow, webm_dash
139 m4a audio only 2 │ 21.27MiB 49k dash │ audio only mp4a.40.5 49k 22k low, m4a_dash
249 webm audio only 2 │ 23.83MiB 55k dash │ audio only opus 55k 48k low, webm_dash
250 webm audio only 2 │ 30.99MiB 71k dash │ audio only opus 71k 48k low, webm_dash
140 m4a audio only 2 │ 56.45MiB 129k dash │ audio only mp4a.40.2 129k 44k medium, m4a_dash
251 webm audio only 2 │ 65.21MiB 150k dash │ audio only opus 150k 48k medium, webm_dash
17 3gp 176x144 6 1 │ 21.50MiB 49k https │ mp4v.20.3 49k mp4a.40.2 0k 22k 144p
597 mp4 256x144 13 │ 4.97MiB 11k dash │ avc1.4d400b 11k video only 144p, mp4_dash
598 webm 256x144 13 │ 6.97MiB 16k dash │ vp9 16k video only 144p, webm_dash
160 mp4 256x144 25 │ 5.51MiB 13k dash │ avc1.4d400c 13k video only 144p, mp4_dash
278 webm 256x144 25 │ 15.44MiB 35k dash │ vp9 35k video only 144p, webm_dash
133 mp4 426x240 25 │ 9.53MiB 22k dash │ avc1.4d4015 22k video only 240p, mp4_dash
242 webm 426x240 25 │ 28.68MiB 66k dash │ vp9 66k video only 240p, webm_dash
134 mp4 640x360 25 │ 15.47MiB 35k dash │ avc1.4d401e 35k video only 360p, mp4_dash
18 mp4 640x360 25 2 │ ~ 73.46MiB 165k https │ avc1.42001E 165k mp4a.40.2 0k 44k 360p
243 webm 640x360 25 │ 55.53MiB 127k dash │ vp9 127k video only 360p, webm_dash
135 mp4 854x480 25 │ 22.52MiB 52k dash │ avc1.4d401e 52k video only 480p, mp4_dash
244 webm 854x480 25 │ 89.33MiB 205k dash │ vp9 205k video only 480p, webm_dash
22 mp4 1280x720 25 2 │ ~ 90.62MiB 203k https │ avc1.64001F 203k mp4a.40.2 0k 44k 720p
136 mp4 1280x720 25 │ 32.23MiB 74k dash │ avc1.4d401f 74k video only 720p, mp4_dash
247 webm 1280x720 25 │ 166.48MiB 382k dash │ vp9 382k video only 720p, webm_dash
137 mp4 1920x1080 25 │ 106.40MiB 244k dash │ avc1.640028 244k video only 1080p, mp4_dash
248 webm 1920x1080 25 │ 271.78MiB 623k dash │ vp9 623k video only 1080p, webm_dash
I'm always surprised by the anti-trans comments on Hacker News. "You should be able to own your devices and alter them however you want" seems to be in conflict with "but I don't want people altering their bodies."
Yes, hence the "should". Just because something exists doesn't mean it is always justified or sensible.
They act as a go-between in that they ultimately host on AWS/GCP. They host their own infrastructure in that they appear to run Kubernetes and have built out their own deployment and service fabric, so they're just using the underlying machines as dumb compute, they're not, eg, building on RDS.

In March 2021, someone asked a question about carbon emissions of their data centres. They said they hosted on both GCP and AWS, but mentioned they were interested in moving to their own bare metal [1].

In April 2021, I asked a question about egress fees to Google, and they walked back a bit the comment about moving to bare metal [2].

As of March 2022, they're still in AWS/GCP [3].

As of September 2022, workloads for new users deploy into AWS, even in regions that were previously served by GCP [4].

[1]: https://community.render.com/t/does-render-use-green-energy/...

[2]: https://community.render.com/t/is-render-com-hosted-in-googl...

[3]: https://community.render.com/t/are-your-servers-owned-by-you...

[4]: https://community.render.com/t/which-render-regions-map-to-w...
Yeah, the "pedo" bit did it for me too. It's when it became obvious how petty and fragile the man was. He wasn't willing to accept criticism of his unsolicited terrible idea (his scuba coffin things) and angrily lashed out at a domain expert who said as much.
At first I was all like “Ha ha, losers can’t scale”

And then I was “Huh, these technical challenges are actually pretty difficult”

And then I was all “crap, these are a bunch of technologies I was about to add to our stack”

Thanks heaps fly.io people; having the humility to honestly talk about the challenges and failures massively helps people such as myself as we navigate new unfamiliar technologies. If more companies were willing to do this, it’d be a lot easier to avoid common pitfalls.
If you don't build the technology then it can't be used against you. If you do build it then you need to build in effective controls so that you can limit or minimize these types of undesirable impacts.

None of these things - AI, software to remotely track users, etc needs to exist. We were doing fine without it and the potential for abuse is so high that there should be a pause on adoption until stakeholders, including ordinary citizens, have an opportunity to legislate concrete protections for privacy.
Fish biomass bottomed at the end of the 90s, which resulted in a bunch of changes in how large-scale fishing happens around the world: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1909726116

This mostly fixed the problem but demand keeps on increasing along with changes to water temperature, so local collapses in specific populations are becoming a big problem again.
There's a wonderfully blunt saying that applies here (too): you are not in the business you think you are, you are in the business your customers think you are.

If you offer data volumes, the low water mark is how EBS behaves. If you offer a really simple way to spin up Postgres databases, you are implicitly promising a fully managed experience.

And $deity forbid, if you want global CRUD with read-your-own-writes semantics, the yardstick people measure you against is Google's Spanner.
Unfortunately, you are correct. I genuinely try to bring a rational, calm, fact oriented dialog about leftist ideas (decommodification of housing, trans regret rates, social and anthropological science/history around queer issues, systemic inequality, etc.) and largely the conversations I have get one great, engaged response and a whole lot of flames.

I had a fantastic discussion about the history of socialism on the African continent here, with one strongly anti-socialist person. And we both had to slap away people who just wanted to dunk on the "other team". It's unfortunate, really.
Twitter engineer: 'all the pieces are on fire', layoffs created chaos
Just give the tax break on your primary residence. If you don't live there 51% of the year you pay oppressive property tax. Give property tax breaks to landlords that provide affordable housing up to the needs of the area.
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The effective outcome of corporate jailtime is that the company is instantly destroyed. There are no companies that would survive being shit down for years. Shareholders would be left with nothing.

And if people would be out of jobs - good. It would stop people from working for companies that don't provide transparency into the legality of their operations.
This is a very xenophobic view on immigration, and arguably the status quo. Past performance does not equate to future results, but I think you can draw the conclusion that the immense diversity that exists in the US compared to "rest of world" is a competitive advantage. What would it mean to lean in?
I'm hesitant to write this as I don't know if you'll see it but I feel like what I have to say is different to the opinions that have been voiced so far. I will only answer for point number one.

I personally feel that Nix documentation and community blog posts sits on a gradient of theological meanderings about functional purity to actual praxis.

For one, I'm a systems engineer. What drew me to Nix was that I wanted a next-gen Ansible. A piece of software that can be used to reproduce a hosts OS state in an immutable way. For now, my homelab and laptop is all NixOS driven. I use deploy-rs and flakes to configure hosts. I can code but am not really a software engineer by trade. This is where I'm coming from.

Within the context of my established skills, Nix's documentation is awful. There were/are actions I want to accomplish that sit outside of the paradigm of Nix and when I try to accomplish those actions I feel lost.

For example, my main homelab machine has a Nomad server installed. The default Nomad package from Nix packages just installs the binary. So I needed to handle creating its data directory, its configuration, and laying down a systemd unit file. Where I got stuck was creating the data directory. I could accomplish the systemd configuration and the configuration file easily enough but I don't know how to create a directory outside of a derivation. I also don't know if a derivation is even needed.

But I also don't really know how to fit a derivation in my current flake setup so that it's processed when I change host state. I ended up solving the problem by having systemd manage a StateDirectory and creating the unit file/Nomad conf in configuration.nix for the machine. I also don't known if a derivation would even be what's needed. Do I use an overlay to extend the Nomad package? Can I ad-hoc create directories and then shove that into a module?

My point being is that system administrators, network engineers, release engineers, etc are all different types of engineers that would be interested in Nix... but they are NOT functional programming enthusiasts. I think Nix gets attention from a lot of people who are comfortable with Linux, package management, build processes, and configuration management systems like Ansible. But there is no clear runway for those types of engineers. Hell, NixOps seems to be an abandoned repo that has no documentation whatsoever for it's 2.0 release and there are dozen different projects for remote deployment to hosts.

If I took a sysadmin and told them "please codify OS state using Ansible" then they're likely to come back with a solution that could satisfy a technical need within an organization. If I took that same sysadmin and told them to use Nix to solve the same problem then they're likely to get lost for weeks.
Autism spectrum disorders are characterized by challenges in social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication, and often the presence of repetitive behaviors and restricted interests, according to Wikipedia.

Remarkably, understanding people does matter to a degree dependent on the social context.

Explaining how to more easily understand people might have a greater benefit than berating them about their shortcomings.
And would show social competence.
You can really only research what you can get the IRB to approve, what you can get grant approval for and what data people will give you access to.

And most of those decisions are made in heavily politicized process.
What is the meaning of University, and why don't these old "universities" meet the criteria?
Scientists raise alarm over potentially deadly side effect from fat-loss shot
There's a bit of a conflict between your post and it's grandparent.

> Freshly baked bread can be hard to obtain in many parts of the US. For me if I wanted fresh baked bread every day and not make it myself, I'd be looking at like 40-60 minutes of extra time per day if I drive there every day.

and

> But there are so many super-local bakers around the world. Single neighborhoods are willing to pay full-time wages to a baker just so they don't have to make their own bread. Explain why they do that if daily bread-making isn't a pain in the ass.

Which I have two thoughts on, first, I'm pretty sure most people are buying bread at the grocery store. So, the availability of fresh bread (which is also frequently available in the grocery store bakery) has more to do with lack of demand than it does with lack of availability. It seems like the convenience of pre-sliced bread that doesn't go bad in a couple days is just vastly preferred over fresh bread.

As for the local bakeries, I'd argue that those bakeries exist because they bake a variety of bread (and cakes) that are more involved than simple bread. I'd be shocked if the majority of the money they make wasn't from specialty items with wide margins.

The top level point I'm trying to get across has to do with the article and top level comment though, fresh bread is available to anybody with an extra few minutes every couple days. And, frankly, if you're doing any amount of cooking during the day, you can do it at the same time. There's usually some down time in a recipe that you could sneak in throwing a few ingredients into a mixer. Or put it together while watching whatever netflix show you're watching or podcast you're listening to.

Bread was certainly much more work but a stand mixer is not that expensive, especially compared to the amount of time it will save you if you cook semi-frequently (and even better if you make the bread you eat frequently). There are a plethora of modern conveniences that make bread so much easier to make than it used to be (and it was already pretty easy...).
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I'm pointing out it's a ridiculous nostalgia to think back about the days when the truck wasn't a people hauler. It was. They just made the bed an illegal place to put the people.

Making the cab longer isn't to ruin people's nostalgia. It's to deal with the legal requirements for transporting passengers. You're illustrating my point. We shouldn't be outraged when you make something illegal and the vehicle is adapted to deal with that.

Why would we be upset about fewer people getting dead, shouldn't we be happy about bigger cabs if that's the case?
You are correct that COVID was responsible for a huge boom in RV. In fact, 2021 was biggest year ever for RV. The numbers speak for themselves. [1]

However volumes this year are projected to be in the low 300k range. [2] Also these projections seem to be getting revised lower every month. These are numbers the industry hasn't seen since 2014. So we're not returning to pre-COVID levels (record shipments in 500k range in 2017 and 2018).

The industry is being cut in half (at least) right now. And the drop is predicted to be long (we're already 6 months in, and the articles are saying this will last until at least the end of 2023). There's something deeper going on here. I think that something deeper is a recession.

Not saying I have all the answers. But from the angle I'm sitting at this looks a lot like the decline seen after the housing bubble and 2008 crisis.

YMMV

[1] https://www.rvia.org/historical-rv-data

[2] https://www.rvia.org/rv-roadsigns-quarterly-forecast
Who are you to judge them though? Seems like a colonizer’s attitude.
Do you provide optimization options for finetuning, RLHF or both?