skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US college sports system is mainly a feeding ground for professional sports teams, and none of that is necessary for either education or social destratification.

It is only vital in the sense that people have vested interests in it, but it's not to the benefit of the students.
Shade under a solar panel is cooler than normal shade because the panel is siphoning energy away from the location
Well put, have the same feeling.

Any thought on signals? They seem to be hyped as the next big thing for managing state, haven't used them myself yet though.
> It became popular because Startups need a lot more collaboration and it’s thought that open offices lead to more collaboration.

Serious question, how would we measure that, and is there any empirical evidence for the idea startups "need" more? I imagine a lot of it is an immediate workaround for a system nobody wants to bother building, like a mailing list or design-specs.
> What we're really giving people is freedom. Remember the run on toilet paper from pandemic times? We're going to relegate that dark chapter to the ash heap of history.

This is sounding more realistic than jucero!
React is simply a library that renders your UI to the DOM. It doesn’t have any opinions on how your data is fetched, or how many roundtrips it takes. That’s an orthogonal concern. People have been using XMLHTTPRequest with CGI since the 00s, way before React was a twinkle in Zuck’s retinal sensors.

You can send your initial data for React with the HTML response if you want to eliminate the extra round trip on startup. Depending on the geographical distribution of your users it may or may not be worth it.
> I wonder why we don't have external "neural processing" devices like we once had soundcards

Well, we have dedicated coprocessors for them (Google TPUs, Nvidia Tensor Cores, Apple Neural Engine, etc.)

There are dedicated cards, though some systems come with them on the mainboard and some videocards have them as well.
This seems like a very good solution to the wrong problem.

Sometimes treating the symptoms is the right move, but oftentimes it is not. Local maxima.
> what is the TCO of the AWS deployment vs. the TCO of the non AWS deployment?

I can only speak of one PHP/TypeScript app with a poor performance profile: from $250/mo to $5.000/mo in running costs, not counting the migration. The team that made the app couldn’t maintain the Helm chart or the Terraform resources, adding to a DevOps team bottleneck that appears to limit how teams innovate (kind of how like creating new branches was expensive on CVS).

> How replaceable are the dev ops engineers who are running your K8s/managed infra?

I haven’t met a competent AWS DevOps engineer who wasn’t also competent to run the clusters; it’s just that they prefer not to.

> People moving to cloud isn't irrational. There's a reason that it's pervasive.

Yes, it’s made really solid. AWS makes sense to reduce operational risk at a large scale.

The price is not my main argument against using AWS, although you’ve gotta make good money to justify the expense.

My motivation is to own one’s own infrastructure. I like to work on things that are both important and contented enough that you can’t, as a principle, outsource the operation.
I'll try and find time to look at the papers you cite as high quality later today.

> you conclude from that that all academic use of the Twitter API is garbage, which is nonsensical

"All" no, a vast amount of it, yes. Is it nonsensical? Twitter themselves concluded this exact same thing even before Musk, both in public blog posts and internal emails (see the Twitter Files for examples).

But we don't really need to cite Twitter as an authority here. Just try to answer this question: what mechanisms exist that are stopping bad science outside the field of social bot research, and why have those mechanisms failed within it? It can't be peer review, university hiring committees and so on because those are all existing within social studies as well.

> Your hyperbolic language ...

What language do you think is hyperbolic, exactly, and why?

> Pointing out the scientific flaws of 'tools' like Botometer is wholly valid, but the effort to research and develop tools for bot identification are a response to the fact of systematic information pollution

This is exactly the sort of problem I'm talking about: this justification is circular. We do bad bot research because we know there are bots, we know there are bots because we do bad bot research. If there were actually big problems with social bots then it would be easy to find them and research them; we wouldn't see this situation where basically all papers are seeing patterns in noise.

Botometer is a good example of that. You admit that it's "scientifically flawed" but with respect, that language is not "hyperbolic" enough. It's not merely flawed, it's outright useless. It had an FP rate of 50% when tested against a known human dataset. Yet the Botometer paper has been cited over 900 times now (up from ~700 when I previously wrote about it). When exactly does the rest of the world get to call time on this bad behavior by the academy? These people are changing the opinions of world leaders on the back of misinformation, the exact problem they claim to be fighting.

> It is not the fault of academics if media pundits over-simplify the fruits of their research.

It wasn't media pundits that made academics cite the Botometer paper over 900 times, or write outright deceptive papers like the one I reviewed. The problem here is academia and the institutions need to start taking responsibility for it. Otherwise you're going to get situations like this one: academia will just get cut off from data. People don't have time to try and figure out which little subsections of the academy are following the rules to separate them from the rest.
KDE Wiki – Wayland Showstoppers
Just kill me now.
I tried to read his Deep Work book, and it was truly awful. Usually I avoid writing reviews for books that I didn't finish, but Deep Work is one of the worst books I've ever tried to read. To describe it as a 10 page blog post would be generous.
There isn't convincing evidence that humans have 'awareness'.
You realize that you don’t need personal experience to solve theoretical problems? Especially ones that have been treated by experts in the area for decades prior.
in 180 characters: https://twitter.com/swyx/status/1344127570753646593

A guide to the 3 dashes in English:

Hyphens (-) are compound-words.

En dashes (⌥ -) connect beginning–ending.

Em dashes (⌥⇧-) can replace parentheses and colons — use them more!
This is a very common and popular-on-the-Internet stance. I have worked in open office environments for ~10 years and I have not realized how unpleasant it is.
Lol, was that blank an accurate answer about cybernetics?
The analogy is meant to show that, while it’s possible to raise deep philosophical questions based on superficial or trivial observations, it can also also be quite silly to do that.
The world's oldest NFT collection.
That’s not really a luxury subscription, and is often signed up for in 12 month contracts because it works out cheaper. I know many people who’s mental health would substantially decline if they couldn’t go to the gym.
If you have three lines that practically look the same, they should be the same character. Otherwise, interesting read!
Not all European cities have bike lanes as good as im the Netherlands.

Zagreb, for example, has narrow bits of sidewalks painted to be "bike lanes" with street lamps and signs usually planted in the middle, lanes just stopping, etc.

Making a city more bike friendly for real (and not just checking off items on a politician todo list) is a long and painful process.

It'll happen, but right now it's easier to get stuck in traffic in a car than have to wade through the same traffic on a bike.
Google TPU are for sale [0] as are Nvidia cards with their Tensor Cores. As are Apple mainboards with their Neural Engine.

[0] https://coral.ai/products/
My observations:

If you need to do actual work, an office is the best. If you're doing BAU 9-6 clockwatching type job with no real deliverables, the social aspects of an open plan office make this torture a little more tolerable for most people.
Yeah I admit I’m being childish. The first movie is so mediocre, I’m annoyed that anyone cares about this franchise.
> I do strongly disagree that people suck. My experience with people is that generally they mean well, try to live their best live, and wish well on others, even if they might disagree on some things. A good test is to just think about the people you interact with day to day in real life, not tv, not twitter, not whatever. That's reality.

I gave this some thought these days and I think you're right.

I guess there are certain people who care about some issues at cost of everything else; not sure how I feel about that and how we help these peope be less antisocial sometimes. I guess at the end of the day even those people are at the very least trying to do good too.

It's good to be reminded of that, so thank you
Show HN: Answering to: 'What is the contrary of courage?'
To a question like that: 'What is the contrary of courage?'

my proposal is the following completion (in a chain-of-thought compatible manner):

'On the one hand, courage is a concept which has a positive connotation. It can be defined as the propensity to take risks appropriately. The propensity to take risks is a neutral concept. The dual concept of the propensity to take risks is the propensity to avoid risks. It is also a neutral concept. The contrary of courage is a negative concept, that can be defined as the propensity to avoid risks inappropriately. The concept of cowardice is a negative concept that fits this definition. Hence, cowardice is the contrary of courage.'
It would be a dream if people just wrote documentation.
SVB also lent to VCs/PEs on behalf of LPs? Not sure how big that portion of their business was.
I've worked 100% remote since 2015, so well before the pandemic. Last year, me and two friends who also work remotely decided to get an office together. It's a nice corner office in a good location, more or less equidistant to our individual homes. Our commute is 10-20 min on foot/bike depending on who you ask, and we've decorated the office with nice furniture, good sound etc.

We're not always there at the same time, the three of us. If the weather is inclement or someone needs to care for their child we just don't show. We've got a texting group to let each other know, but not because anyone needs to know but because we chose to keep each other informed.

It all feels very grown up and official, and it's very nice because it's ours. None of us has to ask a pointy haired boss for permission to buy a wine cooler or a new lamp, or whatever, we just do it. Sometimes we'll argue things but it's always chill. Like this week we've been going back and forth about where to place our new HomePod speakers. We just try it till we find a spot.

It helps that we're three dudes who've been friends for a good 20 years at this point. We all like working remotely, but none of us like being cooped up at home all the time.

The cost of the office space is comparable to any other office space, except for the furniture which is decidedly more high end. We're independent contractors so we've each sprung for whatever furniture we wanted to have.

I feel like this is the ultimate compromise, it works super well for us. Not saying it works for everyone, but I could totally see a world in where employees pick whatever works for them, and employers foot the bill for reasonable expenses like the space, but maybe not for the fancy couch, I dunno.

Anyway, my point with sharing this story is that as much as I love our office, I couldn't have my own room. I can't function in a completely private space. I know others can, and I respect that, but I just can't. But open plan doesn't work for me either, there's a point where it becomes too much. I feel like an office with 2-4 people who are respectful with one another is just right for me.

And maybe that's it, maybe not everyone fits the same mold, so maybe the future of a good working space is choose your own adventure? Not that it's without its challenges, it took us some 6 months or so to find the right spot!
I've read deep work and found it okay. It's satisfying reading it because I already know the content is true and I like to know other people are discussing it too.

But I agree, many authors just pick a topic and run with it. Not having experience doesn't stop them.
> practical applications

What do you even mean!

It is being used right now on all sorts of creative industries for things like ui/Ux generation, concept art, vfx production etc

I myself use it for concepting and color correction on video games pipeline production
what does the light come from?
> A bank can make an infinite amount of loans. They are not constrained by anything.

That's incorrect, there are very strict limits on the solvency ratio placed on the banks that you usually deal with.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/052515/how-are-risk...
I’m not sure why you go downvoted.
> Nvidia had tensor cores before the tpu existed

TPUs were released in 2016, Tensor Cores in 2017. But Edge TPUs (that is, the ones that exist outside of Google's Cloud infrastructure) weren’t until 2018. So, Nvidia had their cores available for people to buy first, but not before TPUs existed.
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Oh this is easy.

m dash: --

n dash: -.

.. I take it few people find morse code puns funny anymore.

Seriously, what's the point of this pedantry. What does having 3 basically identical characters add to the language other than a pointless rules for insufferable pedants to power trip over. We've all been using - just fine. On what basis does the person writing this article believe these rules matter, are important, disambiguate language?

Call me a hopeless philistine, but I say down with the dash. One symbol is fine for word-compounding, numerical ranges, subtraction, mid word line breaks. No one needs an em dash to tell them pages 3-8 is not a compound word.
I think with all of these examples the difference is if it executes. A computer model can be encoded and put on a loop and execute. So what is difference between biology where neurons are firing based on electrical potential of calcium atoms, versus in a computer loop processing math, both fire. So does the computer model while executing have an internal subjective experience, the same as a human with its electrical signals firing. Where in the brains is our own awareness, and if its just the 'firing' of neurons, then the computer that is a model of that firing can have same awareness. You can't come up with any argument that computers don't have awareness that doesn't also exclude humans. It is arguable that human awareness is just a byproduct of our processing.
When I drill down to an exercise, there’s a 10 second GIF of someone doing the exercise. Not a 13 minute YouTube embed of someone first begging me to “like and subscribe” followed by a 6 minute sob story describing how this exercise helped dealing with the loss of his mom to a disease while in-line ads play.

That alone is a big win in my book.
To the point that one of the best episodes, "Balance of Terror" is basically submarine combat in space (including the ridiculous plot point that the crew all has to be quiet to avoid I guess tripping Romulan space sonar?)
Under very particular conditions, yes.

fewer conditions now than it used to be, but you still need to do this at times.

Usually I take it as a sign I should move to using a store.

Sveltekit is very good.
If you're using a compose key, the en- and em-dash are "--." and "---" respectively.
"Do the first two look the same to you? It’s because some devices display them inconsistently, when the characters sit all by themselves."

And also because this article uses an en dash in the table in place of a hyphen.
Look, questioning everything is OK but you need to have the initiative, too, to understand what it is that you’re questioning. And by the looks of it, you don’t seem to have read any reference book on sports science, otherwise you’d know that it uses the same anatomy/physiology foundations upon which the medical field stands, and that it is not the case that there are zero repeatable findings in the field of exercise physiology for you to invalidate the entire body of knowledge.
How to Detect Profanity in JavaScript?
Profanity is language that is considered offensive or inappropriate in certain settings. While there is no universally accepted definition of what constitutes profanity, it is generally agreed upon that certain words or phrases are not appropriate for use in formal settings such as the workplace, schools, or public forums. If you are running a website or app that needs to filter out profanity, you may want to consider using a third-party service to do so.
I imagine we'll see a significant slowing down in vinyl sales if the economy continues to stutter. Vinyl records are a luxury good, and most likely not people's primary way of discovering and listening to music.
> Some people prefer the way a “space-en-dash-space” looks.

I think this isn’t just a matter of personal preference, but it’s also largely a cultural thing – in German, for example, the “space-en-dash-space” form is common.

This is true for a lot of other punctuation as well. For instance, in Germany, we quote „like this“ instead of “like this”. Whereas in Switzerland or France, it’s common to quote using Guillemets, as in «Hello there!». This style can also be found in German texts, though it’s less common than quotation marks, and it would typically be used »inversely«.
> Startups should live or die because they create good products and solve real problems in real markets, not because they made an arbitrary choice like which bank they started using.

What on earth are you talking about? SVB had so many startup companies because they offered perks like mortgages for illiquid founders and high yield savings accounts funded by their poorly thought bond strategy, and, allegedly, because they were recommended to them by various VCs.

It’s not arbitrary, all these startups specifically chose to use SVB and chose to not hire a competent CFO or accountant who could tell them “lol no, bank account insurance isn’t free or infinite”.

This is one of the most pathetic pro-YC-startup-culture-nonsense posts I’ve ever seen on HN and that is saying something.
I, too, despise building SPAs. Forms were okay for 15 years and most of the time they are still okay.
I was always a fan of cubicles, and never got the FAANG fascination with open plan workspaces, that the entire industry seems to have adopted. As the article says, the noise and distraction were always an issue. Even if you used headphones, as most people did most of the time, there were still visual distractions in your peripheral vision. It was a nightmare for productivity, and I'm surprised that the false narrative of how they promote collaboration stuck around this long.

Cubicles were great, especially if you got one near a window. You had the outside view; desks were angular in large cubicles so you had ample space for multiple monitors; the barriers provided just enough visual and noise isolation, while you could always prop up and chat with your neighbors; the barriers also served as tackboards, and people decorated their spaces in unique ways. Et cetera.

I still don't want to go back to working in an office, even if I had a personal space with a door, which most companies can't afford, but they should bring back the cubicle. It will probably be renamed and marketed as something else, but kudos to Meta for taking the lead.
I feel like I remember reading about some think tank or design firm from the 50s-80s that did some sort of deep dive into workplace settings and their correlated productivity and whether they were preferred. Does anyone know about something like this? I don't really remember the specifics about the report. I just have a vague memory of reading about it.
SOPS is the best git-friendly secrets management solution I've used.

It's also super easy to integrate into anything (provided you use go).

Shameless plug: I wrote a simple Kustomize plugin for it https://github.com/omninonsense/kustomize-sopsgenerator you can look at the code how easy it is to integrate as a Kustomize generator plug-in. It's just a few lines of code. I've not maintained it for a while now though
Platform Journeys
Okay. I'll explain it to you. It basically comes down to a server-client architecture. The server (db, server side code) is the backend, that the user never gets to see. The client (basically the browser - js, html and css) is what the user get's to see, not just through the interface, but by selecting "view source".

So PHP and Rails are back-end languages. You never get to see the code and logic that generated the page because it is "at the back". Golang, which the poster mentioned, is also a back-end language. So if the core of your apps logic is at the back-end (server), what you are practicing is back-end dev. If the core is in the front (e.g. SPAs) then it's front-end dev. Sometimes the complexity can be split 50-50 between the back and front. But if your web-application just uses html, css and a sprinkling of JS, then it is back-end driven. Another category is a website, which does not really have any complexity whether at the back or front.

So to correct your statement, PHP and RoR have never, at any point in time been considered front-end tech. If it is not html, css and js (including complile to js languages like ts), then it is not front-end dev.
"You're giving away your work and efforts for free to a multi-billion dollar company."

I agree with this. I never fill out feedback forms and rarely leave reviews. Especially if it's a product or service I use once. I've already paid for it. Want something from me? Pay me for it.
I agree that we often don't hear about the 'kept failing' path of, presumably, the majority of would-be writers.

For me, writing is a very frustrating drive...

I've been writing novellas and short stories fairly seriously for about thirteen years now. About a year ago, when evaluating what I want to do in life, I decided to finish a novel. I've started quite a few over the years, but they always peter out in the drafting phase, so I decided this time to approach the task with a "finish it no matter what, no matter how bad the finished product is" approach.

The trouble is – I still dream of getting published, of becoming a published novelist, despite my rational side knowing: (1) I'm not that good at writing, and (2) even if I were, it's very difficult to succeed (not just financially) as a writer.

This is why I say writing is frustrating. I can't really give it up – not the activity of writing itself, nor my unrealistic dream – and yet I know it's essentially a lost cause.
Or in Linux,

En dash (–): Compose - - .

Em dash (—): Compose - - -

https://tstarling.com/stuff/ComposeKeys.html

https://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/libX11/i18n/compose/e...
Codebase Is a Jenga Tower
By investing in it.
Yeah but people are weird: I’m also contracting in the Amsterdam area and I once got a fella quite stubbornly insisting I should commute daily to their office in Leeuwarden to work on their AWS stack. He even suggested I rent a room for the week if I didn’t like sitting on the train that much. Crazy
Except you can't right click save a Fabergé egg.