skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine you aren't joking... but this might well be a joke.

The ethereum network has no use, right? Nothing is priced in ethereum, no one needs ETH, nor will they ever.

Magic beans might be required to play the magic bean game -- casino chips are required by the casino, sure. But people enjoy gambling, there's an exchange of value -- a reason a person will work a day to make $100 and then trade it for an evening gambling.

But cryptocurrency networks do not have any reason to use them: nothing is priced in them, no govs tax in them, no businesses hold them, and so on.

There's smallish number of criminal gangs (and the like) who do have a use: a lot of crime today is priced in crypto. This gives highly anonymous networks an actual exchange value for their tokens. I suspect this minimal value will be targeted by relevant govs eventually, and disappear.
After more than two decades - never knew ip had the --color switch, TIL and thanks! :)
What I don't understand is how they keep most freelancers on the platform after finding a client.

I've only used it once, but after having a call with the client, I felt comfortable accepting payment directly in crypto and not paying their fees.
They are comfortable during the stay, but not when you arrive or leave and waste so much time there.

I never know if that Airbnb will have toilet paper, towels, shampoo, dishwashing liquid, etc. and for everything that they don't I have to do a supermarket trip and buy a quantity that would last 2 months when I'm staying 2 days.

Then when you leave, despite paying 20% of cleaning fees, you may be asked to do the dishes, vaccum the floor, etc.

All of that together has an extremely high cost, especially on a vacation.
I use Zoho Invoice for invoicing my clients. It’s free and works well imo.
At least you're not alone in this one - it's so common that e.g. anyone registering anything (domains etc.) with mastodon really ought to keep it in mine and register the equivalent with mastadon.
I'm not sure I agree with the pedantry, but I'll leave that to the side and ask:

Why change "comprised of" to "consists of" (for example) rather than changing it to "comprises"? If you are so hung up on the usage of that word, why not use it in the way you think is correct rather than trying to excise it from Wikipedia?
A combination is still faster than either in isolation!
Tony. I still don't understand how Tony came to mean classe because Tony bennett and Anthony Armstrong Jones aren't doing it for me.
An whole ERA is now just a couple of years?
Disappointing that it’s not a true Hays-style AT protocol. That would have made writing clients much easier,
I think the actual article/essay answers that question pretty well...
Washington State has a B&O tax which, until recently, was the primary state tax. Hawaii has a ~4% gross receipts tax but it can be visibly passed on to customers like a sales tax.
While I can't comment on the quality of their telescopes, the people at /r/astrophotography are not the target market of these kind of telescopes. It would be like asking Stallman his opinion on a nintendo switch
*onomatopoeic
I have seen this same ship in so many countries. It's quite lovely and one day maybe I'll sail on it.
Not a tax advisor, but you probably need to show that you paid Upwork 10$ as commission and get a business expense deduction.
If I'm going to see yet another blue on black, I'd rather have black and white forever.
I agree. If I ever have to leave my current job (which could be soonish, startup and runway you know...) one of the things I'll miss most is the clean messaging experience provided by zulip. Everyone who likes the HN UX should be comfortable with zulip, even if it's quite a bit richer in details.

We run our zulip on a smallish EC2 instance. It's probably less than a Euro/month/employee.
We have our bikes and we travel around 70 to 100km a day. Last weekend we did 77km the first day, 95km the second day. This equates to 6-8 hours on the saddle.
He found a passion for it and he keeps asking me to do such trips. What's helping also is that we live in a place with a lot of bike infrastructure, so we are always secure.
> locks you in for 2 years with a client

Can you explain?
On mobile layouts, you've collapsed every single entry on the footer to a single "..." menu. How is this better?
https://cebra.ai/ this
I hope he never has to read a US patent where "comprised of" is almost a required usage not only in the spec, but in the claims! It's expected by the examiners and demanded by patent lawyers as a term of art as interpreted by an appellate court.

The term "comprises" and/or "comprised of" has a specific usage in patents. Comprising means that at least all of the listed elements must exist, but other elements that are not mentioned in the claim may also be present. This in turn allows for dependent claims.

The alternative term is "consists" and/or "consists of", which means that only the listed elements may be present. It is used almost exclusively when claiming chemical or molecular formulas.
In europe my experience is kind of the oposite. Airbnbs have been incrementally more expensive over the years. Thet are now as expensive as hotels, but without the quality of service.

Only times I enjoy airbnb are when I am travelling alone, don't need more than a room, and want to actually have the opportunity to chat and get tips from the host.
As the claim is being made in the above - I'd like to see the startups that didn't work out solely because they were remote.

There are plenty of companies working fully remote of different sizes ranging from a duo to a trio of three up to few hundred.

The claim is as absurd as startups not having mechanical keyboards or not using JIRA fail miserably to capture market.
If a thousand people try to go to work at the same time, the car being driverless or not will not result in less than a thousand cars being driven, and the number of cars in the road is the biggest cause of congestion.

However, a bus can carry a hundred people comfortably. Ten buses instead of a thousand cars results in much leas congestion.
It's presumably the adjective for when something can be impregnated.
Yes but the fact is that windows has a 75% marketshare of personal computers. If you want your language to be widely adopted it has to be supported
"I'll be staying at four hotels."
Haha wow. I have a full color prompt with oh my zsh and starship. Overall, I like it though I don't really need a lot of it.

The error code highlight and duration of last command are nice.
If TikTok didn't have a LGBT category, they'd be called out by modern "journalists" for suppressing/not recommending LGBT content and treating LGBT unicorns as second class citizens.

It's disappointing that the full WSJ link was submitted instead of an archive.org link, outrage bait should not be rewarded with ad impressions.
A lot of cheating is about time not difficulty. Rather than spend several evenings practising they partied instead, perhaps justifying cheating by deeming the exam topic an irrelevance.

One of the takeaways here should be for the exam setters. If cheating was widespread (it sounds like a one off here) then they should consider whether the exam itself was an appropriate task, or whether there was an alternative task that may have been more engaging and ultimately a better test for all.
Ah, the low German origins of our languages :) Hovnarr is the same in Swedish.
https://chezmoi.io is a dotfile manager that is runs on multiple OSes (including Windows) while handling differences from machine to machine, allows you to store your secrets in your password manager (so you don't have to store secrets in your dotfile repo), and it even supports the NO_COLOR environment variable. Check it out! Disclaimer: I'm the author.

There's a comprehensive list of the most popular dotfile managers at https://dotfiles.github.io/utilities/.
We still have Türk Dil Kurumu (Institute of Turkish Language) in Turkey. In their website, their motto is declared as "Our Language is our Identity" (Dilimiz Kimliğimizdir). They proposed so many silly words, at one point people were coming up with fake translations attributed to them and others were believing in those, turning them to urban legends. One such legend is my favorite:

Turkish word: Tren (Train)

Supposedly proposed translation: Alttan ittirmeli üstten tüttürmeli çok oturgaçlı getirgeçli götürgeç

Which can be translated to English somewhat literally as "Bottom pushed, top smoking, multi-person-saddle, bringer and deliverer of people" (My best attempt, perhaps GPTs can do better).

However, the thing about them coming up with fake Turkish roots to foreign words (especially French) is totally true. One such example is "okul" (school) which comes from "l'école" but they long time argued that it came from the Turkish root "oku" which also means to study (among "read" and "send prayers"). There are thousands of "inventions" like these.

The weird trend was (still is!) our tendency as a nation to invent Turkish language roots in words from other languages, which once lead to ridiculous stuff like the Sun Language Theory [0].

IM(not so)HO: All language institutes should be left in the past, as they tend to ignore the organic properties of the languages they are supposed to protect.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Language_Theory
On my Samsung galaxy, with FF the site runs horribly. Scrolling is not smooth at all. Loading takes "long".
Is this a me problem?
Thank you!
My thinking is to start with donations. There is no such thing as a free service. If people get value from using it to upload anonymously and they want to keep it going, makes sense to donate.

In the future I could also add a subscription account for additional features, access to an API, bigger upload limits, transformations, greater ability to organise, etc.
Not a direct answer but: don't look just for ClickHouse experts. When you hire a plumber, do you only hire experts of that exact brand?

90% of the job I apply for, on Upwork or otherwise, are always looking for an expert in a particular niche technology, and hire only based off that small nugget of information.

I have been doing Elixir full time since 2016, and got a contract with someone that was looking for a Phoenix.Socket expert—a small WebSocket server module part of a larger framework—and the interviewer spent 30 minutes drilling down how much I know that small piece of logic. In this case it's like hiring plumber asking them how much experience they have in square zinc kitchen sinks. Given that I couldn't convey how dumb that is, I had to lie and say that in all of my 7 years with Elixir I have been using Phoenix.Socket pretty much daily. And as expected, it was a bog standard job doing nothing more complicated than an intermediate Phoenix tutorial.

If someone has a lot of experience in databases, and in competitors to ClickHouse they might be good or better than someone that claims to be a world class expert in ClickHouse and nothing else.

(Not to pick on you in particular, but as a true generalist this hiring pattern has been bugging me more and more as my breadth of experience grows.)
Congrats on picking the most unreadable font I've ever seen. I can't interact with this page meaningfully even if I wanted to, because I can't read a thing.
Wait until you’re older. I felt similarly, but now (MANY years later) look at pictures of younger me and think I was actually handsome. You might be surprised one day to experience the same thing.
A recruitment agent or a consultancy will often give you a personalised one-to-one service, and hence the higher fees can be somewhat justified. Upwork largely provides an automated service. So let's be realistic and not compare the two.
Correct. The conservatory music exams require scales to be played from first level to last level.

However each level demands faster tempo, evenness in volume, and a smooth “pulse” (like BB gun pellets hitting a wall)
When someone else controls your compute, you're not owning but renting, regardless of how or what they call it in the marketing.

Unless legislation changes to make sure consumer rights are respected for cloud offerings, it won't change one bit.

I would say buy your own drives, and store your own data on location. Use cloud as a backup rather than a primary use.
That doesn’t mean that it’s all right to do it.
Thank god I'm not the only one. The first Tron from 1982 really made you feel you were in the computer world[1], from the blocky graphics to the sound effects.

Tron Legacy feels more like an videogame[2], the story was poor, reverse ageing CGI was terrible, the only thing that saved it was the glorious Daft Punk soundtrack and the acting chops of Jeff Bridges ("Where's the money Lebowski?")

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqS4IS7h8Y

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv4WayqlLcs
Thanks for mentioning qryn! We are a non-corporate alternative and feature full ingestion compatibility with DataDog (including Cloudflare emitters, etc), Loki, Prometheus, Tempo, Elastic & others for both on-prem (https://qryn.dev) and Cloud (https://qryn.cloud) deployments, without the killer price tag.

Note: in qryn s3/r2 are as close to /dev/null as it gets!
I am really interested in knowing what people are using these smaller models for. I have seen a lot of projects on top of GPT-3.5 / GPT-4, but I have yet to see any using these smaller models.
Presumably the norms for rendering aid are different when the ship is no longer in distress, and has been towed for two days.
The "late stage" meme smacks of unwarranted optimism. It presumes too much knowledge about future manifestations capitalism yet to unfold. I guess it ties into the notion of communism being a deterministic inevitability according to the science of socialism. Hubris, is what it is.
How is the phone app lacking? I am in the lucky situation to use zulip on the desktop at work. I often work long days, but my phone I keep 100% free of work stuff. So I have never seen the phone app, but I have heard unspecific complaints about the phone app before.
I previously used Puppet, but you usually need root access on the machine to install Ansible or Puppet itself as they have a large number of dependencies and often add extra system services or user accounts. This is very heavy tool to install if you only need to update a few files in your home directory and install a couple of packages with sudo.

For a longer answer, see https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/frequently-asked-questions....
It is significantly cheaper and more efficient. The expectation that this benefit would be passed on to us clients is what is unrealistic. :)
Introduction to transformer models and Hugging Face library
That doesn't translate from the mandate, which is what I'm trying to cautiously call out. There's a big difference between "our company will not have a god database" and "we need to make more services just because we have more people". The link also mentions that the mandate was "something long these lines" - we don't know exactly what the split rules were.

I think people bring up an exaggerated idea of extreme microservices being forced on people when it rarely if ever happens. If not, I'm happy to hear actual first hand experiences.
Coronation Order of Service [pdf]
Drill pipe wiper foam balls are designed to wipe drill pipe or tubing string clean of cement, fluids or debris and can be used to separate fluids in offshore and onshore oilfield services.

The oil and gas industry is one of the most important sectors in the world. It plays a critical role in powering the world’s economies, providing fuel for transportation, heating, and electricity generation. The production of oil and gas requires a complex set of tools and technologies to ensure that it is extracted and transported safely and efficiently. One of the key tools used in the drilling and completion of oil and gas wells is the foam wiper ball.
I’m sure lots of people do this.

The advantage of staying on the platform for freelancers is that they are guaranteed to get paid for correctly booked work on a predictable timeline.

For buyers, the advantage is one weekly payment to your credit card, some contractural protection and a bunch of features to support the work.

I’ve never felt the need to bypass them as a buyer, and I’ve only been approach a few times by freelancers to go direct. (My answer has been no mainly because I dislike the admin of manually paying people, checking timesheets, invoices etc.)
> You don't have to talk to a person, which I don't always hate but have had some bad experiences. This just removes the roll of the dice from the equation entirely.

Given that they are a Google/Alphabet company this seems like a missed opportunity for running ads on loop.
>but is there any point?

So you don't have to see emails that people have accidently sent or have sent with a typo they later corrected. This situation in this article could have been cleaned up by the party who made the mess instead of having to employ an O(n) soliton of asking every single person they messaged to clean up their mess.
John Carmack's .plan files were the first "blog" I ever really paid attention to.

https://github.com/ESWAT/john-carmack-plan-archive
> What is your job?

I drove cabs for nine years (right up until Covid).

Some people want to talk, some people don’t want to talk, some people just won’t stop talking and you have to tune them out.

What everyone had in common was the desire to get from point A to point B as cheaply as possible. They didn’t care about any social aspect, given the choice I suspect the majority of them would rather not have been paying for my livelihood if it meant the ride was cheaper.

How many people do you think fell for the Lyft “fist bump” BS over taking a VC subsidized ride for a discount over a taxi?
With your honesty uncovering your HN account would be more dangerous. All the best!
What exactly is this constituency of jscript-disabled people? It sounds a bit nuts to me. I can't imagine why I should be catering to them. Asking because I sincerely don't know.
My 2c: I hate that those changes are that SUDDEN. You can’t afford the free offering anymore? Fine.

Give me 12 months to migrate. 4 months is basically extortion. I have the same compliant about google services: shutting them down in a few months is a shitty move. Give me time to find a replacement; especially if 0.5% of your users means millions of people.
> weren’t that hard

Maybe that’s part of the problem. One of those things is way more intriguing than the other, speaking as someone who wrote fake login screens for my high school’s PS/2 lab. Had like thirty passwords in a couple hours, including one teacher, by running it on the workstation closest to the door.
So they have sails on the Götheborg, but aren't actually using them?

Basically it is a motorized indiaman.

Meh.
Giraffes make decisions based on statistical information
You can treat a URL as a hash into a content-addressable store just fine. Mastodon does just that. Yet that URL also tells it where to retrieve the content if it's not available locally in a way that doesn't require tools to have any additional knowledge. If they do have additional knowledge, say of another caching layer or storage mechanism, they can use that just fine.

That is, I can just paste the URL for this article into my Mastodon instance, and if it has it, it'll fetch it from the local storage, if it doesn't it'll try to fetch it from the source, but there's nothing preventing a hierarchy of caches here, nor is there anything preventing peer to peer.

But while ActivityPub says that object id's "should" be https URL's for public objects, the basic requirement of ActivityStream is just that it's a unique URI, and there's nothing stopping an evolution of ActivityPub allowing URI's pointing to, say, IPFS or similar by content hash instead of a https URL.
Since there isn't agreement on this actually being janitorial work (in the sense that they are not simply enforcing the Wikipedia styleguide), this is not some completely innocent activity.

No, this is in its essence very petty vandalism, an attempt to force his notion of grammar on the entirely of Wikipedia despite knowing this is forbidden. That this forcing is the intended goal is clear from their own description of the editing process, where they admit to never permanently recording articles with authors who do object to the edits. Instead they just record objectors for six months and then try sniping in the edit again in the hope that the author is not there to protect it anymore.
Youtuber Dan Gryder makes a very compelling case for who that was: a guy who was convicted for a copycat of the incident. He lost the money during the first jump and had to do it again.
I decided to take the plunge:-)

As a systems programmer I believe it will have useful content for me, and I want to support the initiative
I bought a used Lenovo mini-pc for ~$40 and it is significantly more capable/reliable than the Pi 3 it replaced. If I need non-server stuff (I2C, GPIO) I stick to microcontrollers now.
I'll admit that I kind of enjoyed scales on the piano because I could mindlessly practise them when I was forced to practise, but I feel like there's a point where if you don't know them, you're limiting yourself in all kinds of ways.

Improv and harmonisation benefit from you knowing all the keys on the keyboard inside out. Likewise, if you start going for volume of music you can play, at some point not having those foundations start to limit you.

Anyone can memorise 3 pieces perfectly and over-practice them then ace a test. But what if the spirit of a grade and level represented more than that? My final teacher (who I met long after finishing exams) was very traditional and had a policy that was vaguely "you shouldn't take more than 3-6 months" to prepare for your grade exam. If you can't reach distinction level within that time, you're not ready so you should work more on your actual playing ability and musicianship.

If you're learning like that, scales will be the least of your worries as we worked on so much repertoire that the need for it was self-evident (and well baked into a good routine).

I guess it's a bit like driving - if you memorize a few routes you can probably perform like a real driver, but that's not really the same as being a real driver.
We tried out Ibis Budget hotel last weekend. When I booked it I thought it's going to be crap, but 70€ a night with 2 breakfast was too good a deal.

It turned out great actually, it's a no thrill experience but it has all you need. There barely any employee there, you check-in using a computer at the entrance.

So yeah I agree that hotels improved
I was very excited at discovering this protocol thinking it could solve a few pain points of our domain onboarding process.

However the fact that you need to go to every domain provider to get your template manually approved makes this completely useless, what even is the point? This barely adds any security too since I can just use each provider's official API and create whatever records I want this way.

It's really sad because the protocol is designed for auto discovery but then does a 180 by having this manual step.
When I'm hiring an employee, I'm looking for you! A generalist who will apply their wealth of database experience to my problems and learn what they need for my specifics along the way. I expect to pay some on ramp time where I don't get much in return.

When I'm hiring a contractor, I'm not really interested in paying them to learn, I'm interested in getting my need fulfilled as efficiently as possible. If the problem I have is my square zinc kitchen sink it makes sense to find someone who already knows about them.
One could argue those 3% and 6% are included in the 72%..
True, your figures seem correct.

I guess the problem is that I haven't had any luck finding any serious client, due to the competition and race-to-the-bottom.

Some clients want quality, of course, but in this economy if it's a lottery to find a job in the real world, it's a lottery for those billing upwards of $100/h on Upwork.

So what's left is small contracts where being a seasoned expert to deal with emergencies is more important than being cheap.