skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They’re downvoting you (I’m guessing) because you fundamentally don’t understand how the budgeting process works. You can believe in cutting spending, sure - this is not the mechanism to do it.

Here’s a rough analogy - you can decide at the start of the month not to buy a gym membership to save money, however you cannot sign a contract for the gym and then decide at the end of the month not to pay it to save money, and further, when the gym come to collect you threaten to shoot yourself in the foot unless the gym tears up your contract. (This last part is exactly as dumb as the Republicans threat).
Agreed. There is very rarely a sober look back on any government policy to see if it actually met the objectives it set out to achieve, and at what cost.
75,000 words is a drop in the bucket for A Song of Ice and Fire:

https://blog.fostergrant.co.uk/2017/08/03/word-counts-popula...
The trick is to make 1 item and then show it to a bunch of VCs who will then pay for a large batch at lower unit cost.
That gas storage facility got closed down because it didn't make economic sense to operate any more - the big summer-winter price swings that made it viable had ceased to exist (possibly because more widespread use of gas for electricity generation caused more gas usage in summer, I'm not sure) and it had physical limitations on how fast gas could be injected and extracted that meant smoothing over those seasonal changes was all it was really useful for. It still didn't even make sense during the whole Russia thing.

Over in mainland Europe, gas storage was vital to dealing with Russia cutting off supplies because their gas infrastructure was physically incapable of importing gas from non-Russian sources fast enough to keep up with winter demand (if I remember rightly, even if they cut back massively on non-essential gas usage). So they basically needed full gas storage just to survive the winter, and of course Russia had made sure it was emptied out the winter before. The UK didn't have this limitation. This need to fill gas storage caused huge problems - global gas demand was already quite high and it takes a long time for supplies to be redirected and high-energy industries to reduce usage, so prices spiked sky-high at first.

As a result, mainland Europe ended up filling its gas storage at close to the all-time-high price and emptying it out when prices were much lower, effectively buying high and selling low funded by extra charges on people's energy bills with the high prices being more or less a direct consequence of the fact that they couldn't just put off buying their gas until winter. If the UK government had done the same, the press here would never have shut up about how much money they "wasted" on it.
Contractors have to pay both halves. If they did this (big if) they’d be owed a refund.
When you're a 1099 contractor you fill out Schedule C and pay as the employee and the employer.
Whenever I see MySQL, my brain automatically sees MariaDB. What is this Oracle thing you speak of ;-)
I started my own 1-man software company at 39 and am still at it aged 57 with 3 products. I still get to write code and I don't have any ageism to contend with. It comes with it's own challenges though.
Serious question, if you inherited tens of millions of dollars and wanted to spend it on premium things, where can you buy insanly luxurious every day items?

Like:
An apple corer?
A Yeti (like) cup?
A mobile phone?
Kids toys?

I've always wondered this. I live in a world of throw away quality every day items. Do the ultra wealthy have luxury options for these things?
Ah, yes. "Entitlement"...

I'd say: to show that its authors have a sense of decency, at least. But let's not assassinate the lads any more than this.
Or more cynically, an SV company backed by foreign blood money muscling their way into an established market while ignoring regulations and just trying to stamp out the established market through basically price manipulation before the courts can catch up.
> unless you want to anthropomorphise your db and and hold it accountable for past behaviour

No one is holding the literal bits that make up the database executable accountable here, they are indicating they don't trust the devs of MySQL/MariaDB to do a good job. Whether or not that is an accurate view on their part is arguable, but it's pretty clear from context that they don't think that several if/else statements had it out for them.
Bitcoiners ask the same thing about holding a bank account full of dollars, or in many other countries (like Lebanon, etc.) even worse currency, or they can just freeze your account, etc.

Anyway, it should be clear to people that the 7% in an outside currency has to come from somewhere. And most of this stuff has been a zero-sum game so the money comes from:

1) Investors who bought the top

2) Traders who got liquidated

3) IPO investors who bought shares in a money-losing business model like WeWork

4) Advertisers whose ads didn’t pay off (yes, advertising is a zero-sum game too)

Sadly, most people do not realize it’s a zero sum game and the bagholder class only grows and grows until the speculative bubble pops.
> a guy across the room suddenly stood up, walked over to the white board, and wrote "F*CK JAVASCRIPT" in massive letters

>Guy must be having a bad day.

He was having a bad day because he was doing stupid things with the code he wrote that led to problems. I've never had a problem with Javascript's type system, or having the wrong type show up where it shouldn't. I accepted the dynamic nature of JS long ago when it first came out in Netscape, and I adjusted my coding style accordingly. And Javascript types are not a mystery, type coercion is fairly simple and doesn't produce unexpected results if you actually understand the language. If you don't understand the language (or any programming language), then writing things like "F*CK JAVASCRIPT" in massive letters on a whiteboard is something that might happen.
Hobson’s choice
Sounds like you have a really expensive lifestyle man.

Even most US devs don’t make $240k USD.
I authored a "Considered Harmful" essay against another "Considered Harmful" essay. [1] I knew about this essay when I wrote mine, and I still wrote mine.

Why? Because the author of this essay is a hypocrite. He specifically disclaims his own essay from consideration:

> For example, a piece titled “‘Considered Harmful’ Essays Considered Harmful” would very likely be a case of using the “considered harmful” format to draw attention for its own sake. We will ignore such essays in this commentary.

But in so doing, he claims that using "Considered Harmful" to draw attention to the essay is fine. That's why I used it, and it worked. [2]

He also says they are typically used by someone with an axe to grind. This is true. To combat this, I took a mellow tone in my essay, as compared to the inflammatory post I originally wrote on the same topic. [3]

And yet, he transparently has an axe to grind against "Considered Harmful" essays because he does not allow nuance:

> It would therefore seem obvious that the only intelligent course of action is to abandon their use entirely, and instead look to more constructive forms of essay writing in the support of debate positions.

Basically, he says that use of "Considered Harmful" essays must be abandoned completely because they don't support their intended positions well.

If so, why did he write one of his own? Is it parody or actually serious? I can't tell.

But sometimes, "Considered Harmful" is the best way to express something. In that case, use it. But IMO, you should only do it after careful consideration, like what I did for my essay.

Don't hamstring your writing by restricting your expression, and don't be a hypocrite. But do be careful and mellow.

[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/10/static-linking-considered-ha...

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28736238

[3]: https://gavinhoward.com/2021/01/dynamic-linking-needs-to-die...
> should have read the fine print

from what I have read FTX was the only major exchange that didn't claim ownership over your uninvested funds in the fine print, which is the crux of the situation.

people using them as a wallet were not investing nor getting interest in their deposits.
I generally add to my initial prompts to GPT4 to: From now on, please use the fewest tokens possible in all replies to save tokens and provide brief and accurate answers.
Love BBEdit, but you can also get Rich to fix your KitchenAid Stand Mixer. (No joke) Must be an interesting story on how this second career came about.

https://www.mixerology.com/
I am noticing a different tone coming from Anthropic. Unlike openai they dont appear to be focused on fud and replacement. Gives the impression it’s run by adults instead of crypto bros turned ai experts. Curious how their models will work.
You don't actually get paid for playing this game either. Just like real life!
> ExxonMobil's operating revenue is $413.7bn USD. I'll be surprised if someone isn't getting whacked if they let the free energy genie out of the bottle.

Most of ExxonMobil's revenue seems to come from oil (https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034911/exxonmobil-reven...), where as I presume free electricity would primarily impact their natural gas revenue.

Also isn't ExxonMobil one of those strange vertically integrated situations where most of their revenue comes from themselves? They drill the oil, then process it through their own plants which results in them paying themselves lots of money, but I may be mis-remembering that.

Anyway, solar is coming, wind is coming, and electric cars are coming, and no one is getting gunned down in the streets.

Heck China would love infinite free energy! So would any other country that wants completely dominate heavy industry overnight.

> Energy isn't cheap in the UK.

It has been a long time since the UK highly subsidized heavy manufacturing.

Energy prices have of course been going up everywhere, as, most people, realize cheap energy that results in dead kids and cancer for everyone was, in retrospect, really stupid.

> Furthermore, today, water reserves are a problem for the dam, and power generation was being suspended late last year due to it.

Infinite free energy would solve all water reserve problems, although it might end up being an environmental disaster near ocean shorelines...
And if you do hold the private keys to your crypto, all you hold is an IOU from a risky market full of fraud and rug pulls.

Many coins have failed, many more will fail, and many if not all will drop to zero as the mania subsides. When that happens it doesn’t matter where your keys are if the market turns illiquid in seconds during a crash.
The need to upgrade the OS is only a small part of the problem.

On the one hand, the fact the TCP is unchanging has led to network cards supporting TCP directly. You can shove a large segment of data in the network card and it will split the data up in TCP segments and transmit them. There are also big content companies that let the kernel do all TLS encryption, in some cases that can also be offloaded to hardware.

The big problem for TCP is all the boxes on the internet that understand TCP and don't understand TCP extensions. That could be home routers doing NAT, firewalls, etc. Those boxes are not only hard to upgrade, they also break things. QUIC fixes this by making sure that as much as possible is encrypted.

Some ISPs monitor TCP headers and from retransmissions they can figure out where problems are in the network. QUIC will take that ability away.

So QUIC is a mixed blessing.
Working culture (not conditions) are a factor indeed. We are driven to have more and therefore work more. This also means having less room for children.

But family institutions are less stable now then they have been before. I blame overwork for this, and also commercialism that has taken away needs of a nurtured family. This is not a govt problem.
Show HN: Browsing in Public
All of those laws require someone to complain or report a problem to the right person in the agencies.

All the people who would have done so didn’t want to upset the ‘getting rich’ Apple cart.
Maybe it could also use the LLM to rank the articles by essential importance or impact.
7. Price!

GPT4-32K costs ~$2 if you end up using the full 32K tokens, so if you're doing any chaining or back-and-forth it can get expensive very quickly.
I live in Turkey and expertise in Japanese translation. Tho, I'm self-studying web development via The Odin Project. But my progress is quite slow due to my work-life balance.
I haven't heard of $CORPO_OVERLORD before, tho. What kind company is it?
Ah, that's good to hear. I haven't looked seriously at databases other than SQLite for a long time, it would be interesting to see a more up to date evaluation.
It does have a mobile web version:

https://www.boringreport.org/app
A curated list of open source hardware tools and reusable designs
The deeper legal debate in the case centered on what's known as the dormant commerce clause, which generally bars states from passing laws that burden interstate commerce. If Congress has not passed a law affecting interstate commerce, the assumption under the doctrine is that lawmakers intended an open market without state regulation.

Gorsuch characterized the pig farmers as attempting to expand the scope of the dormant commerce clause. He wrote in a section of the opinion that if farmers are looking for a national standard on how to raise pigs, they should turn to Congress instead of the courts.

its a pretty accountable performance from Gorsuch imo.
Hear me out… we can write bad python code to justify impressive speed boosts rewriting it in rust.

In this way we can justify rewriting stuff in rust to our bosses!

If we write decent python, and perhaps even replace 1 line to use pypy, the speedup won't be impressive and we won't get to play with rust!
Twitter Launches Not-Actually-Encrypted Encrypted DMs
Analog scopes are still a thing, especially when compared with cheap digital ones that often distort things or flatly don't show them. If one has only 150 bucks to allocate for a scope, unless the digital scope added functions (math, storage, etc) are needed, the best choice is often an used analog one. Digital scopes start to become interesting when they go up in features and price, 12/14 bit ADCs, much higher s/r, high res screens, etc.
yeah that's a weird take. if you want quick and dirty you use sqlite and if you need something more you go with postgres. some replication things are nicer in mysql apparently but postgres is the better option for most workflows
but would you not pay your mortgage and f* up your credit if your wife said I'll talk to you about budget once we pay the mortgage?

btw, I didn't downvote you.
This is wrong. MySQL does not support transactional DDL, so you cannot run migration and abort them in the middle.

Always use postgresql. It's more logical, more extensible, saner, supports many extensions and is more predictable.

MySQL is inconsistent crap, that trades away consistency, correctness and stability for a little bit of performance in standard use cases.

Do yourself a favor and always use postgreSQL. I switched 15 years ago and never looked back. Have done 15-50 projects since in psql.
Either just by having developed their brains in a way that word facts just stick, or by constantly seeking out new word facts because that's what they love doing.

I believe that the gentleman in this case instantly saw the word 'cinematographer' hiding in 'megachiropteran' because his brain is a highly trained anagramming machine, and knew that it wasn't allowed because he knew all of the allowed 15-letter words, just in case he might get the opportunity to play one.

High-level players memorize staggering numbers of words. All 2- and 3- letter words is entry-level. All X-J-Q-Z, all Q-without-U, all words you ending in -MAN, all 70+ 7-letter words of the form SATINE+... top-level players know the 4000 4-letter words, the 5000 5's, and way, way more.

This (https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/scrabble-records-highest-sco...) lists cases in which 15-letter words were played by adding prefixes or suffixes to other words.
Does Pine64 count? https://pine64.org
You don't spend the kind of money staffing a product like YouTube unless there are lots of profits too.

Everyone seems to have read an article from 10+ years ago and haven't updated their opinion since. The internet is wildly different now. Tech makes huge profits.
> It's used to differentiate from a DJ, who plays other people's music and doesn't "produce" anything.

Just to be clear, this isn't the etymology of "producer" in the electronic music sense, it's from the second definition you described: The person doing the recording.

This is because electronic music is largely created largely using tools that were designed to be used on recorded music in the studio such as delays and reverbs. Electronic musicians are called producers because they use the recording studio itself as an instrument (along with synthesizers and samplers). Hip-hop makes this distinction extremely fluid as the person recording the vocals is often the same person making the backing track.
People had money.

People made poor decisions re: FTX and lost a lot of that money.

So now they have less money.

How else do you expect it to work?

If someone had a lot of money, and they didn’t blow it all, then they’re just less rich.

If someone had a little money and they didn’t blow it all, now they’re just a bit more poor.

If someone had a lot of money and blew it all, they’re now broke.

If someone had a little money and blew it all, they’re now broke too.

Seriously, what is the alternative here?
I'd be way more popular if I were a scammer. Scammers tell people what they want to hear. I'm the worst person in the world at that. I really am just trying to help people failed by the medically endorsed regulated providers. If you're curious about my book, I can email you a copy. It's basically cut down to the length of a long blog post by now (just under 10k words). I'd appreciate a skeptical eye.
Humans have limited working memory, they quickly forget short term memory (unless it's super significant) and our long term memory fades selectively if not reactivated or significant (intense).

This weird leaky memory has advantages and disadvantages. Forgetting is useful, it removes garbage.

Machine models could vary the balance of temporal types, drop out
Etc. We may get some weird behavior.

I would guess we will see many innovations in how memory is stored in systems like these.
>I've noticed very clearly that my eyes aren't nearly as strong as they used to be. I'm wondering how older folks deal with this beyond just wearing glasses.

Big fonts and big monitors!
Fellow "Considered Harmful" author here.

You made a separate point from my own comment, and your point is very true!
I think you just have to start: have an idea for something slightly different than any of your kits do, assemble it on a breadboard, go through the pain of troubleshooting it (and maybe working-around issues you can't quite solve directly). After that, blog posts and youtube videos about other people's little projects will be of more value, you'll be able to really think about the circuit they designed in a different way, it'll have some concrete ideas in your brain to make connections to.

(This is how I think about software too fwiw. Start trying to write something on your own, then study the technical detail after, the technical detail will have something to relate to instead of just floating abstractly away. Then try to apply it yourself again, you'll probably be excited to use it at that point.)
The "see more" button does not seem to be working for me, which is pretty much required to play the game effectively :(
Proper translation is an art form... if you have the budget.

Otherwise, it's someone typing as fast as the movie goes on the first viewing.
I’m sorry for your loss but I’m really amazed you thought that 7% yield from savings at a time of 0% interest rates was anything other than a fabrication.

I looked at these and they were so absurd there was no way I would invest. No fundamentals. No audit. No insurance. No stable company or bank.

What was your thought process in putting funds here? Did you think it would just take longer to explode and you would be able to withdraw before? Did you genuinely believe?
> I could have liquidated for money, but the market was pretty far down so I would have had to take a big haircut.

Humans in general cannot 'time the market'. To think that you can is a fool's errand. Therefore, the fact your stocks are down isn't a good reason not to sell them.
Wrong example: [1] - "Their years of experience means that they know how to look for and address issues with cars in such a way to keep the car running for years. If you want to reduce future maintenance, a knowledgeable mechanic is the smart choice"

[1]. "The Importance of Hiring a Good Mechanic" - https://www.postonmotorcompany.com/hiring-a-good-mechanic
Journey Platform: A low-code tool for creating workflows at Airbnb
> the market was pretty far down

If you're an efficient-market believer, there's no such thing as a "down" market, because the price is always correct.
It seems much more prone to accidental stopping with the reel on the front. neat looking feature but not sure how practical it is.
You’re welcome to get the ball rolling.
The patronizing tone of "Falsehoods Programmers Believe" drives me crazy
Agile Boosters: gamification, software analytics and business impact
Sure but the trouble in applying that is that we need a level of precognition of people's future activities that's just not possible. Better to give everyone a path out of horrible labor conditions and deal with the bad eggs down stream of that where we actually know who they are through either structuring society so they don't have the pressures to commit crimes or through whatever version of incarceration and rehabilitation we can figure out.
Software development is a collaborative activity that can benefit from gamification. This resonates with agile methods key principles: feedback, continuous improvement and experimentation.
So I take that to mean you could write an article titled, ""Falsehoods Programmers Believe" Articles Considered Harmful"?
Damn, can't imagine a company making a mistake. That clearly just never happens.
We really did have everything, didn't we? I mean, when you think about it.
Looks like my iPhone and every other phone since the iPhone was released - am I missing something? The minimalist slab with a screen isn’t exactly unique any more?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35904881
Ask HN: What code did you actually end up reusing?
Not even funny or clever, and definitely not helpful to the actual question being posed
The attitude is that over $50 billion a year is stolen as wage theft and nobody does anything about it so businesses feel emboldened to be worse, as well as a general culture of "only doers matter"
Show HN: A Tool for DJs to Talk to Spotify's Recommendations API
I've often thought Spotify would make a great alternative to Beatport etc., if you could control just that much more about music it recommends. So, I created Selecta, a DJ tool to talk to Spotify's Recommendations API and fine tune your search to find the sort of tracks you're looking for.

In this first version I've setup some limited controls from the recommendations API, such as danceability, energy and happiness. I couldn't quite decide if "more options = more fine-tuned search" or the inverse, but I'm listening to feedback from those using it and I'm quite interested to see the consensus there.
I like one large monitor where windows snap to quarter/half screen