skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For example Date redefines first normal form to allow nested tables, while in Codds paper it is defined as eliminating nested tables. Why don’t they just give their concept a different name then? It just creates confusion.
I meet this need with comments and code search tools.
Got it. Maybe I always naively assumed there is some shallow FFI layer and all the heavy lifting is done by some set of core standard libraries. Ideally portable to multiple environments.
you heard them, a literal potato from the ground.

even a big old russet only has, what, like 32 bites?
Ebikes with 30-40 mile range are available for much cheaper than 3k, I only referenced the VM because I have one and I know the range very well.

12 miles is not sufficient in almost any major city. I'm struggling to think of a use case for a vehicle with such short range.

It does look cool though!
My ide does a pretty good job saying something is wrong without using tsc.
And they can be open in Excel for the best and the worst.
They don’t. We’re far away both from the previous and upcoming winter. Are you saying that during winter Austria is going to be doing worse than others?
It has also been shown that much of the population prefers buying something for $x if the price tag claims it has been discounted rather than $x without the claim of a discount.
> these days with @NotNull and powerful editors like IDEA stopping you from doing dumb things

I'm so sick of these half-arsed "features" that somehow get adopted into Java code bases.

Stop what you're doing and go write a unit test for @NotNull (or @NonNull). Watch the null value happily bypass those "checks".

Or, use (or write) a notNull() method (I happen to use commons-lang3) and watch it actually work.
The "stochastic parrot" mental model of LLMs really helps me to limit my expectations. An LLM will always and only output variations of content that exists. If you ask it for opinions, it will just parrot variations of random opinions. Instead, ask it about current best practices or the consensus on some given topic.

So, rather than "I have problem A, what do you think of X?" try "Give me a list of reasonable possible solutions to problem A, and compare and contrast each to solution X"

Example:

My baby has a hard time sleeping. What do you think about the cry it out method?

The cry it out method is a subject of debate among parents and experts. Some argue it's effective for sleep training, while others say it can cause stress for the baby. Always consult a healthcare provider for personalized advice.

Versus:

My baby has a hard time sleeping. Give me a list of reasonable solutions. Compare and contrast each to the cry it out method.

1. Ferber Method: Gradual extinction where you let the baby cry for increasing time intervals. Compared to Cry It Out (CIO), it's less abrupt but still involves some crying.

2. No Tears: Involves comforting without picking the baby up. Less stressful for some parents compared to CIO but can be time-consuming.

3. Pick Up/Put Down: Pick baby up when crying, put down when calm. Less crying involved than CIO but can be inconsistent.

4. Co-Sleeping: Baby sleeps with parents. No crying but can be a hard habit to break compared to CIO.

5. Chair Method: Parent sits in room, gradually moves away. Lower crying duration than CIO but requires more time from parents.

6. Scheduled Awakenings: Wake baby before they usually cry. No crying but can be tiring for parents.

7. Swaddle, Side, Shush: Calming actions to soothe baby. More hands-on and less crying than CIO but may not work for all babies.

8. Sleep Training Clocks: Use visual aids to signal sleep time. No crying, but more suitable for older children.

9. White Noise: Mask other noises. Less crying but effectiveness varies.

10. Sleep Sack: Provides a secure feeling. May reduce crying compared to CIO but not always effective.
I have been using Kopia since June 2021 since I first posted it on HN [1]

My use cases are very basic, but it just quite works all the time. My total backup is roughly 1TB with more than million files at multiple locations like local, remote SFTP and Amazon S3.

I like being able to extract the selected data(directory/file) from snapshot without restoring the whole snapshot.

de-duplcaition is icing on top.

The developer Jarek is very responsive on Kopia Slack as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27471945
Businesses operate in the public realm, buying/selling/providing services, and their owners have been known to leverage anonymity to conceal bad behavior, like fraudulent activity that keeps popping up under different names, corrupt dealing with government officials, etc. Regular people (e.g. journalists) are often important in uncovering these kinds of things, and knowing who actually profits when someone pays for a given thing is valuable in that way.

One sort of amusing example from recent memory: https://www.npr.org/2019/06/06/730375237/nyc-operation-meltd...
Information has been freely accessible and infinitely copiable for some decades now, and that has done far more social good than 'authors'. Authors should get with the times instead of shacking up with cartels who absurdly overprice books whilst paying them a pittance.
wouldnt that devalue it?
Because China's government is the CCP, which is the sole political party of China, which is headed by a dictator, whose endgame is to ultimately have all power concentrated into his hands, forever.

We're not demonizing Chinese people, Chinese culture, Chinese land or Chinese industry, but the forceful alignment of those things to serve a single entity over any other concern.

The West, no matter how bad it can be, doesn't have _that_ problem. Elites come and go, grassroots revolutions have happened and will keep happening without major bloodshed.
>Don't put them on a public IP unless you absolutely have to

Not a fan of ipv6?
This doesn't make any sense at all. Please explain it without generalizations, and maybe give some examples?
Yes, that would look awful in a court case IMO,

> I demoed Box Sums to the Box Notes team at some point, and they nitpicked the UI and implementation details (“What if two people type in the same cell at the same time? They’ll just overwrite each other.” ). Nothing came of it, but I took the code and shoved it into my back pocket for a rainy day.

emphasis mine
It is not the fault of a “media filter”. It has been possible to bypass that filter for years but the direct media we see is plainly more dumbed down than what is in the press (YouTube videos, tweets, tiktok, candidate websites, elected official websites - AOC and Trump media are two examples from opposite sides of the spectrum of the shallowness that comes up without the “media filter” - I appreciate the direct raw thoughts but there is a lot of basically insult slinging, virtue signalling to their camps - you see very little in the way of deep policy - the only example I can think of is aoc’s green new deal video - which was made in cooperation with a media outlet)
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Good question, not always; I suppose. The founders had quite a good share of stock which probably helped but ultimately it came down to vision.

My understanding was that Google didn’t really offer us a future plan, and the competitor they ended up acquiring (Wildfire) quickly disappeared — another fun little story is that Arielle Zuckerberg was working for Wildfire at the time, so she ended up at Google — while the Salesforce Marketing Cloud is stronger than ever after more acquisitions, even where the individual products disappeared.

All in all it still was extremely lucrative for founders and investors, the official number was $689m but there were also extra bonuses and employee retention incentives and such so the real number was higher.

I didn’t really gel with the FAANG style culture at the time so I left after I vested most of my stock, but I know some people made long careers out of it.
Ironically, there's also the danger of getting a mental reward for describing something you'll going to do. I.e. the mind crosses off the actual doing part as "solved", as it's only the "mundane part of execution" that is left to do. Might as well leave that as an exercise for the hearer/reader...
Term doesn't become meaningless even if everyone is doing it.

Current state of society influenced by tech progress is what causing the current rise of populism.

There are politicians who are rooting for reality, but it indeed becomes more difficult for them to survive.
What we are missing is industry. People and politicians by themselves really cant take on the financial sector. They are the modern day rent collecting feudal lords.

The Financial Sector(banks/insurers/real estate/stocks/bonds) has a much larger say on the allocation of resources (the economy) than anyone else including politicians and individual corporations.

The counter balance is not just people. It has to come from people+industry. The western industries have basically been hollowed out thanks to financialization.

Even Google and Apple bow to the shareholder. The shareholder doesn't do any actually work, but is sitting on his ass demanding greater rewards even if it means fucking others over, or even the entire system. Same thing with real estate and insurance. So we end up with monopolies.

Now the system is fucked, cause we have already peaked in terms of customers available to milk. Everyone is in debt to keep things afloat. The FED balance sheet has jumped from 900 billion to 9 trillion in mostly junk debt. People/Politicians we already saw during 2008 gfc folded, when they had a real shot at change.

Its in the interest of Google, Apple et al to use their influence to get on the right side of this.
“So how is productivity? Are the employees getting their work done well and on time?”

“Please, we’re not wasting time on unimportant things like that. We’re focused on the most important metric for any company: how many microseconds a particular butt is in a particular seat.”
What are the profit margins for Austrian retailers?

In the US, all the retailers earn razor thin profit margins (except Home Depot/Lowes), indicating if prices were lower, the businesses would fail, or at best become charities.

Edit: for the one Austrian retailer I could find numbers for, they are not pretty. Not sure how the retailer can lower prices without going out of business if they already have sub 1% profit margins.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37534333
In trade magazines but also Squawk Box. It can be debated how serious that is but investors, perhaps especially retail, tends to listen to them.
Just like how philosophers advocated for benevolent enlightened philosopher kings.
Ask HN: How do you make time for side projects and Leetcode grinding
Hi, I am looking for advice on how you make time for side projects and activities such as Leetcode grinding. I want to do both, but am having a difficult time making it happen.

It’s much more difficult to find time now that I have two small children (6 and 3). Also, my job is rewarding, but I easily have some 50-60 hour weeks semi-regularly and get on the hook for after-hours support. I’ve been a software engineer for over 15 years, so I’m pretty good at picking up new skills at this point.

I’d like to do some projects both because they’re fun and they are also helpful to highlight your skills. Additionally, Leetcode grinding is important in case you need to find a new job.
Nice one! Keep it going and open!

It could be awesome with tech like "Energy Harvesting Module that Efficiently Generates Power from Electromagnetic Wave Noise"[1].

If only big tech where thinking like you and opened their research...

In EU I'm using a LoRa/GPS based pet tracker[2], but it's not enough to quickly find a lost pet.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37480512

[2] https://www.invoxia.com/
Nope, the headline gets way more views. They've click-baited the headline on purpose. I'll accept "irresponsible news editing" if you like as any actual reporter [no true Scotsman, anyone‽] would have made sure it's clear that it's not societal collapse as the headline intimates.

National news outlets should hold themselves to high standards and not be reduced to scummy clickbaiting tactics. And yes, including in headlines; probably, especially headlines. It's disrespectful to the UK public who pay their wages, and irresponsible.

The BBC are absolutely coasting on past reputation.
curiously, they don't mention MMLU, which is one of the most commonly reported metrics for comparison.
> Write aesthetic, simple code

Where do idioms fit into this? An example might be golang, ‘c’ could be a perfectly fine idiomatic variable name in go if it’s used very soon after initialisation.

> Don’t follow rules blindly

I think this section could be improved by changing it to talk about being pragmatic vs dogmatic
But you see, there's a problem right there - threads aren't cool anymore. Not that the user knew or cared, but it's important perceived concurrency is shoved through the lens of async, somehow.
Answering AI’s biggest questions requires an interdisciplinary approach
People don't flourish when most of their productive output is sucked up by some neo-feudal lord, either.

For some reason, capital is currently consolidating at the top.
Kind of besides the point, "be good at X" is a trait; not a habit.
Linux is not designed for being executed in a web browser. Emulation will be slow. With exaequos, applications are in webassembly. It will both an application store, a common development environment and an isolated machine
Um, Hungary took on huge amounts of debt starting in 2020. Forgot to mention that, huh?
You make a good point. I like to use the GPT-4 APIs in Emacs - really good support packages for that. I conflate the two products myself.
In this post, you will find a few ideas you can write about for your business.

You don’t have to worry about if your audience will find them interesting. They have been tested and trusted to work.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA#Long-term

Wasnt that hard right. All just anecdotal evidence of course /S
Can you say where he does this? I only remember him referring to first normal form as something historical, that he doesn't use that particular normal form directly at all.
The pixel graphics with linear texture sampling looks weird and/or broken. For a retro look you might want to look into using nearest-neighbor sampling, instead.
Not really.

There are languages which put at least some effort into parallelism / concurrency (and Go would be one of those along with Java, Erlang, Ada, Clojure, even C++ to some extend).

Then there are languages which outsource everything to the system: eg. Lua, Ruby. They have a way in the language to make a system call, and so if the system can create multiple processes or multiple threads, they can use that.

There are languages that have no way to do even that. For example JavaScript, XSLT or SQL. Surprisingly, a lot of these handle concurrency very well in their runtimes due to automatic parallelization performed by the runtime (not the language).

Python is the language that has neither design nor discernible goals. It has some parallelism in the language, but it's lacking important components which are then either outsourced to the system, or aren't there at all. Because of the randomness of the "design decisions" Python cannot also be reliably automatically parallelized, nor do the developers have reliable tools for building parallel applications, especially not in a modular way because different modules may not agree on the way to go about parallelization.

Python has always been a language where you need to be really knowledgeable about things outside of Python and about Python's own implementation details to get ahead. If all you knew was Python, you'd do very poorly. This is in contrast to languages like Java, which put a great deal of attention towards making sure that even the dumbest programmer will not screw up too much.

Now the people who know how to use Python well are gone, and the language is gradually transforming into Java. But it still has a very long road ahead before it can do enough hand-holding for the losers. Parallelism is one of those things where the goals are very far and so far, mostly, unattainable.
Get it to write a diff patch?
I think the final picture adequately expresses Cash's response to your suggestion.
Yep. There’s a good basic underlying principle to be found here: practice skepticism towards any system or philosophy that has a logical conclusion in the natural or preternatural right of its leaders to rule.
as if only TikTok is doing this...Stripe has their own attendance tracking tool as well, go/attendance.
That's surprising to me, I don't think .NET or node are approved languages at Google. Are you part of some acquisition?
Funky AI-generated spiraling medieval village captivates social media
Both Hungary and Austria are still buying huge amounts of gas from Russia (Austria: 71%, Hungary: 80-85%) and also oil in Hungary's case (80%)[0]. Meanwhile, other European countries had to look for more expensive alternatives. One of the main reasons given for inflation in those countries was the energy crisis. What's the reason in Austria & Hungary?

[0]:
https://oesterreich.orf.at/stories/3194035/

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/hungary-agrees-optio...
Twitter is (was) where the people are, it makes perfect sense to distribute the essay that way. Social media sites downrank external links, and most article links these days are paywalled anyway.
Fabric is still an option but nowadays Ansible is probably the closest popular choice for things like that.
https://passivedns.mnemonic.no/
Autoformatting makes me faster because I don't have to think about it at all. All of the code in the codebase looks pretty similar and it opens up a sliver more mental RAM
Unfortunately what you describe is the norm. We're paid to solve business problems and time (therefore, money) is a limiting factor.

For many people the only time they can "practise" RegEx (etc.) is outside of office hours.

There is probably significant overlap in a Venn diagram of "1% engineer" and "20-40 year old single person with no children or social life"
Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics?
After coming across this hilarious tweet/replies...
https://twitter.com/typesfaster/status/1702766236138905769

... I notice I'm not the only one who throws Google Analytics on projects to get basic site analytics for about 30 seconds set up time.

But Google Analytics 4 is a bit of a mess, so I wonder what free alternatives people recommend?

The (very basic) things I want is hit counter for the site/pages and I liked (but don't necessarily need) the map that shows which countries the visits are coming from.

Any ideas/advice?
I like sites to be readable, quickly, and without leaking too much information to third parties. 'Beautiful' Web fonts tilt against all of those metrics.
On the US west coast, I just bought 1,816 grams (4 pounds) of raw peanuts for $8.00.

Edit: if the comparison is dry salted peanuts, then Walmart sells Planters brand for ~$3.50 per 500 grams.
I know you're talking about indie content and decentralization, but all I can think about is an Internet constructed of a series of tubes-- blue PVC tubes.
How Does BCC Work?
Consulting is hard, it's hard to keep your pipeline of projects full so you have consistent work.

First try looking for a remote contract position as a software engineer. This will get you back to work. You could even try to get a contract working 30 hours per week to give you blocks of time for your side project building.

After that you can look at building your network for future consulting gigs.

Your best projects will come from people you know and referrals. Build open source projects in the framework or stack that you use, get to know people in the community for your framework or stack.

Create a blog to share interesting things you learn.

Connect with MeetUps and groups for your framework and stack.

Attend local business events where you can talk to business owners about their problems and issues. Be ready to suggest how a custom web/mobile application can help them solve their problem(s) and print money.

I think working a contract position would be a good fit for you to have income, not be an employee and build your business.

Check out the book Getting Stared in consulting by Alan Weis.
Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to scroll pages without the mouse
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/focustoscroll/jbcpolobfciagbjpodgfpgnifdmcbhgg/

I like to use the keyboard and avoid touching the mouse whenever possible. One challenging situation is when I'm on a web page that has multiple scrollable elements, like my Facebook feed. When I press up or down in that situation, Chrome scrolls the entire page rather than the specific element I want to scroll. I can scroll that element by hovering over it with the mouse and using the scrollwheel, but I would like to avoid touching the mouse.

The FocusToScroll extension allows focusing on scrollable elements in the page using the keyboard. Use Ctrl-Alt-S to cycle through scrollable elements. Then press the up and down arrows to scroll (or right and left if you caught a rare horizontal scrolling element.)

I'll be happy to know what you think about it!
> I still live in that world in my head. I hope maybe I have expressed a part of that optimism to my kids as I raised them.

You have been good to them, then. Those hopes were grown by a generation of survivors, thinkers, and humanists who expressed humanist principles in their work. They were agents of change. Knowledge, compassion, and fairness have been almost completely replaced in public discourse by cruel raving and demagoguery.
so naturally the stock prices for these grocery chains should be skyrocketing. please show the stock prices for these companies or I will know fairly definitively that you are just doing stream of consciousness outsider art
- Stack:

- Application:
- Flask[0]
- Flask-Admin[1] (maybe for the initial prototype)
- SQLAlchemy --> PostgreSQL
- Gunicorn --> Nginx
- Celery[2] (long-running background jobs)

- Monitoring:
- Sentry[3]

- Analytics:
- PostHog[4]

- Packaging:
- Docker[5] & docker-compose

I may use Flask-Admin initially to offload the "CRUD" operations to have an initial prototype fast but then drop it ASAP because I don't want to write a "flask-admin application" to fight against later on. If the application is mainly "CRUD", then Flask-Admin is suitable.

Now...

Would you do a breakdown/list of all the jobs you've done by sector/vertical and by function/role and by application functionality?

- [0]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com

- [1]: https://flask-admin.readthedocs.io/en/latest

- [2]: https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/2.3.x/patterns/celery

- [3]: https://sentry.io

- [4]: https://posthog.com

- [5]: https://www.docker.com
"I don’t want the mere discussion of ideas to give me satisfaction".

I'm struggling to find a reference, but I very much subscribe to the concept I read somewhere that discussing an idea releases a similar dopamine hit to actual execution.

There's room for validation of an idea etc., but (over)imagining what completion looks / feels like prior to execution can rob that drive to execute.
An individual would not be alive if he rejected any help, correct ? Think infant hood and childhood. A similar principle holds true for nations.
Seems like a means to avoid DoS?
We build most houses to last for centuries when properly maintained. We also know from experience that few houses go more than 50 years without a major remodel so we don't overbuild making that impossible.
That’s a stretch. UAW could’ve confirmed it. Twitter pops up a big warning when you try to change your PFP. It’s like if I went to AT&T, changed my number, and complained that AT&T was preventing people from calling me.
Not everyone's simplification of their solution boils down to "The $scapegoat is the cause of all your problems. The solution is to give me more powers. If you hear anything bad about me, it comes from $scapegoat" though...
Stellar-mass black holes in the Hyades star cluster?