skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The fun part is often all that bullshit hyper optimized complexity can still be beaten on all the web core vitals by a humble LAMP server

So not only are you wasting your time on all the wrong things, you're also gaining nearly no benefit from it

I'm pretty convinced that all these shiny new hotness tools and frameworks of the past decade are actually just meant to sabotage competition and small companies
A personal habit that I found really helpful early on was to always force myself to do things "the proper way". Here's what I mean by that:

- Are you bad at regular expressions, but feel you could get away by just processing text with some loops and split statements? Don't. Use RegExes - every single time until you are good at it.

- You don't really understand database joins and normalization, but you feel you could just make two queries and merge things in your backend code? Nope - go learn joins properly.

- You're overwhelmed by large CSS stylesheets and are tempted to write some inline style or important! statement? Nope - read up on CSS taxonomies and structures...

etc...
From the Kitaoka's paper:

http://www.psy.ritsumei.ac.jp/~akitaoka/Kitaoka2015_Referenc...

> More specifically, a closer object projects to a more temporal part in the retina and so does red light. This suggestion, however, made Bruecke immediately reject his hypothesis because some of his observers reported red receding with respect to blue.

> The Stiles-Crawford effect is a phenomenon that the rays entering the eye through the peripheral regions of the pupil are less efficient than those through the central region [24]. This two-factor model, which Vos [4] called the “generalized Bruecke-Einthoven explanation,” has been widely accepted, while a few authors did not approve it [25]. Many studies suggested that pupil size affects chromostereopsis [19, 21–23], which supports the generalized Bruecke-Einthoven explanation. Simonet and Campbell [26], however, did not find any consistent relationship between pupil size and chromostereopsis.

Maybe the explanation is not 100% physiological in nature.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.03726

Human Perception as a Phenomenon of Quantization – Diederik Aerts, Jonito Aerts Arguëlles – 2022

> For two decades, the formalism of quantum mechanics has been successfully used to describe human decision processes, situations of heuristic reasoning, and the contextuality of concepts and their combinations. The phenomenon of 'categorical perception' has put us on track to find a possible deeper cause of the presence of this quantum structure in human cognition. Thus, we show that in an archetype of human perception consisting of the reconciliation of a bottom up stimulus with a top down cognitive expectation pattern, there arises the typical warping of categorical perception, where groups of stimuli clump together to form quanta, which move away from each other and lead to a discretization of a dimension. The individual concepts, which are these quanta, can be modeled by a quantum prototype theory with the square of the absolute value of a corresponding Schrödinger wave function as the fuzzy prototype structure, and the superposition of two such wave functions accounts for the interference pattern that occurs when these concepts are combined. Using a simple quantum measurement model, we analyze this archetype of human perception, provide an overview of the experimental evidence base for categorical perception with the phenomenon of warping leading to quantization, and illustrate our analyses with two examples worked out in detail.

> in this article, we would like to pay attention to visual perception that takes place in this more primitive first-line phase and quantum structures that would be present there. A specific situation in visual perception, namely, the bi-stability that occurs when viewing figures drawn on a two-dimensional background that we nevertheless visually reconstruct into ‘seeing three dimensional entities’, of which the ‘Necker cube’ is the archetypal example, was studied within the quantum cognition approach. The presence of quantum structure was investigated and convincingly demonstrated (Conte at al., 2009; Atmanspacher & Filk, 2010).
I would’ve liked the article more if it wasn’t written by a so called natural aristocrat, feels like a new aristocrat basking in the strength of his “natural” VC upper class. Also with palantir, defence profit is still war profit, well in my opinion palantir is just a huge tech bootlicker of government.
Thank you.

The CLI usability was one of the aims behind [prql-query (pq)](https://github.com/prql/prql-query/). sqlite integration was on the roadmap but unfortunately that project has been largely unmaintained by me for the past 6 months. (This is just referring to prql-query and not PRQL which is under very active development.)

I'm working on a new project which will do exactly this (and a lot more!) which I hope to release next week. I'll drop the link here when that's ready.
The dosages are discovered and defined by the Phase I trial, also in a very systematic way that is meant to break free of folk wisdom about correct dosages.
If you can, implement code reviews in your integration pipeline. Someone pointing out my lazy shortcuts keeps me honest.
There is a simpler way. If it’s data about you, it’s your property, wherever it’s stored. As such, you, not the software company, have the right to sell it if you wish.
And especially especially for security. Slow down and make sure the feature is secure as possible.
Capitalism can't fail it can only be failed
So, is it causation or correlation ?
Everyone thinks their own #%$@ doesn't stink. "Aesthetically pleasing" code often looks different to me than other people.
I guess I would. It seems dangerous not to for the reasons mentioned here.
There is a deep irony that most technology is built on achievements by Newton, Babbage, ect, ect. Many scientists and authors who depended on universities, authorship and royalties for their bread and butter.

And now that they've sowed the seed of computing, we want to turn around and destroy the very methods and media they used to create it.

Isaac Newton alive today, couldn't make a penny for his discovery of calculus through 15yrs of work. All the money and women would go to ChatGPT or Wikipedia or whatever research instituition technically owns his work.

It's obvious that there are few new ideas, real revolutions and conceptual improvements happening. It's because we killed off the incentive to work on a problem for a really long time. Piracy destroys, that's all it does.

The internet could have been a tool for emancipation, but it became a tool for mass thievery. And people have the gall to defend it, as if Google and Netfix or ChatGPT make up for the death of studying as a universal kind of progress.

Put me back to sleep. We wasted our computing revolution relacing the old media with faster, more ambigious versions of the old ones.
> "the MyRTO dashboard"

nice. dealing with these office theatrics after so many years feels utterly demoralising and demeaning.

need to find a way out...
Thanks for sharing that story, really enjoyed reading it.

>> "He won with a lower bid than Google."

Off topic: why would a company every sell to a lower bidder? If you have any investors in the company (not bootstrapped), don't you have a fiduciary responsibility to always sell to the highest bidder.
"There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents."

This is self-evidently true. One of the problems in current society is fetish for equity, the idea that everyone should be treated the same, regardless of their talents and virtues. Some people are smart, some are dumb. Some are generous, some are narcissistic. Those who are talented and virtuous are the one we need in charge of society. It is important, indeed essential, to discriminate: to prefer the smart and virtuous over the dumb and selfish.

"There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth."

Unfortunately, these are the actual people currently in charge of society. The wealthy, political elite - be it the Kennedy clan of Massachusetts or the Dassault clan of France - they wield the levers of power, sometimes openly and sometimes behind the scenes. Far from any feeling of noblesse oblige, they wield this power for their own purposes.
They could go by whichever the product itself shows most prominently, or require both units if 2 units are shown.
+1 makes red pop out very strongly for me. Without glasses only very slightly.
We do have grammars for many editors. I'm not sure about LSP off the top of my head but you should find something in the docs under "Integrations".

There is also a VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=prql-lan...
Doesn't look half-empty to me. Maybe 10% empty.
How does it compare to nnn?
Author here,
In case all resources are equally owned, the QoL is bound to all of them (as opposed to none). It does take multiple purchases to increase the QoL, but it is the only way. Otherwise people would starve due to aboulomania.

The average QoL is sampled each end of day, step 73-75 depending on the random seed. At step 72 you are seeing the zeroth day average QoL ,with nearly all the intraday mutations of the first day.
That’s my understanding as well; that the Industrial Revolution in the US was very much based on IP from outside the US.
Yeah, I came to the same conclusion: 2 dishwashers. But a robot arm would be much cooler.
Lol, such wisdom to impart. Thank you!
If food and housing gets too expensive, then sorry mate, nothing we can do about it, that's just how the free market™ works, try working harder.

But when labor gets too expensive pushing wages up, then it's no longer the free market, but it's a "labor shortage" catastrophe all over the media and we have to shed tears about the poor business owners wo can't afford a second Porsche, so immigration gets turbocharged until wages come down to their desired levels that businesses can agree is "fair".
Completely meaningles.

Calculating based on vague terms like populism is so in the eye of the beholder.

Why is this even a thing?
Is it safe to feed your cat a vegan diet?
This is what I did once. And it worked!

I have a 4 years 1 day old repo for code that was used in a job 4 years ago.

But I made sure to have a written agreement saying that the code I was bringing in was, within reasonable limits, still mine.

Clearly this doesn't include code that was produced during the job.
I've only ever agreed to those terms kicking and screaming. I wish there was a larger part of the community willing to advocate for a "love of the art" clause that would explicitly state that code I wrote on my own time is mine.
That seems to fall neatly into the previous definition without saying the words "demagogue", "opportunism", and "simplistic". It's more of a practical characterization than a definition.
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You’ve made a big leap in your assumption about how populism produced less economic activity.

Maybe populism’s disregard for democratic institutions resulted in more corruption which hurt growth?

Neither of us know.
The article misses the most important "habit": be an engineer, not a coder. The best engineers I know design the right solution in the first few iterations. They do this because they invest time in understanding the problem. This is a social skill, not a technical one.

You don't have to code fast if you don't need to write a solution for the problem ten different times.
fridge door is peak
This reminds me of the 500 word essays split into a billion tweets.

Just use the right tool for the job...
this sounds interesting to try for me. Software engineering alone wears off for me after a while on a project to the point I simply cannot type a single line for it if forced. Managament is where I am really good at coming up with ideas/plans/strategies but the day-to-day following-up (including staying calm and friendly in the face of very slow employees sometimes) also is soul crushing and depressing after a while. My sweet spot somehow is in the middle an hopping between projects, mentoring engineers and also doing my own projects on the side or even spearheading initiatives... sometimes.

What cycle times/scheduling works best for you? how do you deal with the dread of picking up a topic again after letting it go mentally?
I kinda feel like the comparison between an on-prem vs cloud. For the longest time, big, old companies clung onto their data center spaces. No new start-up would ever dream of that though. They would be cloud first from inception. It's probably going to be the same for new companies vs old ones.
>“asymmetric information warfare”

That's also a powerful tool for wage suppression and it's been used for decades to constantly low-ball workers.

Thank god in the last decade we saw a lot more transparency online through user provided open source salary data, which helps even out this asymmetry a bit and have workers demand their market value and hope to not get massively low-balled like before.

>I think that’s a great term in explaining how “the free market” doesn’t work.

It only works for those who set the prices as they can collude on price/wage fixing whereas workers and consumers can't organize in similar fashions.
It's not just China. For example, there's been several accusations of the French state assisting in industrial espionage against the US, and France has acknowledged some of these cases as true

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_espionage#France_an...
DuckDB uses Adaptive Radix Trees/Tries:

https://duckdb.org/2022/07/27/art-storage.html
Due to ergonomics, I just airdrop it to my mac—easier to click a link than to copy it. From mac to iphone, I copy-paste (universal clipboard)
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That'd be easy but I believe you're looking for orthogonal lines! :)
Keep a notebook. Most things you struggle with, you already solved
once and forgot. I use org-mode. YMMV.
Where… where did it lead you?
The main pain point I still have with GPT4 is that it's hard to prevent it from being a yes-man

"- I have problem A, what do you think of X ?

- Yes X is great ...

- But with X I'd encounter problem B, maybe I should go with Y ?

- You're right X would cause problem B. With Y ..."

One way to limit this issue is to not give ChatGPT any hint on your intent, instead of writing "I have problem A, what do you think of X ?", just write "I have problem A, how do you solve it ?" and then see what it says about X. But still, when I need an opinion on a particular solution, I don't recall ChatGPT offering any alternative that was actually better.

I've added "Be critical. Be pessimistic." in my custom instructions but it barely gives better results
Exactly. I recently looked at options available for (e)bikes - and this easily looks much better than everything I could find.

Ideal device (for a bike) would:

Fit inside the handlebar

Have eSIM support and 5g

Open sw/hw

Bring-your-own data eSIM

This comes pretty close already.
Didn't try it, but I'm pretty happy with Hacki on Android : https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
dbt integration was one of our major goals early on but we found that the interaction wasn't as straightforward as we had hoped.

There is an open PR in the dbt repo: https://github.com/dbt-labs/dbt-core/pull/5982#issuecomment-...

I have some ideas about future directions in this space where I believe PRQL could really shine. I will only be able to write those down in a couple of hours. I think this could be a really exciting direction for the project to grow into if anyone would like to collaborate and contribute!
I feel like the conversation is shifting a little bit, but I like the new direction so I'll respond:

This is not great, I don't think you should be OK with that.

ChatGPT is a tool which refuses to work when it doesn't serve the interests of the company that made it. Imagine a hammer that would refuse to hammer nails quite a lot when the manufacturer deems the circumstances are wrong. That would be, honestly, a bad tool. Luckily, there is enough competition in the carpentry tools market so that no one manufacturer could monopolise it and impose such rules. And that is good.

Many tech companies like Apple are also doing this. They sell you a product but still have their iron grip on it and don't let you use it if it's against the interests of the company. There is literally software you can't run on an a Turing-complete iPhone unless you jailbreak it (which is quite analogous to jailbreaking ChatGPT). Right to repair and right to own, and a few other efforts are now trying to combat this.

Technology should not be limited by the interests of board members. It is a shame if it is.

However, this doesn't address the question of morality. If hammers couldn't be used to kill people, wouldn't we want that as a society? You may have been talking about something like this in your response, right? I think that's a good idea, but it's not how most things work right now (remember the lawyer who got into hot water for using GPT to fabricate evidence - the court decided it was their responsibility, not the tool maker's), and it's not how I would like things to work. As a society, we should get to decide what's moral and immoral, not OpenAI's board.

If an independent third party (like a truly independent regulator) would get to decide that no LLM can answer certain questions as that information is too dangerous for very clear reasons, I would be more okay with that. But I doubt they'd be as eager about censoring information as OpenAI right now. I'd be okay with banning questions like "how to make a WMD at home" - some questions that are really detrimental in a very direct way to humanity. But not anything that doesn't align with OpenAI's version of morality and ethics, and most importantly - legal defence against being sued. We can't align our society and its tools to the interests of OpenAI.

I think there's a lot of nuance in these things, and we need to look a little deeper than "I don't want people to think about immoral things". That approaches the domain of religion with sinful thoughts, and other forms of thought control. And I don't believe this is a good way for us to advance as humanity. No offence to anyone's faith, which I'm sure is multi-faceted and has bad aspects as well as good. I'm also not saying that you're looking at it shallowly. Just saying that we should not do that.
Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37530314
Lies, damn lies, and feedback on Arch Linux
Great name and domain. Someone said "branding is overrated, let's go all in on SEO."
I find that almost all coders can recognise clean code but many fail to produce it.

I think partly it's down to the "if it ain't broke don't fix it" mentality - once it's working there's a temptation to leave it as is and move on to the next task, especially if you're under time pressure.

In fact the time just after you've got it working is the time you have maximum knowledge about the code and the problem it solves, so that's the best time to refactor. Even something as simple as renaming variables and functions to be consistent and reflect what they actually do (rather than what you thought they would do when to started) can make a huge difference.
> Then we also got German and Slovenian stores.

Do they mean foreign companies operating in Austria, or separate DBs/web sites for other countries? (The forks[1] don't have legible names) I'd love to see a New Zealand one, as we have a big problem right now with rising cost of living and lots of suspicion of shenanigans.

[1] https://github.com/badlogic/heissepreise/forks
Good advice, but the same advice every article like this gives.

Describing all of the recommended cities as “vibrant” makes it seem a bit cliched.

I’ve done this for about a decade. Lots of details to consider around banking, taxes, insurance, communication, and visas.

My advice: Stay flexible, adapt, roll with it. Things will go wrong, the world doesn’t always work the way you know, expect, or prefer. Respect, a smile, and a sense of humor goes a long way everywhere.

I’ve seen digital nomad fail in two ways that dominate the stories I know about. One is not having money and an income, thinking remote work will somehow come easy. It won’t. The other is too much partying, drinking, and drugs.
A majority of the food brands in Austria lead directly back to Nestlé ..
Agreed. That's why the Harmony Hub + Remote was/is the best option on the market. No touch screen, just buttons, I can operate it "blind", I don't have to point it at anything (I've left it in my pocket while cooking and I can reach in and play/pause/navigate all without even taking it out of my pocket). The battery (a coin battery) lasts somewhere in the 6 months - 1 year range, I literally have no idea because it's so rare that I have to update it.

It's a shame that Harmony has left the remote business. Sofabaton is the closest to what my Harmony's can provide but they have a screen on the remote which I'd really rather do without. If my Harmony Hubs died today I'd probably get an X1 (though I actually like the design of the U2 way more) but I'm really hoping that I can ride the Harmony wave a little longer until a real spiritual successor comes out.
By what measure was Hitler a successful populist? He needed other parties to get into power and then a huge suppression apparatus to stay in power.
Even for PV, most payback periods are under 10 years at this point. In sunnier areas payback periods can be just a few years.
I agree with this. The executives that made the decision to outsource and offshore understood that near term gains would come with long term consequences, they always do. Those executives did very well by those short term gains.
> One nice thing in Google cloud is that you can create a vm and parametrize it with the docker container image and it will run it. No need to install anything.

Never knew about this feature!
Not yet, but looking at what sqlx does, I think we should be able to do something similar.

It's been a small team of core contributors so far but in the last three months we've seen more people making their first PR and then going on to contribute more over time so the momentum is growing.

We'd definitely be open to contributions in this space.
>it shows the power of smart, tech-capable citizens

Consumers in Austria who travel abroad/to Germany often, already knew they were getting scammed for a long time now, but couldn't prove it and now they can, so the more important question is what will come out of it, as the data shows the big retailers clearly cooperating on price fixing.

My guess, nothing, as the government regulators who are supposed to watch over this, will find nothing wrong, as they're already bought and paid for to go work as lobbyists or "consultants" for these retailers once their stint in politics is over.

Why do I think this? Well, about 6 years ago, the 3 big telecom operators in Austria raised the prices together at the exact same time, and the government body in charge of overseeing these things said they have no proof that the 3 operators colluded together for price fixing and it could just be a coincidence, case closed.

The country is so corrupt, it's rotten to the core. As a consumer and taxpayer you are being legally fleeced form every direction with the blessing of the government, but this is probably true in many other countries.
> short clips taken from movies have been on youtube for more than a century.

Full movies have also been on youtube since a long time. But TikTok = chinese = bad, youtube = american = good. /s
Reading files on Vercel during Next.js ISR
this advice isn't all that useful.

On that first one: "Every outperformer I knew had the style guide internalized"

No thanks.. It's the year 2023, just install an autofixing linter which fixes the code for you, and then worry about other things.
Also this was in the days before it was acquired by FB. Hence why only 3 was need it.