skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, when the primary complaint about Twitter is "other people are using it to say things I dislike", then that seems like a pretty.. motivated critique of the platform.
so 3 hours of focus per day? That sounds like a medical problem to me, so if it really is that then it is understandable. But thats not the vast majority of people like you mentioned (although the vast majority does suffer from focus problems).

Have you tried fasting or other things to help try to narrow down the cause of your headaches? Have you had extensive blood panels (a full panel, not a simple one your doctor will give you... I think you have to order the FULL full ones online). A lot of my business partners and people I work with do that biohacking stuff where they try to find out every way to augment their body. They do weird stuff like fly to mexico to get stem cell injections, etc. Ive never been into that, I just take a multivitamin, but it's possible there is something you're deficient in that could be found out? I'd be almost certain there is SOME combination of SOME THING on this earth that would fix whatever it is, even if it's not well medically documented.

I know a number of people with severe neurotic issues, like TRUE neurotic issues, and fasting is really the only common denominator of what has helped them more than any medicine. People have thought fasting was fugazi woo-woo for the longest time but I believe medical science is now catching up as to the benefit (harvard studies, etc). Ive fruit fasted for 45 days once and healed my gall bladder after the doctor couldnt explain what was wrong with it and their only option was to cut it out.
How would you know I could?
> Fleet operators don’t see any significant difference in tire wear. EVs have higher torque but that doesn’t matter unless to drive like a mad-man. EVs also allow you to drive very smoothly with no sudden jerk in torque.

Time-to-replace-tyre is insignicant. If tyre manufacturer is tasked with making EV tyre with same durability as normal tyre they will just make rubber and grooves thicker.

Also technically heavier car on wider tyre might use them up at similar rate than lighter car on skinnier tyre (as load-per-cm2 would be similar) but obviously produce more dust.

> Cars have been getting heavier long before EVs came around. One of the problems is that EVs are all new. Too many of them are bigger than they need to be. But that also goes for new ICE vehicle models.

It took ~20-30 years for average ICE car to get ~30% heavier. EVs add another ~30-50% on top of that increase.

For any comparable ICE, EV will be heavier.
Almost everyone competent outside India now rejects the "Aryan invasion theory" in terms of rejecting that term for the arrival of the Indo-European languages from the northwest. Today terms like "Aryan migration theory" are preferred. Not that this placates Hindu fundamentalists; it is the very notion that their sacred language arrived from outside (and is just about 3000 years old, not millions of years old) that they find offensive, not the term itself.

There are a few European or American scholars (or "scholars") who reject the idea that the Indo-Aryan languages ultimately arrived from outside the continent. They usually tend to be converts to Indian spirituality and so their objections have a partly religious basis. Koenraad Elst is perhaps the most famous. The OP's claim that the notion is rejected across Asia is something he pulled out of his arse; India aside, linguists across the region very much uphold the scholarly consensus.
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You can say the same thing about Berlin. Every livable tech hub is full.
Are you implying that people haven’t been and aren’t working hard to make it more predictive? This essay gives the impression that the author has just dipped their toe into the field.

Everybody has to start somewhere but it helps to have some depth of understanding before proclaiming others as idiots (seems to be a common passtime of startups these days).

When I got into pharma I could easily see a dozen obvious ways to speed things up and/or add therapeutic value. Fortunately I kept my mouth shut and learned that all but one had been tried. That one that made us unique was more of a social practice.
Your first point stands up to experimental scrutiny, but your second needs qualification: Anyone can be trained to pick up the differences between 320kbps mp3 and lossless formats.

Compression kills the high end, and learning to recognize tell-tale compression artifacts will forever ruin your ability to appreciate streamed music, low-bandwidth wireless audio systems, or just 320kbps rips of music, certain genres faring worse than others.
Honestly, are those tricky questions the author had a too superficial knowledge to identify?

> Why do we need variables?

Do we even need them? You mean variables that vary? If so there are many languages that don't have them at all. Or you mean just naming values?

> How variables are really stored?

That is incredibly complicated. Variables don't exist on the executable like they do on your source code. They are just an abstraction.

> The type of variables matter?

Well, what "type" even means? There are PHD thesis written on this.
> women want careers too

An alternate phrasing, "women work for anti-birth employers and women can't find trustworthy fathers."
It's probably more of a code word for experience and luck, like a gardener's green thumb; some have it, some simply don't, is the implication.
Um. I’ve ground wheat with rocks and cooked it over a fire. I can promise you it won’t rise. Your super-processed flour that you buy in the store has all the magic in it to work though.
People should walk as far as they are willing to walk.
Well sure. The state as it exists will cease to be, and there will be a new state that's a lot like the old one but with conscription. You can say the same about every change to the state. Are you positing that the replacement state will be better, or worse, or is this just an observation that changing something makes it different?
> Why is an aging population an issue?

Because the pension is a ponzi scheme. Young people will be squeezed for every penny as the old population also controls the majority of votes. Politicians have known this for decades and done nothing serious to fix the problem.
That will probably continue to be the approach indefinitely. There's going to be an increasingly advanced translation layer in-between the user prompt and the software responsible for producing the images. We've done this for pretty much all computing & software systems that people interface with. Stripping out the complexity on the front-end for the user is one key to how you get generative software to go super wide. To do that more of the complexity goes to the back-end.
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Nobody can "find" what cats can taste without magically becoming a cat.

It's not even clear whether two humans are experiencing the same flavor or taste when they agree that a food is "sweet"
I think that this is relevant. German industry has collapsed after the natural gas input from Russia got cut off.

https://youtu.be/22M813tN9zk
This is unfortunate. A reminder that amazing stories and claims require verification even from well known writers.
I think it's hard to develop a deep understanding of what's behind all the interfaces that are used now in software development. When I was starting out, if you wanted operational complexity you went the mainframe route, and most of us would instead have been working on a deep understanding of Turbo Pascal/DOS or Mac Toolbox or something of that nature. Things change and now we can call forth powerful distributed networks in seconds, run them for minutes to years, and tear them down instantly. Instead of running a main application and a few things on the side, the majority of the runtime of common systems is pre-fab with a veneer of glue that is supplied by the programmer. It's great, but it forces a different skill set. People with my personality could spend 6 months reading, tinkering with, and understanding Docker before becoming as minimally productive as a person who would be described as a "Packer" in this essay would in a couple days. While they might plateau and be unable to fix a problem, the "Just Mapper" might not be gainfully employed in that niche anymore.

I will say that I heard and probably paraphrased this rant before, when I was dealing with similar cookbook-style code on much simpler systems. People with deeper understanding, who can make sense of a disassembly or Wireshark output, do get called in to figure things out if another layer of copypasta isn't fixing things. But the market has shown that the packer has more fitness to the environment.

I do agree, though, that the term "senior" has become meaningless. This is true in other disciplines like veterinary medicine, where only a naive person would become a medical director.
Thank you for stating my sentiment, and hopefully the sentiment of any reasonable member of humanity, so succinctly.
What the world would look like without fossil fuels
>A thought experiment shows the complexities of phasing out oil, gas and coal
If drawing over-simplified block diagrams of software components is "engineering", we'd be better off just letting the technicians follow their intution. My experience with principals engaging in this sort of naval gazing is they just fuck everything up. The project was in much better shape before they came along with their fancy engineering ideas.
Oh please. And you're up-playing risk.

Let's talk local.

We have lots of cheap shit 3 story stick built apartments. ( https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-02-13/why-ameri... ) The ones opened are charging half of Boston for rents. And I'm not even in a megacity or state capitol.

The same apartments are getting 10 year tax abatements, because they are "good for business" aka trickle-down.

During the pandemic, pandemic "loans" were given to hundreds of businesses in the local area. And those loans were turned into grants (not have to pay back).

And landlords are usually smaller, but again, they're another reason why housing is stupid priced: it's common to see a rental of a home priced at mortgage+30% . The landlord gets their principal covered, keeps the property, and raises costs for everyone.

None of these apply to me or my family, sans the whole big $1200 relief check. I have no tax abatements, and pay taxes in full every paycheck and when I buy stuff. And local governments usually allow whatever by companies unless there's a big fuss. And, those corporate promises about hiring people or bringing in business? Yeah, not actually enforced.

And I didn't even discuss "too big to fail", fed govt propping up industries, and the like.
Yup... Oppenheimer's groundbreaking work was in the physics behind black holes.
Sam Altman is the black hole of Venture Capital.
How old are you? It helps knowing due to your phrasing of _in my life_. Also geographic region is a helpful indicator.
The flaw in this reasoning is ironically a philosophical (epistemological) one: by what authority is it said we "know" the laws of physics? We "believe" theories, even go so far as to sometimes call them "laws", but as we've seen with Newtonian interpretations (the "law" of gravity) they can obviously be superceded by more elegant, positive (not merely deductive) theories, i.e., general relativity. Who is to say our current understanding is the correct or best one? Granted, it's a good place to start for the experimentalists, but for some reason theoreticians have also drank the Kool-aid rather than honestly examining the other proposed theories.

> The known laws of physics have been formed on math that checks out and is consistent with all our other observations

You will of course note that "all the other observations" conveniently reside in the limit of high-mass-density regions of spacetime, where other theories also expect the current best theories of physics to hold. Where the confusion still lies is in the low-mass-density regions. At least other theories posit some explanation besides "there's still mass it just exists in other dimensions". Sounds like sci-fi crackpottery when put so plainly, but I'm sorry to say this characterization is accurate enough for our needs here.

> where does the scepticism end?

Strange application of slippery slope fallacy. It obviously ends where the theories still hold, i.e., high-mass-density regions. This is IMO enough of a response to most of your "philosophical" arguments.

No one's denying that particles exist. I'm only arguing for a theory that actually posits something besides "oops there's a gap". You've articulated a reason why dark matter is offered but it is nothing more than a deduction about where matter would be should it exist. I swear I'm going to have to spin up some cycles on the cluster to fit dark matter models on a geocentric universe to get you people to understand the non-reality of any dark matter paper.

Gosh I love being mansplained on this site by people who obviously have no personal experience with this stuff. Really gets me going.

Edit to reply to your edit:

> when gravity is more of an emergent property of the geometry of spacetime?

Emergent gravity and dark matter are incompatible theories in their usual forms, though there's probably ways to mash them together into a chimera. I suggest reading more into emergent gravity -- entropic gravity is interesting but still in its early stages. I'm not advocating for any particular theory, just humility from those who repeatedly insist that dark matter is already correct and we just need to find the matter.

> since alternative theories (a) also include dark matter, to a lesser extent

No they don't.
The nearest store is a 45 minute walk (one way) from my townhouse. I'm not in the US, but Canada. Driving drops that to 8 minutes.

The sprawl is real and I just don't always have 1.5 hours to dedicate to grabbing bread.
I recently learnt about this procedure for prostate cancer - TULSA (Transurethral Ultrasound Ablation)

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Can you elaborate on what scaling issues you had with Timescale?
So it sounds like you're asking about our use cases. We have customers across almost every vertical. But what's most common are application and server monitoring, sensor data (industrial, rockets, satellites, etc.), and network monitoring.

Metrics is certainly one use case that people pay us for. With v3, we expect that real-time analytics and some more data warehousing types of use cases will become interesting. We always envisioned InfluxDB as a store for observational data of all kinds, not just metrics.

On how we make money, we sell our products. We have at this time:

- InfluxDB v1 Enterprise (a self-managed, clustered implementation of InfluxDB)

- InfluxDB v1 Cloud (Enterprise, but as as single-tenant managed service. We still run this for hundreds of customers)

- InfluxDB v2 Cloud (multi-tenant, usage based, we're running this for thousands of customers)

- InfluxDB v3 Serverless (multi-tenant, usage based v3)

- InfluxDB v3 Cloud Dedicated (single-tenant, resource based pricing)

- InfluxDB v3 Clustered (self-managed v3, clustered database)

We'll have single server versions in the future, but we're a bit off from that. Right now our focus is on continuing support for our v1 and v2 customers, and further developing our v3 products for new customers and customers that want to migrate over.
> flesh eating bacteria or brain eating amoeba might still get you.

Wanna add some context here?
Thatis a different situation. In commercial softeware you know your compiler and (if you care) you assign someone to fix the warnings on every upgrade.

In open source you never know what compiler someone will use. You can probably say gcc 3.0 isn't supported, but someone might have just built the latest master clang with a new warning added.
And that still solves not all that much because you still have to feed the city by fleet of trucks, and still need to have a fleet of vans to deliver all of that to the stores you now walk or cycle to.
At the time for me I had been running Firefox for years but it was kinda slow and an absolute memory hog, I don’t remember specifics but I remember having to constantly close it on my 4gb ram computer. When Chrome came out it’s big thing from what I remember was it was fast and lightweight. I remember installing it and it was night and day, I could have multiple tabs open with out my computer paging memory to disk and everything felt so snappy.

With all that said I think somewhere around 2015 or 2016 I switched back to Firefox because Chrome had become a CPU and memory hog while Firefox had stepped up its game and was a lot faster and more lightweight than Chrome.
In that case: Potential holes because the permitted state transitions are scattered through function signatures and not described in a centralized place.

You're right macros could make this more pleasant. I still think it's quite unergonomic.

But yes, I probably should have said "awkward and/or full of holes" instead of and
> What does it even mean to measure a 4% increase in output per minute?

Based on the context, I read this to mean that the overall 13% increase in productivity isn't just explained by remote workers working 9% more minutes.
I would have thought that in the 90s but the fervor around 9/11 made me think that such popular consideration is fickle in both directions. If we were fighting an actual, military threat to the country, conscription would have almost certainly happened.
gRPC on Node.js with Buf and TypeScript (updated version)
Hadn't heard of SongTradr but I'd agree. Huge opportunity for underground musicians to get their music licensed for commercial stuff.
Proprioception is entirely different from vision. You can know where your hand is with your eyes closed without visualizing anything. My sense of where things are in space feels very similar to proprioception, not vision.
If you go historical it doesn't seem to mind:

JFK as an alien: https://www.bing.com/images/create/jfk-we-choose-to-go-to-th...

JFK and Fidel Castro at a fictional peace conference: https://www.bing.com/images/create/jfk-and-castro-meeting-at...
Are those terms used for continuous measurements (e.g. distances/timespans)? Could 110 seconds be "duse" minutes, or always "handu"?
You mean the desk IT job (programming, qa, systems, etc) that also has a "must be able to lift 50 lbs" was there solely to keep out handicapped people with an arbitrary requirement?

Color me shocked /sarcasm
It's unreasonable to expect individuals to unilaterally stop driving. But on a societal scale, it's entirely reasonable to expect our governments to build infrastructure that allows (many of) us to stop driving. That isn't simple, but neither is it an intractable problem.
Telling Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence (2020) [pdf]
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> The calculating method is based on the latest available pricing data released by OpenAI at https://openai.com/pricing. However, please note that actual costs may vary and we cannot guarantee the price.

I guess in that case we can just use this as reference and calculate it by yourself

From https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...

1 token ~= 4 chars in English

1 token ~= ¾ words

100 tokens ~= 75 words

Or

1-2 sentence ~= 30 tokens

1 paragraph ~= 100 tokens

1,500 words ~= 2048 tokens
As much effort as the team outs on having a coherent progression and cater to as many customers as possible, Rust is still a show-up-ocracy. If there aren't people with enough desire to implement a proposal, it doesn't happen. Features have stalled because of fundamental issues that require going back to the drawing board (allocator api), sometimes for CS research level (specialization) or usability (TAIT) questions, or the person working on the feature burned out right before the final push, and there was no one else to pick up the work afterwards.
In 2021, Christopher Darby launched Chain Bridge I, a CIA-associated fund aiming to invest in national security tech firms, drawing $230 million from investors. Despite its initial promise and ties to the venture capital firm In-Q-Tel, Chain Bridge’s plans have stumbled, missing key deadlines and facing financial challenges, including a significant withdrawal of investments.
I was already familiar with these coupled aphorisms, but never knew the source:

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. One has to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
Ah, the classic "there are starving children in Africa so your feelings and perceptions are invalid."
The 300% Problem
1950s: "This teenager girl is "hysterical", let's put an ice pick through her eye socket"
2020s: "This teenager girl is depressed, lets cut off her breasts and pump her full of testosterone"
This is really surprising for a commercial company. Not about the choice of language itself, but the fact that they prioritize such rewrites over features, similar to the concerns from other commenters. They mention "performance" and "garbage collector" and "error handling" which are almost technical details.

A company can make good money for quite a while as long as the performance is "good enough", and usually focuses on adding features instead of worrying about any rewriting/re-architect until there is a bottleneck or issues start to significantly slow down development. How "successful" such a rewrite still needs to be seen, but this is risky for most companies/products.
I wouldn't mind walking to the store now and then but usually I make fewer trips for more than I could carry.
> the scale of what I've seen so far in Finland is nothing like what it is in the United States

This is because US housing was already insanely cheap by comparison globally. Just as you say housing is cheap outside Helsinki...outside NYC/SF/LA, housing in the United States is even cheaper.

Even today, the average US house is 40% cheaper than the average Finnish house. [1] And US incomes are on average 25% higher. AND taxes are 15% lower on average in the US.

Meaning the price-to-net income ratio is almost 2X for Finnish real estate vs. US real estate.

[1] As of 2023, average price per sq meter in Finland is 2800 USD. Average price per sq meter in the US is 1800 USD.
That doesn't match my experience at all. Every car me or my parents have owned since the 2008 Honda Odyssey has had satellite radio and no HD Radio. Even relatively low end cars (what passes for low end in the United States for the past decade, like a Toyota Yaris) have satellite radio, and I've never been in a car with HD Radio except that one time I took a ride in a friend's Mercedes S class.
I’m disabled. 2023 has been all about re-entering the workforce for me and I couldn’t have done it (yet, anyway) without WFH.

I know that the return to office is vogue now, but I really hope we don’t forget that many of us are only able to work because we have WFH.
Yes, but there is no winter on that region, it’s always 30+

https://weatherspark.com/y/28814/Average-Weather-in-Manaus-B...
Or you know we could just all kill ourselves and that would solve the problem too but people like realistic solutions. Natural rubber exists and we don't have to use synthetic compounds in tires, we can just have shittier tires.

Why do you propose no driving rather than shittier, more expensive driving?
This is the same mistake the OLPC people made. When you're broke and struggling to feed yourself, you aren't going to waste precious calories cranking to charge a battery. You're going to bum enough off someone to have a calorie-rich drink while you charge in a coffee shop or find a public outlet you can sneak some juice off of.
In the age of chatgpt it's easier than ever to practice acrostics in your own work.
changes in the speed of light would change spectroscopy, it really isn't observed in our cosmic neighborhood (maybe in the very early universe at very high redshift).