skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting, I always theoretically appreciated that wikipedia could be inaccurate and that the strict requirements could be a bad thing, but I never saw it in action. Until I was in Tunisia and wanted to visit all the star wars film sites that I could.

There's a place called Ksar Ouled Soltane [0] and I couldn't quite figure out if it was a film site or not. The locals assured me it was, but there were conflicting reports online. I saw that it was listed on Wikipedia, but when I went through the history, I saw that someone tried to remove it [1]. Unfortunately their removal was reverted and their source [2] wasn't considered good enough.

That said, I read their article and I'm much more inclined to believe them than the wikipedia editors.

It was the first time I ever encountered something like this in the wild.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ksar_Ouled_Soltane

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Dbavandy

[2] https://galaxytours.com/research/ksar-ouled-soltane-debunkin...
If they went to this much trouble it's presumably because selecting a random row is an actually slow operation for their database (and this is a pure gimmick feature so the weighting not being equal is irrelevant). MariaDB suggests that "ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 1" involves a full table scan..
HN is still a site about creating businesses, right?

The NYT needs to consider its customers, and ensure they find the balance to make its customers happy. For them, there's a fine line between event reporting, "truth", and point of view.

It's not political backlash. It's pissing off your subscription base. And that's really dumb.
The noise is fun by itself. It's like being in an IMAX movie only that you control and live it.
weed is still illegal under federal law, so its a no-no if you're doing federal work. state-level is a different story.

in most cases no one cares if you did it last year, but you gotta be clean while on the gub'mnt / contractor payroll.

unofficially after the drug test i don't think anyone asks too many questions. just make sure you don't have to lie on the background check cuz I've seen people upgrade from a Secret to higher, and the higher clearance investigations went deeper and found stuff. RIP job in that case.

but seriously tho, knew a dude who did GIS work for the DIA and he was ripping a bong the second he got home. he eventually got really into the cult-y motivational speaker world, not sure where he is now, but was making fat stacks while blazing for a while
The federal government spends 25 times Jeff Bezos’s net worth each year. They’re also the ones tasked with making sure people aren’t starving and homeless.

You’re crazy dumb idiots for thinking Bezos having money is connected at all to homeless and hungry people existing (in fact, I’d think you’ll find those things are negatively correlated — the USSR and Mao’s China had no billionaires, but boy did people go hungry!)
Probably the best setup to avoid this is to have something like Linux home folder encryption, and to set a separate account just for maintenance. If the device breaks, the technician is given the maintenance account password, not the one with access to your private stuff.
Who is Palantir's primary customer? C'mon, this isn't even 101 level stuff... How naive are folks these days?!
No, it's not, because i know that the wages of a single human lifetime are many orders of magnitude more valuable than buying a thing at a particular store.
Why is space so dark even though the universe is filled with stars?
It's less about building something that is useful to many people, and more about selling something that is useful to many people. The fact that what they built was sold by others is a problem they should have thought about.
Selenium IS the more popular library, but it’s mostly used in more old-school places like banks and large corporations. This is fairly anecdotal but companies up for AI-guided paths in prod will more likely be on Cypress or Playwright, and from that Playwright fits in for your case because it’s also webdriver driven. The package actually includes a webdriver btw, so you don’t have to ask users to manage that themselves (for example brew chromedriver has to have permission changes to run if you follow your readme, which playwright would avoid).

Edit: as they both use the same interface it might not be too bad to support both?
I was so hoping this was about a new EDF game.
OK so it gives spaced repetition, but how? Does it just pop up the name of a song from a list you've entered, or is there more to it? There's not much information on what it actually does. Does it listen to your playing?
One hospital in Beit Hanoun might beg to differ.
We use similar questions with the exception of #6 - our data sets are small enough that just getting a correct query is fine. We add a small relational design exercise to see if they understand data modeling 1-to-N and M-N relationships.

Totally curious - what is your fail rate like for applicants at the first stage for the window function? We are happy with more junior engineers who usually haven't used a window function but can currently do simple queries and an easy candidate to move forward with will come up with a group by subquery . . .

I'm guessing that 2/3 to 3/4 of our in-person interview candidates look (on paper) like they could handle simple queries and grouping but struggle in the interview context.
Because the people in charge seem to know about as much as a headless chicken for what to do about it.

(Edit: For context, for anyone here who has never seen what happens for the minute after you behead a chicken...)
I think this challenges us to consider two questions:

1) Does he deserve this money based on the things he did?

2) Should any one person, regardless of how much they deserve it, hold this much wealth?

This comments section shows that people disagree strongly about both #1 and #2.

But I think even if you answer YES to #1, you can still build a reasonable case that the answer to #2 should be NO.

And if that's the case, I don't think the resentment comes from the fact that he's got all this money and didn't properly earn it. Instead, it comes from the fact that when you have one person with this nearly unfathomable amount of wealth (and power), there are a lot of second- or third-order consequences that are undesirable.

I am a distributist, of the classical type represented by G.K. Chesterton, and believe that society works best when the ownership of productive property is widely distributed. That doesn't mean I believe in robinhoodism (i.e. forcible redistributions of wealth), but that concentrated ownership is to be avoided, and public policy should reflect this.
> The interface implementation as subtype could be replaced with explicit instantiation using an “extends” keyword, plus sum types, and it would have been a simpler approach.

Sure if you want to remove one of the better features of Go, Implicit interface implementation.
I was always skeptical of Apple's ability and willingness to create original content. Any sufficiently large company has competing objectives. Apple in particular does not want to offend governments, offend consumers and alienate suppliers.

This influence over content isn't new. Richard Gere was allegedly ostracized in Hollywood for being critical of China over Tibet. Ellen DeGeneres lost her sitcom after coming out (which extended to co-stars in the episode like Laura Dern). The American flag was noticeably missing from the Moon landing in First Man. So dedicated studios have this problem. Apple has all these problems and more.

The likes of Apple will never push the envelope in the way, say, that HBO did with the Sopranos. And now it's so rare that any of these series actually run to conclusion before being cancelled due to not hitting some nebulous set of metrics.

It's also worth noting that the political climate has changed since Jon Stewart was on The Daily Show. I mean that was before Trump got elected. I think for a lot of people, Jon Stewart is now seen as too much of a centrist liberal.
I can imagine that splitting the expenses is symbolic for some couples, more than anything else. Sometimes because history (e.g., didn't feel like an "equal partner" in a previous relationship). And for others, it might just be customary, or seem sensible.

My situation has been different than that, in that I wished my GnuCash setup didn't incidentally quantify some categories of expenses so well. I've adjusted some categories since then. (Though it did make me think of a line of awful dialogue, for the worst rom-com jerk character ever.)
- Pancake optics (0 to -5.75 diopter adjustable)

- Interpupillary Distance (IPD) adjustment range of 58 to 72mm

- E Ink 1.3” displays

- 256x256 per eye resolution

- Side-lit with 3000K LEDs

- Circular polarizers and transflective films

https://solreader.com/technical-specs
There’s a big gap between stimulating somatic hypermutation and DNA transfection. I wouldn’t call the former “getting DNA into people.” There are possibly outdated FDA limits on the latter, which is worthy of discussion.
I mean, I think this is fairly unsurprising; it seems to be mostly popular amongst conspiracy theorists and other kooks. Just an endless fountain of bullshit.
Bezos is not the one you’re buying from, he just forced himself in between you and the seller. He offers nothing but a platform. Whoever you choose to trade with on Amazon, he’s there to take some off the top.
Is there value to most breaking news? It's simply a facet of competition between news outlets, most news actually benefits from some delay.
I think a less radical idea would be to, once and for all, force all billionaires to pay their fair share of taxes and then use the amount they paid extra to solve some of the worlds problems.

I didn't do the math so I don't really know what could be done with such sums.
As a customer of news, I want the fucking news. If I want people’s opinions I will go to the opinion section
Fear is a powerful tool. "Fear is the mind-killer."
The whole siege of the house is one of the only bits of the daniel craig era, excepting maybe casino royale ( I only saw it once but I remember enjoying it ), of bond I can stand. It's not 'bondian' though, bond movies have kind of always been this way. If anything bond has become somewhat less campy in the recent era.
4 years ago makes sense though. It takes a while for the effects to become noticeable.
Cool! Good luck, it would help me with my work so I’m rooting for you :)
Macintosh computers have a "recovery startup" mode where it boots on a minimal OS partition (chosen by holding cmd-R right after power-on). All current Macs gets such a partition as part of normal OS install. This enables checking HW without having access to the customers data (i.e. encrypted partition).

All computers and phones should have such a recovery/repair mode.

I would not be surprised that if this continues to be a problem, then EU will mandate that repair should not be allowed to ask for password and that all devices must have a repair mode. It seems like a straightforward extension of GDPR.
There are no mistakes, just print it now if it aligns with the narrative you want to push, and you'll correct later when nobody cares if you got it wrong.
Does anyone has a North Korean coworkers?
> Aside, the doctors at the hospital said Israel bombed them, they are not Hamas.

How on earth would they know who bombed them?
This topic comes up often but I rarely see a discussion of the alternatives, except from communism advocates.

Assuming we agree with the premise that this amount of inequality is too extreme, what is to be done to reduce it? And in what way do we ensure this does not compromise the basic principles of our capitalist economy, e.g allowing the rewards to be commensurate with the risks, rewarding people who work harder and have more qualifications, and preserving ownership.
Apologies if I am misreading you, but you sound really money obsessed as if that was the only measure in life.

I suspect that both Einstein and Schroedinger went into science because they loved intellectual work, the academic lifestyle, the thrill of discovery, and perhaps the fame and recognition. Because they were successful, they attained that which they wanted (granted, I am guessing at their motivations...)

Bezos set out to build a valuable business and as a result of his success, ended up with... a valuable business.

If you evaluate life meaning purely based on dollars (as you seem to be) then yeah Bezos is ahead. If you evaluate life on more complex criteria as I described above, the scientists got what they set out to get, just as much.
I quit my job and took 6 months off to get out of my last rut. I think this is something I will start doing every 5 years or so. I thought I would always hate working, but the long break is exactly what I needed

May be harder depending on the economic situation, I found a job within a few weeks of looking (2 years ago). If you've been at a company for a while, they may offer extended unpaid leave so you don't have to re-interview
You can do all of this and more with something like gnucash, and also foreign exchange fees, tax accounts,etc. I ran a small business off this for a while some years ago without much trouble, mostly because I wanted to understand what was going on. You could also do invoicing and AR/AP which is t needed for home finances.

Process was pretty easy. Some entries manual or automatic during the month. At whatever period you want download OFX/QFX from bank accounts, CC accounts, etc. and import. Or CSV files or whatever you can get from your banks. When you get statements, reconcile those accounts.

Double entry is the only way to really keep track of things and catch errors, but you control granularity so in some sense amount of work. So in your scenarios, you would have expense accounts for interest fees per bank, loans, income accounts for different sources etc. the number of accounts you have is not a reflection of the institutions (eg banks) but the the things you want to keep track of.

If you want things accurate, you pretty much have to add a reconciliation step somewhere, tools like gnucash will let you see what has been reconciled and what hasn’t yet.
[citation needed]

i don't have any fucking money, i can't invest in shit. That's the big difference between Jeff Bezos and Me.
People are freely spending their money with Amazon all the time because they find it to be valuable--even paying a premium for having things shipped that they could get by running to the store themselves.

Ruth Georgie Erica is presumably still alive. You could obviously send her payment for whatever value you feel her father brought to your life. Is it absurd that you haven't sent her money or do you only see absurdity in other people's actions and not your own?
I think the shock (to some) comes from the perceived hypocrisy of constantly attacking the establishment, but the collaborating with it.

This isn't a shock to me because I never believed that his problem with establishment was ideological as he pretends, but a matter of power. He doesn't like the establishment, because the more powerful the establishment is the less free reign he has to buy influence. Therefore, it makes sense that he collaborates with the establishment where it benefits him, because it increases his power.
At least one economist believes we have already left the realm of capitalism and are in the age of techno-feudalism.

ie: We all work for Zuckerberg and the gang, giving them free labour/info which they resell.

Interesting take on the subject.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/techno-feudalis...

Old guy me expects a revolution of some kind because the standard of living in N. America is slowly declining for most and they remember when it was better.
You can agree or dis-agree but Americans won't let that happen forever...
Fun fact: There are no uninteresting articles on Wikipedia. I can even prove that mathematically. It's a proof by contradiction:

Start with ranking all articles by their interestingness. Then order the list and look at the lowest values. There must be a least interesting article. But the very fact that this is the least interesting one in the entirety of Wikipedia makes it interesting.

In the same way, I assume the least viewed articles in this blog post will have lost their status by now.
I've added "Could you prevent or monitor this kind of attack?" section.

There are several indications which could be used to discover the attack from day 1:

* All issued SSL/TLS certificates are subject to certificate transparency. It is worth configuring certificate transparency monitoring, such as Cert Spotter (source on github), which will notify you by email of new certificates issued for your domain names

* Limit validation methods and set exact account identifier which could issue new certificates with Certification Authority Authorization (CAA) Record Extensions for Account URI and Automatic Certificate Management Environment (ACME) Method Binding (RFC 8657) to prevent certificate issue for your domain using other certificate authorities, ACME accounts or validation methods

* Monitor SSL/TLS certificate changes on all your services using external service

* Monitor MAC address of default gateway for changes
Hope will get you nowhere, these platforms change hats depending on whatever is most beneficial to their bottom line / political standing. Regulation is the only way.
A big confounding factor here is that Estonia became massively richer over the past decade. From 2012 to 2022, their per capita GDP went up 62% from $17k to $28k.

It is much, much easier for Estonians to afford cars than it was a decade ago. Without making transit free, car traffic easily could have gone up even more.
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IDK… how about having them take a screenshot of their favorite website, then use GPT-4V to prompt and generate some boilerplate, then use VS Code Live Server extension to render the page. Illustrate how the HTML/CSS affect the web page.

Could be a fun on-ramp to get them excited. Have to be careful giving them AI at the start, but who knows! It might be THE way to go.

Do newbies start with notepad++ and a LAMP stack or VS Code and ChatGPT!? Feels like it’s up in the air right now.
I have to assume that someone selling an ARM laptop with Linux would do that for you so the compatibility is transparent.
>Seeing people with considerable amounts of cash as suspicious makes some sense to me.

Then investigate and find a crime, no reason to plainly steal the money.
Amazon Trials Humanoid Robots to 'Free Up' Staff
I fully expect that in the distant future when humanity is (hopefully) moving, mining, and colonizing asteroids. Video game asteroids will still break into smaller asteroids when shot with lasers.
As someone who worked in a decently sized company working on a software product written with TS/HTML/SCSS (at least we had those) and jQuery: no, absolutely not.

as the apps get big, state becomes a mess, fully reusing code is very hard, making anything even slightly reactive becomes not only a lot of code, but a jumbled mess of mutability, usually copy pasted from somewhere else. I will take any other type of app over that - I don't care if it's angular, vue, react, next, whatever.

So i contend that not only is "managing a bit of state and writing sensible CSS to make it reusable" very hard, I haven't even seen it done ever, at least in my personal experience of the code I touched
It's the same issue from last generation's photo developing services. It was common knowledge that photo techs printed an extra copy of anything "interesting" for their own collections.
You can have bad foreign actors and have bad local actors, both can be true at the same time. My concern is that we (US) aren't doing enough to seek peace as the world leader with clout and acting not too different than the other jerks. Over a hundred thousand people, mostly young with full lives ahead of them, have reportedly died in the Ukraine war so far...for what? So we can stick it to Putin? Listen to Lindsey Graham who now wants to have a war with pretty much the entire world or to the Biden administration that is now seeking $100 billion, $60 billion of which is for Ukraine.
TikTok got caught collecting data without proper disclosure
Indeed, decent, down-to-earth people should unite in a time where both power hungry fascists and foreign adversaries are exploiting the extreme divides in the country.
Well, is LINQ really a lang. feature?

Extension methods are lang feature, LINQ is implemented with ext. Methods.

You can argue that there is LINQ Query syntax instead of method chaining, but almost nobody is using this except for some specific cases (let keyword)
If you see cranes outside of a non-profit hospital you know they are not hurting.
Micron: CXL 3.0 Shared Memory for a New Class of Applications [video]
You are essentially saying that the huggable "part of it" did not exist until the blind person has bumped into it.

I think this would be a wrong way to look at things; in the end, though, all this comes down to people taking different philosophical positions which cannot be reconciled in principle, like science and religion, for example.
The mountain of evidence is a bunch of former US Intel personnel turned corporate media stooges saying that it didn't look like an air strike? Both sides are capable of blowing shit up without an air strike...

I haven't seen anything convincing one way or another and my experience as a former US Intel stooge is that the foreign news press in the United States usually whiffs on the narrative and almost never presents definitive evidence of any but the most tangential details to corroborate their narratives.

If you've seen convincing evidence, I'd be interested in a link.
Absolutely - war crime after war crime and the world is just spectating.

So much for Western Human rights ... perhaps it's not the "right" Humans this time around.
Expanding on the the above,

> The original version of PostgreSQL from the 1980s did not remove dead tuples. The idea was that keeping all the older versions allowed applications to execute “time-travel” queries to examine the database at a particular point in time [via https://ottertune.com/blog/the-part-of-postgresql-we-hate-th...]

Postgres deprecated support for time-travel in ~1997 and the more general notion of "system time" wasn't standardised until SQL:2011. This blog post is a good overview on the SQL:2011 spec + adoption in databases of (bi-)temporal versioning: https://illuminatedcomputing.com/posts/2019/08/sql2011-surve...

Temporal versioning is less sophisticated than git-like versioning (no branching etc.) but is usually more aligned with common end-user requirements. Kent Beck suggests this framing of "eventual business consistency": https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/eventual-business-consisten...
You don't have to be remote to do this. You are set up to be able to work remotely no matter what in my experience, even when the office was king.

And yes, I say was.
> The bigger issue which I think everyone has good reason to want to support is logistics: getting people what they need and want, as efficiently as possible, while reducing waste.

And when everyone supports something, someone can become fabulously wealthy working on this, like shipping magnates, railroad magnates, oil magnates and Jeff.
Would anyone really expect that authorized repair shops are any different in this regard?
- "If you criticize the PRC they can hurt your company's bottom line by denying you access to that labor, but your company can still move production to a different country"

The victim in this scenario isn't the company—it's the US speakers being censored by a foreign dictator, with this company acting as an intermediary. I.e. in this thread, we're not talking about Tim Cook's speech; we're talking about Jon Stewart's speech, and Tim Cook censoring him at the behest of Beijing.
Aren’t hospitals being nonprofit just in name only? They do it for tax purpose, not for charity.
Schrodingers Least Viewed Article....Just by observing it... it may change state :)