skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It’s a made-up issue.

My biggest pet peeve is when people have an issue that doesn't affect them so they need to declare it as "fake". Just because you don't feel the problem doesn't mean "it's a made up issue".

The following are simply facts:

1. In the US, among iPhone users, iMessage is by far the dominant messaging service.

2. Among certain socioeconomic groups in the US, iPhone is by far the dominant mobile phone. I have been in several friend groups where there was at most 1 other Android user.

3. In group chats, not only does the limited functionality for Android users make it harder to converse, but the presence of a single Android user can break the experience for everyone (I've had messages randomly not show up, abysmal video quality, etc.)

So while I would absolutely love it if other people would switch to Telegram or WhatsApp or whatever, you try telling a group of 10 people "Hey, can you all switch the messaging app you are familiar with and use all the time so I don't feel left out?" If you think that's viable you just don't understand human nature.

The other option is for Apple to simply make an Android version of iMessage (like all the other messaging apps you mentioned), but they don't seem too keen on that.
Awesome. This is very exciting. What is the cost of this.
Thank you for explaining. I never really looked into this to understand it and because of that it felt like magic, which is always in indicator that you just don’t understand something. I was going to add “in tech”, but it is an indicator of that with anything in life.
> No. What happened here is you interpreted it as an insult to your pride.

You see, the thing is, I’m not even incidentally or partially Chinese. I just really despise the Western pride and xenophobic judgement people like you cast! I don’t know how you claim to be neutral, but I’m definitely not attempting to be neutral.

Anyways, I’m also gonna end my argument here. I see no value.
Spectrum continuity and spikes, flicker, active cooling, ridiculously short lifespans at ridiculously high levels of brightness, and a sprinkling of “the old way is the only way”?
Sprinkler vials are designed to break at temperatures as low as 135 degrees. Air temperature plus radiated heat could easily hit that even if the light is fairly far below the head.
I can't think of a better career combo of work life balance, flexibility, and income.
The irony here is that the entities with a conscience are very much aware of what their doing. Very very much aware.

So there's not much difference is there?

Actually there is. The difference is in a quirk of moral evolutionary psychology. The tragedy of the commons. As an individual each of those entities contributes negligible evil to society. In aggregate that negligible evil becomes prominent.

Morality is divided up into fractional shares and sold like a collateral debt obligation. Every time you step into a car and let that thing spew green house gases into the air you are contributing to the destruction of the world. The individual is still guilty. We call corporations evil, but what we don't realize is that corporations are a mirror of humanity.
They accepted the role and fulfilled the duties that were asked of them by the company. They had all the chances to intervene or divest before such a model made it to production.
Ironically but unsurprisingly, Google Voice doesn't even support RCS.
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I knew somebody was going to regurgitate this.

That's if you make up some number for fossil fuel externalities and count it as a subsidy. Pollution from fossil fuels is a very real and very big issue but it has been presented in such a way that people think governments are actually giving oil companies trillions of dollars in direct subsidies. No other business has had this kind of math applied to it. The fossil fuel industry is taxed heavily from when the oil comes out of the ground to people pumping gas into their cars, it is a huge tax revenue generator.

I really want to emphasizes the "make up a number" part. Trying to understand the physical part of climate change is already a monstrous task with big uncertainty. From there trying to to estimate economic effects is basically impossible.
I don't understand the point you are making. These systems are intrinsically non-homogeneous in their typing.

In input-output analysis in economics, for example, the elements of a vector represent the amounts of a commodity (coal, steel, electricity, etc.), and the columns of the demand matrix represent how much of each commodity is required to produce one unit of that commodity as output. So the type of row 1 is "kg of coal", the type of row 2 is "kg of steel", the type of row 3 is "kJ of energy", etc. Given this matrix and a vector representing the starting quantities, you can do some linear algebra to get a matrix representing how much of each quantity to allocate to each sector, and a vector representing the resulting output. The type of these vectors are "[kg Coal, kg Steel, kJ electricity, ...]"

I don't now how you can "have an implicit 1 with the right units in them in order to make the vector have a consistent unit" given this setup.
I want to make V1 of this myself, but actually the cost of the plywood and the metal hinge is probably more costly than this product. I hope they can get it into big stores.
Not a good post. Substack isn’t perfect, but Medium is awful. Comparing the two is not a good take, especially as Substack seems to have figured out the individual writer business model while Medium still wants you to pay for their whole platform.

But... Substack emails your newsletters directly to the readers and provides the option to export your email list right??. I'm sure these will the axed as soon as profitability becomes an issue since they provide a nice lock in.

This is extremely unlikely and would invoke a torrent of anger from millions of users.
Bureaucracies and authorities love black box models because they can always point to them, shirk their own responsibility for decision making and say they're only following orders and that computers aren't biased.

It's just a coincidence that the model they're paying for keeps making decisions that are beneficial to their own interests and reflect their own biases.
SQL server: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/a...

Interesting read on a project implementing this for Postgres: https://pganalyze.com/blog/automatic-indexing-system-postgre...
Stupid question—if an insurance provider keeps denying claims which could keep elderly patients healthy, and those patients then die, isn't the insurance provider just cutting off its own source of income?

But I agree that it's about incentives, and insurance carriers are incorrectly incentivized for the service they provide vs. what they're expected to provide.
I tried but I was getting some error while using tools , now working fine
There’s always the option to run a PiHole or even NextDNS and block telemetry at a network level. I know it’s not the same thing but still better than nothing.
Or conspire to cap engineer pay and get a slap on the wrist not equivalent to the money they saved, and then continued the collusion.
Well, they still consume 60% of renewable electricity long term overall, that's not counting whatever renewable electricity may be a part of imports from Spain. It's good enough and that's a big progress. With solar power due to increase more than 7x by 2030 (now generating 8% of all power consumed), and wind by almost 3x with almost all additions being offshore (now generating 18% of all power), it's easy to see that even we assume 50% curtailment rate, they will provide 100% renewable power easily.
Zing!

Would you be interested in opening for my Kajagoogoo cover band? Just to be clear, we don't play "Too Shy" and never will.
They seem to mean talent density in the sense of the amount of talent per person.
i was under the impression that sperm health is not just about mutation but also how well the embryo develops in the early stages, which determines how well the gene is expressed.
Good news, with the elimination of the SIM card slot, they fixed this bug and you can have two eSIMs active with no chance of ever getting a physical travel sim to work! /s
This horrendous behavior of health insurance companies in the U.S. is widely understood, reported on, and documented to cause harm and death. If you choose to work for them, you’re of the same ilk of people who work for pyramid schemes and arms manufacturers.
I think the OP is suggesting that hypothetically speaking, people would only go through the hassle of appealing if they were pretty sure they would win to begin with
What on Earth makes you think that there are less assholes in educated part of the population?
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Correction: The CARRIERS intended to all host a own RCS server, before Google was even part of the picture.

The idea was for every carrier to be the gatekeeper of his subscribers, so no one was giving up anything and everyone wins. The strongest carriers in the working group rolled out their own servers in the initial stage of development, a total of five only IIRC. No one else followed because there was no visibility on return of investment.

At that time, major device vendors maintained their own SMS-app to navigate all the custom requirements of the carriers in the world. Google aimed to standardise the client and include all these carrier-specific customizations, but RCS was about to fragment this space even further, as every vendor was expected to integrate his own client.

Google then stepped in in 2015 by acquiring Jibe, a main supplier of RCS servers and the developer of a vendor-agnostic RCS-client. At this point only ONE carrier still considered to buy a own server.

Google continues maintaining the existing servers and also offers to host RCS as a service for carriers. Overall goal was to defragment both the server and the client area, as this was the only way to scale.

It's time for others to step in and balance the playing field again, Apple is the best candidate for that.
Yes.

Using a view in this example, you can't dynamically change which files are being selected (not even with joins or where clauses). What if new files are generated and suddenly there are more or less files? Therefore you probably wouldn't want to encapsulate your SQL into a view. Most of the time you would probably bind the list of files in your SQL as needed:

SELECT SUM(size) AS size FROM read_parquet(:files);

But in this case, a table macro/function might also be an option:

CREATE MACRO GET_TOTAL_SIZE(num_of_files) AS TABLE (
SELECT
SUM(size) AS size
FROM read_parquet(
list_transform(generate_series(0, num_of_files), n -> 'https://huggingface.co/datasets/vivym/midjourney-messages/resolve/main/data/' || format('{:06d}', n) || '.parquet'
)
)
);

SELECT * FROM GET_MJ_TOTAL_SIZE(55);

Not necessarily related to this article, but CTEs are useful for breaking down a complex query into more understandable chunks. Moreover, you can do interesting things within the CTE's temp-tables like recursion or freezing/materializing a temp-table's results so that it only gets evaluated one time, instead of every time it gets referenced.

http://duckdb.org/docs/sql/query_syntax/with#recursive-ctes
http://duckdb.org/docs/sql/query_syntax/with#materialized-ct...
Users are allowed to criticize devices they use. Do you think your phone is perfect and nothing can be improved? I think being able to install other app stores is an improvement on my device. "If you don't like it, leave" doesn't actually address the criticism. It's an informal fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergo_decedo . "If Apple don't like the EU's laws, they can just leave, but they don't so therefore they must be okay with the laws". You see how the "therefore" isn't true?

That's why it being actual free market competition where consumers have a choice is the real test. If 100% of people on iOS want to stick exclusively with the Apple App Store, then it being forced open won't matter because all other stores will fail when no user installs them.

On the other hand, if users are willing to use those other stores, maybe iOS users don't actually care about using exclusively Apple's App Store. Then the only one who benefits from blocking that is Apple to charge their extra fees. Look at their reasoning for removing Fortnite from the store: because Epic added an additional payment processor that wasn't Apple. It's not like they removed Apple payment as an option either. So users had the benefit of more choices!
CarLog – Car Maintenance Tracker
Hi everyone,

I'm an iOS/macOS indie developer, and I love building different applications. This time, I decided to solve my own problem by migrating all notes from Apple Notes and an Excel table into a structured application. That's how I built CarLog, a car maintenance tracker.

My goal was to create a digital log that covers all expenses related to car ownership. With CarLog, you can add expenses, record fuel-ups, and gain insights from analytics. Delve into fuel consumption, see how much money you spend on different categories, and understand the real cost of car ownership.

Right now, it's in the MVP stage, but in the future, I want to add reminders about car service based on time and car mileage, extend analytics, and add different charts for mileage, cost per mile, etc.

I'm really excited to share my app with the HackerNews community, and I would appreciate any feedback.
the problem is that many many companies have standardised on windows as desktop. you as an Employee do not really have a choice. At first you still try to use windows at work and linux at home but the little differences in muscle memory become too much so sooner or later you cave and use windows at home too.
I always feel weird to think just how common a 0.1% is actually on any slightly bigger population. It is 1 in 1000. Or 100 in 100k and in this case 300... Which isn't actually so many.

And then you start listing up these sort of "rare" conditions and wonder where do we actually end up and how much overlap there is.
Health insurance companies have a long and documented history of doing horrible horrible things. Are you really saying the rank and file at health insurance companies who are collecting middle class salaries at a white collar job denying people's claims for an MRI for a possible brain tumor have no moral responsibility?

If you can't start with being the change you want to see in the world there is no hope
Let's be real. 7 dollars (inc tax & shipping probably more) for a coat hanger? 0.5 dollars and i'm in, maybe. Cool idea, not for everyone, not life changing thing like a lot of people here are saying.
Sort that by percent of renewables and then check the hydro.

If you have lots of hydro you can have 90% plus renewables.
Haha, literally "I was just following orders" argument.
Fuel cost is a somewhat minor cost for nuclear plants, so it's not much worth to do it
I used to like her videos, but found out that she takes other people's work and passes it off as her own. This video is a good example. Anyone reading the title and watching the video, it appears that she's done all of the work iterating on the prototypes. No one else is mentioned in doing any of the work.

Only in the comments does she post "If you have any technical questions, my co-inventor @stumcconnel will be here helping answer stuff!"

So not only did she not invent this by herself, she's referring to someone else for technical questions. This isn't the first time she's done this. It's just a pet peeve as someone who is technical and has gotten credit assigned to someone else. /soapbox
You don't in theory, have to live in the state you incorporate in, depending on type of 'corporation' and/or depending on agency availability.
> The software company won't have nearly enough money to be a viable defendant.

Corporate death penalty seems warranted, both to end the behavior and to send a stern warning to anyone else who might try it again. Victims (read: millions of renters) will never be made whole, but at least you stop more people from being victimized.
My point is that we glamorize teaching so much, that people that have no place teaching go into it because it's glamorous and pays ok in some places these days (my gf makes $90k and works 8-3, has a prep period she watching TV shows during, and has 2 months off a year.) So I feel she's doing a disservice because she's not good at it, yet will never get fired.

While a kid that goes and tries in the military is helping in one way or another. The military has better systems to extract value than the school districts.
Feel free to replace made-up with self-inflicted, that might be more correct, fair enough.

I do experience the human aspect, and have 4-5 different chat programs installed, which is not ideal, but it is just simply can’t be expected that everyone uses the same stuff. I just remember to use Telegram with friends X, Y and Signal with W.
Well Tesla did prove that EVs can road trip reliably and did design the north American standard (which before was named with great hubris but now is actually accurate against all odds).

I love my OG RWD Model 3.
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Right, there's all sorts of metadata and often stats included in any parquet file: https://github.com/apache/parquet-format#file-format

The offsets of said metadata are well-defined (i.e. in the footer) so for S3 / blob storage so long as you can efficiently request a range of bytes you can pull the metadata without having to read all the data.
In the United States, non-resident alien is someone who does not have a LPR or US citizenship. Students on F1 Visas and J1 visas for example, are categorized as Nonresident aliens.

H1B is a dual purpose visa on the other hand. LPRs and Citizens are obviously categorized as residents.
It makes me sad because I think there are some genuinely cool things in the windows ecosystem such as the debugging and dev experience (ETW) and as users we benefit a lot from the backwards compatibility.

Its also cool to have a kind of descendant of VMS being here as an alternative to a unix monoculture
The production quality of that video was super high.

No doubt that’s helping a lot.
If Amtrak was allowed to ditch its expensive long haul rail lines and focus on reinvesting in Acela we could have those 4h travel times and they would turn a profit at the same time.
They do actually work pretty darn well. I would say that's probably the future of checkout as soon as Amazon licenses it to everyone
cool! would be nice if there was a way to draw a path and get a little stop motion animation
Not to derail the article but what are good alternatives to Substack that are good for an email newsletter?
> I think that point would be stronger if anyone else was open.

Nah gov doesn't give a shit they just see the incapable outcome and the rest of Apple's behavior.
On the other hand fossil fuel costs are risky, and if we plan to steer away from the worst climate disaster using policy tools, the cheap fuel will be gone within a plan't lifetime.
nvim is worth the investment if your answer to any of the following questions is yes:

1. Do you work on really large codebases every day?

2. Do you type as fast as you can think and frequently need to wait for the UI to catch up with what you just typed?

3. Do you have a large codebase sitting on a remote computer?

4. Do you have to ssh into random computers or embedded devices and quickly edit or modify something inside?

For me, the answer to all 4 questions is yes, I’ve been using neovim and vim before that for most of my career. I can strongly recommend it.
In many states you just file a one time fee. Arizona for example, is a one time $50 fee with no maintenance or annual fee after. Pretty sure NM and Ohio are the same.
>So do women with two uteruses have two menstrual cycles?

No, they don't. Uterus didelphys is caused by two tubes that normally join during fetal developed not joining. There are still only 2 ovaries. Though the bleeding might be irregular due to physical reasons.

Even if ovaries were doubled, there wouldn't be two cycles as hormones are centrally regulated and wouldn't be able to target specific ovaries.
Could someone explain what makes this so hard, getting around patents?
Moral responsibility exists on both ends, but it's amplified by agency. Those in charge have more agency to make their own decisions, and those at the bottom have less agency because they need to eat. That doesn't completely absolve them of responsibility for their own actions, even if their options are limited in scope.

If your job is to make people's lives worse, at some point you need to take responsibility for choosing to do that job anyway. Very few of the people actually implementing models like this are without options when it comes to providing for themselves in ways that don't cause harm.
Ghost.org is pretty solid. You can host it yourself or pay for their service.
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Amoeba was my favorite, as it was a homogeneous, decentralized operating system. Different CPU architectures spread across different data centers, and it was all homogenized together into a single system image. You had a shell prompt where you typed commands and the OS could decide to spawn your process on your local device, in the server room rack, or in some connected datacenter in Amsterdam, it didn't make a difference. From the perspective of you, your program, or the shell, it's just a giant many-core machine with weird memory and peripheral access latencies that the OS manages.

Oh, and anytime as needed the OS could serialize out your process, pipe it across the network to another machine, and resume. Useful for load balancing, or relocating a program to be near the data it is accessing. Unless your program pays special attention to the clock, it wouldn't notice.

I still think about Amoeba from time to time, and imagine what could have been if we had gone down that route instead.
Amateur magician here. I think you're being a little bit unfair. An actor doesn't write the lines they speak. That doesn't make what they do non-creative. One of the things I learned the hard way coming up in magic is that the mechanics of the trick are a relatively small component of the overall performance. Being entertaining as a magician has a lot more to do with very subtle psychology than it does with gaffes and sleights. Inventing new tricks is more akin to engineering than it is to performing.
i believe in evidence.

it may well be that there are genetic differences. but until we have proof and the ability to measure the difference, i also think that believing in talent being genetic is dangerous as it holds back people who are perceived to be untalented. if i believe that the talent of my kids is genetic then i will be less likely to try to foster them to do better. this is especially dangerous for teachers.

our society suffers a lot from believing that people are poor because they have no talent to do better. and worse some apply this based on race. we can talk about talent being genetic when we no longer have poor people and have abolished all racism, but until we have done everything we can to allow everyone to develop their talent, we risk misusing this belief as an excuse not to support people to do better because we lack the believe that they even could do better.
For others' reference: the "one leg over, then the other leg over the other way" is how you hang a bespoke suit's pants. No special hanger needed, the cloth's opposite drag provides enough friction to keep it on. The hangar for the cuffed pants is good for keeping the cuffs in shape (but who wears cuffs?)
This is cool, I'm sure people will use this responsibly and not take advantage of this.
I’ve used a ton of stuff but Smart Countdown Timer (h/t guzey) is the only thing that’s stuck with me.

And for whatever reason, timers that counted down (as opposed to up) work much better for me.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/smart-countdown-timer/id141070...