skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Errata/Addendum to above:

It is John Horgan (and not Morgan) and the book is "The End Of Science: Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age".
I also recently got to know him, and can confirm the above! We got to know each other because of our interest in small sailing boats.
Poor Charlie didn't invest enough into the longevity and anti-aging biotech.
There is a tension between regularity of delivery and logistics. If you have things happening once a week, then you're asking yourself "which day of the week". It can't really be all the same day of the week (now you're looking at delivering 7x more packages that one day), but even if you distribute it all on a fixed day per address then people will still have times that they want things.

In a magical world post offices would have some sort of mechanism like just texting people that a package might arrive on a certain date, and maybe you can hit a button to request earlier delivery. Unfortunately the existence of that button requires restraint from the general population to be of any utility (and charging for the button press is a bit gnarly).

Perhaps in rural populations, people would be more reasonable though (especially if downstream of this system you actually had deliveries happen _when they are predicted to_)
I'm glad someone wrote this ha

That poor dog
> Regarding Telegram and IRC, as I mentioned above, those have been and will continue to remain options, but they all have their own sets of significant drawbacks in multiple areas.

IRC and Telegram aren't mentioned on grapheneos.org/contact though. Also, Telegram users can't send messages (at least I wasn't able to a year back, things may have changed).
From experience, not with the USPS but still, the customer tells the carrier to prioritize. Customer as in the company buying services from the carrier, here Amazon, and notbthe customer of Amazon.

And it is up to, in this example, Amazon and USPS to make sure staffing and capacities are adequat. If you are among the top three customers of a company, you hold a lot of sway regarding prioritization. And during holiday season, stuff like that happens all the time.
I'm seeing a lot of this now in relation to the current Israel/Hamas and especially the Ukraine invasion. I see it mostly in younger people who perhaps don't have the time or interest to really delve into the details of something. And, being honest, I think I was a useful idiot in most of my 20's; failing to keep my bias in check and being a little too self-righteous when I felt there was a deep injustice.
Are we seeing blowback from the era of cheap money to really high inflation rates or am I just underestimating how many people have to have layoffs after an acquisition wasn't budgeted properly?
He is much more positive than I expected. He kept the ranting and insults to a minimum and even acknowledge that the new model is superior, he gives ideas how to do the port while stating that he doesn't have the patience to do it!
&& is a syntax element whereas ~~ is 2.

Further you're using a side effect of ~ to get rounding. It isn't being used for its intended purpose.

I get your point and to some extent agree with it.

It's more in the class of

While(foo++ = bar++)

You can do it, but you're to some extent abusing constructs.

If it becomes widely used then it's acceptable, but if not it deemed as bad code. Or clever, depending on your world view.
Been renovating an old house with a large garden for almost ten years now. I tell myself this is better than building something from scratch, but it definitely doesn't always feel more efficient. It helps that I didn't have the option back then, but now maybe I do? Sometimes it's also hard to tell, in the moment, which things to keep and what to rip out.
Just another failure of capitalism, and a prime example of how the profit of few should not surpass the interest of many.
How do the karma points on Hacker News work?
From a french perspective, that seems like tuesday.
Real classy.
W-8 BEN doesn't apply to him because it's for foreign individuals who receive non-business income. He needs a W-8 BEN-E most likely.
I agree that society doesn't believe this. But I disagree on your explanation as to why. The biggest reason why people don't believe this is because they have no idea as to the amount of work that's being done. If you hear a cashier is being paid $16.00 an hour when the only time you witness them is when you're buying a bag of Doritos and a bottle of Pepsi where they scan your card and bag your groceries you might think that they're being overpaid. You're witnessing ten percent of their duties, where the other ninety percent have them doing the stocking work around the register, doing cleaning, keeping track of inventory, sorting and organizing checks to be cashed, verifying and indexing wire transfers, and keeping appropriate change in the register.

Most low paying jobs have the highest amount of effort. Currently, working in fast food is a much more demanding job that requires more effort than being a mechanical engineer, surveyor, or project manager. And yet those three will make four times what the fast food worker makes because their jobs are perceived as having more value to society, their education much more complex and thus more costly, and the positions they fill being very few and far between. People of all economic ranks think that those three perform more effort in their positions than the fast food worker and thus they are more worthy of the increased wages, when in reality they did more preparation beforehand (college, apprenticeships, working shit jobs like fast food) so that their positions require less effort now. Note that this has nothing to do with the real or perceived impact of their actual jobs. In contrast the fast food worker cannot frontload the effort in preparation of a better position later, because the demanding but menial work is the better position compared to being homeless or on social welfare programs. This is one of the reasons why rates of burnout, depression, and anxiety are so high in those that work services and retail compared to other industries.
Yes, I said that Russian intelligence activity cannot be excluded.
That is my cope for bitcoins too. There is no way I would have hold on to the shares either.
I don't even work five days a week!
Even today, BASIC is a much simpler language than Python or JavaScript, which ought to make it easier to learn. It would also be a bit easier to transition to a more advanced language like Go/Rust if starting from BASIC than Python/JS.
Some but not all. In the case of meat, it so happens that a homogenous population of non-smokers in the US, the Seventh-Day Adventists, have a very high proportion of vegetarians…
> Is there anybody who can share their experiences with issues and workarounds in this area?

Just use your Bash/zsh to run Bash/zsh scripts: `bash script.sh`.

> turned off by it not being POSIX-compliant.

I was like this when I first started using Fish. I spent some time to learn some different syntax to get away from the POSIX-compliance. Overall, I think the saner syntax of Fish is worth the effort. Now I use the terminal much happier.

Besides, 90% of the time I don't need to follow POSIX-compliant. Many scripts or extensions nowadays support Fish.

For enterprise use, I still stick to Bash/zsh. They're the standard.
I used to live in a small mountain town. The official vehicles were ancient so any time there was snow I'd see the carriers in Tacomas or Jeeps with a magnetic US Mail decal on the side. They also modified their routes slightly to accommodate left side steering wheels.
That‘s why you do credentialing via ssh keys, and keys are explained and map to a user, and non-dba keys should expire.

If you need access for a quick prod fix, your key gets added to the machine with that explanation and a week (or lees) lifetime.
JALANTOTO MERUPAKAN AGEN SLOT DAN TOGEL TERPERCAYA DI INDONESIA DENGAN PEMBAYARAN TERBESAR DI ASIA
This is a real toss-up! On one hand, you've got those quirky blurbs like in 'Bored of the Rings' that are just for laughs, totally off-script from the actual book. But then, there's the spoiler territory - like revealing a plot twist on the jacket, basically turning the reading experience into a predictable journey. And who can forget the 'Ender's Game' debacle? A major plot reveal on the back cover? Talk about a literary facepalm. So, it's a gamble – sometimes the jacket adds flavor, other times it's a total spoiler fest
Not a very profound term. I think useful idiots exist for all sides [0] ... I mean ... obviously. Moreover, everyone should ask themselves, "whose useful idiot am I?"

[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/Music/09/03/cnna.spears...
I read they use that methodology at Google X - the team take pride in proving ideas can't work by doing the hardest part first. There's some good blog posts on how this works and how they kill projects fast.
We met on YC and gave birth to this AI Character/Girlfriend Platform
Our commitment is to provide a platform that does not end up stripping people's clothes off, but allows users to enjoy themselves safely nor violate the privacy or content of others. Any feedback is welcome!
Neat! We started working on something similar, using LD_PRELOAD. After setting some env variables we'd see a commit's files layered at some path, on top of artifacts saved for this commit. The goal is to run jobs that expect to access both git files and build artifacts, while avoid duplication of storage. FUSE would be better but users don't have enough permissions.
I would hope that the largest car company in Europe still outsells others in their home countries. They are pushing everything they have into Europe where they still have the largest lead in Mindspace, Dealerships, Relations with Leasing partners etc.

This is not really surprising or bad strategy. VW has zero chance in China and America is a very underdeveloped market so focusing on Europe makes all the sense in the world. The question was whether they have competitive products right now and I find it really strange to say they don't when they have the #4 and #5 best selling EVs in all of Europe (not just Germany):

https://www.statista.com/statistics/972845/electric-vehicles...

There are more very successful VAG products in there too, like the Audi eTron and the Skoda Enyaq. They might be unable to sustain this -- I don't know -- but right now, as a Swedish dude in Sweden, VW is very much looking like one of the winners judging by what cars I see on the road.

Also: any statement to the effect of "Tesla will release a new product soon" I will take with a mountain of salt, considering their track record.
What do you mean by extreme requirements? There's lots of SDXL fine tunings available at civit, like https://civitai.com/models/119012/bluepencil-xl for anime. The relevant discords for models/apps are full of people doing this at home.

Or are you looking at some very specific definition / threshold for fine tuning here?
It arrives faster because there are more of them. Every time the density doubles, wait times roughly halve.

It is way cheaper because majority of Uber cost is the driver.

Safety: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38456847

It is more convenient because it has more space. No drivers seat, steering wheel etc.
Russian Interior Ministry Drafts Bill Mandating 'Loyalty Agreements'
Yes, we're using it in production. However, we have deployed our own stack of it. You don't have to use their service if you don't eant to. It's open source, so in a way there is a free tier to it if you can put some work into deployment.
Lesson is never attempt to do anything on a Friday afternoon that will take far more time for recovery.
you make a good comment, humble, curiosity, geek, 3 excellent traits of Munger
So one can wear a head scarf, but not if it is connected to islam? What about a kippah? A tichel aka "jewish head scarf". Or what if i want to wear a mitra as the president of the european commission?
So, how are desktop apps supposed to solve any of the identified downsides of the app?

> Too much bloat as one software must cater to everyone’s needs.

Yes, maybe, but especially web apps are usually quite focused on a limited feature set, in my experience. Isn't the usual prime example of bloat (Microsoft Office) a desktop app?

> Open invitation to authoritarian software like DRMs, Adware, blobs, etc.

So there's no DRM or Adware in desktop apps? Surely the author can't be serious about this one. At least a browser gives me simple tools to control them, for installed desktop applications it becomes much harder.

> Use of Internet as propaganda tool.

Sure, but on the other hand I would argue that Twitter works well as a website and there's no need for a desktop application. It's actually great that I don't need to install anything to access it.

> Inefficient and bloated JavaScript.

Fair enough. I do however think that, by now, there are many "time-tested and efficient best practices" in the world of web development. The web world isn't moving half as fast as critics like to pretend, and the underlying technologies have stood the test of time remarkably well. I think time-tested is actually one of the main reasons that web technologies are as popular and successful as they are.
Before getting my hands on a BBC Micro I'd done all my teenage programming on an Apple II - so the killer feature of BBC Basic for me was that it had a renumber command. No more having to re-type code because I'd used-up all the line numbers between line 110 and 120. A little thing but it felt like magic.
We get this in the UK with other parcel carriers.

My regular delivery man used to have some kei sized thing with a roof box filled to the gunnels with boxes.

He has now invested in a larger car.
> I don’t blame the junior engineers either. I blame their seniors and managers.
Leadership is especially awful these days and across most industries. Leaders tend to be too far removed from object level reality and just sit around blowing smoke up buttholes all day long.

100% agree with this. "Modern Management" as practiced today is a major factor in the decline of quality creativity/research/engineering.
The slides from 2009 that the article links to are full of severely outdated advice[0]. I just gave the "parseInt" trick a try, for example, and the built-in wins or is equal in performance[1] (although I'm mildly disappointed that `parseInt` isn't significantly faster).

[0] https://www.slideshare.net/madrobby/extreme-javascript-perfo...

[1] https://jsbenchit.org/?src=00e164b878d3c009649d4f8a9de6e7f6
I didn’t know about that one - and that article/obit is a great find, thanks for sharing. :) Funny thing is that Monday is now a productivity/team tool that I know a few people really like. Maybe they got a deal from PwC on the URL?
Our test harness takes an optional template as input and immediately copies it.

It’s useful to distribute the test anyway, especially for non-transactional tests.

If the database initialisation is costly that’s useful even if tests run on empty, as copying a database from a template is much faster than creating one DDL by DDL, for postgres at least.
I think it's the other way around.

When you want to layoff a large number of people: RTO will increase the number of employees quitting so you don't have to layoff as many

When starting a company: WFH means you don't need offices, or at least smaller offices which makes a big difference

When you do a hiring push: being open to WFH gives you a bigger pool to draw from
I can't reply to dead comment, but I'll reply to yours RE above:

> You can rip off other people's work faster than ever!

I have views on IP that mean I reject the ripping off premise on it's face, BUT IF I DID ACCEPT IT

Who am I ripping off? What artist is being denied work if i reskin a VR world on the fly with AI? nobody was going to be painting a scene's worth of textures in a few seconds, the AI is enabling new cool things that haven't been seen before, y'all are absolutely out to lunch replying to a comment specifically calling out brand new things that weren't possible before with this garbage.
I rather read at the start.
These are reasons for why an individual hacker might not take to a language. They don't factor in to a large organisation's choice of language. And to be honest, quite a few of these arguments would apply to Javascript as well.
Ask HN: Were Graph Databases a Mirage?
Are graph databases abandoned but no notice was posted about it anywhere?

I have worked with graph databases for about a year. I am becoming concerned about their effectiveness.

When googling it seems that all discussion is something like two or three years old, and that there is no recent development. The solutions offered often appear as kludges. "The (sorry) State of Graph Database Systems" talk by Peter Boncz kind of sums it up.

More specific, my concerns are as follows:

Performance: The elegant Cypher query language makes it easy to construct queries, but the actual execution is often not performant. It appears that only very simple query strategies are utilized in the database engines. Are the graph engines actually capable of analyzing the data, in order to plan for best performance? Something as elementary as recognizing tree structures inside the graph and traversing them in a performant manner?

Ingress capability: For moderately sized queries the query planner is either extremely slow or just unable to analyze the query at all. This happens also for insertion of what is essentially a sub-graph, touching only one or two existing nodes in the database.

Memory usage and startup time: Are the database engines just "cheating" by reading everything into memory? With corresponding long startup time? If that if so, why should I not just create my own engine, tailored to my specific data?

Scaling: This is related to the above mentioned issues. Are graph databases currently just toys?

My hands-on experience so far is with RedisGraph (including FalkorDB) and Neo4j.
Firefox can do this on Android
Plot twist: It made so much money that that’s now their strategy.
Two things:

1) the backup is likely a high end rewards / corporate card whose fees are as high or higher than Amex for most categories of spend; and

2) it’s kind of weak for the last interaction with a business be them saying they won’t take your preferred form of payment because they imagine it boosts their margin by .3%.
Don't all cars in the us have the steering wheel on the left??

Why would you need to modify the route for that???
You can have multiple work trees for the same commit, for that matter, as long as they are the same branch (so with different branches pointing at the same commit, or detached heads)
You’ve got to admire them for executing the exit strategy perfectly.
So what is it then, if not a cyberattack?
His fiction as well. The Father Brown stories are better known now because there was a recent TV series but they really did no convey a lot of what was in the books (I only saw an episode or two).

Oddly enough, the fiction is more a product of its time and feels more dated to me than the journalism and serious writing of his I have read.
The size of synthetic fibers used in nautical ropes can vary widely depending on the material and manufacturer. However, the diameter of individual synthetic fibers typically ranges from micrometers (1,000 nanometers = 1 micrometer) to tens or hundreds of micrometers, depending on the specific type of synthetic fiber and its intended use in rope-making.

The average eye of a needle typically ranges in size from about 300 to 800 nanometers in diameter, depending on the needle's gauge or size. This can vary slightly based on the needle's purpose and manufacturing specifics, but generally, it's within this nanometer range.

While at first blush it may seem impossible to thread the nautical rope through one strand at a time one must consider that a method to achieve this delicate task using specialized tools like a needle threader or a microscope-guided threading technique is feasible.

These tools can help manipulate and guide the 10-micrometer strand through the 800-nanometer eye of the needle with precision and accuracy.

But you may still be wondering how so allow me to elaborate…

Generally, nylon is known for its high elasticity, with a stretch capacity ranging from 10% to 40% or more of its original length before breaking, making it a popular choice for ropes requiring flexibility and shock absorption.

I propose a slow and steady heated and compressed stretch wins this race nine times out of ten.
Perhaps at some point the other manufacturers will be able to sell direct to consumer like Tesla. Then it's game over.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You%27ll_own_nothing_and_be_...
Official USPS trucks are right steer, to put the driver on the same side of the car as the mailboxes on a normal street
Giving a Lesson in History [pdf]
The code search section misses the two most obvious tools IMO: ripgrep / git grep and GitHub. (They were the obvious tools in 2020 also).
Wait, what? Since when did we start tipping movie employees?
I stopped thinking about "unit testing" and just started thinking "when I write some code, I should write some other code that runs the code automatically".

There's every likelihood that both my original code and the code I write to test it will have bugs, but it's somewhat unlikely that the bugs will be perfectly complementary.

However that will happen too, and so it is not the role of automated testing to eliminate bugs. It is the role of quality control testing to eliminate bugs. The role of automated testing is to reduce the cost of quality control (by reducing regressions and reducing the amount of time required to run manual quality control testing).

I have to credit Sebastian Bergmann with the genesis of this attitude. I took a course on unit testing with him somewhere around 2008 and I said "it seems that test code is just more code, how is it any different from writing code in the rest of your project?" and he said "it isn't, tests are just part of your codebase like all your other code". That was a watershed moment for me -- I always thought I was missing something.
Or Vanguard could collapse from the inside because some C-level officer was dipping into customer funds to cover some bad investment, and everyone takes a haircut on the holdings. On top of the drop in market value because most vanguard customers invest in vanguard funds, which suddenly become a toxic asset. Your "safe" money market asset is considered equal and paid out pro-rata, sharing the loss of those mutual funds.

Meanwhile the FDIC insured savings accounts at the bank next door are just fine in the midst of this total and complete market meltdown, and those account holders decide it's time to diversify and pick up some cheap stocks.

That's just one scenario. “Low risk” is not the same as no risk, and the difference isn't important until it suddenly is.
They pivoted from developing an engine to developing an IPO.

It's looking like there was no plan beyond that, once Riccitiello sailed off into the sunset with his loot.
This is cool, but not new. "Returns" is a bit misleading, it never went away. Apart from anything else, BBC BASIC is built into RISC OS which can run natively on the Raspberry Pi.
I think this overly technical approach from the OP is terrible for a handover. You're now tied to this exact stack of technologies and after your death, it won't be updated even once.

I tape the manual and the transit bolts of a dishwasher to the top of it and that's it. For heating and stuff, a laminated sheet of paper attached to the pipe does the trick.
If you love all things digital, create a shared online folder filled with .docx documents. For those you'll find a tool to open and edit them in 40 years time.

Sure, for some the creation of the digital stack is the purpose itself. But documentation that lasts decades? I don't believe it.
That can be OK as long as it is not the same cloud provider.

I do think there is a lot to be said for backing up local data to the cloud, and cloud data to local storage.