skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've ridden my bike in pretty much any condition. When it's icy, I ride with lower pressure in the tires, snow and slush is usually doable, the only thing that really sucks is when it gets cold again after a warmer day and the roads or covered with frozen slush, that's where I get off and push my bike.

It really depends on how well the roads are maintained, this winter they were quite good at clearing the snow in my city, so it wasn't much of an issue.
> It should not map onto objects

? To me, this is the main use of an ORM: don't let it do query building for you (unless it's fairly simple LINQ stuff), but just have something map the rows returned to typesafe objects for you.
Yes.

The basic data model was invented a half-century ago. Expressiveness of basic SQL is not different depending on the engine. Relational algebra is the same however it's implemented.

Some databases have extensions, and those are okay to include. You should be able to either (1) choose to not use those or (2) lock yourself into a subset of databases which support the extension you need.

It's good if those extension were namespaced. For example:

* If I want to use a postgres JSON type, it should live under postgres.json (or if it cuts across multiple databases, perhaps extensions.json or similar)

* Likewise, database built-in functions, except for common ones like min/max/mean, should be available under the namespace of those databases.

* It's okay if some of those are abstracted out into a namespace like extensions.math, so I can use extensions.math.sin no matter whether the underlying datastore decided to call it SINE, SIN, SINE_RADIANS, SIN(x/180*PI), and if it doesn't have sine, an exception gets raised.

The basic relational data model provides the best expressiveness for representing data and queries created to date, and doesn't differ. It's a good theoretical model, and it works well in practice. There's good reason it's survived this long, despite no lack of competition. The places expressiveness differs are relatively surface things like data types and functions.

It's also okay to have compound types, where I am explicit about what the type is in different databases. e.g.: string_type = {mysql: 'TEXT', postgresql: ...
Twitter seems fine for mass dissemination of information, but jeez the discourse sucks, it just feels like it has this tremendous capability of bringing out the worst in people -- it's like watching a rockstar get hyped by the audience into stage-diving and they end up slamming into the ground while the audience laughs.

that's the mental picture I have when people much more powerful, rich, good-looking and smarter than I say some of the stupidest shit i've ever read, usually to nearly instantaneous regret.
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I live in Tromsø and I'd say the amount of bikes, which is high, barely drops during winter. They just swap tires.
I tried VR twice. And both times I felt disoriented after taking the thing off. And not just for a second, but for a good five minutes. As if my brain suddenly no longer trusted anything to be real anymore.
What is Telegram bot spam? Bots on other platforms that try to steer users to a bad actor on Telegram? Telegram itself is great and feels like the only "platform" that doesn't jerk ya around.
> (It is also interesting to me that in ~2010, such discussions used to use terrorism, and now it’s CSAM/pedophilia.)

Nah, CSAM/pedophilia argument goes way back. It is just that the terrorism argument has largely disappeared because the emotional impact of mostly 9/11 has been dealt with (terrorism was much more rampant in parts of the previous century, can't recall the decade but if I had to say it was 70s or 80s).

The thing is, tools can be used for Good and Bad. A knife, a car, the Internet, social media.

The problem is if we live in a society where your online identity is pseudonymous at best (remember Rotterdam hospital shooting recently, the shooter got found on 4chan), and there is post-moderation instead of pre-moderation you are going to have garbage content.

A lawsuit like this is used to prove negligence in proportion to the amount of users vs content. Ie. it will result in more active moderation by Meta. In that regard, it is The Netherlands hosting providers who were terrible with removing CSAM. And, almost all of them have improved.

Does that mean the content is removed from the Internet? No, impossible. But it sure as hell got more difficult for the perpetrators to distribute the content. Which is a decent compromise.
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This is a really strong point. For the people who cannot code at all apparently — wouldn’t a conversation like this show a lack of understanding across a bunch of relevant topics??
It would be more likely for government to cut contracts. At least in the areas I'm familiar with, a big part of tech spend is on contractors (often former government people who want to make more money) and there are periodic pushes to spend less on this. Actual employees are harder to cut and less likely to be cut.
I found living in London for a short while feels like a prison of sorts.( It is amazing of course. Not knocking the place over all!) But it is a subtle effect but the lack of walking through a field every now and then (not a over populated park!) and seeing a horizon is something I missed deeply in the subconscious.

Some cities especially near the ocean or just less dense etc. are not as encaging.

Also walking everywhere is good and bad. Getting a lot of shopping home a car is much better at. Maybe one of those cargo bikes had I know of its existence would have done the trick! But walking for everything can be tiring. Depends on your health level.
It works for all currencies. Some currencies have higher savings rates than other currencies.

The problem is calling that saving 'debt' and then catastrophising about it.
How's the fraction of income devoted to housing in that calculation? A lot of people would love to go back to 1940s house prices, but of course you simply can't do that.
All SpaceTime curves start at the Big bang, and they all end at black holes.

Also time and space get flipped inside a black hole. All of your futures point further into the black hole.
Ah, I thought about my choice of phrase "None of them" and I regretted it but was busy.

I meant that it's not uncommon to just not issue such certificates, rather than you don't verify but you issue anyway, you don't verify because you always refuse to issue.
ChatGPT is basically the deshittifier that rewrites thousands of sites to just the information…?

And it has a much better interface than original Google. Every query starts with the equivalent of “I’m feeling lucky”, but then you can ask further questions.
Spending of those dollar amounts in the US started decades earlier, and coincided with massive amount of military spending e.g. on radio and signals tech going back to WW2.

Once there now is one hub, you should expect trying to create a competitor to be vastly more expensive because you have to counter the draw of SV.

E.g. every effort to bolster the tech scene in London has sort-of worked, except a portion of the most promising companies then leave for Silicon Valley. This is repeated all over Europe.

Similarly, within the UK, I worked for a VC for whom part of the goal was to bolster investment in the regions, and we faced the constant struggle that because founders (rightly) assumed that most UK VC's preferred companies in London, a lot of the most promising companies moved to London before we got to them.

For that matter, I live in London because of this situation. I moved to London with my startup at the time because after getting funding in Oslo our VCs advised us there just wasn't enough capital for tech startups in Norway at the time, and so we moved to London for better funding opportunities.

Pouring funding in lifts all of these ecosystems, but it also hastens the departure of the ones who get the most benefit unless you do so well that you remove that incentive. Or attach strings to your funding. Fixing that will require you to provide so much capital that more startups start seeing staying in Europe as making their funding situation easier.

That means plugging the vast gap in later-stage VC funding between Silicon Valley and Europe, not just some R&D grants here and there.

That's not to say I think the European R&D funding efforts have been good enough, but it'll take many times as much funding, and a lot of extra effort, before you should even begin to hope to get the same outcome.
Depending on the metric, including Israel wouldn't even double the number compared to London, let alone the whole UK, _let alone_ all of Europe.
And they probably should! Although there's been a huge increase in blue collar pay in the US lately.
> It's probably time to phase out curtailment payments. If renewable is to be the default form of generation it can't have special treatment forever.

Curtailment payments are an incentive for the grid operators to build out transport capacity and for grid consumers to invest into dynamic load control.
It only snows when it's warm (say, -10 C). Plows smear the snow into a thin layer. Then a high moves in so the temperature drops and you get asphalt covered in sheer ice that just gets polished by the sun and subsequent plowing.

In some places there's Winter, not just the pause between autumn and spring.
You mean, like https://www.kagi.com? A search engine you pay for. Every link is there to serve _you_. There are not ads.
Well, I was under impression that word "anything" actually means "anything", so e.g. "the language spec can't guarantee that the compilers won't assume that the execution paths with UB on them never happen and then use that assumption for optimization" is a valid instantiation of "the language spec can't guarantee anything".
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Depends.

Electric cargo bikes could replace a lot of 'city' traffic for many people. Definitely in countries like Belgium / The Netherlands where there is a bigger cycling culture.

It mostly handles the use-case of "larger grocery shopping".

The long distance travelling is still the one that will require most people to own a car.

TLDR: From my observation. I use my car for 2 things:

- Larger shopping for cheaper goods ( supermarket). Electric Cargo bikes could fix this.

- Further distances > 20 km.

Edit: After my comment, I started reading the article and it's similar to what the article claims:

> It's not likely to totally replace your car, nor will it probably be your only bike. But access to a cargo bike can reduce car trips, and even car ownership, a study from Germany suggests.
> Humans evolved to mimic each other.

Why didn't you use the word 'monkeys'?
GDP destruction. You cant have high GDP without people to sustain it. with all the consequences you can expect on its economy.
I work about 32 hours a week. Slightly more when working from home. A bit less when in the office.
Human artists have been training on the same content for decades and no one seemed to complain. You can argue that machines should be held to a different set of legal and ethical standards, but it's certainly not obvious.

Most factories are designed based on vast amounts of prior manual labor, so it's not like "automating a manual process based on analyzing existing methods" is new, either. Why is it okay to automate the knowledge of all those other craftsmen, but not that of painters?
As if PG isn't doing the same things on Twitter. I notice both of them are always grovelling to Musk trying to get his retweets or quotes
What we are doing is to find simple questions with short answers that require a minimum amount of understanding, but which ChatGPT cannot solve correctly without a lot of prodding.

Example: https://chat.openai.com/share/9179ee63-6461-479b-8a76-1a7af2... (the key part of the correct answer, the word "wait", does not appear in any of the responses, and the answer to the questions about the data loss should have been a short "no" with a justification instead of the long AI rambling).
If you find cycling up hill difficult then an electric cargo bike should solve that problem for you.
I think it’s a bit harder than you realize.

> How are these bad actors coordinating hashtags in a way that can't be detected?

They manage to do it in China despite the massive censorship there. https://sg.news.yahoo.com/chinese-vpn-providers-hide-literat...

> it doesn't require a huge amount of resources

Are you suggesting that the Chinese government just isn’t trying hard enough, and if they really wanted to they could stop all dissidents in China for forever?
Laughing Man case
maybe but a time bomb is still a time bomb
Similarly in the world of Attachment disorders

In the book:
Understanding attachment and attachment disorders: Theory, evidence and practice by Vivain Prior and Danya Glaser.

The authors point out the amount of incoherent, disingenuous and basically fake disagnosis around Attachment disorders making the rounds on the internet.

In 2006 there were 4,990.000 items on the famous search engine referring to the diagnosis of attachment disorders. Apparently the abundance of usage of the term "Attachment disorder dignosis" is not matched by the abundance of understanding as to what it actually means.

Children with "Attachment disorder diganosis" are described as; Liars, thieves, lacking in conscience, and having various other negative attributes.

There seems to be a licence to produce limitless items to characterise this apparent entity:

here is a small list:

1. avoids making eye contact, especially parents but look into your eyes when lying.
2. ask persistent nonsense questions and chatters incessantly.
3. Is fascinated with fire, blood, gore, weapons and evil.
4. engages in food related issues, hording, gorging, refusing to eat and eating strange things
5. Displays cruenty to animals.
6. dosplays no conscience, shows complete lack of remorse.

clearly none of this is true or suppported by any evidence that I have seen in 25 years as a psychotherapist.
I live in southern Germany and have no problems clothing.
For rain and wet or very cold conditions I use rain trousers (insulate as well) and often my rain jacket.
5° rain is one of the best rain weather's, because you don't sweat easily just wearing rain cloths above your indoor cloths.

A much bigger problem here is cycling paths not being maintained in the winter and salt on the roads.
It's actually more like 4 interconnected platforms (Facebook+Messenger, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp).

Through then I would argue for most regulatory reasons it makes sense to count them as one platform.
China is already banned from buying many of ASML's machines, which is why China doesn't have any leading edge fabs. They probably will be able to replicate the research and solve the manufacturing issues eventually but it took a global effort and many failed tries to get it working the first time.
Because of the name of the system and the web page claiming there's no information of the system anywhere in the web I can't help but think that this some sort of art project and that everything has been generated with AI and that the system never existed.
Google just produces fake videos and announcements and then doesn’t release the product ?
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They don't care what steps are being taken or that they've taken down a trillion pedos, they care about results. The fact is that despite their efforts pedos still run hogwild on Facebook. They will not change unless the incentives change.
I would disagree. With the example of Flask-Mail (https://github.com/mattupstate/flask-mail), there are 26 open PRs and 77 issues nobody is taking care of. In my experience there is always room for improvement and need for change, especially in non-trivial cases such as email sending.
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https://www.nsenergybusiness.com/projects/eastern-hvdc-link/
Magic eraser in google photos is also on device. (I have not given Google Photos Network permission and don't have google play services installed)

The voice recorder transcription is also on device, but I haven't gotten it to work without google play services on GrapheneOS
Ask HN: Do performance reviews improve productivity
At many firms its annual performance review season. I was curious on if folks believe performance reviews result in improved performance for companies. Most firms appear to have an “exceptional” rating that few or no individuals get, a few middle ratings most individuals get, and then a “low” rating indicating it’s time to start looking for a new job. I can see value in a formal review process for promotions, but I am starting to question why firms do annual reviews.

I had to help talk some peers off the ledge. They received middle review ratings, and were disappointed they weren’t rated higher and with the harsh wording of feedback that is now part of their permanent record. These folks provide value and don’t seem at risk of being terminated. Ostensibly, all their reviews did was make them less happy. Folks who aren’t cutting it will be put on PIP plans anyway. Folks who are exceptional are already being considered for promotion. What are we doing here?
Births collapsing in most countries, with U.S. -1.9% in 2023
Very naive way of thinking that there must be a secret channel or cabal.

Think more about how memes spread in the internet - there is no “meme administration” that picks what is funny and what not.

You still have to make difference between trends of normal hashtags and evil hashtags how do you do that? Also how do you even think there would be explosion when bad actors are aware they have to hide.

Main point is simple heuristics won’t work and you don’t have to be evil mastermind to circumvent them.
Good analogy. It’s a tool. Sure, you could wash your clothes by hand, but a washing machine frees your time to do things that technology can’t scale (yet!).
Nah, it exists. Just rare and only released in one country.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXMBwMcJ_pY
One difference is you can explain what makes paedophilia wrong, who it harms, and exactly how, and how that harm compares to the "harm" of denying the paedophile, while there are no such facts to explain about homosexuality.

I don't mean that merely stating a few truths solves all the problem and that conversion therapy would work, I'm just saying that there is a difference.

I know if it were me, maybe nothing would change what I want, but the therapy aspect has to have valid arguments just as a baseline to even allow for the possibility that I even listen at all.

Maybe for some at least it's enough to cause them to artificially control themselves.

I don't think that's too crazy because I think artificially civil behavior is rather common. I mean good grief just the phenomenon of cheating in relationships. It happens rather a lot, but for every occurance of cheating in a relationship there must be 1000 artificially decided not to do something they really did want to.

It probably just comes down to how many paedophiles are actually full on sociopaths or psychopaths that don't really empathize with anyone, the kids being no different, vs how many just want what they want in that one context but otherwise are functional humans who do possess the ability to empathize and care about anyone else. Those are two different cases.
Any bank can do it and in fact you can google like a dozen different articles stating so. Seems you just don't like being proven wrong
https://archive.is/1yzWi
> Bloomberg News analyzed 30 million records from 2018 through June 2023

> Former UK Energy Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg said [...]

JRM was Energy Secretary for 2 months in 2022. I'm not sure that justifies this comment. Is there a greater link that the article doesn't express?
In the same breath, you say "what's wrong with them", which is just as bad as saying "there is no evidence of it" while emoting obfuscating and cobbling the terms of "moderator", "editor", "contributor" together and confuse the input mechanism of Wikipedianship even further.

Wikipedian admins are the worst.

While it still isn't perfect, my fight with Wikipedia is over introduction of "Deaf" with capital "D" against editors who have no claim in this culture other than their "preservation culture of preconceived notions".

Would take 18 years before I rallied enough Deaf Wikipedian editors to muscle past those "old foggities".

Yeah, was triggered so I am putting that tidbit of observational data there.
There's no argument, just a moral judgement, that's the great part. So, in that case, no!
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When I think of playing Mikado I think of altering pieces that (you hope) are isolated, in a constant fear that the whole mess collapses — because there was a connection you didn’t notice. Sounds like the opposite of good software engineering.
What about AI-generate educational content? We use AI-generated voice calls to teach languages, e.g. immigrants get to practice speaking a new language without paying for a human tutor.
Do you mean the "Our Machinery" game engine that was annihilated in 2022, presumably for intellectual property related reasons?
It's probably a combination. Of course our standard of living has gone up, but so has wealth inequality.

And in a way, we're actually working more. Back in the 70s, a single income was enough to maintain a family with a house and kids and everything. These days, it's common for both parents to work, and yet we're not all twice as rich. Most of that extra money is eaten up by higher housing costs, which often depend on what people can afford to pay for the house they need, and with double income, we can afford to pay twice as much, so housing prices have gone through the roof.

I suspect we shouldn't have gone from one parent working fulltime to two parents working fulltime, but to two parents working part time. I've got a feeling we may have accidentally ruined this for ourselves.
If we are in a simulation, then I argue that our laws of physics are necessarily less detailed than the laws of physics of our host universe. This may explain why we having difficulty reconciling quantum and classical mechanics; it may not be possible in our lower fidelity universe.

I am drawn to the conclusion that a simulated universe must be of lower fidelity than host universe based on my experience simulating ecosystems within an ecohydrology model. Our model was really detailed, but still our ability to model things like soil physics is in the end limited by our inability to observe soil properties at smaller and smaller spatial scales. So the model necessarily simplifies the soil physics to the point where the model produces results that statistically match what we can observe. As a result, there are some things in the model that we can’t quite model and some things that don’t quite make sense in the model.
I think the question boils down on how to stop enshittification. Because if we were to recreate all the enshittified platforms, what would stop them from becoming enshittified anew? We must understand the mechanism of enshittification and fundamentally break this mechanism, making it nearly impossible for a new platform to enter the enshittification cycle again.
> You're effectively attempting to bully people out of their own opinions for the sake of your convenience.

Maybe it's just me, but "bully" seems like a very exaggerated choice of words here.