skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of mods had that opinion when the API changes were first announced. But those protests quickly crumbled when Reddit started threatening to remove mods of subs participating in the blackout. It seems like a lot cared more about keeping their mod wrench than anything to do with the user experience.
They create money. So can you.
All I'm addressing is GP's comment:

It's a file with zero complete lines. But it has 1 line, that's incomplete, right?

Because the Unix definition of text file requires the file to end with a newline. "Lines" only exist in the context of text files. If there's no terminating newline, it's (pedantically) not a text file and so has no lines. Now, in practice, if you open() that file in text mode, it doesn't TMK return an error if the terminating newline isn't present, but it's undefined behaviour.

And if you do have a terminating newline, then you have at least one line :).
As of this week the yield curve has been inverted for a longer period than ever before in history, that's how you know the economy is healthier than ever
It's headline-ese because it could have been "at the heart of the computer industry" or "at the heart of the car industry" or space, mining, construction, any industrial sector which needs these inputs.

The green energy transition may be a more recent consumer.

It's still shit, but implying this wouldn't happen if we stuck with coal and nuclear is silly.
Make Paine field airport bigger and accept international flights.

I love that airport. It should be bigger and is north enough that it has its own population.

Also US needs to build more high speed rail. We are over-reliant on airports.
I've done a manual version of this with chatgpt.

I had ipdb, told it to request any variables that I should look at, suggest what to do next, what it would expect - it was quite good, but took a lot of persuading, just having an LLM that was more tuned to this would be better.
> If God didn't exist, the ones who truly don't believe would likely act out much more on their beliefs no?

But I do. My morality doesn't come from an imaginary being. It comes from my relationships with other people. I don't kill people because (a) it would bring me no joy to do so, (b) would bring me no benefit, and (c) we have laws that prevent killing because societies are more stable when they don't engage in random killings. Societies only get to exist if the people in them find a net benefit in staying alive and having others stay alive. It's amazing how many cultures have existed throughout our history as a species and none of them just went crazy because they didn't believe in some land-locked storm god who forgot about his wife.

The idea that people are just going to go apeshit if they truly believed there wasn't a god is right up there in terms of ridiculousness with all the men in the Republican party and pastors who claim steadfast morality but keep getting caught with minors, women who aren't their wives, and gay men. So I feel sorry for you if you are so inherently immoral that you need to be held back by stories of a man in the sky, but some of us don't live our lives in fear of supernatural retaliation.

And if we're being real, the vast majority of the planet don't believe in your god, including people who claim to be Christian. It's just easier to say that you do so that people will leave you alone.
> The DOJ is making the case that Apple’s 65–70 percent share of the smartphone market gives it dominance.

iPhones sell at a premium, as much as 10×+ the alternative. I'm trying to sort out how Apple is hurting consumers when consumers are willingly paying such a fat premium. Is the argument people are stupid?

Note: I'm not being snarky. I'm seriously interested in how the DOJ is going to answer to that premium === superior product.
Obviously I'm biased so I think Optery is better, but here are two un-biased reviews written by the lead analyst for security at PCMag.com:

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/optery

https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/the-kanary

Here's another well-researched and unbiased review:

https://blog.infostruction.com/2023/08/12/privacy-powerhouse...
The problem is that they have to be tested for 7B models at least to show promise for larger models. And that requires significant compute resources.
Naturally, the release I push before making a comment here is the one that takes down the website. Back up now :)
I partly blame the opiod crisis on the non-existing oversight and regulations.
Photoprism has gallery sharing and the share links can have expirations.
How does this meaningfully affect the thesis of the comment you're responding to? What is the point of nitpicking something like this? I conjecture there isn't a point beyond "I found someone wrong in a comment you spent less than 5 minutes on even though the core thesis is still correct."
40 years ago I could work a summer job at minimum wage and earn enough to pay a full year's tuition at UCSD. Doing the same thing in 2023 paid for less than 1/3 of the tuition.
At any given time of year there are ~23 empty housing units for every single homeless person in the US, even close to 3 per homeless person in Los Angeles and New York City; somehow the constant, coordinated line of "supply constraints" and "grr NIMBYs!" doesn't hold up to the actual data
I've been learning Python recently. I found that one can make it much faster with a little work. Coming from other languages, it was also easy to write it in a way that its many accelerators, like Cython or mycpp, could use. What's the catch?

For me, there were two. First, I'm having to learn to code in the "Pythonic" style so my code will fit into existing projects. An example in a class I took was moving from while loops to for i in range(len(list)). While you won't forget to increment the counter, it felt like being so clever would reduce optimizations. Another project needed whole, string copies for conciseness vs a char-by-char algorithm that was highly-efficient. While it may be my inexperience, it seems like Pythonic style inherently favors conciseness and readibility standards over performance.

Second, the extensions seem tightly coupled with the CPython interpreter. I've read enough articles to know that's causing problems for people wanting to add capabilities. It may not matter, though, since most of us use Python for its ecosystem benefits. We can just switch tools when needed.
"Earth stuff" was bad phrasing on my part. The actual dichotomy is "naturally evolved systems" versus "designed systems". I might be an optimist, but I DO think designed systems can self-sustain in space. Not today- the tech isn't there yet - but soon. However, naturally evolved systems - like humans, non-bioengineered humans - I don't think will make it past a few generations, or, if you move a HUGE generation ship, a few thousand years. But it's always going to have a "use by" date without designed systems integrating with the naturally evolved systems.

When it comes to ALIEN natural systems, all bets are off. Who the hell knows what happens when we interact with that - even super-duper-ultra-tech designed systems might not be able to correct in time if two completely alien biologies interact destructively.

Curious though: what else was "magical thinking"? That's something I take pretty seriously - unless I'm doing it recreationally, which I am not - so I don't want to leave it hanging out for the universe to see.
And nuclear has its own set of toxic metals. Hell even coal has a heavy metal issue.
Turn off watch history.

Still get shorts in my subscriptions (from subscribed channels) but the shorts functionality and home page are pretty much stripped out, even in the official app.

Well worth the minor inconveniences.
> I think there's a key, core military angle to this company, where their best and most stable and lucrative customers are sure to be nation-states.

Yes, but not in the way you think.

No nation-state with an aerospace engine industry has difficulty making military aircraft go supersonic. Or just buying the same thing off the shelf.

However, a lot of nation states have nationalized flag carrier airlines, that they heavily subsidize for prestige reasons.

These are the same carriers who were able to afford Concorde, and they're exactly who Boom will be initially selling to.
This isn't due to the dockworkers. This is due to everything after the cargo is offloaded. LA and Longbeach are a disaster because the rail network is incredibly mismanaged.

Union Pacific has decided that they will only run unit trains out of the inland empire to a few destinations north and east.

In order to get cargo from LA and Longbeach to those inland terminals thousands of truck movements have to occur across LA's congested freeway network every day. And if the container's not going to one of the preselected locations (Chicago, St Louis, DFW, a few others) it has to go the whole way by truck.

Recall the "solution" to the blockage during the pandemic was to stack containers even higher. This is because the problem wasn't with offloading the containers, it was the trucking (drayage) getting them out of the port and to either the railheads ("intermodal ports") in the inland empire, or to their destination.
right but they're still made poorer due to M2 increasing and not being able to leverage into assets with debt.
Huzzah! Neat CSS made your list. I created that and use it for all my projects (to indirectly answer the other reply to your comment).

Last week I started a new site about strategies I use for my prolific note writing: https://notes.joeldare.com
In the Wikipedia article about Little Albert, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Albert_experiment – another boy is mentioned that could fit the characteristics of Little Albert. See the Wikpedia article and the American Psychologist article: https://zenodo.org/records/1405620
Many of us have probably made the same thing for the same purpose.
Self-studying databases and doubts on PhD
Hi all, hope all is well. I am a graduate student, but not in CS. However, I do program backend. Recently, I've been very interested in understanding Database systems but have been struggling to find the right resources. I've tried googling and reading some, but I'm getting confused by different random sites. Additionally, I generally want to know how people who learn in-depth do it! Here are some of the things I'd like to understand:

- How exactly does an SQL engine organize the tables? What data structure does it use (trees? heaps?)? Does it change to a B-tree when the index is created? How does all of this work?

- What does it mean by an elastic database?

- Completely unrelated, but this is one thing I've been obsessed with recently: How does one choose what to work on in a PhD, especially in the database area? For example, I am interested in query optimization, but what should I research? How does one start? Also, I've seen some profiles of individuals who pursued a different domain for undergrad and master's but then went into a CS PhD. How can one do this? Basically, how do you look for a problem in something you're interested in, and how do you know that it can be solved?

Thank you all! Appreciate your time.
If you mean by lending it, etc., that is regulated by the government - interest rates, reserves, oversight, much more.
There's significant differences between SpaceX and Boom though.

SpaceX got lots of funding because of military/government potential. The US had no domestic capability to place people into orbit. SpaceX also promised cheaper satellite insertion.

Boom promises... ultra-wealthy people a few hours shorter flights?

Concord failed because of cost - few people could afford the ticket price, and even fewer actually needed to cross the ocean a few hours faster.

There's less than zero percent chance Boom will be able to offer cheap "everyday joe" prices on their aircraft. It will fail for the same reasons as Concord...
http://go-here.nl/omg-tables.html

the css is js generated but doesn't need to be
As was noted above. If your claims are true, then inflation was 800% in the 2000s and then 0% in the 2010s. There's clearly market supply/demand driving changes in gold price, not simply exchange rate fluctuation.
I'm Irish, usually pretty clued in on things. But had no idea this was actually being put through. (I suspected it would be eventually) I would definitely be objecting.
Police always want their jobs to be easier. Everybody wants their own job to be easier.

The problem is that in a free society policing needs to be hard. Places where policing is easy are called police states.
https://archive.ph/leINA
Show HN: Requesting Feedback on Thoughtscape
Hi, I'm Kushal Loya, founder of Appomate. Thoughtscape is an AI-powered voice-first productivity app for better planning your day and for task breakdown. It's inspired by a couple of blog posts which recommend scheduling everything on your calendar, and let go of the To Do lists.

This is Shipping Friday so I'm making it a point to launch early to request your feedback and any features you'd like to see.

The PWA is live at https://thoughtscape.app. No sign-in or credit card required.

Thank you very much!
I don’t necessarily doubt you, but do you have any source for this, or in general any information on the landscape of data brokers?

It’s hard to imagine what the situation actually looks like behind the scenes.
It worked really well historically, before central banks, Keynes, Friedman ...
What Apple's Promise to Support RCS Means for Text Messaging
I think I've tried just about every note-taking app, as well as a few fancy "smart notepads" and the like, and in the end, I returned to using pen and paper.

None of the electronic alternatives worked for me because they seriously reduced the quality of the notes I took. Apparently, pen and paper is just how my mind works best.

I still wish I had a solution that let me search them, but it appears that's just not a thing for me. In practice, I'm pretty good at searching my notebooks, though. I seem to have a navigational sense that takes the various doodles and diagrams as landmarks and gets me there.

My use case is rather different than what the article and others here are talking about, and that might matter. I don't take notes in meetings at all, because if I do so then I don't really absorb what's happening in the meeting. I take constant notes about what I'm doing when I'm actually working, though.
Have they? Or are they all just taking on multiple part time jobs?
> Fashionable nihilism about the world via contrived comparisons may be fun for dramatic dinner party conversation, but as an objective means of analyzing the world, it's mostly crap.

Y'know what else is mostly crap? Forgetting that things changec because of projected problems like this. Go look at any movie from the late 1960s showing the LA skyline and just look at the smog. Car manufacturers would never have attended to that problem without being forced to by publically popular legislation. There are many other examples here that have avoided "ecological hell" and post-facto "well, nothing bad happened" analyses are mostly crap because something did happen, except it gets conveniently forgotten by a culture that has the memory of a goldfish.
I guess it would be less messy if we just enact wealth tax and aim for 0% inflation. This way government won't be able to justify printing excessive money anymore.

Coincidentally my religion enforce around 2.5% wealth tax which sounds almost exactly the inflation target.
Link is broken for me (404).
This is correct. According the article:

> Direct File isn’t perfect—the program is available in only 12 states, and it isn’t able to handle anything beyond the simplest tax situations—but it’s a glimpse of a world where government tech benefits millions of Americans. In turn, it is also an agonizing realization of how far we are from that reality.

According to directfile.gov, those states are: Arizona, California, Massachusetts, New York, Washington, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Dakota, Texas, Tennessee, and Wyoming.

I have no great love of Intuit, but this is not ready for prime time.
I've come across Aider before and was trying to remember the name just the other day - thanks!!
So no debate on the merits? We agree! :)

Feel free to laugh, if that's what makes you happy.
hmm its not a "class" in the old social order sense.. aligned interests? what is allowed? maybe.. another angle is that govt is also shown as corrupt plenty of times in other places.. also lawyers .. also doctors.. just about all the professions.. Hollywood has to hook the viewer on the story, so yes they deal in stereotypes. Assigning "class" as a motivator is slightly dim, in the modern times IMHO
Telegram is the app I use to talk to everyone I know. I guess from now on I'll be sending smoke signals.
The FAQ page addresses several - not all, that's why I said "look up" - of the OP's objections. OP/you might disagree (it is marketing, like you said) but they should state and explain those disagreements instead of acting like Boom hasn't thought of them.

> Not sure if there is basic/core technology development being done or valuable technology being generated. Is supersonic flight essentially just throwing a lot of jet fuel at the problem of wanting to get someplace fast? Are we expecting to see novel insights and spinoff technologies from the development of this plane and industry?

See FAQ page entries: "Will Overture use afterburners like Concorde?" and "Why did it take so long to bring supersonic flight back after the Concorde?"

> I think there's a key, core military angle to this company, where their best and most stable and lucrative customers are sure to be nation-states. I think there is some real value to be generated around super-sonic technology development for missile applications, drone applications, fighter jet applications.

Scholl indicated Boom Supersonic had no interest in a Boom product becoming a weapons platform at this time. From: https://simpleflying.com/xb-1-first-flight/

More broadly, supersonic missiles and fighter jets already exist.

> Rich people and nation states will pay through the nose

See "How much will tickets cost?" from the FAQ. Business class pricing seems eminently reasonable for this service.

> [W]asteful and extremely obnoxious technologies that degrade humanity as a whole

See "How is Boom dealing with the sonic boom?" and "What steps is Boom taking to make supersonic travel environmentally sustainable?"
Also if you dare try to naturally scroll up after opening a container it's interpreted as a refresh as it redraws. Might be an awesome format but web design fail negates it entirely.
I mean, how much we talking here? We're not in Atlantis with flying cars, but there's immense efficiency gains in logistics.
Women with student loan debt face 'multiple financial pressures,' expert says
Ha jet engine that can be certified maintained and is efficient is barely solved by GE. That’s it nobody else can make a modern commercial aircraft engine that isn’t a total money pit.
I made an application where you can generate fully formatted cover letters using AI. What do you think?
Related, but it's also unconscionable that the tax code is so complex. My CPA once had to bring in a specialist because he didn't know how to report something. A few times we've run into "gray areas" that were "open to interpretation". I double checked with a second CPA who said the same thing. This system needs an overhaul.
I think they meant that rendering can only be done with JS/HTML, and if you want to use React stuff, React also has to be involved. No need to be rude and assume the worst.

Third point seems true though, I would definitely expect to see JS errors should any React libs have issues on their own.
Unless there's some story in reliability of OTT messages then the only way RCS can be WORSE than SMS is lack of ubiquity.

Sure, there are security questions, but SMS has no security so at one remove I think the EFF are arguing about how high we raise the bar.

The critique is good. But SMS is not axiomatically better or worse than RCS, and weak security may not make RCS inherently bad. It depends.
JDK Mission Control 9.0.0 Released
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic_logic
I genuinely don't know if that's extremely snarky sarcasm or extremely earnest opinion.

(if I said it it would be completely sarcastic, but some people do idealize the far past and probably mean it honestly, presumably because they mentally imagine / assume they wouldn't be in one of the sucky classes of society)
Foods rich in good probiotic bacteria, such as strains of lactobacillus and bifidobacterium are a good place to start. Anything cultured or fermented is usually a good bet. There are also probiotic supplements, if you want a particular strain.

My guess would be that certain bacteria or strains are better than others at outcompeting the undesirable colonies, but you'd have to look for specific research to say which ones. In lieu of that, though, it's not hard to experiment with probiotics and see which, if any, have a noticeable positive impact on you.
> Let me translate into actual plain English

Or "Let me leave out most of the details that matter"..

> quite a lot between 2000 and 2020.
> From 2000 to 2020, the government was

So specifically between 2001 and 2011 governments have printed several times (~5x) more money than between 2011 and 2022? Because that's obviously not the case. In the first ten year period the price of gold increased fivefold during the second (despite growth in money supply only accelerating) it collapsed and didn't start recovering until 2019 (it's now worth only only slightly more than in 2011..). How does that fit in with the with whole printing hypothesis?

> In the early 1980s, by contrast, the government was destroying dollars

Just like after 2011?

> that dollars are volatile

It's not though. Generally the dollar depreciates at a fairly predictable rate. There is a spike here or there but it's nothing compared to the volatility of gold.

> houses

Yes. I certainly a agree that houses, food, cothers, cars etc. are much better units of measurement than gold (which is just commodity with a highly distorted/inflated price due to speculation..
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CPI is a useless metric. It doesn't take into that goods and services are going down in value over time (at around 5% per year), and doesn't include hard assets that retain their value such as housing. It's a trick.

> Also, capital gains are unearned.

On average, capital gains aren't gains at all. They are simply the price of your asset going up, not its value. Housing is a perfect example - it increases in price at the same rate at which the dollar is devalued through supply increase.
Don't forget the classic film On the Waterfront. Considered one of the greatest movies ever made and adapted from "Crime on the Waterfront," a 24-article series by the New York Sun's Malcolm Johnson that received the second prize ever awarded for Local Reporting, in 1949.

> In a vocation where loss of limb (and even life) was not uncommon, prospective workers — in a field disproportionately comprised of working-class African-Americans and whites of Italian and Irish descent who did not benefit from the upward mobility of the G.I. Bill — were forced to offer kickbacks to syndicate representatives at the daily "shape-up," in which prospective workers were forced to compete against each other to secure work irrespective of union membership. At any time, workers could be virtually blacklisted from subsequent employment for arbitrary purposes in the union's "blue books," their jobs often requisitioned by members of the syndicate who were completing prison sentences.

https://www.pulitzer.org/article/underworld-syndicate-malcol...