skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you’re rich you can be fine almost anywhere in the world, barring a dictatorship or some war torn region. But if you’re not rich but have just a little bit, life outside of the US has the potential to be way better these days. Unless you work like a mule and don’t mind hustling your way into retirement or death.
Ask HN: How did you raise your child to be high achieving academically?
... while also being happy and a talented sports person and/or artistic person?
Of course, but that doesn't deal with the cause of nuclear proliferation, which is the anarchy of a multi-polar security situation.

In the extreme case of NATO breaking up, you should expect most central European countries will get nukes to deter Russia.

If US becomes more uncertain as a security backstop, Japan, Philippines and Vietnam will seek nukes because they have no choice if they wish to be assured security against China.

Small countries are observing Western appeasement and the US political right's betrayal of Ukraine and wondering if it'll happen to them. Remember the assurances Clinton gave them if they renounced nukes? Words and signed paper count for little.
15 minutes is too long for those who want to quickly understand your product. Providing a demo video might be a good approach.
Honestly, maybe it’s time to consider that. Saying “oh well, let’s give up on laws because the internet is worldwide and unlimited” doesn’t feel like a good choice to me.
The userChrome system seems to change a little bit too often. Or maybe I’m just using it wrong.

A couple time I’ve set my tabs so that they’ll show up in the same bar as the URL bar. This let me get down to one bar.

It was wonderful but it only ever seems to last one update before breaking for some reason. Very annoying, especially coming from the one group that usually doesn’t think they know more about your computer should look than you do.
> A thought came into my head, momentarily paralyzing me: these might be your last few minutes.

I have had this feeling twice. Both times my overwhelming thought was “Wow, I’ve been an idiot.”

The article describes how that can happen: when your enthusiasm and risk exceed your skill (or luck). Also both times I was doing something I tell my students never to do, which is be alone in the back country. Your dog is not a substitute for another human.
Yes but you don’t know what other faults may be introduced when trying to fix the first one.

“X is broken. X is fixed. But while fixing X, Y is accidentally broken” is a common accident pattern.

Unlike in software, you can’t just roll back to a last known good configuration. Every modification carries a risk.
Unfortunately it's not all economics. The prison system in the US exerts its power on the population using fear. The goal is to have a certain amount of people in prison, not to save money by getting them out. There are myriad ways to achieve reducing the prison population if that was the goal.
MBAs will never understand intrinsically that $1 in extra profit from a ripped-off customer is dangerous profit if that churn it increases your future CAC by more than >$1
Thanks for this, it's very timely given what I'm working on right now. Google's proposal seems wildly overcomplicated for the use cases I've ever run across.
Alembic or Django native migrations for typical Postgres migrations, I prefer the first to second, because I can configure so much more. As for Clickhouse, it's been a wild manual migration ride, we are questioning ourselves whether to use Flyway, because being a tiny startup we don't have enough time to port the entire thing.
Answering:

> I’m talking about stuff like navigating health insurance, paying taxes, budgeting, managing credit, home maintenance, vehicle care.

With:

> We don't hold kids back anymore and we don't suspend kids anymore

is a truely weird logic to me. Is it related ? Or are you offering to let kids get credit lines and suspend them over their mismanagement ?

That could actually be a great idea TBH. And while we're at it, adults could also get suspended or have to attend additional courses, instead of getting thrown into debt spirals.
“Everyone does” have nuclear weapons, where “everyone” includes more than one independent sovereignty, is not a long-term equilibrium state, it is a metastable state, prone to rapid devolution to “no one does”, possibly with a side order if “there is no one to”.
I think we’re heading for the no solution territory. At least I don’t see politicians miraculously coming to their senses, everything is corrupted beyond repair.
I haven't read the actual bill, but from the news reports it's the former. Right now the inclusion rate is 50%; which more or less means capital gains are effectively taxed at about 27%. On June 25th, 2024 the inclusion rate will be 66% for an effective capital gain taxation rate of around 35%.
As Louis Rossmann would say, Rapist mentality.
Excellent writing. I was enthralled in the author's experience.
The problem is that even among large socially connected groups who are into psychedelics, the event of someone having a psychotic break is often rare to none.

Whereas in other groups a cascade effect sometimes happens and many people in such groups can experience mental health issues, and trauma.

There's that common call to examine "set and setting" but it's often a crap-shoot, due to the chaotic number of variables.
The whole time I read this, I kept thinking she was only underwater for 20-30 seconds, maybe a minute max, and thinking that that's doable, because I couldn't even imagine what it's like to be trapped upside-down for longer. A few minutes underwater? Without even a breath before going under? Wow.
Sure, but A. most people don't know or care to avoid Boeing and B. the odds are still really good, and probably safer than driving and quite a bit faster. It's not to say we shouldn't do better, but I really doubt that public demand shifts are doing much of anything to apply pressure.

If anything, the couple days airlines had to spend with the 737s grounded did more FAA-enforced financial damage than the collective of consumers is likely to bring to bear. If there's a trip I need to make, I'm not spending 3x the money to maybe not be on a 737.

There's also just the incident treadmill. Boeing is getting all the bad news now for good reasons, but how confident are we that there isn't a similar Airbus issue that'll come out soon? The 737 seemed like a fine plane before a few years ago. If we're playing a pure game of statistics, the 737 looks bad, but maybe it's just a really unlucky streak? Even terribly designed products that shouldn't have been allowed work fine a lot of the time.
You have unlocked: Irony!!
Sounds like you might enjoy QuestDB. It's Postgres-compatible but oriented toward time series and streaming data. It's easy to install and play around with and comes with a built-in explorer UI.
I’m in servers ranging from small (a few 10s of users), over medium (currently about 100 online), to 2 large servers with 100s of users. All of those predominantly use text.
By the time MKBHD is dunking on your product, your company has already made a significant number of errors along the way. Enough to sink you if you’re still working in the proving grounds.
He talks about a lot of design decisions like the units architecture and users being able to deploy their own services, but does keep it fairly high-level.
Was there ever any doubt the product was… frivolous. It was a last minute Hail Mary from a startup and the end of its rope. God bless them for trying, but there should be no surprise here.
If you haven't seen the "SemVer rant" in Spec-ulation you're missing out: https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?si=ZL7MXObP7sWk7JaZ&t=1798
Sorry to hear that, but can you quantify it? Like, do you get verbal abuse at work 5x a day, sneers at the grocery store every time you go, or what? Or are you talking about online talk about your identity? (I hate to break it to you, but with that last one literally every human being on Earth can find a metric ton of online abuse directed at them if they look for it.)

What people say about you (or your ethnicity) is orthogonal to the reality. Its hurtful only insofar as you attach yourself to their perceptions, and people are fundamentally ignorant. One of the things people seem to forget is that humans are by default deeply bigoted (and authoritarian). It's a miracle that there exist any places on Earth that have managed to curtail those instincts. If you live in such a place (and I'd count America, even Texas, as one of them) count yourself lucky. Let ignorant people flap their gums; it's hot air, signifying nothing.
Schools in the US cost more than schools in any other developed nation.

Every institution in the US has been taken over by careerists and credentialists who produce nothing of value and are a drain on the system.

For a simple example in our area look at twitter: we were told the servers would catch fire, the end times will be upon us and cats will live with dogs. Instead the servers kept chugging along just as well as they did before with a 20th the staff.

At this point everything is so bad I'd support sortition for every public managerial position. You can't do worse than what we have today.
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Well something is going on. I used to go to concerts all the time when I was younger and they were far far cheaper than what they cost today even when accounting for inflation.
I am referring to the "global south" as in the UN definition, which is probably a little dated and could use a revisit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_North_and_Global_South) Much of these observations from spending a few years living in Southeast Asia. I've been to the untrained doctors. Watched them practice with unclean tools (did not accept care...). The vast majority of people will never achieve formal employment.
Mentioned here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw-wlHGi0E&t=1h45m40s
I'm a big fan of the Dispatch. Solid center-right reporting with newsletters and podcasts.

National Review is further right but still pretty good.
My limited understanding was that one of the core technologies needed to build a nuclear bomb is the explosion lens that uses conventional explosives to put pressure on the nuclear material. And this technology is not something that is involved in space program or using nuclear power peacefully.

Is it really that obvious to develop now?
Read "non-white", "non-straight", and/or "non-male" in place of "diversity" and you will see that it works 100% of the time.
There was a recent article in the NYT on technology being developed to better deliver organs:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/health/organ-transplants-...
"Perfusion, as its called, is changing every aspect of the organ transplant process, from the way surgeons operate, to the types of patients who can donate organs, to the outcomes for recipients."
I don't know if the red tape described involving UNOs and OPTN will get in the way of more progress. But this seems like an area that could use a lot more attention.
That is great to read and I genuinely believe everyone with such adverse experiences will be better off if they lived their life with this attitude. It is also a healthy attitude to focus on what one can control, which is how they choose to think of their situation and act in it.

We should not forget though that at the same time the system in place will also produce people that face live with the same attitude and do all the same things, but with much less success.

Now the big question is, if we can have a system that does a similar job in encouraging your type of attitude while at the same time helping those out better, for whom it doesn't work out as much. Or are these things mutually exclusive.

There is a guy who cofounded a successful company and sold it. When asked if he would retire, his answer is no. Not because he isn't ready for retirement. Not because he wants to continue working or be even more successful. Because he has kids to put through college. Even successful people are not free of financial worry.

I wonder if all this success if fueled by constant adrenaline, no matter if it helps the individual or not. And if yes, if there is a better way.
Just bring a parachute.

Then, deregulate the industry and make safety a personal responsibility.
My tampermonkey script (credit to the original author, I forget where I got it from):

// ==UserScript==
// @name Youtube shorts redirect
// @namespace http://tampermonkey.net/
// @version 0.3
// @description Youtube shorts > watch redirect
// @author
// @match *://*.youtube.com/*
// @icon https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=youtube.com
// @grant none
// @run-at document-start
// @license GNU GPLv2
// ==/UserScript==
var oldHref = document.location.href;
if (window.location.href.indexOf('youtube.com/shorts') > -1) {
window.location.replace(window.location.toString().replace('/shorts/', '/watch?v='));
}
window.onload = function() {
var bodyList = document.querySelector("body")
var observer = new MutationObserver(function(mutations) {
mutations.forEach(function(mutation) {
if (oldHref != document.location.href) {
oldHref = document.location.href;
console.log('location changed!');
if (window.location.href.indexOf('youtube.com/shorts') > -1) {
window.location.replace(window.location.toString().replace('/shorts/', '/watch?v='));
}
}
});
});
var config = {
childList: true,
subtree: true
};
observer.observe(bodyList, config);
};
That's reassuring for those who died.
I think if they really are losing a lot of listeners (for whatever reason), it must be mostly from exactly those blue areas, because that's where they have a lot of listeners. You can't lose listeners in places you don't already have them!
What Software Engineers Need to Know About AI Jobs
Question is..when are we going to see this kind of reckoning and self-analysis at Fox News?
Oh great, so rich people get safer airplanes nowadays?

Goddamn capitalism.
The new algorithm purports to solve LWE with certain choices of parameters. LWE is the problem of solving a linear system of equations over a finite ring, where each equation has an additive error from a certain distribution.

McEliece has a public key that is a general linear code. A code is a bunch of linear equations constraining codewords, and codewords are vectors over a finite field, and decoding a code is solving those equations subject to errors from a given distribution. Sounds familiar?

They’re not the same problem, and the distributions are different in rather fundamental ways (which may or may not make a difference), but they are quite related. I would not move my eggs to the McEliece basket right now.

Hash-based signatures sound as safe as ever.
> It's both. The US favors low-density housing, as it's much more people-friendly than any other alternative. The other option is high-density Downtown hellscapes with scyscrapers. Both areas are not great for wireless.

Alas, the US presents a false dilemma here: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_middle_housing

> Also, Singapore is probably spammed with microcells so your phone actually connects to a 5G cell that is only a bit more away than your WiFi router.

Yes, and that's great. The density of cells goes up with the density of people.

> I was in Singapore last week, and I'm writing this from China. And no, mobile Internet in both countries can't compete with wired broadband.

The free government wifi we get here in many train stations and hawker centres regularly gives me 50 Mbps (on fast.com), and I never got less than 10 Mbps.

That's plenty fast for many applications, especially when it's free.

4G and 5G Mobile broadband is usually a lot faster than that.

> Only cable is capable of 1G speeds.

Singtel advertises that they have Gigabit mobile, and that's on 4G technology. 5G is going to be faster.

> There are companies that provide alternative water service, they are often used to fill or drain swimming pools.

Interesting. How do they get the water to you?
Better to provide any source. You are making many wild accusations on this site since a month ago.
> Popular books often have only 2 copies, physical or digital, so you need to wait in the queue for a while before you can get to read it.

Wait in the queue? What's fundamentally wrong with that? If something's worth reading, it's worth waiting for. Do we really have to have everything right now?
NPR is (or was) one of those "big names like the NYT".
Depending on your level of interest in really typing those letters after leaving the game, Windows does ship with an International keyboard layout (e.g. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/keyboards/kb... ). It can be annoying to leave it in place since there is a small delay when typing single quotes, for example, as it is waiting for the "chord" of 'e to make é (macOS does this too via option-e putting ´ on the screen and then waiting for the letter to which the accent will be applied), but if you find it annoying then Windows-spacebar will switch between your normal layout and the International one usually just for the window in focus. That can be good or bad depending on your expectations :-)

I also have to switch to it to play a lot of games on Windows since developers are absolutely atrocious about distinguishing between the keyboard scan code and the layout scan code, so my day-to-day Dvorak makes the normal wasd in games all over the keyboard. Well, I'm cheating you a little since I could actually switch to just the English US, skipping the International part, but since I already have to have a 2nd layout for gaming, might as well get the accents for free
I need such a tool. The only concern is whether this advisor can really give reliable indexing advice? Is it based on cost or rules? Maybe I would dare to use it after knowing more about its implementation.
That's awful that happened to those people, but this doesn't really serve the point imo, as this was already illegal by then. They even said that people hearing their story suggested they should've gone to the police for help, but the land was too large for them to escape.

Even today, there's plenty of forced labor and sex slaves that exist in the USA. That doesn't mean it's an active systemic issue of oppression, it just means that bad people do bad things when they can get away with it, in spite of a system to stop it.

We shouldn't hold people who didn't do bad things accountable for the actions of people who have done bad things. I don't think that's a radical idea.
Drowning is one of the depressingly common ways that young people die that somehow never gets discussed. Drowning is the leading cause of death for Americans age 1-4, and the second leading cause (after cars) for ages 5-9 and 10-14, being displaced by "accidental poisoning" (nearly 100% of which is opiate overdose) by age 15 [1]. Younger children are more likely to drown in pools; older children are more likely to drown in natural bodies of water. By age 35, the bathtub becomes the second-most common location to drown (again, probably drugs).

[1] https://wisqars.cdc.gov/lcd/
IIJ FTP Server
Well, I have and can do those things, and agree that those are very valuable skills to be proud of. I've just been kind of frontend only in team settings in a professional capacity lately, so it's something I'll be continuing to improve on.

Most of my work has been jumping into some crazy existing codebase and figuring out how to understand and contribute to it, so greenfield buildouts are just not something I've repped out, and think that's a bit of a weakness. As in, I can set up a database, build an API, wrangle a vps, and then build the front-end, but I don't really have much of a sense of how to do it quickly or by using decoupled cloud service providers, simply because I've never been in that position. Laying the pipes is sort of the essense of productive software engineering in my mind.

It is quite gratifying though to gradually be working my way to understanding how each layer of the hardware software stack work, and I'm starting to see those layers in real-world contexts, such as in getting a fault when compiling Swift, it'll show me the lower levels where the problem occured.
In my experience, UI fiddling happens when the design team decides everything needs an overhaul, and the developers would rather fix bugs and add features.

And I suspect designers like to redesign everything for the same reasons that developers prefer to implement new shiny features.
The primary cost differences I have experienced come with maintenance and fees, not the initial build.

Maintenance = iOS version updates, dependency upgrades, App Store requirement changes, etc. have been costlier and more out of your control than with web apps. Fees = the App Store's 15-30% fee is more expensive than using a web payment processor.
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If you make life decisions that keep your organs healthy enough to donate, the primary beneficiary of that isn't the organ procurement agency, it's *you*. You'll live longer and have better health. I wouldn't call optimizing your personal wellbeing "labor" or "work."
You know LiveNation owns TicketMaster right?
sidebar tabs are so great. more horizontal space for the title, reduces tons of whitespace in 99% of sites, hierarchical collapsing in many (ya like tab groups? tree-style-tabs users have had them for a decade already), and it's easy to make them use little vertical space.

it's such a no-brainer, I'm surprised it's not a first-class feature in the main browsers (I'm aware that it is built in or default in a number of niche browsers).
I would encourage it. A few years ago, I started a site/blog on both Web and Gemini. I mostly keep track of projects I build, books I read, some interesting events, and some cheatsheets and links I revisit a lot. Writing things down definitely keeps me more motivated, and it is nice to look back in time and reflect occasionally.

And I made the site simple and contrary to current Web on purpose: plain HTML, no JS, no popups, only graphics are photos and diagrams.
That would be great if there was an option to get rid of the tabbar at the top
... and then they'll have even less money to ensure the future safety of planes.

You know what needs to happen instead?

Forcefully bump their share price up, FUND them to fix safety, switch out the managers, and allow them to keep earnings secret for the next 16 quarters but publish quarterly safety reports in lieu.
All of those problems are known to be in NP and co-NP. In that sense, we know some complexity classes they belong to.

However, we don't know if these bounds are tight, or whether they are eg in P, or something in between.
Meta didn't accept emergency request from police and needed county magistrate order to help assist in investigation.

"Meta has a portal for police to file requests to preserve records of accounts connected to criminal investigations. Like other social media companies, it has to hold the records—including emails, IP addresses, message transcripts and general usage history—for 90 days. It only hands over user data if it’s ordered to do so by a court.

There’s one way to expedite the request: file it as an emergency, meaning a child could be harmed or there’s risk of death. Larson believed this case qualified. He told Meta that a 17-year-old was already dead, and there was a high probability other kids were in danger, too.

*Meta declined his request within an hour, he says. “The request you submitted does not rise to the level of an emergency,” the company responded.*"