skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could list a couple of reasons:
- no alternatives to this service
- used to give data everywhere (let's face it, it has become an ubiquitous business model)
- lack of immediate feedback on how bad this is
Companies work hard into doing this. Look at Microsoft that now enforces an account signin on every new windows install with no easy way of going around it. Yet you're still forced to use windows to play some games or some softwares
what about HELL NAH
Show HN: Hashquery, a Python library for defining reusable analysis
Hi all, we recently open sourced the first version of Hashquery, a Python library which lets you model analytics, DRY up common logic, and execute it against a database or warehouse.

We were originally rendering SQL directly for all our queries, but that spiraled out of control with more complex analysis; the SQL needed to be changed sporadically for each new database dialect (BigQuery, Redshift, Aethena, Postgres, etc etc) and the SQL fragments were very challenging to reuse (and so fragments were copy-pasted all over).

~~~

Advantages we think it has over writing SQL by hand:

- Queries are fully compossible, so any analysis can be chained into further analysis without refactoring.

- All analysis executes within the data warehouse itself, making them super fast for big data.

- It's just Python, so you can extend or parameterize query logic with a simple def function.

- You can run it anywhere, like inside of unit tests, ETL nodes, or Jupyter notebooks.

- Developer experience is pretty good since editors already know how to autocomplete Python. ChatGPT knows Python already too :)

- The library handles normalizing between database dialects. Write once and use in any database.

- Hashquery content is fully serializable, which makes it a good fit for exposing a flexible API for consumers to efficiently query datamarts or internal analytics. We use it as the endpoint for headless BI, as opposed to having to define and teach a DSL or GraphQL specification.

~~~

We've built native funnel analysis on top of Hashquery and have been thrilled with it so far, and we thought others might want to use it too. It's pretty early days so we're still trying to explain it, and the docs aren't perfectly clear, but the examples on the dev site are editable and you can download the pip package to play around with it!
That's one of the instances of "built with good intentions" I had in mind.
Ultra-high mobility semiconducting epitaxial graphene on silicon carbide
Possible advance in enabling graphene for use as a semiconductor. Video review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkYA4rALqEE
I assume that the point of their maintenance and repair comparison is to help consumers figure out the cost of owning the car. The target audience would be people comparing different cars to figure out what their overall costs might be for the different options.

Such a consumer would be comparing typical maintenance and repair costs, fuel costs, insurance costs, license and registration costs, and probably others I am forgetting.

If that's the case then I'd expect collision repairs to not be included in maintenance and repair costs, because collision repairs are usually handled by insurance. If a particular car is more expensive to repair after a collision that would show up in higher insurance rates and so when comparing cars is accounted for when your compare insurance costs.
Now I'm trying to check out with Paypal, but while the form opens up the Paypal button is grayed out and doesn't work, with no clear error or feedback.
Probably worth a book though
I would never recommend something like iPad. I feel psychologically it makes you a passive consumer, while something like Mac/Win is more action oriented.
We reek of fear. Long-term this will hurt us. Our economic warfare is forcing the world to cut us out.
So the article is suggesting it comes down to this:

That Taiwainese workers will work 16 hour days and weekends.

That's true and probably won't happen in America with American workers.

But, before we just take that one factoid and call it settled, I'd love to understand what the ROI would be on a plant that just hired twice as many workers. My impression is that the margins on these chips are 100-1000x.
I looked into Akaunting a few months ago. Pulling and running the latest docker image immediately resulted in an error. Going to the forums, there was a thread with many complaining about the issue. No response from the devs for weeks. Would recommend looking elsewhere.
Much of the Hertz problem with Tesla was because they rented most of the Tesla's to ride share drivers rather than normal renters. Ride share drivers are a lot harder on cars than normal renters, depreciating them much quicker. Hertz knew that. Hertz also knew they were going to be renting them mostly to ride share drivers. They should have expected increased depreciation, but instead chose to blame others.
Could be, but here I identify as strong independent Asian woman.
Having domain knowledge is a superpower of sorts. We're a small team doing B2B software, and especially us senior programmers and the head of the programming team has a lot of domain knowledge.

Thus as you say we can very often immediately figure out when something is missing from the requirements, or when we feel things might be changing soon down the line.

We can also detect when the customer is requesting something suboptimal or similar. We've received a lot of positive feedback from customers due to us devs pushing back, helping them to improve their processes and workflow. But it also leads to less work for us, or more generic code which can be reused by more customers.

Our support team also has extensive domain knowledge, many have been hired from our customers. It makes our support excellent, often the customer's issue is a combination of how to do X and how to do X in our program, and for new devs this is a great resource to tap into.

Together we're punching well above our weight, dominating our niche with a quite small team. And domain knowledge has helped a lot in that.
Apple Event Scheduled for May 7
> Make a script that creates the Git (or whatever) tag and also appends everything new to the changelog via something like git-shortlog

I've seen projects that do this, and it's almost completely worthless. If I wanted to read all the commits, I'd go read the commits; I came to the changelog because I wanted to know if anything important changed.
Could it be that they protect more than just the value of the US dollar?
Thank you! I tip my hat to you for being successful in this difficult space.
The US cannot afford the risk of having virtually ALL advanced semi produced in a territory as exposed as Taiwan. At least until the threat against Taiwan is gone, they have to make sure a large percentage (>50%) of such strategic products happen outside Taiwan/China, meaning they have to continue subsidies (or switch to tariffs) until the threat is gone.

Anyway, just because TSMC puts Taiwan in a position similar to Japan in the 1980's, doesn't mean they retain that advantage into the future
>I think we're on her last MacBook Air, ... The next upgrade, if necessary, is probably to a Chromebook.

Perhaps I'm stepping out of line by saying this, but: That Macbook Air isn't her last and the next upgrade will be necessary.

Yes, we all pass eventually, but death is horrible both for the individual and the loved ones, so it's worth "lalala"ing it away for trivial things like this and enjoying what time we have.

Anecdata: My mother passed five months ago. I was her tech support. I miss her, tech support and all.
These days, without knowing more about preferred programming language or the purpose of the implementation, I'd probably start by pointing to this very thorough series of blog posts by Eric Lippert, from LifeWiki/Tutorials:

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Tutorials/Coding_Life_simulators

Life simulators have been coded in so many different ways, in so many languages, by so many different people in the last half-century ... that it takes several dozen articles to work through a reasonable survey of the possible ideas and methods.
Voyager-1 sends readable data again from deep space
Made this same decision with my mom in her late 50's. She went back to work and uses Microsoft day to day at her job...but the Apple decision both for PC and for phone has been very beneficial. It was always more intuitive for her.
> In other words, the government would be able to deputize an unknown amount of the private sector into acting as its own personal intelligence asset. Indeed, Hamadanchy gives some examples of companies that might potentially fall under this category and they are numerous: “Commercial landlords, grocery stores, barber shops, hardware shops, fitness centers” or, as he puts it, “anyone with a WiFi” connection.

How is this not spying on American's?
Put another way, TSMC gets the cream of the crop in Taiwan while US based fabs get 2nd/3rd tier talent who couldn’t get work in other sectors. I can see that.
Are you referring to https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2004/1439 ?
I've become desensitised to how much data I'm losing because often I don't even have a choice and so one more service taking my data barely even feels significant. My data is out there everywhere so why even bother any more.
In terms of apps, there is Firefly Nightly[0], built from the bones of the abandoned Mozilla client.

[0]: https://github.com/Firefly-Social/Firefly
Millions in revenue and 3 acquisitions in 2024 – what's behind Bending Spoons?
Yes there are restrictions (e.g. ITAR restrictions on certain goods, or on selling raw milk products) on selling certain goods (or how they must be sold) but that's a very different situation than the one we find ourselves in with how copyright is treated for digital goods.

But treating copyright as ownership leads to restrictions not just on distribution and selling, but also on their use. There isn't a Banana Millennium Copyright Act that makes it illegal for me to remove the Dole sticker from one I purchased, but the DMCA exists.
Yes but isnt the suffering and occasional ecstatic wins the whole point. Learn to enjoy this journey.
If it moves, regulate it. Can't see a reasonable need for yet another government regulation.
Libraries can be a useful place for homeless, or low income, people to get access to a computer to write up a resume, apply for jobs, etc.

The people who forget about libraries are likely well off. Shutting down libraries to feed the homeless doesn’t make sense, as libraries are a tool that can allow them to eventually feed themselves, if well used.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUsDk8wjRPs from them kills me every time

Doubly funny when it first came out because IIRC Slackware ha just released a new version
Some can be constructed with varying levels of success. Default Golly comes with an “infinite novelty” scenario; it’s worth checking out for a couple hours.
The USG is starting to understand that fab capacity is an aspect of defense, and in the US the flow of money into the defense budget never turns off.
Mostly Accurate.
Personally, I found the process of buying a house to be so drawn-out and painful that I wouldn't want to do it again.
So, China aggressively threatens everyone who recognizes Taiwan for decades, and the resultant lack of recognition for Taiwan is used to delegitimize attempts to defend them?
A simple set of rules leads to a fascinating array of emergent phenomena, which themselves can be utilized to do all sorts of interesting things.

In fact, the game of life is Turing complete -- you can build whole processors[0] or programming languages in it. You can even implement the game of life in the game of life. Someone did that and implemented infinite zooming between GOL levels.[1]

[0] https://github.com/nicolasloizeau/scalable-gol-computer

[1] https://oimo.io/works/life/
Looks like SocialFocus, but more extensive options and only for YouTube. Seems great.
They are reducing the number of media items a single person can have on hold, not the total number of holds on a single item.
I wonder, what theoretical features could we have for a modular grid that'd be fundamentally incompatible with a columnar grid, and vice versa?

If adding columnar grids to CSS Grids doesn't make any features impossible, then I don't see why we shouldn't just have one CSS Grid standard, and thus always ensure feature parity between modular and columnar grids.

The argument being portrayed by Simmons, as I understand it, is that every feature that currently works for CSS Grid's modular grids, would also work for a columnar grid.
Ask HN: What Happened to HN Recently?
At first, I myself noticed various comments from "greens", where they simply advertise some portal, but it was more and more of this. literally on every thread from the main list of HN.

And from time to time it even showed that the HN service was temporarily unavailable, so they literally took down HN.

But is there any official post about this event? I've been on HN for years and I've never experienced such a thing.
Web 2.0 The Machine is Us/ing Us (2007) [video]
https://archive.ph/5zfts
I don't think so. The boot screen notes that Omega Star is still a blocker
iPad refresh and battery less pencil?
The US has a security relationship with Taiwan that may or may not be a defensive alliance guarantee. Regardless of how ironclad that guarantee is, there is substantial likelihood of significant military supply to Taiwan in the event of a China-Taiwan conflict.

Should China decide to strike that supply chain--whether by accident or on purpose--the result would be US military casualties, and that would have a strong likelihood of precipitating outright war.
The problem I guess I was referring to was options between mfgs. Pixel's Android isn't Samsung's Android, which isn't Oneplus's Android, and so on. Not just different looks and layouts, all different default apps, settings menus, features, and so on. Heck my wife even gets frustrated between Samsung updates, as they often change something she can't figure out how to get back.

Generally if you ask any IPhone user how to do X, or even Google it, the results should work exactly the same on your phone. This is definitely -not- the case for Android.
Data at the type level is problematic too. For instance, CR also has data showing that Hybrids are the most reliable but PHEV's are the worst. Which doesn't make any sense because they are very similar vehicles, and PHEV's should theoretically be better than non-pluggable hybrids.

But most Hybrids are Toyotas, and most PHEV's aren't.
It’s phrased that way to resonate with the intended target audience, people who identify with the premise.

A book of outrage would probably phrase it similarly if it wanted to target you instead.

It’s such a ubiquitous, pervasive tactic, it’s easy to overlook it when it’s happening.
Only if we allow definitions of "optimal" that don't take into account the well-being of the people doing the manufacturing.
The article also mentioned the difficult-to-distinguish aurally "B" (Bravo) and "P" (Papa).

But it did not mention the most similar-sounding pair "F" (Foxtrot) and "S" (Sierra), which are nearly indistinguishable.

While one could use the NATO/Aviation standard alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta...), unless you have a very specifically constrained customer base,it won't help much. Best to also avoid those combinations.

Definitely better to have a slightly longer ID_String and maximal ability to read and speak/hear the characters. It'll save FAR more time and aggravation.
Ask HN: Interval for Replacing a Working Smart Phone?
Like many of us, I rely on my phone, in this case a Pixel 4a 5G, for a huge amount of things. It's function is vital to my making a living, and to be suddenly without it would be a genuine hardship.

I bought the phone three years ago in 2021, and here we are in 2024. The phone still functions properly. The battery lasts a reasonable amount (although a bit less than when new) and the only flaw I can find is that sometimes a bit of dirt or dust under the power button will cause it to boot-loop. A good hard press on the power button fixes it, and this only happens a few times a year, starting last summer.

So the question is this: Should I pre-emptively replace it? What is your interval for replacing a working smart phone, and why?
Of course. Social media can't hold a candle to the amount of personal information mined by dating apps. Once again, we need regulation that bans selling personal information without explicit authorization
Travel is really hard for me; very anxious. Trains tend to be better, especially business class.

checklists and lots of planning doesn't ever make it that much better.

My 1 kind of dream is that I get pilots license and fly myself wherever I want to go.
That's like saying that the storke brings babies. It doesn't really answer the question, it just pushes it off for another day.

Why don't we see exponential density growth in other products? What would that even look lke anyways?
I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. You speak the truth.

We're experiencing this very same thing now in Alabama. Or one could simply look at Florida. Things aren't getting better here. The current GOP leadership is trying their best to be as regressive as possible.

I feel like I am doing my son an incredible disservice by raising him in Alabama, but my wife refuses to leave while her mother is still living here.
It sounds great and motivating, but what was your field? I feel doctors to be less than enthusiastic about engaging with people outside of their circle, especially if I ask for help about doing a startup. It's weird but I feel like a lot of them see you as a competitor somehow.
Okcupid in 2011-2012 was the last time I remember online dating being fun in any way.
If a glider shows up somewhere by accident, like in an an otherwise random-looking arrangement of floor or wall tiles in a bathroom or somewhere, then I'll certainly pick it out immediately (and be unwarrantedly cheerful for the next half hour or so). But that doesn't happen all that often.

It seems like I rarely have dreams about Life patterns, though it does happen. Maybe some people with better-resolution imaginations might have a different experience, but Life patterns need a lot of precision and focus, and in my dreams everything is always fluid and shifting and I can never find my car keys or my homework, let alone any interesting Life configurations.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40118778
In their case they prevent him from publishing anything they don’t want the world outside their borders to know about by killing the video at its source (and its source). Didn’t say you needed to make legal threats to effectively censor outside your own territory.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40083885
Books are, in many cases anyways, an outdated medium. Or at best, a medium that has fierce competition from many other mediums that did not exist for the majority of time the printing press has been around. There's just so many ways to consume fiction today and the barrier to entry is essentially 0. Literature still has its place but that has always been a very small place for the highly intellectual - a limiting factor on its own. Similarly for non-fiction, there's just so much competition from other mediums that frankly, people tend to prefer over books.

People who love reading (I count myself here) will continue to and books will be viable to them. But the vast majority of people only ever read because there wasn't an alternative.
Thanks! this is the weird stuff I like to see.
You’re conflating the cost of chips in a completed fab with the cost of building the fab. These workers are for the latter.
I replace my phone when it stops working well enough for me to use.

Honestly, it feels like we've sort of reached close to the peak of usability. Cameras can only get so much better, RAM and CPU can only get so big and so fast before increases aren't really noticeable by the average human user, and while storage can continue to increase, there's only so much garbage I can reasonably pack into my phone before it stops mattering.

So I only upgrade when I must.
Casus Belli is now translated into "America could win". There is no clear Casus Belli with China. Last time the US faced China in combat was Chosin Reservoir...maybe the worst ass-kicking the US has ever received. No way voters are going to support a President who oversees delivery of 50k dead US soldiers just to save a fab.
No, to setup two devices you have to add the id of A into B (you can even scan the qr code), wait for B to be contacted, and from B accept the invitation. Repeat for each folder (there's a setting where you cao automatically accept all folders from a given peer, off by default).

You can also define that one folder on a given device (say a server) never accepts remote changes from anyone else, or never propagates local changes to anyone else. Combine this with encryption (provided by syncthing if you so desire, or your own) and versioning (also provided by syncthing if you want) and you have a pretty good backup endpoint.

I invite you to try out syncthing deeper, the doc really doesn't do it justice. However keep in mind that it's supposed to be used on devices that will be manually deployed. It's not made for large scale deployments.
LOL I love it, they will think you're a scammer trying to get their bank info and you get a free call out of it. The hustle is real.
Macroeconomics of Mental Health
We develop an economic theory of mental health. The theory is grounded in classic and modern psychiatric literature, is disciplined with micro data, and is formalized in a life-cycle heterogeneous agent framework. In our model, individuals experiencing mental illness have pessimistic expectations and lose time due to rumination. As a result, they work less, consume less, invest less in risky assets, and forego treatment which in turn reinforces mental illness. We quantify the societal burden of mental illness and evaluate the efficacy of prominent policy proposals. We show that expanding the availability of treatment services and improving treatment of mental illness in late adolescence substantially improve mental health and welfare.
Exactly, I am also following this post
every 5 years is my average.
Ask HN: What are your hassles with company internal documentation
I'm trying to find problems within this space, so i'd just like to understand how they work and what are your issues with it?
> Can't see a reasonable need for yet another government regulation.

You really can't see a need for regulation of things that are purposefully put on an intersection course with Earth at 8km/s, and made to survive that?
You may be autistic, but also you might not. You definetely have something going on! :)
+1. My dad even figured out how to use LibreOffice, which was awesome
It's a cellular automaton showing complex behavior emerging from very simple rules.
Through especially crafted inputs you can simulate a Turing machine or Conway's Game of Life inside itself.
Cooking classes, volunteering, sport clubs, the gym, group travel, boardgames, photography classes, dancing lessons, language classes, concerts, movie clubs, hiking groups, etc. etc.

Of course, you wouldn't attend those with the explicit goal of finding someone special. I'd argue that the other way around is much healthier: go out there, explore activities that mesh with who you are, or get you a bit out of your comfort zone, and you'll likely meet new people who might just surprise you.
Bloom Filter Indexes in PostgreSQL
I'm sorry, but this is one of the most poorly written articles I've ever read. It feels like someone had a word limit to hit. I feel like I've read the same three sentences paraphrased a million times in the article.

Let me save you some time:

- TSMC's USA plant is delayed a year (this is apparently "woefully delayed" ?)

- There is apparently a language barrier between TSMC Taiwan and TSMC USA workers.

- Repeated references to a "strict hierarchy", but no details beyond that.

What a stinker of an article.