skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One approach I've been enjoying recently in my personal use is to write a light wrapper around DuckDB to enable composable SQL snippets. Essentially like what I have here https://gist.github.com/ajfriend/eea0795546c7c44f1c24ab0560a..., but without the `|` syntax.

You're still writing SQL, so you don't need to learn a new syntax, but I find it more ergonomic for quick data exploration. I also have an easier time writing SQL from memory than I do writing the equivalent Pandas code.
sounds relatable :D
My country went through a process similar of dekulakization. Our industries and farms haven't recovered ever since then.

This is similar in some ways, but not at all the same.
The notion that there are only two options: that your superiors should be perfect receptors of all information, no matter how poorly phrased, or that you should begin "polishing your resume", is immature. The world is more complex than this.
> Did the printing press started a revolution in knowledge, or wars of religions?

That's a great question.

The answer is very well known. It started both.
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It's not used that way in American English at all; it almost borders on archaic. Given the purpose of this email was to primarily let their American customers know they'd be raising prices on them, it seems unfair to tell someone they're ignorant when they were sent a message containing verbiage that has entirely different meaning to them.
Sorry, I think I must have miscommunicated. I was communicating why I was arguing for using the cloud.
At least it will lay to bed the sentiment that nothing is learned at school, and that we all could have just stayed home and taught ourselves to code.

It also challenges the belief that what education needs right now is disruption.
It’s noted a little obliquely in the article that he got paid an ungodly amount of money for his help - at one point, it’s mentioned he got paid $20m to set up a photo op with Obama; elsewhere they suggest $100m total received for his help. I think he deflects on money because it takes a whole lot of sympathy out of his sort of “gee shucks” presentation of all this.
Vancouver filming in the 1990s was worse, there's a Jackie Chan movie supposedly set in NYC where you can see a clear view of the snow capped north shore mountains across the water.
That's a valid point. We're still experimenting with pricing and this is great feeback
> It's only when the company grows in size that it becomes this soulless greedy sociopath we are all too accustomed to.

Most small and medium size businesses also fit this description. And I don't consider a price hike to be sociopathic or soulless. Greedy, sure. But businesses are always profit focused first and foremost.
Agreed! Thank you very much for the DW article; I hadn't seen that, though I did mention that dynamic in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42266903.

One nitpick, though. The article says, "Pakistan's solar revolution is only possible because of the plummeting cost of solar PV modules, which have reduced in price by 90% in the last 15 years alone," but the correct number is 94%, from €1.67/Wp for crystalline panels in China in November 02009 http://web.archive.org/web/20121027002200/http://www.solarse... to €0.10/Wp today https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis.... So the article understates the actual price drop by almost a factor of 2.
Hah. That is a good reference. Never seen a concept boosted so much.
I have neither but have heard the opposite - a masters is fun, learning a lot and rewarding. A PhD is brutal, under compensated and you'll spend 75% of time filling our grants, paperwork, TAing and everything but research.
>The reality was a lot less glorious than that.

Yes in reality a lot of people died to end slavery too. The founding fathers were great men and some of them having slaves at a time when that was very common does not really change my opinion of them.

>We don't only hear that angle, it's trivially easy to access balanced and detailed history. Maybe you're spending your time arguing with zealots on social media but the rest of us can actually educate ourselves

I haven't heard a balanced account of history from any mainstream source. I often see school teachers on social media admitting that they believe these radical narratives. So I am compelled to argue with zealots. Lots of people want to believe that there's some "big reason" they didn't get ahead in life, and what better reason than "systemic racism" going back "hundreds of years"? I actually hate arguing with people about this issue but nobody saying anything against that extreme misrepresentation of things can lead to bigger problems in society.

>In fairness those societies were also responsible in the first place for the expansion of slavery into an unprecedentedly vast system

That is not an inherent characteristic of those societies. They just happened to have ships that could cross oceans.

>Can we just accept that, and not feel so defensive?

I'll stop being defensive when people stop attacking me and my society for things that a tiny fraction of people living hundreds of years ago benefited from. The media is constantly trying to stir up racist sentiments against white people under the pretense of talking about history or some other innocuous thing, and it's disgusting. But their goal is to cause conflict, not to actually fix race relations. I've seen race relations in general decline for at least 10 years because of this.
It’s not any more possible to correctly anticipate all pricing structure vulnerabilities, than it is to correctly anticipate all program and API security vulnerabilities. There is always a statistical chance of novel outcomes when humans are involved.
Cybersecurity. I'm on the offensive side. All tests I've taken have been relevant to the job.
How does your artist similarity algorithm work?

Any plans to include the feature on artist pages on MusicBrainz?
Voices can be beautiful.
One of my favorite design decisions in Bluesky is that you can set any label from any labeler to off, warn, or hide, including @moderation.bsky.app. If you think that labeler applies the "Intolerance" label incorrectly, just turn it off.
The X230 is still relevant for those who want a ThinkPad that supports Libreboot (an alternative firmware without proprietary components). I personally found this demonstration interesting; users of these devices often believe they're at risk of targeted attacks.
Try recording the installation process with a camera. The entire installation process is displayed in the Windows command. It's just installing Python packages and downloading the AI model and audio files. That's all.
Arguably, startups should have absurd mission statements, while managers of the city of London should be more sober.
FTC opens wide-ranging antitrust probe into Microsoft
Show HN: Glu – Deployment pipeline framework as code
You edit the URL from arxiv to ar5iv. If it works, the paper is available; if not, it is not. I don't know of any other way to link!
Personally I usually blame the puppeteer more than the puppet.
Yeah, it is not clear and considering the CVEs we have seen before, or just simply the features(tm), privacy is a huge concern.

And for what? A slower alternative to native apps because I am too lazy to click on "Open"? Sounds silly to me.
If the Mississippi, or any of our navigable rivers, dries up we will have far bigger problems. In all likelihood the US will not exist.
The "give users full control" vs. "help the user reach a fine result" tension is real.
Our take on that is allowing pro-users who want full control to embed their gallery in their website. We can't nor want to compete with full-blown website builders on customization features.
I'm grateful that I crossed 100 usd on Upwork as a web developer. Many people never get hired on the platform.

Now I'm aiming to pass 200. Brick by brick.
Brian Armstrong's response to the debanking of tech founders
I'm trying to cut down on my phone (Android) usage, and so far I've found these steps to be really helpful

- A minimal launcher like OLauncher

- Obsidian for note taking.

- Syncthing-Fork to sync my notes and phone gallery with my computer.

- Local Send for file transfer between any device and OS.

- Readera for reading ebooks.

- Rethink DNS to firewall and selectively block internet for applications or domains.

- This helps a lot, e.g. cutting off Telegram and WhatsApp's internet when I've gone for a walk and just want to listen to music, but don't want to be bombarded by texts or calls. People say you can mute or turn off notifications, but I still subconsciously open these apps and get distracted.

- Grayscale or reading mode to make the screen black and white. Makes the phone more conducive to reading.

- Newpipe for the occasional one-off YouTube video.

- Harmonic for hacker news. I've found many interesting articles and stories here.
Put them in chains and onto a stinky sail vessel enroute to Australia... oh wait
What's missing from https://kysely.dev/?
Thats quite cynical, but more importantly, by not accepting as legitimate the so-called "consumer responsibility" angle you are missing half of the equation.

Already in this forum there more than enough people that will viciously defend their right to consume whatever they fancy with "their hard-earned money" and would cry "tyranny" if you suggest there is a limit after which their lifestyle becomes a danger to others.

The equation gets even more muddied if you also consider the responsibility of individuals as labor providers to the corporate entities that are responsible for environmental degradation. Again, people "got to pay the bills" etc.

Sure, there are bad people out there, prime suspects, clear villains. But its mostly bad systems.
No. I can get this for $100 second hand, install LineageOS and be done with it.

Sounds like a great app/alternative OS though, maybe explore that. Hardware is hard anyways and people want more than just enough CPU and display - camera, for example.
Thank you for the correction! I didn't spot the ambiguity.

All three of your questions are good ones, and I don't know the answers.
It's not always the official 'LeetCode', but algorithm tests like it. It's clear that these tests are to filter out older tech employees, because most never had to take these when they were in college. I've also passed every test I was given, so it's not me being bitter that I don't have the required skills.

It's a symptom of the ageism issue that is so prevalent in the software engineering world.
Not sure if that still holds true nowadays with renewable energy and storage having got cheaper and cheaper.
It doesn't matter, the quality of discourse is very different

What Bluesky gives all users is the choices and control at an individual level, and the ability to operate their own moderation labellers if they so choose

They have taken the controls from the corporation and given them to the people. People use these tools to remove the trolls and unproductive discourse, the fresh start means it is not a sisyphean task to keep your feed and comments cleaner

This post from Mark Cuban sums up the general vibes: https://bsky.app/profile/mcuban.bsky.social/post/3lbx7p3vdgs...
Google is a convicted monopoly
Entertaining. Everyone wants more housing but no one wants to give up anything for more housing. I love it! Haha, imagine making one's bed a certain way, lying in it, then complaining they didn't like it and then making it the same way the next night. Pure magic.

In America, we do this by running our ports artisanally. Residents of this nation pay billions for the privilege of 50,000 manually handling containers in the old way: refined, traditional and not by soulless automation. England would do well to learn from our dedication to the past.
There's a bunch of right wing trolls who filmed themselves signing up & posting really shitty mean things. These are not well intended people; this is boundary pushing. You either lose by becoming a Nazi bar, or if you listen to them you lose by having their snivelling crocodile tears to deal with forever.

These folks can go run their own PDS! But generally I think nothing of value was lost, that the network has rightly refused to let itself be degraded.
Wow, 50 years, so old.

It strikes me as a pretty decent list. The books on here I've read (maybe 30%) are worthy of recommendation.

People always get offended by lists, I've noticed.
1) End device has ability to display HiDPI images -> Send big

2) End device does not have ability to display HiDPI images -> Send small

Of course, if you have (1), in a low-bandwidth environment, then you actually want the server to send small, even if the device can handle big, but that can be indicated with a different flag.
The fallacy of the “consumer responsibility” argument is the same as the problem with “ideal communism” - it requires pretending humans aren’t humans.
I can already do that with a $200 refurbished iPhone (sales tax included) and some discipline. That would actually be better because I can keep my discipline skills even when I don't use my phone.
The story of the next historical period will be the elision of fear of accountability and "contempt" for the state.
> but it would not be okay for so many ORM people to actually have properly bound SQL in-place.

It's okay... sometimes. But, as what the article is about, more often than not you need to start composing that SQL. SQL does not deal well with composability natively. Which means you need to bring your own solution to work around its limitations.

In theory, you could parse the SQL and build up some kind of AST on which composition could be built. Or, you could write a set of functions in the application language which somewhat resemble SQL, as demonstrated in the article, that build the same AST. It turns out the latter is considerably easier to implement.
They get excellent grades because they make sure the professor feels that they agree with them on political and ideological issues. Be a nice and friendly person, and agree with the academics on their political beliefs and you will get good grades. Knowledge has nothing to do with academic grades.

You could as well have written that you know young people who get excellent grades because they pay the smart kid to do their school papers.
Look, I don't think you would want to produce at the same level. Because of the reason you stated.
It varies a lot by geography. 10% is right for Germany and the Netherlands. Tanzania is pretty cloudy, isn't it? Almost half rain forest and moist forest? Though I'd've expected you'd put the solar farms on the savannah.
There's enough people on the fence for $7500 to matter. Car demand is price elastic.
I was thinking the Augmented Reality Sandbox (https://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~okreylos/ResDev/SARndbox/) but yeah, that too!
They are definitely paying under 2c/TB for traffic though.
Cloud Development Environments: List of Tools and Startups
Enclosure of the Human Pscyhe
I am not sure I meant to reply to you, to be honest. It is an issue but so far the solutions are terrible. Outsourcing parenting to the Government or companies is also meh. I am sure there are parents who know of ways to reduce screen time for their children, it ranges from installing a program that does not let you on a website or start another program until and unless this and that, or take the phone from the kid's hand and go for a walk or study, whatever.
Show HN: Procurement Leads – UN procurement alerts for small businesses
It's more about not having to endure trolls. They can be added to list and then users can decide if they want to subscribe to these lists. We don't have to do it individually and that's a powerful tool to keep the network more respectul
I didn’t say I wanted to take control of anything, or even use the information, I just want to know what the credentials are…

The point is that everyone has information that they would rather not have distributed. To prove the point, you just have to find the right piece of information to ask for. There’s always something that people do, in fact, have to hide.
> American political censorship is fought through culture wars and dubious claims of bias.

What you are describing are social moires and norms. It is not related to political censorship by the government.
this is perfect for a talk I'm giving next week!

However on MacOS I'm getting lots of "need to give permission" popups for mic and screen share, and I'm giving permissions but it keeps popping those errors up
So upriver ph guard station with lime? and methan flaming of drones?
I'm sorry, but decentralized local, distributed (bla bla, web 3.0, blockchain, bla) internet services are just tried, tested, and shit ideas. These things really offer so little improvement at all to most end-users. It's something that's more often than not just built atop nice squishy feelings that nerdy and technical people have. It's all about the beauty of the network structure over a monolithic one. How it's more democratic, and giving people power back. Yet people aren't aren't asking for that and these ideas which can be done do nothing nothing for improving the products in the way they are currently used. No one signed up to Twitter and said "Oh god, I really wish I could run my own Twitter microservice and break up this giant database into some distributed model". The tweets got sent, they received tweets, it didn't matter to them it was centralized and it still doesn't. Decentralizing it can, at best, just reach a point where its advocates can tell these people "hey, it's just as good as it was before", and that's not even taking into account the inevitable teething problems and migration issues that will make that goal incredibly hard to achieve.

1. Is it easier to do in a decentralized manner?
2. Does decentralization improve the end-user product?

You need at least one of these questions to have a "yes" answer to have a shot but every time it's "no" "no"
"the right is god given"

The stupidest thing I've read today
How is any of that relevant when Apple Music pays artists much more than Spotify?
How does the relation of news shows content to ‘reality’ matter?

Even if the announcers were reading complex fan fiction stories they would still need to break it up into tiny chunks.
Looks pretty good, but APIs look more stringly typed and APIs don't look natural, I prefer using SQL expressions with typed references.

The query builder also looks coupled to execution, litdb query builders and aren't coupled to a driver implementation, i.e. they're just used to generate SQL with parameters that could then be executed with any driver.
Indeed. For example, none of those CA in the built-in bundle in my browser ever asked me to trust them, that's how I know they are trustworthy.
ASML – Lithography [video]
I'd say we have a rather good idea about the mechanisms for pain relief from paracetamol. Even Wikipedia has a decent summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Pharmacodynamics
8 years ago, hetzner had no cloud offerings

The dedicated servers still have 20 tb traffic included
Let’s default to being supportive and very careful with being negative.
There was a scene in an X-files episode of a secret meeting in some US city ... under the Skytrain monorail with a train whizzing by.
What likely happened here is that they were raising prices due to increased costs for energy and various other costs, and if they hadn't made this change then they would have had to increase the price more, so relative to that it keeps it cheaper for low-traffic customers - and they just communicated this poorly.
I am more thankful for Free Software (preserving user freedoms) than for Open Source Software (free labour for corporations, screw users), but when it comes to OSS I suppose I am most thankful for SBCL.
Tor needs 200 new WebTunnel bridges to fight censorship
Reading great books has been one of the best experiences of my life. But even as an ardent bibliophile, I can't deny that the medium has several serious shortcomings. Books are often far too long. Their quality is uneven (anyone remember the Wheel of Time series?). In the modern era, the production, marketing, promotion, and review of books has become highly politicized. Internet text - blogs, tweets, etc - has the potential to repair these issues.
I don't get it. Communism is a system, consumer responsibility is individual. Every individual changing their behavior changes the outcome.
Linux, Firefox, curl.

In Ascending order.
Uh, "can you now make a noise" and "can you not make a noise" are very different instructions. Also noting that the plonky xylophone music and voiceover soldier on over where we'd presumably hear the theremin-style tones of 'an oscillator based on the length of the line'.

The overall idea seems cool but I'm not sure how useful it would be outside of demos where you already know the questions to get the answers you want.
Does this affect the Sagan equation?
That has been humanity forever now though
Do they have dedicated servers in US?
It’s all well and good but you really shouldn’t be relying on the user agent string for much more than identifying bots who wish to be known.
Renamable tabs?
Taxing unrealized gains has caused an entrepreneurial exodus in Norway
If you don't know what fascism is or what a Nazi is, then I can't help you.

Those words aren't diluted.

Nazi

A member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party, which controlled Germany from 1933 to 1945 under Adolf Hitler. The body of political and economic doctrines held and put into effect by the Nazis in Germany during that period.

Nazism

Nazism is a form of fascism, with disdain for liberal democracy and the parliamentary system. It incorporates a dictatorship, fervent antisemitism, anti-communism, anti-Slavism, anti-Romani sentiment, scientific racism, white supremacy, social Darwinism, homophobia, ableism, and the use of eugenics into its creed.

Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.

The election was split by 1.7% and the population is very diverse on most issues, and it swings red because we have states with low populations with over-representation. Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, North and South Dakota provide ten senate seats represented by 6 million people (10% of the population would be 34 million), or less than 2%.

Your "99.999%" statement is patently false.

Bluesky does not block or mute people. The users do.

Twitter/X has filtering mechanisms tweaked by Musk to favor his worldview.

Which one is truly enabling free speech, and which one is just a billionaire's hobbyist misinformation platform?

If you come to Bluesky and you're a jerk, you won't find a community that includes people that don't like jerks. You'll only find a community of people that likes jerks. Still open. Still free. No advertisement. No algorithm. You get out of it what you put in.

Kind of like real life.
Without checking, my feeling is a "tariff" is the whole contracted agreement, and a "rate" is a part of it.

An EV electricity tariff might have a cheap night rate, and a more expensive day rate. Another tariff might be entirely variable rate (price changes every hour).

Wiktionary defines a tariff as "A schedule of rates, fees or prices." so I think my feeling is correct.
Is it 1000 photos per album? Or is it max 1000 photos regardless of number of albums? If it is so, how does unlimited albums work in such case?
How to Be a Great Manager
Australians with dual citizenship have an out at least.