skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
some people have to learn the hard way. at least he didn't go to jail!
A link to the docker issue was posted 7 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42646011
That's great, what was it you were worried you couldn't say there?
Ah yeah, makes sense. The docs are misleading.

The tricky thing with DateTime SCD2s vs Date-only SCD2s is that DateTime SCD2s work for identifying what was true for a given click/transaction/ingest time, but doesn't work for identifying what was the final truth associated for a given "business date" such as an "invoice date". That tends to take an ETL or SQL window functions complexity/performance hit. But with streams/CDC, DateTime SCD2s are the easy+clean thing to implement.

Do you use the DateTime the message is received on the target system, or some DateTime from the originating journal/WAL-log?
Their solution is to hardcode a filter that rejects the email if “To:” contains “onmicrosoft.com” and comes from PayPal, this is a very short-term solution, tomorrow it could be a Google Group for example, or directly the target of the scam
Finland is unfortunately a bit of an outlier. I wish the rest of the world would also double down on nuclear.
See https://bleuje.com/animationsite/2024_1/ for a collection of programmatic black and white animations made with https://processing.org/

He publishes the source code on https://github.com/Bleuje/processing-animations-code/tree/ma...
China is absolutely eating the wests lunch when it comes to infrastructure. We need to wake up or we'll find ourselves at a disadvantage that would take generations to come back from.
checkout is one of the few git commands that makes sense to me. I use it a lot, to get back to a known state, after I screw up my working files with other git commands. E.g.

Copy my changed files to a temporary directory.

Delete my working directory.

Checkout the latest version from the repo.

Copy my changed files back.
and this is why I can't read HN at work anymore........

I have increasing confidence that when AIs finally destroy the Internet the delivery vehicle will be the file format that was created, as the Internet itself was, as a form of digital paper.
> meta joke

Is this some kind of…
c'mon, man
Thanks, I edited to clear that up. Yes, I meant hiring his son. I think loliander was explicitly claiming that it impacts their honesty and credibility.

>I'm suggesting that this father may have engaged in nepotism once before, which makes me question his integrity.
Pardon the Interruption
Discussions at the time of the report (305 points, 1 month ago, 240 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42408361
But it doesn't account for embodied energy in imported products.
Lots of minorities have eventually persuaded majorities to follow them - that's how most of history works. A few people think something up - it's not like 60% of the country have the same novel idea at the same time.

> if something doesn’t work for a given period of time (like asking people to quit FB products because X, Y, Z reasons), I move on from that idea.

Those minorities didn't succeed on their first attempt - possibly that has never happened. You should move on from the idea, and try another idea. Do not abandon the goal; lots of first iterations and second ones and nth ones fail. That's how success works, almost every time. There is no success in anything without all those failures.

The quote displays the victim perspective that is guaranteed to end in failure. The idea didn't fail, you did; you failed to make it work, to find the right idea, the right language, the right whatever. The idea and the outcome isn't the weather, something that happens to you. You are the agent, the mover and shaker, or your will certainly fail.
Depending on the website owners or influences there are always things you cannot freely say. Even here on this forum.
I'm not sure I buy this. Meditation can give you distance from the "I" part of the brain but it doesn't seem equivalent to an on-demand GC.
Mathematicians are more interested in the gap in our proof framework.

Like stated in the articles, many "interesting" constants appearing in mathematics feels like obviously irrational. However, proofs that they are irrational have been eluding mathematicians for centuries.

This contrast is seen as a sign that we may be just missing the right mathematical insights. And if we find this insight, we might be able to adapt it to unlock other open problems in mathematics (or computer science?).

This is one of these cases where the path (the new proof framework) is expected to be much more interesting than the initial destination (the fact that yes the Euler constant is irrational, of course).
Why not both?

Plenty of well defended houses burned down this week -- don't underestimate just how fireproof your house needs to be to withstand something like this. And littering everything with fire retardants comes with a whole different set of health and environmental problems.
>What in our economy makes this feasible?

What do you mean "feasible"? It's profitable to sell something for more than it costs to make. If the only companies that offer Oat milk for sale price it at $4 a gallon, that's the price you have to pay to get it.

Meanwhile there are laws around the pricing of Milk, and in my neck of the woods that includes a MINIMUM price.

People wave their hands like "the market" is magic. As long as some consumers are willing to pay $4 a gallon for oat milk, companies will not reduce the price, and plenty of people are willing to pay MORE for oat milk than for cow milk.

If you wonder why nobody starts a company that undercuts the $4 oat milk, the simple answer is that the second you are done spending $1 million on a factory to make cheap oat milk, the producers already in the market drop their price and your business fails. This is why Google Fiber for example struggled. There is no technical reason prices are high. There's just no competition because the current producers are so massive and have such giant war chests that they can just kill your brand new competitive business, and soon your business will be dead and they can slowly ratchet up prices again.

There's also the fact that homemade oat milk is trivial to produce, results in a great product, and is cheaper than even that mythical competitive industry would produce.
> Fengning’s advanced design includes an upper reservoir with a capacity of 45.04 million cubic meters and a lower reservoir holding 71.56 million cubic meters.

A cubic meter of water weighs a tonne. So that’s literally tonnes and tonnes of water.
If he was publishing as far back as the 50's I'm sure he was familiar with the beat writers and probably interacted with them, not to mention his style feels closer to a bridge between the beats and the hippies. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a great document of the transitory era between the two.
Works in Edge's PDF viewer, after exiting the initial mode via the <- in the upper left corner. (If you know how to avoid this being the default, let me know.)
And what is that? Maybe I'm not deep enough into HN to know about this.
Another side effect of the healthcare cost is the liability for the owner/ maintainer of the play space as naturally parents would want to offload the cost of the treatment by seeking a lawsuit.
I have heard some people having luck by switching to a ketogenic diet. Here’s a paper I could find on PubMed about this. Sorry to hear about your friend.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9504425/

Edit: I am not a doctor. My wife is a physician and I spoke to her before posting this.
They just expect it to be someone else's foot. When code is law, they hope to be the judge and jury.
Process improvements can only go that far - register banks, speculative execution, instruction reordering, many execution units and so on use power, but are needed because the processor can be faster, but the memory is still much slower.
Sure - all I'm saying is that they still have a whole lot of building to do, that's all. Reading the headlines it's sometimes easy to think that they're pretty much already there while the current production mix is not all that great yet.
Gotcha, that wasn't clear in your earlier comment.

If someone is unable to get adequate sleep on a 24-hour day due to their circadian rhythm misalignment then I believe this is non-24 even if it's because they wake up too early rather then go to sleep too late when trying to keep 24-hour days.
> Running a shitty business, even an exploitative one, isn’t violence.

You know, it just hit me: the issue here might just be a semantic one, where people feel the need to lump very unacceptable and wrong actions into the category of "violence," because of the consensus belief that violence is almost always wrong.

There are things that are as unacceptable and wrong as violence but are not violence.
I think they call that GitHub.
Dinner before 4pm, wow. How much time is that before you lie down?

I'm in the midst of a reflux episode so this is definitely something, but 4-5 hours between final meal and bed is a lot of time. Regardless, glad you found something that works and thanks for sharing.
> Slave labor is the labor of a slave. Removing the labor does not remove the slavery.

What is happening in California is indentured servitude. I consider that to be a form of slavery. The labor is precisely what makes it slavery.

> How do you distinguish incarceration from slavery?

The compulsory uncompensated labor.

If prisoners received a fair wage and work was optional then I would have no objection. But they don’t receive a fair wage and working is not optional. Thus the prisoners are enslaved.
'Serverless' has it's uses, but not for everything

- Serverless can get very expensive
- DevEx is less than stellar, can't run a debugger
- Vendor lock-in
- You might be forced to update when they stop supporting older runtime versions
After living in China for 10 years and experiencing true suppression of freedom of speech, the desire of many here in America to silence others in the name of curbing "misinformation" is wild to me. I have no desire to replicate what they have in China here in America. Free speech is a precious thing on this planet. The only acceptable solution to speech one doesn't like or agree with is more free speech. Silencing people that you don't agree with is not something anyone should support.
I genuinely don't understand what happened to HN. When did curiosity, hypothetical discussion, and an interest in solving problems with technology become a source of derision and insecurity? Are you on the right forum?
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TikTok plans to shut down US site unless Supreme Court strikes law forcing sale
This is a very myopic take on things.

> dictate truth

What about the damage done by the millions of lies that people post on the platform to spread their bigoted agendas? What about how these platforms' algorithms ostensibly promote hatred and shocking material?

Just look at the Rohingya massacre [0] and tell me you're OK with it.

[0] https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/09/myanmar-faceb...
I consume on social platforms, rather than creating. I was growingly aware of the platform's bias on the content I saw and opted out for reality (as close as one can get to it, anyway). The changes this week are a step in the right direction as other viewpoints are more possible, let alone tolerated.
Seems like a normal and expected parental relationship to me. I would be suspect of the fathers that didn't do so.
Original source was posted yesterday (10 points, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42633678

Although this news has been floating around for a while Elon Musk Says He's a Global Top 'Diablo 4' Player, and It's Actually True (9 points, 2 months ago, 10 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083992
First, I'm confused. I wrote in the GP:

> Why didn't Biden do something immediately

You quoted:

> Why did Biden do something immediately...?

?

To the issue at hand:

> the Democratic Party's core constituency wanted to get out of power, and stay out. That's far less work, and doesn't require them to venture out of their own little well-to-do ideological bubble.

That is a great insight. My way of seeing (what I think is) the same thing is the Dems want to stay in their safe place. James Carville wrote an opinion piece recently saying the Dems need to focus on the economy more. Lol - it's always 1992 to them.

What the Dems demonstrate is not only that they are completely ineffective at dealing with today's problems, they are scared to even acknowledge and confront them. 'Vote for us if you want to hide in your safe place as long as you can.'

> In '72, Nixon was re-elected with over sixty percent of the popular vote.

That is widely believed to be for other reasons, the political divide of the country and the weakness of the Dem candidate.
We use a camera in our daughter's nursery to see whether she's going to fall asleep (if protesting a nap/bed time after laying her down) or whether she's standing in her crib/too wound up. We also use it to keep track of whether she's woken up if we're out in the yard. I do actually have the ability to access it over the Internet through wireguard, but that's something I never need. LAN access suffices.

IoT is a marketing term. Networked devices don't necessarily need to use the Internet, and indeed most of the time there isn't even a use-case. You're going to open your garage while you're at the store?

Honestly I don't see the use-case for almost any IoT thing though. It mostly seems like gimmicks (color changing/dimming lights) or adding unnecessary complications that make it less secure and more failure prone so that someone can sell you a service (a cloud app for your garage instead of a remote/keypad, an app for your door instead of a key).
Same. I have Instagram and Threads accounts, but I tried to get Facebook back about 5 years after deleting it and immediately got asked for ID and then was banned with no appeal possible. I guess they take deleting your account very personally.
Part of the pushback is because they are still dictating what you can say except for some very particular exceptions which give away their true intentions. You're still not allowed to call someone mentally ill as an insult, unless you're doing it homophobically or transphobically, in which case it's now explicitly allowed.

https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lf72fz3fas22

If they'd removed that rule altogether then it could be handwaved as merely "free speech absolutism", for better or worse, but officially stating that certain minorities are acceptable targets of abuse that's otherwise forbidden is something else entirely.
Had never heard of Highfleet but it looks pretty awesome!

Plus, I grew up playing MicroProse games in the early to mid 1990s so wild to see that they are still around and making great content.

I also loved this quote from the reviews:

"A typical Microprose game in that you need to a) immerse yourself in it and b) READ THE GOSH DANG MANUAL in order to have any hope of enjoying it." [0]

0 - https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197989787811/recomm...
You say mainland Europe, were you on a smaller island somewhere?
It’s 12 units, 300 MW each so 3.6 GW, not 36 GW.
While we're thinking about it, Vitamin D3 and K2-mk-7 are known to be helpful in that regard.
Woven City seems to be more successful than Masdar City. Masdar City explicitly aims to be a model of sustainability while Woven City uses sustainability as a means to achieve broader goals. I believe that Masdar City could have navigated the 2008 and 2020 financial crises more efficiently had they been more flexible about the expectations (which have yet to be realized). There is a subtle irony in trying to brute-force sustainability.
No, no folk remedies or bio-hacking or wearing magnets on your head will help, unfortunately.
Retrofitting effect handlers onto OCaml [pdf]
Directly support as the commenter I was replying to was implying. Europe is not barely holding back Russia. Ukraine is. Article 5 would be invoked and the NATO states would decide what support to send. Greece and Turkey fighting over some islands isn't the same as the strongest nation in the world annexing its neighbours. There would be broad public support in Europe to oppose the U.S. simply on principle, let alone the security concerns.
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It's not typically included in the production figures. You only consider the emissions from production.
I don't think that's right - at least, not with a fixed-rate mortgage.

When we bought our first house, our mortgage was more than rent. But within two years, it was less - rent kept going up, and our mortgage didn't.

Um, I guess I should back up a step. I'm assuming that you have to live somewhere. So the choice (for most of us) is between buying and renting, not between dropping $500,000 on a house and investing $500,000 in the stock market. Our choice is actually whether to drop, say, $50,000 on a down payment and take on a mortgage, or drop $50,000 in the stock market and keep on renting.

So to me, buying a house that I live in is a way of buying back the rent money. Yes, I pay interest on it. Yes, I also have to do maintenance and pay property tax. But when I rent, that money is gone. Whereas if I buy, that money is still gone as far as my budget is concerned, but after 30 years I own the house.

Now inflation enters the picture. I payed $50,000 down for a house that was worth $500,000, instead of dropping it in the stock market. Now, say, 10% of inflation happens. In the stock market, I would now own stocks worth $60,000. But instead, I own a house worth $600,000 (with a $450,000 mortgage). So the mortgage let me reap the gains of inflation on money that I borrowed.
I still do this sometimes, but I occasionally unintentionally torture myself by programming pretty late and then trying to fall asleep 15m later. I'll sleep, it's not restful at all. There needs to be some period to let brain activity decrease before falling asleep.
You couldn't use a secondary or business email account to sign up?
GLP-1 receptor agonists cause 98% increased risk of psychiatric disorders
There are more cups made out of paper in the world that any other material [0]. Ergo, paper makes the strongest, longest lasting cups.

He's a member of ISO C WG14. I'm hoping it's satire.

[0] I made that up. I hope it's true. The AI's agree it's likely true.
Clippy AI: Hey, it looks like you’re writing a letter FOR WORK >:-(
Opting for community notes rather than provably biased fact-checkers is akin to massacre, got it.
Ah, I see! That helps a ton, thanks for the tip!
The initial statement was about power generation, not sure if it is of value to mention in this context all the other sources of carbon (of which imported products is one, but not the only one).
I hope this doesn't sound too crazy, but you know how actionable advice about habit creation tells us to remove as much friction as possible and just start the task with a small step? I'd like to suggest a button that says: 'Or just send a hug to the future.'

I get the idea, but it's a bit too negative for my current frame of mind, personally. I do love how straightforward your copy is, though. Nice job!
Interesting!

Something neat I found, you're able to 'clip' the blocks into each other by spinning them right before the block settles.
I applaud the tutorial, but even so it's easier said than done. I deleted mine maybe 10 years ago, before they offered a hard delete option, so all you had to do to un-delete it was log in. Then, Comcast email (yes I used a Comcast email when i created my FB account in like 2008, whatever) got owned and so too did my facebook account. I started getting texts from friends the other week saying my account was alive and posting crypto scams. No way to recover it, since the email was gone. All the account recovery options (even though they have my current email) led to the same void, so now I'm permanently locked out. Facebook is scum of the earth.
7th flight test of Starship is preparing to launch as soon as Monday, January 13
Fosdem in Brussels is free. But that might still be far away for you?
Find a clinical trial you can get them into.
This is pretty much how it works at every school I've ever attended. It ended up driving me towards "hacking" by writing a bunch of scripts to register as fast as possible, taught me some basic networking in the challenges I faced while doing that, and occasionally grabbed me a seat in a class I normally wouldn't have. However, I think a lot of other students in CS were also doing similar, because it would never make sense how stuff could fill as fast as they did. As a result, sometimes I would have to beg to be allowed to take a graduate level course to fill a requirement, just because it had seats. Ended up working out for me, as one of those graduate professors ended up offering me a job in my 2nd to last quarter, but I wouldn't be surprised if such overloaded systems just brutally sabotage people's entire education.
CO2 is a major hazard, but of all the ideas listed and that I've read elsewhere, it does seem to have the most potential when the hazards are managed. That and tarps (instead of throwing them on the fire, perhaps laying them down to create strategic barriers to the spread of the fire).

But it's undoubtedly a very hard engineering challenge. Some of the photos of the fire show the flames dwarfing the planes used to drop retardant.
I'm amazed that any technically proficiet user would EVER buy/connect such a device.

Really, it's baffling.

I do have a fairly large Samsung TV, but I would NEVER EVER connect it to the internet. HDMI only is the way to go, with your own device driving the interface. I basically use it as a monitor, even when watching video.

The trend in life seems to follow the trend in s/w development: there seems to be an effort to maximize external dependancies.

This isn't going to end well...
The '90s weren't that great
It's a powerful Ask HN though. This is deeply touching.
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I'll keep trying to explain it to you: you cannot take the square of a price.

If my Yuan exchange rate example didn't convince you, let's have a few thoughts experiments:

- let say you can do can do some amount of work for less than $1 (maybe even factoring a 512 bits number) let's call that amount of work X, and you do it for say $0.9. Do you think you can do X² work for price^2, which is $0.81 ? Yes, much more work for less than the price of doing X, isn't that magical?

- a hard drive with 1TB of storage costs $40. Do you think you can have 1 Yottabyte (10^12 squared is 10^24) of storage for just $1600?

There's a reason to all these paradoxes, it simply makes no sense to take the square of a sum of money, because you can't pay it in square dollars.
Did your friend get genetic sequencing done on his tumor. There are some recent promising results for braf mutated gbm
My dad lasted ten weeks after diagnosis. If I get it I'll put my ducks in a row and exit intentionally, rather than raging against the dying of the light. Fighting it is great if your friend is up for it, and it's a way for you to show your love. But listen carefully and don't force it.
UL tests electrical products for safety.

It isn't a mark of quality, or of fitness for purpose.

It does mean that the device(s) submitted for testing are unlikely to burn your house down, though.