skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I keep a physical notebook and have a habit of writing down ideas as they enter my brain, as well as struggles and pain points with things as I encounter them. I never lack for ideas for great projects.

The two most important aspects of this (for me) are: all ideas get written down immediately; and I do not make any judgement about the quality of the ideas/thoughts that get written down. At least, not in the moment. Assessing the value of the ideas comes later, when I'm mining through the notebook.
It's a rapidly depreciating asset, but an asset nonetheless and its core function is useful.
A relative of mine runs a motorcycle school and that's what originally got me into it. While bikes are dangerous, a regrettably high percentage of the accidents are things that were completely avoidable if safe and defensive driving practices were used. In my subjective opinion it's a completely separate mindset you need to develop and the minimum required program simply does not come anywhere close to that. As the saying goes, on a bike it's only a matter of when you fall, not if, so all the gear all the time.
really cool. On mobile devices, I would suggest inverting his movement So that he matches the way someone scrolls with their finger.
users of dark reader: the buddy is invisible if you have dark mode turned on
There's more information in one of the linked articles [1]. Apparently some very small percentage of Rh-negative people have an enzyme which allows them to accept Rh-positive blood; that's the "anti-D" factor which saves these lives.

[1] https://www.lifeblood.com.au/blood/learn-about-blood/plasma/...
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Yeah it seems to me like academia is dead in basically every sense. Not just internally as you describe but also in the culture. People just don’t value learning anymore, the romantic image is fading. And now there’s no distinction being academia and industry in the sense that even vocations need a degree now, most people have an experience of university that is far removed from traditional academia, again giving it a pure economic focus. We’ll see what happens but I do feel like the last 20 years has seen a steep decline in the cultural value of academia, and as you point out, a strong professionalising of academia
The absurd thing is that Apple pioneered searching settings in early MacOS. You type your query and a spotlight effect shined on the corresponding Preferences Panel for the selected candidate of your search results. Hence why Spotlight was called that originally.
Do you know the nature of the axe that she grinds? It's important to determine the kind of salt pairing.

Often times people have grievances against systems because they aren't doing a good job achieving their aims or there's big injustice/corruption. Sometimes people take an ego wound from something and it causes them to be overly uncharitable or dishonest for revenge.

The meme that permeates from academia about publishing quantity being more important than quality has me believing it can't be all ego wound. There's problems there.
Do you mean the Pleiades?
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What differentiates a status-symbol car from a Miata?
> think what you mean is that "law and order" is usually applied to poor criminals

No, I mean the “order” bit of law and order pertains to the criminal effects. The Wikipedia article has a good reference to examples of order without law.

The law has been suspended. But we have no evidence of resulting criminality. If and when that criminality occurs, that is the breakdown of order.
If we're moving the goalposts to the 1950's, why not instead compare the 1920's to now? Hey why not the 1880's?

My point is that pareto distributions ("inequality") are not some evil to be eliminated, they're the direct memetic outcome of how humans work.

We can of course cut all the tall poppies to make everyone equal, but that's just cutting off your nose to spite one's face.

Allowing inequality to exist is why average Americans are the wealthiest people on the planet. Turns out all those tall poppies drive the productivity gains that accrue to all of us (hence why we've gone from near-zero Americans holding passports to 50% of people during the same time frame that inequality has increased).

I know, it doesn't fit with the narrative you have in your head so I won't convince you otherwise.
> Xbox 360 and PS3 emulators are still borderline unusable on my new-ish PC.

This is unfortunate as a decade ago Microsoft had an internal emulator for Xbox 360 that ran at near native speed.

I am curious if that emulator is what it used to play Xbox360 games on newer x64 based Xbox models, or if they are using a different code base.

Either way, technically it is possible for the experience to be good!
> Synagro has denied that its fertilisers have harmed the health of farmers or livestock and is contesting the lawsuit.

Sign of the times. Deny, deny, deny, and maybe all the people suing you will die or run out of money.
Inline objects is a huge hit that hopefully gets solved soon.

But I'd posit that one programming pattern enabled by a GC is concurrent programming. Java can happily create a bunch of promises/futures, throw them at a thread pool and let that be crunched without worrying about the lifetimes of stuff sent in or returned from these futures.

For single threaded stuff, C probably has java beat on memory and runtime. However, for multithreading it's simply easier to crank out correct threaded code in Java than it is in C.

IMO, this is what has made Go so appealing. Go doesn't produce the fastest binaries on the planet, but it does have nice concurrency primitives and a GC that makes highly parallel processes easy.
A two-tiered "justice" system on steroids. This case began in 2023 [0], where the guy was allegedly wash-trading and secretly buying testimonials.

> It had come a shock to them... no, he corrected himself, it had come as a an affront to learn that [Policeman] Vimes operated on a different map. Apparently he’d instructed his men to use the front door when calling on any building, even in broad daylight, when sheer common sense said that they should use the back, just like any other servant.*

> * William' class understood that justice was like coal or potatoes. You ordered it when you needed it.

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> has anyone found a good free alternative that actually works well?

Free? No. But cloud storage comes bundled with so many services now that I don't feel the need for another discreet one.

We already pay for an annual Office 365 plan and it comes with 6 terabytes of free cloud storage for our family which is more than enough! And more storage than you get for a basic paid Dropbox account that costs more!
I agree, but with one amendment: most tenure-track roles in the US will have 50 to 200 applicants for a single position. Over the last few decades, tenure lines have decreased while PhD admissions have not. Adjuncts do so much of the teaching at all kinds of institutions these days.
My first PhD advisor was German, and he introduced me to LAMY pens. Everyone in our lab was given a hardcover notebook and a LAMY pen, and there were plenty of ink cartridges that we could use. I don’t use fountain pens these days, preferring pencil instead, but I remember how nice those pens were.

While I’m on the topic of German stationery, I regularly use my Staedtler eraser and pencil sharpener.
A simple, manual backup would be fine I think. You can just put an "upload" or "backup to cloud" button to allow user push a full version with timestamp to S3.

Synchronization may introduce a lot more problems, especially when you want to automatically sync the database to some other place. You will need to deal with sync errors, inconsistency, version conflicts, rollbacks...

If your users could accept that, a simple full version backup is the best solution.
The light source uses a lot of power to produce those few hundreds of watts of radiation
if everyone's expecting a market crash and prepared for it (that means it should already be priced in), how can there still end up being a crash? seems counter intuitive.
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Okay. I know these guys IRL. BUT, I genuinely think they have the best music model out there. Hands down. The songs are just more unique, and have a wider range of musical variation. With Suno/Udio, the songs just sounds the same after a while (just with different lyrics).

That could just be me though. I am curious what users of Udio/Suno think?
Author here.

Agreed — I think adding some comparisons to other database partitioning strategies would be helpful.

My 2 cents, specifically about manually partitioning Postgres/MySQL (rather than using something like Citus or Vitess):

SQLite-on-the-server works similarly to Cassandra/DynamoDB in how it partitions data. The number of partitions is decoupled from the number of databases you're running, since data is automatically rebalanced for you. If you're curious, Dagster has a good post on data rebalancing: https://dagster.io/glossary/data-rebalancing.

With manual partitioning, compared to automatic partitioning, you end up writing a lot of extra complex logic for:

- Determining which database each piece of data lives on (as opposed to using partitioning keys which do that automatically)

- Manually rebalancing data, which is often difficult and error-prone

- Adding partitions manually as the system grows

- (Anecdotally) Higher operational costs, since matching node count to workload is tricky

Manual partitioning can work fine for companies like Notion, where teams are already invested in Postgres and its tooling. But overall, I think it introduces more long-term problems than using a more naturally partitioned system.

To be clear: OLTP databases are great — you don’t always need to reach for Cassandra, DynamoDB, or SQLite-on-the-server depending on your workload. But I do think SQLite-on-the-server offers a really compelling blend of the developer experience of Postgres with the scalability of Cassandra.
What does competence have to do with anything here?

Certain people are not fit to be leaders, because they have abusive personality disorders; unfortunately many of them currently are in leadership positions.
The transition btw two songs demo is super cool! I often need to do this when editing videos but used to have no way to do it.

Not to mention that now you can have playlists that transition seamlessly btw two songs. Low-cost party DJ?
The usual case I run in to is that a site will block requests with User-Agent header strings that don't at least try to look like a regular browser, or that appear on some list of known bots/automation tools. (If they are using Cloudflare, this is a very easy state for a site to get in to.) I'm not sure if GH actions lets you customize the user agent in the spot you're hitting the issue, but that's where I'd start.
Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics
I think it's a bit more complicated. Returning partial content seems to be a valid response according to the spec. But the Content-Range and Content-Length headers shown in Chrome DevTools are clearly wrong, they should indicate what is actually returned. So I still think there's a small bug in how Chrome handles this, but solving this bug wouldn't help the author, as it's still the responsibility of OpenDAL to fix handling partial content on their side.
It looks like the war in Ukraine should be beneficial to the United States. We send some surplus equipment and ramp up ammo production (jobs!) while weakening a prominent geopolitical adversary all without spilling American blood.

Letting Ukraine fall will embolden Russia who will continue their march across Europe until it is necessary to spill American blood.

Similarly we may not have a choice in Taiwan. Japan and The Philippines at least aren’t keen to have an emboldened imperialist China in their backyards. If they intervene US aid at least will be in our best interest.

Isolationism is not a guaranteed ideal strategy in all situations. Looking only at boondoggles like Vietnam, Iraq 2, and Afghanistan doesn’t mean all US intervention is harmful to the national interest.
Not much of a partition if it's on what is essentially an opaque unique key.
That’s not really how war works.

A regional conflict over Taiwan is highly unlikely to result in ICBMs headed for NYC and DC, because China knows that’s effectively the end of modern China. And sinking carriers would also be a very risky escalation given the ability of the US and other allies to retaliate.

I do think you’re right that Taiwan will ultimately lose without much warfare, because Trump is a world-class coward and rolls over for every autocrat who looks in his direction.
>Are suggesting that's what's going on now?

Yes.

>Because it sure doesn't look like that at all, it looks like lack of supply to meet people's needs

That is certainly the propaganda line that is being pushed in order to eventually justify public subsidies for builders. The shortage of affordable housing is commonly conflated with a mythical shortage of physical housing. There is a shortage of affordable housing because residential valuations have risen out-of-step with everything (including wage growth and inflation) except the desired ROI of the securities that they underlie. This is what we get when homes are more valuable as assets than domiciles, which, again, is emphatically not what they were in the modern past (even at the top end; robber baron palaces were not built as wealth stores so much as prestige amplifiers; they were not the investment (i.e., meant to be aold or borrowed against), but multipliers for the actual investment (one's social standing and influence). They often only left the family at a loss.).

We don't need a massive amount of new housing. But I agree that the solution will involve, for once, throwing homeowners rather than homeseekers under the bus.
Didn't they get more independence with Brexit?

Regarding the immigration, sure, the Conservative voters maybe want less of it, but rich and influential Tories actually like immigration as it allows their businesses to thrive (even more). The UK has more capital going around than her own people.
I think the ability to steer a potentially-immortal "legal entity" with capabilities that an individual citizen doesn't have, and that has zero existence outside what what we collectively will into existence via the government, is definitely a privilege.

But yes, there's also a strong argument in favor of transparency here because it's a good, pro-social idea. My argument is more a counter to folks crying that their liberty's being stepped on or whatever. Government creates corporations, we can have it do what we want with/to them, some moral argument against our at least being able to know who the hell's benefiting from these creations of our government is somewhere in "not even wrong" territory.
Some people enjoy the aesthetics, the design of the car - they can be quite beautiful! Some enjoy the engineering - it can be challenging to squeeze so much performance out and still meet environmental requirements. Some enjoy them for the tuning and personal work they can put in to make it their own. Others like it as a status symbol - a recognition of the hard work they put in and what they accomplished. Some like it for the moment to moment feel of being pressed into the seat and the sounds it makes.

There are a lot of reasons to enjoy a sports car. It'll be something I almost certainly never do myself, but I can definitely see the appeal.
I'm the author of the post.

I'm not sure Chrome's current caching behavior is helpful because the second response does not indicate which part of the data is returned. So, the application has no choice but to discard the data.

But thank you for your comments. This helped me to crystalize why I think this is a bug.
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What kind of chocolate ? :) (humor)
The Switch is a mainstream-ish ARM system. IIRC it maps really well to Apple's M system.
This won't age well. 100 ?
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It becomes self-fulfilling, no? Like a bank run started by a rumor.

More money flowing away from the market into safe(r) investments than flowing in causes valuations to plummet.
There are two subtleties here that MBA/Finance bros always miss out on brain teasers. First subtle point is that it makes no difference at all in which order you do the mixing, if additional cooling of milk for two minutes while it is still in the refrigerator is also taken into account, for the second option.

The other even more subtle point is that temp (unlike pressure) doesn't equilibrate instantaneously, as is assumed in the second option. It is a diffusive process which follows a complicated parabolic partial differential, equation, whose solution will determine the final temp of the tea+milk+partial adiabatic convection cooling of the cup. It took Fourier a detour through Complex numbers to figure it out.

I find all LLMs do quite well when presented with a well poised engineering/physics/chemistry problems with well defined parameters, including relativistic or second order effects. The confusion/hallucination is mostly imparted on them by user's lack of sophistication in articulation, or computational limitations.
The criticism is pretty specific: she has an axe to grind about string theory holding back fundamental physics and projects this onto all of science. One need only watch her videos to notice this.

Another simple observation: her rant videos receive millions of views while her others receive significantly less. It doesn't take much speculation to see that an intelligent person that genuinely believes her own rant would prefer the output that also gives the most financial rewards
I am really curious about the conversations that will be had if or when they seriously propose to any of their banking and finance customers that they Webify excel for windows.

(Though, going on recollection from past Q&As the excel devs have done, a more fundamental issue is that few people working they fully understand how COM works, and they are getting fewer)
> not aware of any language that provides this out-of-the-box, unfortunately.

Smalltalk has this. Class "Symbol".
Depends on who is more advanced in terms of weapons. If we're more advanced, we will wipe them out. If they are more advanced, we will try to co-exist.