skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow. The 8 seconds is Twitch?! Yikes.

I am unfortunately completely ignorant of how you actually send data to Twitch, but can you use H264? It has an "ultra-low latency" mode.

Edit: Hmm, you're on OBS. Maybe you could stream using some uncompressed low-latency option from OBS to ffserver, then reencode on ffserver to low-latency H264. Alternatively, you could use ffmpeg with its X11 capture option, pointed at eg Xvfb.
Biggest question: why?

At that scale something like Ceph would be more reasonable. Just because ZFS can handle those filesystem sizes doesn't necessarily mean that it's the best tool for the job. There's a reason why all big players like Google, Amazon and Facebook go for the horizontal scaling approach.
I used to go out in the morning to a local Starbucks and do email and planning tasks plus also get some social interaction. That worked really well for staring the day with a clear boundary.

At the end of the day I'd walk up to the train station (through a park) to meet my wife, so I'd have a clear boundary on both ends of my day. It worked really well while I lived there. Now I'm in a small town and it's a bit harder to do something similar.
You are right that compensation is uneven in every industry. You are also right I am generalizing a bit too much.

My main point, though, is more that in tech/finance it is very possible for compensation to be (largely) commensurate with leveraged value-add. Whereas in professions like teaching and firefighting, it is simply impossible.
Making a steep change can be a good way to break into better self-control.

I loved not having a phone for a while, then used a tablet for a few things that were more convenient by app than website, in addition to a PAYG Nokia in case of emergency (in the car, or at home where I have no landline) and eventually bought a cheap smartphone in Amazon's prime day sale to combine those two functions.

But the result is that I use my 'phone' like a tabket: it's never in my pocket, and it functions as a phone only ICE. I'm not sure I'd have done that and stuck to it if the transition had been direct from daily 'normal' smartphone use. I was never 'addicted' any more than the average person, I've never been into Snapchat et al., but I suppose I was close enough to notice and harbour distaste for that trend.
So Hutchins was doing freelance development on the side and it got used for a hack. If you sell someone a gun and they go shoot someone, does the seller go to court over it?
People have suggested that the manifesto's author is autistic. If this is true, then it is very possible that if you are not familiar with how autistics' think you will not be able to judge his mental state based on the emotional tone of his writing.
Blame autocorrect. But you get my point: doesn't have to be the HBS class; could be the HBS professors; or 100 bankers with 20-years experience each. Point being, there's got to be a better explanation for CEO pay than ROI on their services.
The whole Indonesian peninsula was a vast regional paradise before the great flood of 10,000 years ago, so much evidence is underwater.
Before phones and tablets were a thing, kids would usually be drawing or colouring something.

I think there is something different with mobile devices though, I've seen kids using iPads before and they barely manage a couple of minutes in one app or game before they switch out to another. I really how this sort of behaviour is going to manifest when they grow up, are we heading for a generation with zero patience and attention span? I see it even in adults these days.

One thing I got really good at as a kid was being patient. When waiting for an appointment, I'll usually sit there and wait without staring at a screen. It's nice to have a few minutes to just do nothing.
Any reason to not consider switching to remote work and minimizing office space, or have you already done that?
I have spent a lot of years working on changing myself. My default preference is to focus first on what I have the most immediate control over.

A) I think it is debatable whether or not it is easier than changing the world.

B) For things like sexism (racism, etc), there comes a point past which the world needs to change if your life is to have any hope of actually improving.
I ain't buying it. I don't know the concrete person, that's a fact.

I spent my younger years in much more social jobs compared to programming in cubicles (thank the gods I work remotely for 5+ years now) and out of probably 200+ men I've heard joking about horrible wife and kids, I can assure you no more than 5 were really joking. And I don't mean offhand conversations -- I am talking about people who I've chatted with between midnight and 4 AM. (It was a job with wildly varying schedules)

"Joke" in the marital context usually means "I am too scared to confront my wife so I'll pretend I am light-hearted and make-believe I am just joining the popular marital jokes club -- while secretly I am hating every second of my home life".

Sorry for cynicism. It's what I found during my whole life. Anecdotal evidence for sure but, my $0.02.
it's up, propagation should take a minute
I don't really have much of a need for garbage collection, but I did investigate strong/weak references (which I would probably prefer over garbage collection). See http://wiki.tcl.tk/41605. That's the best I could do with my limited knowledge of the Tcl internals. My suspicion at the time was that if the Tcl core team really wanted to implement strong/weak references, then they would probably be able to come up with a proper way of doing that. And if they could do that they could do garbage collection. But I don't really know ...
Nap with headphones on and play low tranquil music. This issue is mental and not physical, since what you describing is you noticing a strong heartbeat, its a good thing, your stroke volume is good.
Boarding passes used to be on glossy cardstock with preprinted designs and lots of color. Now they're basically thermal printed on receipt paper because it's cheaper.

Depending on your airline and class of travel, sometimes you can still get a nice boarding pass.
Apparently this concept is not even believed by the majority of people on this thread if you read the whole thing.

I originally stated that for loops and HO functions are equivalent and this entire thread consists of people disputing that statement. You're the one dude telling me that what I'm saying is old news and totally obvious. I'm not sure if you realize it, but we're on the same side.

As a side note, the equivalency between recursion and for loops is not limited to tail recursion. Recursion itself in all computing languages is implemented using a stack. So all recursion is equivalent to a for loop + a stack. This has been long known ever since programming languages utilized something called a call stack.
Why is DEFUN-INLINE used over:

(declaim (inline (setf vref)))
(defun (setf vref) (new-value chip x y)
(setf (aref (chip-video chip) (+ (* +screen-width+ y) x))
new-value))
They're not really contradictory. A 9 to 5 day can easily turn into 4 hours of real work. Show up, eat breakfast, spend some time reading HN, an hour of work, lunch, an hour or two working, grab coffee, play some foosball, another hour of work, go to the gym, time to go home!
Besides ad-based sites, some of the sites that I've seen scroll-jack the worst are small hip restaurants. To some degree Facebook and Yelp have started to make restaurant sites irrelevant but I still end up clicking through frequently for the most up-to-date menu.
Yes, traditionally the interpreter was located there. However, there is no "original machine". CHIP-8 was originally designed as a virtual machine for portability, similar to Java.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHIP-8
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14918928
This holds the promise of being able to call a car in the foyer and being delivered directly into your own home in a residential building; directly into the reception of the business you're visiting or working in; or directly door-to-door, business to business within the same building.

It would be really cool in a hospital. No matter how well a hospital is laid out (and many aren't), some patient flows are bottlenecked by the next required treatment or investigation step not being adjacent. To be able to unload a trauma patient from an ambulance in ED and have the same door in the Resus Room lead almost directly to Radiology; Operating Room; or Intensive Care as required would be a time and life saver ...
From emailoctopus.com

> We've helped over 10,000 businesses send over 1.6 billion emails

And you say

> we send around 150m emails a month

Assuming m to Million, your usage is atleast 10% of all emails that emailoctopus.com has ever sent, so you must be like 1 of their top 10 customers.

Wow.

What do you guys do that requires you to send 150 million emails a month? Not trolling, just curious.
The funny thing is that programming has become more male-dominated as it has become more social. Programmers once worked alone, in their own offices, coding quietly with occasional references to manuals. Now programmers are expected to work on laptops alongside other workers, constantly interact with others both on line and off line, and be active on at least LinkedIn, GitHub, and Slack.

We're missing something here.
> but I never realized how versatile layouts can be so easily made on paper.

Until you need to change them.

It's significantly easier to change formatting on a typed
document than handwritten.
Scientists made people turn off notifications for day, saw an effect years later
…what?
Nobody is going to call it multi if this takes off. It will be called a multivator.

They better come up with a good naming system for getting to lateral destinations.
Maybe there are more neurotic women because neurotic men kill themselves at a rate of 1.8x more than women?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_differences_in_suicid...

Or maybe women are more neurotic because they need to put up with this kind of shit at the workplace.
If a Google employee ever does get punched in the face by a fellow employee, he could use this line in a lawsuit alleging that Google has created a hostile workplace. A jury might not see this line as hyperbole. It was inconsiderate for this former senior Google employee to put his company in legal jeopardy.
Thousands minimally; soon tens of thousands.
Perhaps a 50:50 split is unrealistic, but what about a 70/30 split? Representation is terrible across the board, with many universities seeing 10% female enrollment. People seem to come up with small reasons why 50:50 might be unreachable and use that as justification for halting change.
Some studies make it quite clear that parents treat boys and girls different from the get go and even outright interpret identical behaviors differently depending on the gender of the child. Recent HN discussion about that, with citation:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14875643
I think you misunderstood, I work for EmailOctopus. Sorry for the confusion.
Less typing/reading.
I'd say it's as much history as cooking food over a fire. Modern cooking appliances make it easier/more practical but there's nothing quite like a good BBQ...

:)

Have you got a BBQ? My answer to such a question, following some clumsy digging in my kitchen and backyard, is increasingly no. Sometimes, embarrassment giving way to defensiveness, I wonder why anyone bothers to ask. For years a “fire” has sufficed for my cooking of food; it’s months since I chargrilled some meat. Presented with a gas hob, more and more super markets point me to ready meals to cook with my microwave. (I worry that the content of my burger bears no resemblance to real ingredients, but on the flip side—ha! flip!—I’ve begun losing all sense of what that indication of my insides might look like.)
Or, as a recently bought out/retired colleague remarked, "My job now consists of being home all day and trying not to piss off my wife" - a much harder endeavor than any engineering project I can think of.
Things are a little bit more nuanced than 'everything is a string', since you can create types that are other things. I think this comment gets at that in a fairly accurate way:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14943844
Special thanks to Nickolas Younker (at LiquidWeb) for saving my behind and getting this all set up.
I think it's mostly focused on short-term living (digital nomads). It may be worth contacting the creator on Twitter. I'm sure it's not the first time he's had that type of request.
tldr: TV is bad because it is a time-suck and there are much better uses of my time like switching to an archaic, time-wasting (my opinion) method of playing music with a method that involves having to (quoting him about the difficulty of records): "[remove] the dust it [the record] easily collects, as well as cleaning the stylus [...] Records have 2 sides, each containing a little over 20 minutes worth of music, so you have to flip them. Some albums take up 2 or even 3 records."

Yeah, the above is a little snotty, and if TV was becoming a problem for him and removing it was the only way he could keep himself from wasting too much time on it, fine. But linking that process to taking up vinyl (for unexplained reasons) is a strange turn at the end of the post.
According to this chapter from "You are not so smart" https://cassiopaea.org/forum/index.php?topic=26063.0 , a lot of people do freeze...
What is the opposite of autism?

If I had to guess, it'd be the extravert. The social butterfly, life of the party, comedian. The one who wins all the popularity contests and the weekly sales competitions. The person who finds math (and any math-related technical field) to be arcane and impenetrable but has all the business class profs eating out of his/her hand.
Regarding the interpretation of

> It's chemical rockets, nukes or a space elevator. At least given known physics.

He's giving a series of 3 things that he's asserting are viable given known physics, so the second two are alternatives to the first. Would it make more sense to you with an Oxford comma? E.g.

> It's chemical rockets, nukes, or a space elevator. At least given known physics.

Are you interpreting the nukes/elevator as sub types of chemical rockets? That might be written (counterfactually) as

> It's chemical rockets: nukes or a space elevator. At least given known physics.
Sounds like love and respect are long gone from that "relationship".
Tell that to Microsoft, and how many people they are still planned to layoff on the way. Company is going to survive, even continue to prosper, but they will trim the fat and relaunch itself someday in the future as all the companies do.
A good way to convey perspective:

http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/iamges/sub11/true-size-of-a...

Of course, the more distant an object is, the fewer details we see. I can differentiate between the houses on my block, but not the ones in the next neighborhood. I know the neighborhoods in my city, but not the ones in, for example, Austin TX. Most people know the nations on their continent, but not in far away places ...

The problem is that we need more voices in the news media from Africa. I've actually tried to find some quality, serious, English (because that's what I read fluently) news from Africa, and it's tough. The Daily Kenyan and East African, both from the same publisher, are pretty good, but of course focused on their region only. I've seen others from European countries, but with an outside perspective of course. AllAfrica.com is far too much.

Other suggestions are welcome if anybody has them. I'm looking for a high signal (serious news of wide impact) to noise (celebrities, sports, news of only local impact like the local city council race) ratio.
We had this discussion years ago on my Harvard class list, back during the Larry Summers flap.

Obviously, no one would be/could be against women choosing whatever field of study and work that fulfills them the most. (I say that with 6 daughters in mind!)

However, perhaps the lower representation of women in STEM is simply because they find other fields more interesting (law, medicine, what-have-you). STEM (at least the academic path) is a fairly single-minded grind, and that wouldn't appeal to many people. Apparently it appeals to fewer women than men, and I don't blame them! What's so great about STEM, honestly? It's just another field of human endeavor, with no particular reason to value it more highly than others. (Certainly, it's clearly valued by the HN community, but we're a tiny slice of the real world.)

(I did learn (sadly) from that discussion that women have been grossly discriminated against in certain scientific fields in academia--one of my classmates is the astronomy head at a midwestern university, and she had plenty of examples to share, getting there.)

Aside: Seems to me that the public outrage is at least partially just virtue-signaling.
A friend of a friend at Apple seemed to have a very long leash. He was involved in the original iPhone, but afterward he kind of bounced around, spent time in Japan, "worked" at home, did a lot of other projects. He and Apple eventually parted ways, but I'm not sure he was fired, and at any rate it was after years of this kind of behavior.
1. Salaries

2. Benefits

3. Contracting

4. Rent
So what you appear to be saying is that the only thing women are good at is something they're all good at about equally and immediately.

And something that the current system is completely unable to properly monetarily register and the system just relies on them giving it away for free while getting nothing in return.

That all sounds very convenient. It's also interesting that all of these things seem related to children. Why don't you add childbirth to the mix.
I admit, I had low expectations with it being on Quora. I was far from disappointed, though.
Ask HN: How do you manage cloud infrastructure and services costs?
I'm curious how people here estimate and evaluate the costs of IaaS/PaaS (e.g. AWS, Azure, Heroku) and third-party cloud services (e.g. Algolia, Loggly, Twilio, etc).

Does cost ever influence technical decisions around languages and stacks?

Do cloud infrastructure/services costs ever influence product decisions (e.g. not moving forward with a feature because the computing costs would lead to terrible unit economics)?

Obviously, exact costs for infrastructure can be hard to predict. How precise do you try to be before making a decision? What process or tools do you use?
I agree, but there is something I just can't make sense of. I would love to just work my ass off for 4 hours a day but you won't get through any part of an interview if someone finds that out.
> presumably wouldn't to most of the hn community

I wouldn't try to speak for the rest of the community.

Using the term "affirmative action" in regard to an African nation has clear implications.
And the causality can be linked to websites like Facebook as easily as cancer to cigarettes.
Even steel frames are unnecessary in a lot of cities with a housing shortage. A cheaper wood frame can get you up to 5 stories at a fraction of the cost. I'd say a bigger problem is local low-density zoning restrictions, where it's legally prohibited to build more than one or two units per lot.
Google hired a diversity VP as it struggles with a sexist memo from employee
Sorry to go slightly OT here but just for my own sake... can someone tell me where the bottom figure appears in the top figure? Tried quickly googling for it but can't find this test anywhere other than on the OP blog.

No matter how long I stare at it, all I see is a flat yellow rectangle in the centre - it's driving me nuts!

Edit: scrub that! Finally figured it out by deduction i.e. move bottom figure up so front face aligns with central yellow square on top figure. Guess I was expecting something a bit more fun with a "magic eye" style ah ha! moment :D
Yeah, but you can't guess. That's not how it works. It's a medically recognized neurological disorder, not a vague personality trait.
Well cool, I upvoted your stuff. I agree that the BDFL is extremely valuable. Tcl is doing ok but it's not the same as when there was someone with a lot of vision setting a clear direction. The core team that is left believes in everything is a string too much for my taste, I think Ousterhout would have fixed more stuff by now.
http://slatestarcodex.com/2016/09/12/its-bayes-all-the-way-u...

So the opposite of autism would be something like hallucinations and delusions.
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Loneliness is a psychological problem masquerading as a social one.

Look, there are people all around us. Neighborhood streets have, what, 50 people on them? People congregate at churches, bars, coffee shops, even Wal-Marts.

Loneliness is a self-inflicted problem. I'm not saying that to belittle it, I'm saying it because the reasons most people give for being lonely have nothing to do with the actual reasons.

Real, authentic human connections banish loneliness with a ruthless effectiveness. And you can make one with anyone. But we never want to make an authentic human connection with just anyone. We place conditions on the people we're willing to get close to. And paint ourselves into a very lonely corner by doing it.

I used to get lonely a lot in my mid-twenties. I had a bar I went to, a coffee shop I frequented, and good friends at both of them. But I was still lonely. It took a lot of self-inquiry, but eventually I realized that I didn't have a loneliness problem, I had a status problem that was presenting as loneliness. I wasn't seeing my life as having turned out the way I wanted it to, so I was beating myself up over it.

Psychological problems respond really well to talk therapy. Unfortunately that's not a very good solution. We don't have the resources to give everybody with the problem therapy. Instead I think we need to adopt a similar approach that's being used for suicide prevention. Train "gatekeepers" to identify at-risk individuals and get them the help they need, and increase awareness in the general public.

I wish we could do more. But without massive a public investment in psychological health, personalized treatment will remain a luxury solution for those who can afford it.

There's also the problem that, even if the infrastructure were there, that doesn't mean people will take advantage of it. Loneliness is tied very closely to the pride part of the brain, nobody wants to admit they have a problem and seek out help for it.
Doesn't load for me, mate. Also, if you put your email in your profile, I can send you an email instead of posting a comment here.
The G2 is absolutely amazing as a product in that it's far superior to the competition (for my needs at least) and still reasonably priced.
>Imagine a scale that goes from autism to whatever the opposite of autism is, with neurotypical as the middle.

There is no such thing that I am aware of in medical literature. Did you make that up, or can you point me to some reference(s) on this supposed scale?
That's arguable. That the equation is satisfied by both tau and zero hints that complex exponentiation is periodic.

I strongly feel that mathematicians prefer the more complex form because it seems mysterious and mystical, which is fun for them but less pedagogically useful.
I've been using do not disturb mode and airplane mode daily in the evening until early morning. It makes for a great break from the constant barrage of notifications.
For knowledge workers, there may be 3 hours of actual "doing stuff" time, but for me at least, I'm constantly thinking about work, even when I try not to. It just bleeds into my thoughts in the shower, at dinner, lying in bed, etc.

The way I see it to anyone who might question why I'm lying on a couch at work with headphones is that the hard part of my job happens in my head. The easy part is what I mash into the keyboard after I've spent hours finalizing my plan of attack in my head.