skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fascinating and extremely sad article.

I have to wonder if our conception of death as a strictly one-way street is mistaken. When death meant cardiovascular death, this was reasonable — within minutes, the heart tissue itself dies from lack of oxygen perfusion, and thus this form of death is self-reinforcing.

For brain death, however, are we 100% certain that, given life support over a long enough period, the brain cannot heal from ischemic damage? At least enough to bring basic elements of consciousness back online? If so, it would be possible to be “dead”, and then subsequently “not dead”.

Is there any scientific understanding one way or the other on this?
Thanks, it's very helpful to hear about your experience!

Out of interest, is your site up? It would be interesting to take a look.

Glad to hear you had a decent experience doing virtual DOM yourself.

Not super surprised to hear about the CPU usage issue, but that's a helpful reminder that one of the things we leverage when we use libraries developed for high-availability applications like FB/Google Docs is all of the developer time focused on optimization.
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fatbabies.com was a dotcom era gossip site for people working .com startups to spill the beans on the outrageous behavior at their companies. Often times the person trying to spill beans is turned inside out for being wrong in their position. Very sarcastic and stress relieving. And as side entertainment, you and your coworkers try figure out which posts are about your company.
Hm, maybe exactly because of that? Dentists are reluctant to lose these extra appointments because of extra revenue? :)
Don't know how it would affect total traffic though.
Fifteen minutes? I got one last week (USA) and it took over an hour.
Do you work directly for a manufacturing company/relevant company?

I wonder if this would be a better opportunity for an outside firm in a longer-term contractual role, so that they both have some autonomy but also access to the data. At least that way they come away with field-knowledge but would obviously be restricted in terms of the proprietary data.

I don't know how real-world unrealistic I am being, but for instance:

- Pitch the potential project, including its mass of limitations, but also its end product / projects given x is possible, y is possible, z is possible, etc

- Present a contract that allows for years, potentially, and enough running capital to hire a staff that can handle modeling the schema, collecting arranging the data, interviewing the experts and quantifying their understanding if necessary.

I mean, if there's a perceived and expected value out of doing it, surely there could be some compromise like start with one sub-process and one type of machine and go from there?

Do you imagine it should need to be holistic?

Or, maybe design a new machine?

For instance, at a major auto sub-manufacturer they are extremely critical and thorough with their quality controls. Currently, this is done 100% manually. Parts (pre- and post-assembly) every N parts or H hours are pulled off the line while the line runs, taken to the lab, welds tested, measurements tested against calibrations, and in some cases chemical tests made to ensure proper galvanization.

That data could be entered initially and measurement data accumulate pretty rapidly.

I'm sure that process could be replaced for the most part using the AI/ML.
This is absolutely the case for many poor families. My parents worked very hard so that their children could have a better life than they did. I am more educated, and wealthier than they ever were thanks to their hard work, and I am extremely grateful for it. Additionally they're also very happy their hard work and sacrifice has paid off.

Growing up poor has kept me grounded to the struggles of the working poor, even as my income has gone up many multiples since I started working.
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Haha yeah good memories.
We switch between apps and websites 300X/day. And it's killing our decision making
fark.com even though its demise was relatively recent. I missed the early days when the site wasn't sanitized (and that content, or easy access to it, still felt novel). Felt like one of many "wild west" sites of that time. Before our advertising overlords had come into power.
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Google can now predict flight delays
I wish this post wasn't downvoted because I think it's a valuable one, even if it relies on a perception that I don't think quite holds. In my experience, what everybody calls "devops" mostly encompasses human problems. It's about communication and clear goals and having empathy for the other people around you who rely on you and on whom you rely. You can't "-as-a-service" human problems. And this article, IMO, demonstrates that well--they're talking mostly about people, except where services just have to plug together and wait for that human to come by with a roll of duct tape.

Technical: honestly, meh. You pick a cloud, you use their hosted services where it's safe to and you pull something tested off-the-rack where it's not (i.e., I am all over RDS, but I steer clear of DynamoDB--that sort of thing), you go on with your day. Over time you'll probably (everyone does, and IMO it's at a point of maturity where I am, too) gravitate towards containers, using them to make the "developer" part of the stack taller and leveraging tools like Kubernetes to handle much of the deployment side. Operations' bailiwick is then (fortunately) much more restrained, and in the two-stddev size scale that stuff is just not that complicated.

What does become complicated is people. Having tried to -as-a-service the technical side of things in ways beyond "hosted X", it quickly becomes something where the business processes of your company (the bits that actually matter) inevitably require doing something-or-other in a sufficiently bespoke manner that an "-as-a-service" option for that becomes at best clumsy or at worst hostile. (I'm reminded of stuff like Rightscale or AWS OpsWorks when I say that, though my product was rather more in-depth. Probably to my detriment; it made it even harder for bespoke processes to fit into the system!)

Invariably, the challenges for almost all of my client are people challenges. Training developers into their roles' expansion, training operations people into a culture of and a habit of automation, and facilitating frank and open discussions between them. That stuff is hard. IMO, it's also the rewarding part of devops, and it's the part where your team can be a multiplier rather than an adder. But I do think that ownership of the orchestrative bits of the technical side are still (maybe always?) necessary in order to have something to multiply.

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I think it is fair that my comment was clearly all encompassing where it should not have been. I am curious on the numbers, though. Just anecdotally, I have seen very few people use a step debugger.

Some of it may be situational. With how many microservices I'm dealing with, "stepping into" a call really needs to jump to another process quite often.

Anyone have numbers, by chance, on how many folks actually use a lot of these features?
Oh, yeah. I forgot about all the xww prefix for the intranet.

I remember having a debate with another developer. He thought that an IP address started with 13 (13.X.X.X) was a generic internal IP address like 192.168.X.X.

At the time Xerox owned the whole 13. Address block.
You can play this argument ad infinitum without actually adding anything of value to this conversation.

Central banking is not perfect, but it has a better track record of stability and growth than any other system that’s been tried at a large scale. Try and remember that the alternatives aren’t optimal economic systems that are immune to bubbles, recessions, depressions, hyperinflation, corruption and manipulation.

If anything the Bitcoin experiment is reinforcing why we have existing regulations in place.
Nothing, I think. The web has only improved over time.
It's an expression of speech for distaste of the malignant practice of making something redundant even if there was no need to do that;

Much like even if a human soul would rather not perish but yet there was a class of malignant diseases that will make it.
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I'm very happy for self driving cars to move 30 years into the future if that means not leaving their CPUs open to known vulnerabilities.
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You are right, sorry, I didn't.

About that, I think it won't be a flash in the pan. I think it's here to stay and people won't stop talking about cryptocurrencies.
Comparison of the Open Source OLAP Systems (Big Data): ClickHouse, Druid, Pinot
When AirBnB finally does IPO, who will want to buy it? What more growth could possibly come out amidst the increasing regulation?
I've met a backpacking couple who never filter. They fill their water bag from any deep source (lake or river) by swimming out, diving deep and filling the bag there. Because they believe most organisms live in the top few inches. Worked for them; a decade of backpacking all over the world.

On the other hand, one of our Scout leaders got giardia at Boundary Waters, due to incorrect filtration habits. So the article claiming no correlation exists may be an exaggeration.
> A huge different that's obvious to me is the language we use.

Meaning that people making $10 per hours use more or less coarse language than people making $50 per hour?
You can learn them simultaneously. Antonio Leiva has an amazing book on the subject. The kotlin and Android docs should suffice as the sdk methods will remain the same. And kotlin has a simple syntax. And you will have the benefit of Android studio and it's code completion.
A little dated, but still an amazing book!
This is a clever idea. I had just assumed that the photoanalysisd tags were indexed by Spotlight already!
For me it's not so much websites as it is the old BBSes I spent my early teens calling up, and of course the door games. MajorMUD, LORD, TradeWars 2002, Usurper, Fazuul. You can still play these games, but playing with the other nerds in my town was really something special. There was also a MUD I played called MUME which is actually still up and still has an active playerbase [0]. Then there were the phone conferences which I dialed into when I could. And of course the old Unix systems I had access to. Probably the most nostalgic and fun of them all was Telenet. For anyone else that remembers Telenet fondly, there's actually a pretty true-to-life Telenet simulator with tens of thousands of systems to explore, and a quite active userbase [1].

[0] http://mume.org/

[1] http://telehack.com/
> vitamins that contained fluoride on a daily basis.

Thought that flouride worked topically?
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"Beecher created a committee comprising men who already knew one another: ten doctors, one lawyer, one historian, and one theologian."

I find it very sad that the people that are making these critical decisions that could affect my life are some randomly appointed panel of "experts".

Why should these people in particular have any say in the matter? Or have more say than I do about whether I live or die?

It's also sad how so much of the medical community tries to hand over the ethical decisions to others, and treats their words as inviolate truth instead of thinking for themselves.
Google is now using machine learning to predict flight delays
Thx for the pointer, forgot to publish... should be fine now.
> you pass around a receipt and take turns deciding who owes what

A lot of things in this thread seem completely foreign to me. Every restaurant I've been to in the past few years has just asked how we want to split the bill. They seem to keep all orders separate in the system and just merge them if you want shared bills.
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> Somehow mobile and web developers got aboard all the new design and interaction trends

Because the new design trends are all about how to adapt to the limitations (and possibilities) of mobile and web. For desktop applications these mobile-first designs don't work very well (see Windows 8) and we already had long-established design patterns that do.
To my mind, watering and feeding your lawn so that it is nice and green and exactly 1 1/2" tall all year round is a solid middle-class indicator. I find it kind of strange to spend that time and money on doing something that has little to no productive value.

Not throwing daggers or anything, but every strata has things that are a bit strange about them.

Yes, I know that upper class does that too, unless you are in the hills where there really isn't any lawn to take care of, etc.
Alan Shewmon is a friend of mine and a highly respected neurosurgeon, ending a long career as the "chief of the neurology department at Olive View-U.C.L.A. Medical Center" (cf the article).

Disregarding his scientific opinion because he had a conversion experience in college is rather bigoted, don't you think?
webmonkey.com because that's where I learnt a lot of my craft, and TalkCity (which probably still exists) because of the community I discovered when I was going through a rough personal patch, and that community no longer exists.
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invisialign is for shifting, not really for repositioning.
Yes its true that rich people behave different to poor, but its misleading because its not the whole story. Good example is the second guy who turned up in the bay area from a prestigious East Coast school wearing a suit, and didn't fit in.

Edit - I dont want to trivialize it, Money & Class is a big barrier to overcome if you want to move into high paying jobs. Maybe class matters in some jobs more than others.
Marriage is commonly a class conferring activity, I'm surprised it wasn't mentioned by any of the people profiled in the article.

It's something I'm confronting as a mid 20s middle class guy dating a girl from the upper, upper middle class...older folks have a lot of strange expectations for marriage, what it means, and how to make it successful.
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True! That's why you want to whisper to a friend, ideally one who invited you along. This 1. minimizes the exposure of you being an outsider 2. minimizes the friend's exposure of having invited an outsider and 3. shows your friend that you aren't going to embarrass them, making it more likely that you'll be invited along in the future, assuming you aren't sick of this shit already. Ideally, you'd rake a risk assessment of your options and balance that with the friend's comfort level and how close you are to one another.
Hmm, I'd say CheatEngine Forums used to be a pretty great place in terms of a bunch of geeks, finding various exploits in video games. It's what got me interested in computing in the first place.
Bingo! You got it!
My personal credit was not optimal, I had no personal assets to speak of, and the business was too new/unstable to pitch a good "lend moneyz pleez!" story. Traditional lending channels were not available to me. I'm sure someone somewhere would have floated a loan, but I eventually chose to just work harder. Eventually trying to raise money seemed like more work than earning it.
> Without a headphone jack, how do you use the built-in radio?

I don't think Apple & Google want you to use the radio. They don't make money from it, so they don't see a reason to permit you to use it.
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I miss Google Reader. I used to read ~100 longer-form blogs that didn't publish daily. After Google Reader went away, I tried other RSS readers but they just weren't as convenient, and my online reading habits shifted to more Twitter. At first that seemed fine but over time it has become hard to keep my Twitter feed free of distracting trivia. Nowadays I just have a much smaller list of blogs I read regularly.

I also miss the way Slashdot made me feel near the dawn of the internet. Before I had the internet, I got my tech news from CNN or from newspapers. Once I got the internet and could read Slashdot, that was just amazing.
Zombo.com

It solved all my Web 2.0 concerns but unfortunately was authored in Flash and not a modern framework. Alas.
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