skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're sick of the abuse of humans via the abuse of technology, I would say. Not that I want to speak for you, or have a good way to sum up my own outlook, but I think you're kinda selling yourself short when you sum it up as being sick of technology.

Maybe you're not against technology, but just also for life, something that our use of technology should enhance rather than usurp. Maybe you're just not confusing bigness with greatness or quantity with quality? At least, that's how I think of it for myself, because I still love neat tricks and insights, which forms the bases of my affinity towards "tech", like I'll always love language no matter how skillful use of it seems to regress. It's just at some point something like a monkey stacking some crates to reach a banana is both more interesting and uplifting to watch than a lot of what we do, and the shit ways we rationalize it. In a word, I feel you.
It doesn't sound especially weird to me, I'm sure a lot of people ask pharmacists such things to avoid seeing a doctor. I've done it myself. Pharmacist advice is even a thing I've seen advertised. It's possible these things are just different where I am.

In any case, I don't see that asking a pharmacist about a medical-related topic would be interpreted as a friend request.
No, that's incorrect. A naive write-balancing algorithm might concentrate writes into a small subset of sectors when free space is low, but a properly designed firmware will move things around to prevent that from happening. And in any case, that's a matter of free space, not total space.
Slightly OT: where is it so weird to ask a pharmacist for advice? In places I've lived in it's either reasonably typical or not typical but within the realm of expected things.
I think some more research is needed here.

I'm wondering if containers could abuse ARP to find the neighboring addresses.
> The best case in business is when you tell a sales professional that they will get a percentage of whatever business they bring in, judged the moment when it's in accounts receivable. It's difficult to game a wire transfer from another company.

I've seen the result of this. The salesperson oversells, and the engineering team death marches to attempt to build what the salesperson has already received their commission for.

Incentives are tricky.
John Wharton when at Intel was on the team that built a chip of which there are now more instances of than there are people on Earth (a description that's probably held true for several decades now). I'm not sure which it was, but he's worked on the 8085 and 8048 chips (see link below), though it may have been the MCS-51 (see Wikipedia link below). That's not the important part of this story.

What is, was John's telling of getting stranded with car trouble out somewhere in rural California -- central valley or the desert, pretty much the middle of no-where -- and ending up spending time at a local garage getting his car fixed up, and talking to the gearheads there.

They knew his chips better than he did, and had customised the living hell out of them. By John's own account.

I'm not convinced that this must be the inevitable consequence of Chipping All The Things, or that it's always going to be possible to reverse-engineer and hack everything and anything. And I've quite pessimistic about a great many elements of this trend, including what seems an inevitable conclusion that digitised cars will spy on and betray their owners (or more likely, merely users and/or occupants). That's a social and legal, not a technical problem, ultimately.

But ... there's some glimmer of light in history to date, as well.

(Accounts via personal conversation, though John may well have written this down or been quoted on it elsewhere. He's rather fond of the story.)

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Oral_Histo...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MCS-51#Enhanced_8-bit_bi...
https://artofengineer.com/articles/technology/introduction-t...
I have a Volt, I didn’t say my preference was a V12 or always a sporty car.

I think you're just so set in the idea that an EV must be quieter than ICE vehicle because people who bought one want a quiet car and you’re either willing to shift goalposts to do that or you’ve been talking past me. After all:

>I'm mainly concerned with people outside the car.

the conversation has been about interior noise this up til now.

And before when I mentioned flooring it, you responded, I responded saying both are fairly loud when floored, then you then turned around and said you weren’t talking about foooring it...

There’s not much of a conversation to be had if any time I bring up a point you try and write it off by changing the context of it, then turn around and accuse me of ignoring what you’re saying...

And for the record the noise in the Model S noise isn’t just tire noise, there’s the whine of the motors straining and the excessive-for-it’s-price-bracket wind noise
I'd argue that obsessing about timeliness is of itself evidence of being high-strung or high-maintenance.

On-time is... sometime that day. Or perhaps tomorrow. Later than that is significantly late, but why worry about an hour or two? It really is a very, very particular western culture thing to be time-obsessed: it's not specifically something that all humans do intuitively.
Except for this, I presume?
I just get bored by the new people I meet, which makes me sad; I don't feel emotionally invested in the new folks I meet at all
How Has the US Gun Lobby Been so Successful? (2016)
Okay, would it be better if I said less comfortable?
Yep, I’ve used MS SQL products and I write C# sometimes and read and write code to parse it very often because it is the primary language of the products I support.
I agree entirely. Friendship requires repetition. When you are older, your time gets spread across more activities, leaving less opportunity for repetitive time spent together.

I'll add that the workplace can be problematic for friendship as there is extra room for undue hostility. If someone makes a mistake, for instance, that mistake may fall directly on your shoulders and friendships predicated on that type of situation usually do not end well. People do not want to feel like they are being taken advantage of in friendship.

Compare that with a scholastic environment and mistakes generally only affect the one who made it (or perhaps faculty, who students usually do not befriend), thereby not affecting friendships. If your own grades were dependent entirely on your friends' performance in school, you just might not be able to maintain those friendships quite so well.
"especially when measuring "learning" itself is very difficult if not impossible."

That's ridiculous. Math, science, vocabulary, history, and reading comprehension can all be tested effectively, with little risk of "gaming" it.

(at least at the level of a tpyical high scholl curriculum)
+1 as well. To piggy-back, I highly recommend EventBrite as well.
The Estimator and Dataset API docs is so bad I'm planning on starting a blog with posts on running MNIST and a few other common datasets so others don't have to suffer.
A number of years ago I knew a postdoc who bought a student copy of Mathematica at the university bookstore so he could use it as part of a short-term collaboration without dropping a non-trivial chunk of his grants on a full license. Shortly after he installed it, the department chair got a personal email from Stephen Wolfram asking what someone who wasn't a graduate student was doing with a student license.

This supported the upward trend of interest in open source and especially ipython around the labs.
I didn't mean to imply that it's a good technique for pinning down a particular building or even block of the city, but the technique would work (I imagine) for large-scale localization of the sound source.
Sports are so boring and repetitive though. Especially when you don't care who wins, and I can't imagine why I'd care.
I think I'm getting rate-limited by HN so this may be my last response, buuuut:

I think that, unless this was a real example with founders you can name, this is a dangerous example, and even then it's suspect. I have literally not once swayed a "maybe" investor via an email. It's "maybe" and not "yes" for a reason, and the way you've framed it here is as if "maybe" converts to "yes" with enough elbow grease and a cleverly crafted answer. Founders can spend hours writing single e-mails to investors, especially if they're desperate for funding. So what you read as a simple e-mail response may realistically have been half a day of lost fundraising productivity, for, at best, a 10% chance they convert your gut-feeling "maybe" to a "yes."

This is where founders have an intuition about fundraising, especially first-time founders raising early rounds, that investors often just have no way to empathize with because they simply don't know.

I have, however, swayed "maybe" and even outright "no" / "not now" investors by walking away, mentally divesting, and re-engaging particularly helpful ones later with additional proof points. YMMV as a founder but I would recommend this approach 100 times before I ever recommended sinking hours into a clarifying e-mail with an investor who was a "maybe."

Your response may be, "well, just don't spend hours on e-mails then." Sure, tell that to the founder who has literally sunk $20,000 off of their 20% interest credit card and another $20,000 of their lower-middle-class parents' retirement money into their startup. They'll nod and spend the hours anyway. (The cruel irony is that many of the founders insecure enough to spend hours on an e-mail are almost guaranteed to not sway you, meaning that the 10% that do sway you only represent something like 1% of the total time spent on e-mails. This is why this sort of advice exists.)
I wholeheartedly agree about the TF API becoming very cluttered. The entire way contrib is handled seems confusing.

While I think TF probably has a better distributed story, it's still not great (several months of experience getting this to work), and very very few people can justify distributing computation across 10K CPUs/GPUs - in my experience, it turns out most async SGD algorithms don't really work very well.

One place I see this actually working is using SVI/EM and storing local parameters across the network - something maybe 1 GPU can't handle for extremely large models.
Not specific to JAB, but there's a podcast episode of Containers [0] following the end-to-end movement of coffee and the surprising amount of middlemen.

[0]: https://medium.com/containers/episode-4-coffee-78ac6571caea
"What do you call the person who graduates from medical school at the bottom of their class?"

"Doctor"

She had a goal, recognized she wasn't going to achieve it with the conventional approach, and found an alternate solution without lying or cheating. Good for her.
The Ongoing Battle Between Quantum and Classical Computers
Vint Cerf sees his invention reflected on Black Mirror
Some of us end up oversharing, because we have not run into people who can have a conversation in years, and are feeling deprived. ;-)
I'm still shocked that anyone treats AMP with anything other than contempt. Is it really that difficult to make your site faster? Blaming your crappy html/js/css on marketing demands doesn't pass the smell test for me. IMO too many engineers pass the buck instead of owning up to bad decisions and correcting them.
Approximate quantum cloning: New way of eavesdropping in quantum cryptography
We're not talking about AMP vs bloated desktop web pages, we're talking about AMP vs hand-optimized and stripped down simple documents.

Yes, ISPs could provide proxies, if you want your ISPs to be able to track everything you do and then resell your behavior (https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/28/house-vote-sj-34-isp-regul...) , or allow the NSA to snoop on your behavior. You act as if HTTPS was introduced for nefarious reasons and not as a reaction to very real attacks on confidentiality and integrity. The web isn't going to return to the world of 1994, or the idyllic pre-Morris Worm era when we just didn't care about security.

You're sick that the world has gotten a lot more complicated and noisy. I am too, it's part of growing old, get used to it.
To those who think this could be a good idea: do some research on AMP, then reevaluate your opinion.

To my mind, AMP is a content reassociation tool, not a content distribution speedup tool. It succeeds in both, was designed as the former, and marketed as the latter. If Airbnb goes through with this folly, how exactly will they retain their business?

Google will be essentially filtering every booking that goes to Airbnb, controlling both the customer and the listings. I see most comments on HN are in agreement with this view, and those that aren't don't seem to meet the quality level normal to HN. Makes you wonder who exactly made this decision...
Seattle is the home of a deep insularity.
Precisely the problem. Real companies mostly prefer to use paid solutions because they have comfort and confidence in knowing there is a business and backing behind it. At least I know I do. I never got the whole developer complex wanting and even expecting everything for free. Seems hypocritical and counter-entrepreneur.

Also for what's worth, I've been deploying Let's Encrypt into production recently using Caddy and (on-demand) TLS and while it works, the rate limits being reset weekly is really scary and VERY VERY easy to hit. I know myself and my clients would be willing to pay for Let's Encrypt Pro (higher rate limits, etc). Take our money.
This reminds me of things like https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/ and when I was (briefly --- thankfully) involved in teaching CS courses a few years ago. More than half the class clearly hadn't actually passed the prerequisites. Lots of begging for leniency and remarking, some extremely emotional appeals. It's a difficult situation because if you let them through, it only creates problems further down the line; and if you don't, then everyone questions your teaching ability (but strangely enough, not the learning ability of the students, which most certainly has a huge effect on how well they do.) I chose the latter and don't regret it --- and left that industry before long, although not before accumulating a pretty negative reputation, because my class' grades would always be a strongly bimodal distribution with one of the peaks well below the failing point.

School district leaders, including Wilson, defend the use of makeup work, arguing they want to give students "multiple opportunities" to show they understand material.

Contrast this with the attitude of some more demanding professions like piloting an aircraft: "If you don't get it right the first time, it could be the end of your career, or even your life."
I'm not a downvoter but I think your very first premise is really flawed. A blanket statement saying men (or at least the ones you meet) are boring is kind of not recognizing the massive diversity of people. But it sort of gets clearer when you say next that you like the flirty subtext of talking with women, and then that starts sounding a bit creepy, especially when you are adding in the over emphasized insisitence its not about dating/sex.

I find it harder to make friends with males because it's often hard to find a good connection. I'm 47. But I have made good friends with other males once we find a groove (often based around humour)

I've often been surprised about the things other males think about once they open up. Initially some males can seem quite one dimensional.
How do you find out if you're "in sync" with someone? Conversations. How do you start that common circle, how do you pick people to invite to it? Fresh blood requires that someone talk to the strangers. And "anywhere" you've got at least one thread in common: You're in the same place, at the same time, for some reason. Often similar reasons.

Now sure, not every conversation with a stranger will turn into a life long connection between soulmates. Some of them you'll never talk to again. And sure, sharing the work between a circle of like-minded friends can help once you've gotten that like-minded circle of friends established.

But I have to say - some my best friendships have formed when a relative stranger struck up a conversation with me over a game. Or a job. Or a shared technical interest. Or, yes, by just being in the same damn place at the same damn time.
First, I'm sorry that you're going through this. I've never been divorced, but I sure remember my parents' divorce. So, I'll give you my perspective as a child of divorce.

1.) Remember that you may end up sharing custody. Where I'm from, 50-50 is the default. Will you be able to keep homeschooling in a 50-50 custody arrangement?

2.) You and your wife need to sit down, lay all your cards on the table and figure out what the future will look like. You two don't have to love or even like each other, but you have three little people who deserve some stability. Hypothetically, let's say that you and your wife share custody 50-50 and you keep homeschooling your kids. For the love of everything fucking holy, you two have to be on your absolute best behaviour when you do handoffs, especially before school. I simply cannot stress this enough. Your kids will go through something nasty if the divorce is amicable. If you two start fighting during handoffs or pulling the "look at my new boyfriend/girlfriend" shit especially before school, it will only be a thousand times worse. If there is the slightest chance you will share custody, you both need to be 100% on program here or homeschooling simply won't work.

3.) Assuming that you and your wife can be adults about handoffs, you still need to ask yourselves whether homeschooling is still the best. I was older when my parents split, but I didn't start to heal until I talked to other people with divorced parents. Then, I finally realized that every single feeling I had, no matter how fucked I thought it was, was actually pretty normal. I don't have any studies to back this up, but anecdotally, I can't even count how many people I know who have had that same experience. The glorious aspect of school is that your kids will be in classes with other kids who have gone through it all. If you think this over, talk it over with your wife, and still decide to homeschool, you two really need to figure out some therapy for your little ones. Being a child of divorce sucks and they really deserve someone neutral who they can talk to.

4.) Assuming all of this still leads to homeschooling, if I were you, I'd likely start off with a few short term, low value gigs off of a service like Upwork. From experience, transitioning to remote work is tough. Making that transition while you're also the educator may prove too much to safely handle. A service like Upwork would give you a chance to try this out on short term contracts.

Good luck and be safe. And please, I'm begging you to focus on self care too. I know things suck and feel overwhelming, but you've got to take care of yourself if you have any hope of properly caring for your family. Please be safe and know that at least one internet stranger is quite concerned about you.
There's a (very exciting) PyTorch JIT incoming sometime soon!
But it would have to be somebody who already have their public root keys in all the browsers.
biggest gripe with Atlassian is all their products are slow as hell. Hipchat was sluggish and buggy but at least they were steadily improving. Now everyone has to start over on a new platform (?) Confluence, how freakin long does it take to return a static info page, Seconds? As if visiting the HR subdomain wasn't painful enough already. Heaven forbid you click on something makes a POST request in JIRA, RIP developer.
Maybe it has something to do with the systematic impoverishment of black communities and the destruction of black families through mass incarceration, and "innovative teaching" will do little to fix these inequalities, which require much deeper and more structural policy change.

On a related note, Washington D.C. specifically has a massive lead pipe problem which has been ignored for decades.
Isn't this why ketogenic diets also limit protein? I think you're right that if someone is eating a low-carb diet but also eating excessive protein, they wouldn't be adhering to an insulin-based theory.

Ketogenic diets seem best understood as diets that put fat intake as high as possible. Some protein intake is necessary, to obtain essential amino acids, but ideally not more than that. Carb intake can almost entirely be eliminated, because there are no essential carbs, and plant consumption can focus on low-carb plants (e.g. nuts, leafy greens).

I don't mean to endorse ketogenic diets, since I don't know whether they work. But they're at least internally consistent provided protein intake is also limited.
I think those are great points in where the underlying business model could have underlying cracks. My take is that SaaS has desirable features in the current age of agile product development and data-driven business decisions. Selling an Oracle database is a bit like going door-to-door to sell vacuums. Ultimately, it is hard to gauge product adoption, CAC, etc. with a licensing model at first since you aren't selling a $5/month per user solution. The Oracle database could actually scale better as a business model as once the customer is set up they can move to the next sale versus always battling how much it costs the company to maintain the service. However, in this current day and age, it takes a little faith to run this model versus one that has daily performance metrics from the onset.
Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perverse_incentive .
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Clearly, aliens......

But for real, what it is?