skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Trying not to be a downer, but I wouldn't think of writing such a tool. I'd use Perl's pack or Python's struct.

Of course there might be some value in something less than a full language.
I suspect a lot of people who have these procedures and don't like the results don't make a big fuss about it, because it's not like they can undo it. And they usually spent a bunch of money on it. You might as well try to be happy with the results.

For me, it never seemed worth it to deal with the permanent change leading to potential side effects for a temporary benefit. If my corrective lenses were big and heavy, I might reconsider.
To all people who think this is about 'risk management some questions to ponder:

- how is buying a currency like the Bolivar allowed (50,000% plus inflation)

- coinbase limits purchases to about $100/USD per week...how much risk is really being exposed?

- why is buying depreciating liabilities such as computers, software, harmful drugs (smokes, alcohol, coffee) and overpriced meals and fashion accessories acceptable? (Doesn't alcohol hinder purchasers health and make it harder to pay back due to death and other problems?)

-Where was their "risk management" when they socialized their bets in the 2008 crash?

- why do they keep extending lines of credit to the USA gov for the purchase and sales of billions of dollars of yearly foreign arms sales?

Now, considering that bitcoin is MEANT to replace banks as its modulus operandi and enable p2p transactions (ie: cutting out middlemen - banks!).... it becomes apparent what they are really doing: trying to stop the leviathon and holding onto their business model.

Observe their actions, not their words and then their intentions will become clear.
Hey, I'm sorry to hijack this. Is there a way to contact you about rsync.net? Support hasn't replied for a week, Twitter seems unmonitored - don't know any other way but this right here.
There's correlation here, but likely not causation.

The real underlying cause in the drop in birth rates is an increase in working hours, an increase in commuting times, an increase in college tuition and health care costs, and also an increase in divorce rates.

These days, even getting married is an expensive financial arrangement. Having kids is just another layer on that.

Housing prices have increased because of cheap loans and supply-restrictive regulations.
the restorers' choices would likely have been in conflict with the artist's original intention

Like this, perhaps?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecce_Homo_(Martínez_and_Giméne...
> percentage of income spent on housing is not a great metric. A better metric is absolute income minus housing costs. / All else being equal, I would gladly earn $1 million per year and spend 75% of it on rent, because that remaining 25% would be a heck of a lot of money.

It makes sense, but that doesn't make it true. Is your argument based on your personal beliefs, or is it based on actual outcomes in the economy?

As someone once pointed out, if 'makes sense' was a reliable indicator of the truth, we would have had accurate physics in 5,000 BC.
“In fact, in one case, our engineers noticed the overly broad access and requested that Facebook limit it.”
Yes, something to see here.
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The highlighted sections on this page drive me crazy. They really interrupt the flow of the text.
how did you get that much? Hired as senior with a lot of rsu? is it mostly rsu after the jump the last few weeks? If I got to senior I wouldn't be making that much based off what Im being told about comp increases. I must have gotten a shit deal when I joined lol
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$400k salary is decidedly not average for non-principle engineer salary at Amazon, Google, or Facebook.

The thing is, part of my job lets me see some outlier salary data for AI jobs and uh, I see the extreme right end of the salaried with-benefits spectrum hit a base cash comp around $300 with bonuses to $400.

Now, if we're talking, "With stock, benefits and maximum bonus included" then yes, $400k is high end but not absurd. And if you're talking a lot of work as a contractor I'd expect more.
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I tell people I could walk through a room of naked people and not see anything private.
Why is it depressing?

What is the % of people that bought smokes, alcohol and other harmful substances.... and could not pay back?

What about the % of people that bought iPhones on credit and could not pay it back?

The number needs to be taken as a comparison to other purchases (it is Credit after all) to see whether it is higher or lower than the typical credit card purchase.

At least with crypto (or any forex) you have purchasing power vs. Buying over priced meals, useless gadgets and drugs such as coffee, wine or cigarettes
As a subscriber I love the New York Times, but like many articles in the Wellness section this is low quality.

The article starts off with:

>A recent clinical trial by the F.D.A. suggests that the complications experienced by Mr. Ramirez are not uncommon. Nearly half of all people who had healthy eyes before Lasik developed visual aberrations for the first time after the procedure, the trial found.

And then five minutes of reading later leads to this valuable insight:

>But many of the trial’s 574 participants reported having visual aberrations and dry eyes before surgery, and the study concluded that Lasik slightly reduced the prevalence of these problems.

Why... didn't they put that in the same paragraph? The title of the article leads me to believe this obfuscation was on purpose.

Then, a few minutes later into the article, they state:

>The study’s lead author ... said the researchers had concluded that the multimillion dollar trial was too small to produce meaningful results, and that the purpose of the study had shifted from determining how many patients have problems functioning to developing a questionnaire that might be used in future research.

Ugh. I just spent 10 minutes reading an article formed around a flawed study that contradicts the title. Filled with circumstantial evidence and discussion about clearly biased people (like the guy with seemingly no credentials who runs lasikcomplications.com).
To my recollection having just watched it a few months ago, the quotes and figures are all pulled directly (and uncredited), from the talk she gave at the Layers Design Conference, 2015. [1] Of course she's maybe given this same talk on other occasions but the OP is a shoddy piece of work. The video's worth your time if the topic interests you, she had some other interesting anecdotes about the Apple days and her work after also. Just don't waste your time with John Gruber's Q&A at the end, he wasn't on the same page as her at all.

1. https://vimeo.com/151277875
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That will happen as soon as natural language isn’t incredibly painful to use with computers (or other humans, for that matter).
refractive lens exchange ? no idea if it's better https://www.google.com/search?q=surgical+lens+implants&oq=su...
The human convention of written language it to interpret the symbols after they have been completed, not during the act of writing them.

A computer that interprets the behavior of writing, rather than the final symbols, is going to violate user expectations at some point.

Why? Because people do not always write as linearly as you might expect, especially when writing fast. They might drop or mis-write letters or words, then go back and fix it. Or quickly jot down just enough letters to remind themselves of what they heard, then go back and fill the rest in. A routine that interprets actions in order is going to have a hard time with actions that the user completes out of order.
I worked at a few startups over ten years ago. As a SW engineer I had unique value to the company back then - me being able to hand optimize code better was what set the company apart from the competition.

But SW has grown up a lot since then. Now you need more commodity, reliable engineering. Most of the low hanging fruit in SW have been picked.

Today's startup key employees are the designers, copy writers, sales people, and marketers. HW might still be where SW was 10 years ago.
We are the quality of the conversation itself.
It’s a great book, written by (now Senator) Elizabeth Warren (from the great state of Massachusetts).
I think this is a wonderful way to tackle climate change. Higher housing if leads to lower birth rates then it might be good for planet.

I wonder if there is analysis been done as to what birth rates we need to achieve to ensure the planet is fit to live for our kids.
Is it better?

Consider what happens if you lose that job. How much money do you need saved up to live the next 6 months in both scenarios?

If I pay $750K/yr, I need $325K saved up to pay rent for 6 months. That will take me 1.3 years of saving to get to that threshold (assuming I pay for nothing else - food, etc).

If I pay $50K/yr, I need $25K saved up to pay rent for 6 months. It will take me 4 months.

Depending on how long you live, etc, I suppose there is a point where the former is better. But not in the short term.
That's assuming you're paying mortgage and not rent. What if this is pure rent?

Then you have to pay that much even in retirement. That means you have to save up a lot more in the first scenario before you can retire, and may have to work longer, despite the higher pay, and the higher savings.

Of course, you can always retire in a cheaper place, but that's a matter of preference. I would rather retire in the place I lived much of my life in - not in some strange city.
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That's a wrap, folks. This comment is more valuable by far than the article.
There was one point where I just disagreed from my standpoint. The pomodoro technique.

In programming for me, it never really worked. I mean, let's say I just got an idea for a specific piece of code, if the pomodoro triggers a break, I just lost my line of thought. When I'll get back after the 5 minute break, I will no longer remember what I was doing or how exactly I thought doing it.

I don't really know if for you folks it worked, but for me for this reason it didn't work and it never probably will.
The US solved the problem in the postwar period by taxing the wealthy at high rates, providing subsidized housing and education, and numerous other social democratic benefits to their population. This, combined with liberal immigration policies, resulted in tremendous growth.
Isn't it abandoned/unmaintained at this point?
1) If you're a civilian pilot, then you should read this carefully beforehand:
https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/av...

2) If you want to be a military pilot, then research the correct military branch. Historically, some allow eye surgery and some don't.

3) All surgery is major surgery, with the risk of infection or other complications.
Length-prefixed strings would be useful for some file formats. You'd need to be able to pick a size for the length-prefix, such as u8,u16,etc.

Also some ability to length-prefix the output of a macro might be useful for tag-length-value-like formats.

For Unicode, ability to write out UTF-16 or UTF-32 would be useful, also CESU-8 and Java's Modified UTF-8.

Also, for a challenge, think about how you could write macros to generate ASN.1 formats such as BER. You'd probably need some more smarts in your macro language to handle such a task gracefully.

Also, how does one control the endianness of output? Maybe you need u16le and u16be, or some kind of general endianness modifier.

Output of IEEE floating point might also be useful in some applications.
I experience the shitty night vision (bad glare, halos, and huge starbursts). But still am very happy with this over contacts/glasses

It's quite miraculous.
I've seen people write letters in all manner of unexpected ways. If the resultant marks on the paper look enough like the intended letter, then it's readable by a human, and if it's readable by a human, it should be readable by a machine.

Not that I don't think "meet me halfway" type approaches (like the Graffiti system) aren't worth using, but in this case we're talking about recognizing writing (the artifact), not writing (the verb).
Handwriting recognition is a great example of technology whose development seems to have plateaued before it became "good enough." Stroke-based recognition has been in development for half a century now, but my iPad Pro still makes errors at least a couple of times per line, which is enough to make it pretty much useless unless you're writing only for your own later consumption. That and voice recognition. It's shocking how bad Android and iOS still are at that, even after decades of work on voice recognition technology.
This is a great post. Seriously. I wish I had done this when my kids were young.

And I just went to China for a few months and I too had 2 cells and a portable personal router and don’t forget VPN service!
Keep in mind that debit cards can still be used to purchase crypto. I see a lot of potential for blockchain tech in the long term but I think people should not be looking at crypto holdings as an investment strategy. This seems like a reasonable move by WF to me. They only want you to use money that you actually have to engage in high-risk investments. Otherwise, they stand to lose a lot when their customers can't cover their balances.
You are correct, and I can neither confirm nor deny your parents question, as I've been out of (mental) shape due to the time of day. I don't think I did, las time i tried.
Humans on the other hand are unpredictable. So if you run an experiment that says X, it may or may not replicate later

humans can be studied and exhibit very predictable patterns.

Seems somewhat contradictory. If humans can be studied and exhibit predictable patterns, why wouldn't we expect experiments to be repeatable, as the parent comment asked?

And if the experiments are highly random, then either you should be conducting more of them over and over to get a valid statistical sample, or you shouldn't be conducting them at all. Either way I see no valid argument that studies in social sciences shouldn't be repeatable.
"LASIK has a remarkable success rate, with 96%"
This implies that 4% of LASIK surgeries are failures.
Odds of dying in a skydiving accident: 0.0007%
Odds of dying in a car accident: 0.0167%

You probably aren't going to die from a bad lasik surgery but for someone who's livelihood depends on their eyes, developing bad eye problems and actually dying should be adjusted for the same level of risk. In which case, 4% is absurdly high.

Also that 96% is taken from a LA$IK site, so the real failure rate is quite likely to be higher than 4%.
If startups don't reward engineers and neither do big companies, then what does?
The reason I asked is because strictly speaking, an unpredictable thing cannot be studied empirically. We can sacrifice some precision or certainty in science, but we can't get rid of reproducibility and still call it "science" just by prefixing it with the term "soft."

For example, sound economic models are generally observable in the aggregate despite being imprecise, and high energy physics has many competing theories which are demonstrable but incomplete. The game theoretic principles of market analysis are reliable, as are the principles of gravity. Markets are generally efficient, and the model's conclusions have clear utility that matches real world conditions, even though small pockets of inefficiency also exist. It's fuzzy, but not unscientific. Forests are green, but some trees don't have green leaves.

In the abstract, we can tolerate some fuzziness or imprecision as a margin of error, but only if it's compartmentalized to some incomplete theories, and only as long as it's grounded and consistent. We cannot tolerate something being true one day and false the next. Green forests cannot inexplicably and inconsistently become orange without threatening our claim that forests are green.

I don't really have an opinion on psychology in particular, though it's pretty clear there's a reproducibility crisis. But as a direct response to your thesis: arguing that a "different mindset" is required to scientifically study subjects which are unpredictable is an untenable position. If humans actually are fundamentally unpredictable - whether due to intrinsic non-determinism or a present lack of sufficient data - they cannot be empirically studied. At that point we're no longer compartmentalizing incompleteness or fuzziness in otherwise sound models. Instead, we're compartmentalizing otherwise sound observations in a sea of chaos.

Faced with this sort of reality (and I take no position on whether it is the reality), any scientist, in a "hard" or "soft" discipline, would have to examine if they can reasonably acquire enough information related to the thing in question to make any determination in good faith. An unpredictable thing is an unknowable thing; you may as well try to resolve the three body problem.
It's not like they didn't know about it...

https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-r-open/issues/20
the FIRE community has some good stuff: https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/
I've a theory for nasty work, the "Bikini Wax Theory of Nasty Work". The theory goes like this, a bikini wax and nasty work are exactly the same because:

1 - Nasty work and bikini waxes are both painful to do.

2 - you must move decisively and quickly for both nasty tasks and waxes, getting it over as quickly and competently as possible.

3 - if you fail to execute #2 properly the results will be a bloody and even more painful mess, likely taking more time to achieve the desired results.

I've shared this theory with close colleagues. Nobody has told me I'm wrong to my face.
Ask HN: Reliability Engineering for physical systems?
I’ve been an SRE for 4 years working for SaaS companies. I bootstrapped a startup and built basically the entire infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, hired a small team of other SRE’s, developed a reliability mindset, had a heavy influence on engineering as a whole. Presently I work in a more narrowly-scoped role, in larger org. I’ve found working on pure software systems kind of dull. Most problems appear to be solved the same fundamental ways with tiny sprinkles of domain knowledge thrown in, and I suppose this is the nature and beauty of software. However, given this repetitiveness and its abstract nature I suppose it’s not as stimulating as I’d prefer.

Before I was called an SRE I was a sysadmin for a manufacturer. I worked directly with a lot of different groups to build big physical systems with various machines, computers, devices, and human operators. I was on my feet a lot, working with domain experts, and enjoyed the variation of sights, sounds, and smells that come from working in such facilities. Most of these machines needed computers or networked devices to control them and they all had different needs when it came to designing their implementation. A lot of planning went into how control systems would be connected, how operators would interact with them, how we would protect sensitive components from harsh environments, how we would make computers and machines highly available/replaceable, spec’ing out what software/hardware components we could get off the shelf or build ourselves. At the end of the day, many of the practices were similar to that of an SRE. Monitoring, incident response, testing, capacity planning, change management, software development--were all a part of the job. There were reasons why I left that company, but after a few years of the SaaS world I’m looking back to how I could apply reliability engineering to physical systems again. Do these roles like this exist normally or was I just a sysadmin wearing too many hats?
My mother had it done. Side effects are mostly limited to eyes so dry she needed her ducts plugged to retain fluid and no/ limited night driving due to halos.

With all of that said, compared to the coke bottle glasses she had before, I don't think she would have done anything differently.

Me, I can still comfortably wear contacts (astigmatism is mild enough) so she suggested that I not get it.

YMMV
I'm not an electrochemist, but I have been told one of the major wear mechanisms is lithium plating, which is a function of anode voltage and charge current (and probably 100 other things). As I understand, the standard CI/CV charge cycle is very conservative to avoid this complexity. I believe more sophisticated parts like the TI Max charge series get around this by running estimators of the cells anode voltage and can scale charge current appropriately.

Sorry no good references to offer off hand, this is all just stuff I've been told by engineers and chemists. Take with a grain of salt.
The times' quality has gone south perceptibly in the last decade. I won't be renewing my subscription.
I use this technique for cache busting with Hugo: https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2017/hugo-asset-pipeline/. I am not a web developer, so have translated that flow to a simple Bash script which I run on Netlify.

Hugo v0.43 has inbuilt cache busting on the roadmap, and Hugo v0.42 will probably be released in about a week.
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This entire thread is so strange to me, if you're spending $750000 per year renting, shouldn't you be buying $750,000 properties once a year instead?
You don't even need to self-host. You can host for free.. many options: Netlify, Gitlab Pages, GitHub Pages, ..
"It's now feasible to write a machine code compiler in shell. Hooray. Not sure why you would ever do that to yourself, though."

For more trustworthy bootstrapping. It's why I included shell compilers on this site:

https://bootstrapping.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page
The idea of a prediction being painful matches my experience. I never thought of it that way, but now that I do, that makes things a lot easier. (I meditate, so just knowing about this helps me a lot).
Comparing this with the Graffiti system on my old (2000-ish) Palm Pilot, this is somewhat more reliable even on a first attempt than that was after I'd made a concerted effort to learn it. Very cool!

Edit: I think where the Afterword says "inputting text with a stylus is likely slower than touch typing", they're forgetting that we still don't have a really acceptable way of inputting text on mobile devices. Swype and its ilk are close, but still hamfisted at times.
Hm...so economic hardship causes high apple prices and high divorce rates.