skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's think about personality traits in a depressed person:

Extraversion: "leave me alone"

Agreeableness: "the world is shit"

Conscientiousness: "my home is a mess"

Openness: "Why try something new if I know I'm not going to like it"

Conscientiousness: "my home is a mess"

People who go through these phases, or live in this reality, are more likely to have seeked therapy. The results could imply that, after all, it is not very effective, since it is observed that "Therapy experience is associated with negative changes in personality", but to make the analogy clear, you could say: "People with heart transplants see reduction of heart function".
> But the number of bitcoins is mathematically capped.

The number of bitcoins is capped at a distant future date; but in the present, it continually increases. This is similar to how a curved Earth can appear to be locally flat. For now and for many years to come, the supply of bitcoins does inflate constantly.
Interesting to see new DBs cropping up! I think there is much to improve over the choices popular today.

However, it's difficult to quickly grasp what makes Fauna unique. A comparison with e.g. CockroachDB would be nice!

A good example of doing this well is RethinkDB, that provided two comparisons with MongoDB (one biased, one unbiased).

1. Technical comparison (unbiased):

https://rethinkdb.com/docs/comparison-tables/

2. Personal comparison (biased):

https://rethinkdb.com/docs/rethinkdb-vs-mongodb/

Consul (not a DB though) also has these comparisons:

https://www.consul.io/intro/vs/index.html
The creativity coming out in this thread in order to sidestep the spirit of OP's question is remarkable. First we had comments talking about reframing the problem as one of cost of living, now the top comment is recommending working two jobs concurrently as a remote employee...what the hell.

OP clearly meant $250k at a single company. It would be nice if we didn't respond to that request by trying to interpret it as some sort of shitty X-Y problem like StackExchange. OP is (probably) an adult. Let's give them the benefit of the doubt that they don't need a weird lecture about how they're leaving money on the table and should abuse remote employement in response.

On a more practical note, there are two problems with your recommendation. First and foremost, many (most?) companies have an employment agreement forbidding freelancing or full time work with another company. Intellectual property gets very tricky if an employee is working for a company with a substantially similar product or market. If you're found out, you'd likely be fired.

Second, you're asking us to check our assumptions but your assumptions are frankly ridiculous. "Low performing teams in low performing organizations rarely require 4 hours of effort per day"?! How are you quantifying this? It's not just about net hours, it's also about contiguous time. What if you have consistently conflicting meetings? Your plan is to be someone sufficiently capable to excel at two jobs simultaneously with 40 hours or fewer per week, but this is a more sane option than reaching $250k at one company? Really?
You're right, it's very well established in the law and as it turns out people do have a reasonable expectation that they will not be under surveillance in public.
In Japan many cell phones have antennas to pick up OTA signals
> Facebook has been steadily making Instagram worse since they acquired it

Define worse, because basically every metric I'm aware of says that instagram is more popular and has higher user engagement than ever.

I think your "filtered feed" complaint is something that really ticks off a narrow segment of users, but that the remaining 99% doesn't care about at all. All they notice is a more interesting and relevant feed. Look at it this way - basically every major social network (instagram, twitter, facebook, youtube, etc) has implemented some sort of filtered feed. Every time some small segment of tech-savvy users or power users gets extremely annoyed and complains loudly, but I'm unaware of any network reversing the decision and going back to pure chronological - to me, that says that their internal engagement numbers overwhelmingly justify the decision.
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Same with radio in cars. It just works.
> That said, the big success story companies have been mostly (all?) been built on the butts in seats model.

Not sure about that claim... but certainly they weren't built on the open-office model.
Haha, sounds like the conditions are perfect for becoming a last minute bookie.
You're so hip bro. Thanks for the insight on the in crowd
Thanks for mentioning this, it's indeed one of the interesting subtleties of futex().

In my defense, I explicitly say in the post that it's not a replacement for the man page and suggest the readers at least go through the descriptions of FUTEX_WAIT and FUTEX_WAKE. The former explains this behavior in the very first sentence.

Moreover, the post mentions this behavior twice:

1. When explaining spurious wakeups in the wait_on_futex_value

[...] FUTEX_WAIT will immediately return if the
value at the futex address is not equal to val. In our case this can
happen if the child issued a wait before the parent wrote 0xA, for
example.

2. In a comment inside Mutex::lock()

// We're here when either:
// (a) the mutex was in fact unlocked (by an intervening thread).

But your point on avoiding an insidious deadlock is spot on.
I doubt that ordinance is enforced very heavily, but it does have a legitimate purpose. When you have tall grass rodents will move into the neighborhood and then chew their way into the nearby houses. They can cause considerable damage to nearby homes.
> I would use this if it didn't depend on OS-specific features.

I always make the same mistake to assume that none would deploy something on windows for a server–side environment.
Try some of the micro distillers up and down the state of Michigan. Then judge 'bad' vs 'good' whiskey.

At the end of the day, not liking something and not believing it is appropriate value are different than 'this stuff is broken'. Which seems to be the state of lots of micro distilleries.

[edit] also, i didnt want to imply I didn't like the Kavalan only that everyones whiskey guy is selling that stuff in Chicago right now. I havent actually tried it, mostly cause i blew my budget on mezcal a while back.
A plain english introduction to CAP Theorem (2011)
I would be very surprised if mining was the sole source of the funding simply because mining hardware is so expensive, and it would take a long time to mine $90,000.

The Bloomberg article says

> the defendants conspired to launder the equivalent of more than $95,000 through a web of transactions

So while they may have done some mining, I think the majority came via other sources.

That is certainly an interesting perspective though – that the increase in hash rate is due to people wanting to evade traditional currency systems to fund their illicit activities. It would not surprise me at all if some governments were involved in this too.
Washington too, a good chunk of our streets are diagonal.
Indeed. And it's not good.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-44722812

Actors have vented their fury at two audience members who watched England's World Cup penalty shoot-out on their phones in the front row of a musical.

Titanic The Musical actor Niall Sheehy said the women "not only followed the penalty shootout on their phone, but also said 'yesss' on each goal scored".

He declared: "You are the most ignorant audience members I have ever had the misfortune to perform in front of."
> While just over 1 million watched the last BBC england game on iplayer (before it crashed), at

3.8 million according to https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jul/08/england-world-...
> For example, some people like to work on cars, but they don't get a job in that because their dumb uncle said this to them, so they spend their time grinding away at a fast food joint and going nowhere in life

I think the dumb uncle is correct. Although, if you like something well enough, then you usually become good at it, which in some cases means that someone will pay you for it.

It's up to you if you want to extract the fun and convert it into cash. It may be worth it, or it may be not.
I find that super interesting - especially since they seem to have underperformed the 500 even after the deregulation bill passed in March.
Since Tom is browsing, I have a question - and this is my one and only major issue with TOML.

# THIS IS INVALID
a.b = 1
a.b.c = 2

Why? I'm sure there is very good reasoning - but it makes me have to reason about my data in a manner I consider backwards/confusing.

name.first = "Bob"
name.last = "Smith"
# Can't do this because name.first has already been defined
# name.first.alternative = "Robert"
# This is too ambiguous
name.alternative = "Robert"
# And this is backwards to me
name.alternative.first = "Robert"

Some people might suggest to instead do

first.name = "Bob"
last.name = "Smith"
alternative.first.name = "Robert"

But now nothing is scoped to [name] and if I need to get the full name I can't just pull in [name] but need to pull in [first], [last], and [alternative]. That's really messy in my opinion. All of these are names and should be scoped to [name] and not their own structure.
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I've heard repeatedly that in some cases Bitcoin is mined at a loss. This can be done to get money out of countries with capital controls or to launder money. They don't mind taking a haircut... it's the cost of doing business.
The incubation period for colds and flus is several days, usually about a week, so you wouldn't get sick the next day. Unless by "sick" you mean that you got food poisoning, but that wouldn't be from the owner's cough, but rather poor hygiene in the kitchen. Presumably the owner wasn't also making the food.
The paper cups have plastic linings which makes them hard to recycle at most places.
Its a remnant from a time when the US was a collection of states instead of a single country. The proverbial change of "the US are" to "the US is". The President is elected by the States just as Senators used to be. It was not about individual representation in the federal government, but representation by the States. This is what the EC was for. The States elect the President.

The US started out as a federation more like how Switzerland is. But over time more and more authority was placed into the federal government and more and more cultural identity was placed there as well. So there are vestiges of government that persist from that earlier time.
I did this and am so glad I did. After being with GitLab (a remote only company) for 6 months, I took the leap and bought a 5-acre hobby farm in rural Florida.

Pros: Quiet! No traffic sounds or screaming neighbors. The owls get a little crazy but I'll take it. Beautiful dark skies at night with no light pollution. In general, things feel more peaceful and slow, even if I am dealing with work deadlines.

Cons: Satellite internet (ugh). I had to supplement with a hot spot which has proved to be a lifesaver. There is a lot more upkeep with 5-acres to mow. I also have 2 rescue horses on the property but I consider that a pro :)
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Alone, the comment may have been solicitation, but couldn't be conspiracy.

But solicitation is also a crime.
I would love to have 2 days to WFH per week.
Funny story... We had a contractor start named "John Smith" and this guy just could not get on the domain, receive email, etc. All his shit was just not working until like a week after his start date.

My team doesn't handle new user creation, and it's a big company, where sometimes other teams may as well be other companies. I kept getting tickets from this guy and he's reporting that none of his stuff works. There's nothing I can do, but I try to help the guy out.

Anyway, a week later his stuff works. I guess whatever team does the new user creation never planned for there to be more than four employees with the same name, and their automation broke on "johnsmith5". Sigh.
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It's more a reference to what is going on in HK (infamous ads from 2012...) and nearby countries.
Baby formula is one example or straining the overall health care.
I've seen/read/experienced this process a lot. My personal theory is that when your hobby becomes a job, you find other hobbies.

One way I've managed to deal with this is by changing what I work on in a fairly frequent cadence. So either within the same company or in different companies, changing your squad/org and working on something totally different kinda satisfies my inner craving for programming. Its not easy or always possible to do so, but I've been lucky so far to be young and single and thus flexible with moving. Not sure how I'll handle this after I'm settled down and stuff.
I snuck an earlier feed via good old fashioned RTP (for testing purposes), and saw an england goal in the quarter finals 3 seconds ahead of them :D

I was really looking forward to the final, especially if it went to penalities :(
%macro stackpush 0
push rdi
push rsi
push rdx
push r10
push r8
push r9
push rbx
push rcx
%endmacro

%macro stackpop 0
pop rcx
pop rbx
pop r9
pop r8
pop r10
pop rdx
pop rsi
pop rdi
%endmacro

I guess that's one way of saving registers. Not particularly efficient, I guess, but it works…
> Please don’t conflate savings and investment

My savings are in MMAs, CDs and Treasuries. These earn interest and, on average, track inflation. Savings and investments shouldn’t be conflated; neither should saving and hoarding cash.
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Zoning is far too local: each municipality, acting in its own self-interest, protects its own and plans to make growth someone else’s problem. If we had zoning at a regional, state, or national level, this passing of the buck wouldn’t make sense, and those negatively affected by restrictive policy (people stuck commuting from elsewhere or simply unable to access job centers) would have some power over the decision.
AirBnB is a shitty company.

1. Apartments are more expensive than Hotels. I've been to 20 cities and I have yet to find an apartment that is cheaper than an equivalent Booking.com.

2. This probably works, however, because it is cheaper to book the same apartment for 3-4 people instead of being a single traveler.

3. This makes the target customers of Airbnb problematic guests (imagine having 3-4 new guests to the apartment everyday). Probably why neighbors are complaining about Airbnb.

4. The prices displayed are way distorted. It is way worse than booking.com. The price on the search function is like half of what you'll actually pay.

5. Pretty much every property is 5 star rated. Pretty much every guest is a nice guest. Really? This cannot possibly be the truth and probably mean that the rating system means crap.
This is exactly my point and the semantics do matter here because they relate to the epistemic nature of the content. Namely that humans can't directly interpret X-Rays (or other non-visible light emissions).

We have to convert X-Ray emissions into images or mathematical representations which we then interpret visually/logically. So there is some level of information compression which we have to do just to be able to do some interpretation.

This is not a hit on them at all, in fact it's a genius workaround. All I really want to point out here really is the limits to our perception and the lengths that we go to, in order to transform non-perceivable phenomena into into modalities that we can perceive. It's an exercise in investigating the boundaries of our epistemic capabilities.
And sometimes less care produces better outcomes. You can run too many diagnostics leading to more false positives.
Conversely, in the US a lot of medical data still needs to be sent by Fax... so it's still not perfect by any means
That's 3.8 total, not concurrently

I.e. people tried iplayer, saw how crap the experience was (in this niche case), then found a TV or pub with TV to watch it on.
> unnecessarily down on npm

What if, perhaps, they are deservedly [1][2].

[1] https://hackernoon.com/im-harvesting-credit-card-numbers-and...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20150515011238/https://nodejs.or...
Never tried it. Will now. Thanks!
Definitely looks like it. No library dependencies such like libc, makes it an ideal use case for embedded software.
> Are there obvious downsides to JSON for config that I'm missing?

for me, there are two. firstly, TOML supports comments.

secondly, TOML or INI is very readable without indentation. i have learned that removing indentation from configuration files makes non-technical people much more comfortable editing the file by hand. when many non-technical people see braces and indentation, they feel overwhelmed and associate it with complexity.

i don't really use TOML's more advanced features, though. i basically just use it like INI.
Facial recognition is not a business need in and of itself, but it can be used to fulfill business needs
How does this degree of influence factor in with their decisions to drop competitor's proucts? (ex. the Chromecast spat with Google)
I made something similar that uses zero width Unicode characters to encode a message.

https://secretsigner.com
Zoning power is delegated from states to municipalities, but this is not required. States can and do impose limits.
> the supply of bitcoins does inflate constantly

Inflation is a measure on prices, not money supply. Bitcoin’s money supply is increasing. It is, on average, deflationary.
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It has actually made me wonder why Instagram needs Facebook at all. If they had managed to stay independent, I'm sure they could have continued to do very, very well.
> Conversely, in the US a lot of medical data still needs to be sent by Fax...

That's actually largely because fax is exempt from security requirement applicable to electronic communication under HIPAAit's a loophole organizations exploit to avoid the cost of secure comms.
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They all smelled the same, they were the first company I ever noticed that with. I've since learned doing that is an actual science/industry.
My experience tends to confirm this. I have had two personal therapists, one was of the "Why do _you_ think you feel that way?" ilk with some kind of counseling certification, and the other was an evidence-based practitioner with a PsyD. The former didn't help me at all and the latter changed my life.

My wife and I saw two couples therapists. One was, again, a guy with some kind of certificate that did things like literally pulling the Good Will Hunting "It's not your fault. It's not your fault." hand-on-knee line as well as outright verbally attacking my wife. The other was a PsyD who made more progress with us in three sessions than almost a year of sessions with the other.

The crux of it all, in my estimation, is that you get what you pay for. A PsyD having a doctorate can command hundreds per hour which puts them out of range for many people.
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The problem is we only have a finite amount of spectrum available, and people like choice, so there are more channels than there are slots in the airwaves for them to be broadcast.

Just like the phones in the UK will, in the not too distant future, move from POTS to a fully packet switched network, so too will television, especially once at least superfast (24Mbps and up) broadband is available to all - there are already rumblings that Sky would like to move to IPTV instead of having to bounce their signals off a satellite.
The problem with writing books is that the field is totally saturated. That's why you either stick to writing software or be able to write about book about a unique experience you had that already had noteworthy impact such that there is a ready-made audience for it. Or you write about a subject matter on which you are the foremost expert/inventor.

Just Joe Nobody writing a fiction novel? You might better buy Lotto tickets, sorry. Good luck, though. A lot of people self-publish on Amazon and cut out the traditional money grubbing editors and publisher middlemen. Might want to look into that (you probably have already).
Good. Today i called Amazon to complain something i ordered never arrived. No questions asked refunded. Needed it urgently so went to a brick and mortar store down the road to buy it. 3x the price, and they took 15 minutes to process my sale. If anyone wants to match the amazon experience anywhere else in my life, take my money!
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I'm honestly surprised it isn't bigger. That's some serious king effect in the diagram.
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This does not claim to be a markup language.

According to the repo history, it did... 5 years ago, until someone noticed and corrected it.
First of all, I believe that it DOES need to be demonstrated -- repeatedly, to lots of people, so we can change how we respond to such a situation.

But more relevantly, this experiment was not attempting to "demonstrate" the effect. It was attempting to better understand the effect. That, in particular, is research that we badly need.

(PS: I'm defending the idea of performing this sort of experiment, not the specific experimental protocol followed. In particular, I question whether applying negative judgements to people is actually a valid proxy for causing harm.)
> If this seems odd, it's only because modern Americans have largely stopped thinking of the United States as, well, a set of united states. But that's exactly what they are.

Yes, this is exactly my point. The EC comes from an earlier time when the US are instead of the US is. But that has clearly changed. Its a vestige of a different form of governance. The power of government derives from the people, not the past. How people currently view the US is how the government should operate.

So using the EC as some excuse for resistance against mob rule is not only against its original intended purpose but also against what people actually want currently. People want the US to be viewed as the identity of the country, not the individual separate countries. People want to elect the President, they don't want the States to.
> "He clearly knew that fat is a high-energy source and he really composed his diet to survive at high altitude."

Perhaps there is more evidence behind this statement left out in the article? How do we know what he "clearly knew", did his diet differ greatly from others of the same region and time period?
You know, I’ve been on HN for nearly a decade now. The fact that this is downvoted while some snarky Reddit-esque joke is upvoted is rather disappointing. I guess it was inevitable.
From those listed I’d say the Western world’s.

The list doesn’t mention either common law or civil law. As different from each other as those are they’re still mutually intelligible.