skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not surprised. I am a programmer with decades of experience under my belt, and I have no idea how to install bitcoin in a way that would allow me convenient use of it. No, I can install the apps, and I can spend a month or two waiting until it downloads the whole 40+G of current blockchain, or I can trust some site that says it'd fix it for me, or I can open an account on any of the exchanges and pray to cryptogods it's not the one that is going to be robbed or go bust next. But why would I?

Now, if I would plan to trade in commodities that local government is frowning upon, or speculatively invest in assets that make Las Vegas look like index funds, it would be worth my while. But I don't, so it isn't.

Now make a step from myself - the experienced professional who actually knows what Bitcoin is and can probably explain how it works without wading too far from the truth - to a person who doesn't know the difference between "browser" and "internet". Why on earth would they go through this trouble - and more importantly, why on earth anybody who cares about them would advice them to go there at all? My advice to anybody who is not an agressive risk investor or a person with interests misaligned with current law would be "not with a ten foot pole". Right now it's so ripe with opportunities for both unintentional screwups and intentional skullduggery that I don't see how people can do consumer commerce with it.
I feel I gotta mention Tinc https://www.tinc-vpn.org The article mentions it's existence but then ignores it...

It is as easy to use as WireGuard and has two advantages over wireguard. 1. It will automatically mess, and find the best path. 2. It has a far wider range of platforms supported than wireguard.
I've used Anki over the past 8 years or so very successfully. I strongly recommend it to anyone learning a language. Here are some tips to get the most out of it:

* Only put things you know into Anki. An individual Anki card should feel a little too easy when you make it.

* Put in words with a good amount of context. Avoid single words as much as possible. The quickest way to do this is to just input the sentence from the book/TV where you learned the word. You'll learn collocations and grammar structures by doing this.

* Delete cards when they give you trouble. Language learning is a marathon, if the word is important you'll see it again. If you keep getting a card wrong then you probably didn't actually learn it in the first place, or the card is written in a confusing way.

* Avoid the temptation to input huge lists of words automatically. Lots of beginners download "3000 Most Common Words", put them all into Anki and then give up within a few weeks. A language is much more than just a list of words.
There's nothing respectable or heroic about WWII either. I did not imply that there was. It was, for the US, a war of self defense and that's the only justification I can accept for war. It doesn't make heroes out of the people that fought it either, however. It was just as dark and horrible an event for the allies as it was for the axis. Both sides were dragged down into the ugliest pit of human existence possible. Unfortunately, it only takes one side to drag every other side down into such a dark abyss and turn men into savages. It's horrible that this ever happens; it's even more horrible when it's your own country dragging down everyone else into this dark abyss by starting wars. The worst is when men like McCain lead us into this abyss without logic or reason. Why were we in Iraq when it was Saudis trained in Afghanistan that attacked us? Just because they are Arabs with darker skin and a different religion. That's not much different than the insane reasons Hitler had for starting his war. It's despicable and unforgivable in both cases.
We use fio

fio -ioengine=psync -bs=32k -fdatasync=1 -thread -rw=write -size=10G -filename=test -name="PingCAP max throughput" -iodepth=4 -runtime=60 -numjobs=1 -group_reporting

and find that local disk has a bad performance than persistent disk.

A detailed report https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OP1VnGlQx__jW2i8sLfmZWqf...

Btw, if we remove -fdatasync=1 and use -direct=1 to bypass page cache, the local SSD disk has a better performance.

Interesting. Does anyone know about it?
Deploying NGINX Plus as an API Gateway, Part 1
They are not trying to hide anything. They publish hundreds of pages of data about employment and unemployment every month. Just because the one most popular number doesn't completely describe the entire state of employment for the entire country (how could any one number completely describe it?) doesn't mean they are trying to hide anything.
Oh I forgot. My "big break" product was actually from a mentor who needed the prduct. Had nothing to do with me hunting it down. Kind of funny actually. I can't really tell you what the secret to any success it accept seems that the more you work in the direction you want to go the closer you get. But some of it is just luck. Don't have any strong opinions for you.
Might help if you tell us in which country and what sector you are working in.
> Am I even Korean anymore if there’s no one left in my life to call and ask which brand of seaweed we used to buy?

Sorry for the author's loss, but crying alone in an H Mart out of bitter anguish and deep longing is probably the most Korean thing ever.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_(cultural)
I think it's really unfair to call Bitcoin "failed". It has unarguably changed the world. There was way too much hype about it changing everything.
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This is really a sign that big non-tech-centered orgs cannot get the best talent nowadays. Lots of banks pay under 2/3 of the real asking price for a great programmer.
This isn’t about a random outlier it’s about statistics.
Moores law is well and truly dead.

That's one design cycle == 10x improvement.

So not unreasonable within the context of the history of the industry.

The proof will be in the product when it ships.
Moderators of highly restrictive instances (the most populous ones) blacklist all the instances they don't like. In fact most of those instances use a shared blacklist. So you have to make a choice: either you choose a restrictive instance and you can't talk about whatever you want (because with so many rules, where are they even drawing the line), or you go to a free instance and can't talk to anybody in the most populous instances (most of the network).

Or you simply get the best of both worlds and stay on Twitter.
And some bad ideas succeed. Flappy Bird and ship your enemies glitter come to mind.
You are but one google search away from discovering the local coin shop - if you live in US at least. Other countries may be different, in some it would indeed be a challenge. Bitcoin is accessible as far as you trust middlemen, having local bitcoin setup with a secure wallet is not something average consumer would feel comfortable with, last time I checked.
That's incorrect. It has begun in America. Just not in the manner some would like. The bottom has seen a dramatic improvement, the middle class has not.

The inflation adjusted per capita income transfer for welfare programs has nearly tripled since 1979.

The US welfare state has massively expanded over 30 and 40 years. The rich are paying for that social safety net expansion. The top 20% pay 87% of all income taxes in the US.

Nobody ever wants to talk about these facts because it's unpopular and deflates the propaganda.

US poverty is near an all-time low. Homelessness is at an all-time low. The poor now have near universal healthcare coverage.

The US spends more on welfare programs as a share of GDP than what Australia and Canada do. It'll surpass Switzerland on that metric within a couple of years. The US has a lower homelessness rate than Canada or France and a poverty rate as low as those.
That's also a goal bestowed on Bitcoin by 3rd parties. I don't think the original paper mentioned anything about libertarian wet dreams.
I think it's more about processes than anything else.

I've worked at a company with poor processes around code quality, testing, and deployment. Every release day, we know we would have a very late night because of all of the customer-facing bugs our inadequate QA processes didn't catch. We also had regular outages for the same reason, often in the middle of the night. We didn't have good monitoring systems so problems often came to our attention only after customers had been affected for hours. And we didn't have useful post-mortems so the same problems happened again and again.

Now I work at a much larger company, where the stakes for production problems are much higher. But I am not stressed out, because we do such a good job with testing and monitoring that (fingers crossed) I've only had one bad night troubleshooting production problems during the entire previous year. And when something goes wrong, we take steps to make sure it can't happen again.

The second corporate culture is the one you should look for it you want a low-stress job. You're more likely to find it at companies that have been around for a while, but there are younger companies like that too.
Long-Term Trajectories of Human Civilization
I think I would've said something close to $15k either way. $5k isn't insulting (in my opinion) given the context. $1k would definitely be insulting.
I agree this should be your first choice if you want to stay employed. That's a legitimate "if" since some people may want to take time off from employment for personal reasons or to focus on a project. If that's you, you have my blessing. Think it through, and do what's right for you.

I was working as an M&A analyst at an investment bank, and this job has an implied shelf-life. A typical program is two years, and some people stay on for a third year as an "Associate I". Your options for jobs after an investment banking analyst program are much narrower than I estimated when I left college to seek my fortune. Analysts will usually go one of three places: private equity (or venture capital depending on your background), corporate finance (M&A at a big company), or hedge fund. The sad truth that haunts me to this day is, I thought my duty was to quit when my time was up. An Associate I position was not available at my bank after my two years, so I decided to leave. I interviewed for a few positions before leaving (one of them serious), but I didn't receive any offers. I was burned out and really just want to get out of there. One of my coworkers asked me what I planned to do when I left. I said, "Whatever the hell I want." One other serious misestimation on my part: turns out I was not enthusiastic about fighting for a job in an industry that already had too many people fighting for not enough scraps.

I required a lot of time and self-reflection to not get some combination of angry, sad, and ashamed when recounting my time in finance. One thing that still upsets me today is, I was a naive 25 year old who didn't even understand the terms of my employment. I was not a contract employee; our agreement was employment-at-will, and I was under no obligation to leave. Yet, the HR department at my bank hardly even acknowledged that I was leaving. Someone told me to leave my keycard and Blackberry on my desk before I left. No exit interview or discussion of any kind. They really let me down because I was clueless. Could I have asked a lot of questions? Yes! And if you are in a similar situation, learn from my mistake. Ask a lot of questions, and find the right people you need to be asking. The thing you should understand about investment banking is, it tends to be a conservative environment with a strong hierarchy. Analysts are at the bottom of the hierarchy. The best analysts are those who efficiently do what they are told to do. I was very good at not complaining even when things sucked, and I was pretty good at the actual work too. But unfortunately, when I thought I was being told to leave. I followed that order too well, and I didn't complain.
I'd say one of the main benefits with Anki or SuperMemo is that the automation of the algorithm allows for many more variables than you could track manually. For each card, the history of its reviews can be remembered and taken into account―e.g. both Anki and SM have several possible answers for how well you remember the card instead of just "yes/no," varying the next interval relative to the previous one. You can tune parameters for each set of cards, allocating more or less attention to them depending on how easily you remember different kinds of information. This control, IMO, optimizes the schedule over the course of months. (Though it does make tweaking the params rather complicated sometimes.)
Chubin/wttr.in: The right way to check the weather
Location may matter. I suspect working in the Midwest is lower stakes than on the coasts, possibly with a better environment (e.g., easy access to the great outdoors), and less fearsome commutes.
Forget all the Mars rovers. I really couldn't care less whether anyone gets to mars in my lifetime. That won't change much of anything. I don't want to hear the decades of debate on whether Mars had microbes once upon a time. I want a telescope to find an atmosphere proving that jungles exist on other planets today. I want them to find a planet so thick with life that nobody can deny it. I want Degobah. That will expand our perspective as a species.
I run a Mastodon instance. And to be honest the reason a lot of us tend to block right-wing instances is because there is a heavy crossover with trolling behavior. Or at least that’s mine.

If a right-leaning instance showed up that actively cracked down on people who hang out on the federated timeline looking for people to argue with, and other trolling behavior, I wouldn’t block it. But I haven’t seen such a thing. It’s just an endless sea of Pleroma installations with an admin who has an anime girl avatar and posts shit like “watch me get blocked by twenty more instances: [ethnic slur]”.
So, we should limit discussions on HN to people with WSJ subscriptions?

I feel like anything posted here shouldn't be behind a pay wall. Especially such an easy to bypass pay wall.

Kind of tempted to write a plugin that would change the referral URL from Hacker News to make it look like a Google Search just to get around this stuff once...

I don't object to WSJ charging money, I just object to the way they give the article away if you Google it and try and charge for it if yo don't. It's silly.
Is it usual to get bonuses for finishing early on gov projects?

Do other construction companies realistically struggle to finish early because of their inefficient structure or is some other compulsion factor at play?
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I hope the programmers are given computers by default :)
I tried it awhile ago, and it didn't work well, but I'll try it again. Incremental reading is kind of finicky to get right. Incremental reading is the real draw of these programs for me, and Supermemo (despite it's flaws) is kind of the only one that has a decent implementation of it.
> Jason's answer is that updating the web page is a low priority for him

I really don't understand this. Why not just update the webpage and eliminate having to give the same response every time, since it seems to be asked a lot?
Uh no. Counter.social broke themselves off of the federation.

Also: your Mastodon admin could well be someone you know personally, rather than @jack.
so many haters on HN. maybe write smt useful yourself before criticizing the product
> inductivism is deriving general rules from specific observations

OK, on that view, yes, they are the same. But inductivism is generally understood to be more specific than that. It is generally understood to be a particular way of deriving general rules from specific observations, namely, by simply generalizing the data into patterns without any regard for causal mechanisms. So, for example, if you see (say) 100 crows and they are all black, induction tells you to conclude that all crows are black without ever asking why crows are black.
My UK NI number is burned into my brain. It might be because it was given to me at a highly emotional time (transition from school to unemployment and university) or because I had to know it to complete forms (UB-40 and P-45 employment status).

From thirty years distance, trying to re-connect to my UK pension rights, as a non-resident migrant, it floated back up into my consciousness instantly. I suspect even with dementia its one of the digit strings I'll hang onto.

FWIW former forces probably have their serial number forwards and backwards because of hazing. I only have my NI number because of money.
In the midwest (U.S.), grain elevators are the big cement silo looking things you see in movies set in Iowa or Kansas. Really, elevators are synonymous with ag cooperative businesses. Grain storage is a primary function of these businesses. In the fall (harvest), they get really busy, and I worked as a seasonal employee. Long hours, dirty work, but the pay was not bad with all the overtime.
You didn’t address my point at all. You claimed that “cost efficies” are a negative about capitalism and I said that’s the reason why level of wealth has changed increased dramatically even for the lowest rung.

Just because it’s disproportionate doesn’t mean my statement isn’t true.
Placebo effect is real people. The Nacirema may be onto something.
For the social part to really work, you need a community to adopt it. Not just an internet community.
Good to see alternatives to Twitter however.

Generally don't like AJAX, it's JS and XML, and in the latter case Twitter services don't require Stylesheets or XLS as it's called -- without -- XML is bloated and creates metadata for sale. In addition to AJAX allowing Orwellian advertisement influence.

Edit: this gets downvoted? reasonable technical criticism or dialogue.
This is great for understanding why simpler logics (Boolean) are computable but too expressive ones (FO) are not. As soon as the logic is able to make statements about itself, things get 'weird'. A not formal(!) but imho still intuitive example:

"This sentence has five words."

This is a true statement. And we know that the conjunction of two true statements should also be true.

"This sentence has five words and this sentence has five words."

With eleven words each part of this statement is obviously false and here we can't rely on the "and", which we are used to from the simpler logics, anymore.
> A really inexpensive place to get a quick meal. . Can’t expect much more from it.

I reckon the food there is pretty good quality, especially by London standards. Though the menu is pretty basic. At least that was my assessment 10 years ago when I lived there.
Generally IT / infrastructure / administrative are the most checked out, coasting, least engaged, least applied folks, with the exception being poorly designed environments where you're always dealing with outages. And of course there's high risk if you get it wrong.

Generally work that has a direct customer and user requirements, like application design (closer to the front end of an application) is more stressful, with API/backend layer less stressful. There's less pressure to deliver features and it's easier to apply straight SE principles without having to care as much about the end product. Generally the further you get away from end user customer deliverables, the less stress there is.
So we do agree. You're saying nothing new to me, but you're showing that we share understanding in the end.

The whole point is that when we communicate, we use (often mediocre) conventions.

3/4 and 6/8 are notational things with nothing but convention determining their meaning. But same with the entire notation system, it's just shapes with no meaning until we assign meaning to it.

The only really valid theory of music is one that embraces the subjective psychology of it (music cognition etc).

To say that music where one can't find the beat is "in 6" is already weird. It's only "in 6" if there's something about a 6-beat meter in the mind of some person, listener or performer. We can listen to something together and you can experience it in 6 while I experience it in 7, if we're capable of those different subjective interpretations (and the sound content will affect whether that's easier or harder).

The whole point is that while the prejudicial approaches to music are wrong (music is 100% subjective), the purpose of the original article (by my charitable interpretation) is to describe two different subjective experiences that are possible, hemiola being about the most basic introduction to such concepts for beginners.

So, I took your original "no difference" comment to be a denial of the existence of two distinct subjective experiences just because the notation can be seen (ignoring convention) to have no indication of the difference.

You can see how I could take your post that way. I think it's really valuable for anyone learning about music to understand these subjective experiences and their differences. We agree that it's crappy to assert that these subjective experiences are in the notation, but I was willing to see "6/8 vs 3/4" as a communication stand-in for the subjective difference that is real.

Surely, some people say "6/8 vs 3/4" and mean to assert some difference that is just not really there. And others use it to refer to the hemiola distinction of subjectively parsing an accent in these two ways. The former is a delusion, the latter is a valid insight.

P.S. In case you haven't seen it, one of the neatest rhythm things out there is http://bouncemetronome.com/ — it goes intro demostrating beautifully any level of polyrhythms, including offset ones evolving ones, rhythms that phase over time because of differently changing tempos, and a ludicriously long list of other things… a fun crazy tool to get anyone into stuff way beyond whatever conventional music system they may have learned otherwise. I doubt much of it would be entirely novel to you, but you may still appreciate it. The options are enormous, hard to find the limits.
It's very possible!

Source: I'm developer, I have very little to no stress.
Neither were social security numbers. If OPM and equifax breaches weren't enough,I don't know what is.

I think the west as a whole would change fast when this information is used against them in war with a formidable adversary(russia,china...)
SSN isn't supposed to be secret, either. Neither is your mother's maiden name or whatever. But people use them as authenticators anyway.
because they could sell the house and invest the money in stocks and bonds and make more than renting to you at the discount.
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Depends on what you find stressful.
Why would anyone care about this? Web development, as a profession, is going away. Look at Squarespace. Look at how low web-developer salaries are.
I think he means they are as good as dead. They are so useless, they might as well be dead.
Is there a convenient workflow for kindle highlights - > flashcards?
I appreciate the honesty of your question. I think you probably miss a lot of nuance about what it's like to be a middle-of-the-road person. As someone from a lower middle class background and being of mixed race I can probably give you a few hundred answers for what's wrong with being 'elite' in the political sphere, but I'll leave at this to think about: Which political party has painted itself into a corner of perceived 'elitism' the last election cycle?

The 'elites' underestimate the middle-of-the-road at their political peril.
> Generally don't like AJAX, it's JS and XML, and in the latter case Twitter services don't require Stylesheets or XLS as it's called -- without -- XML is bloated and creates metadata for sale. In addition to AJAX allowing Orwellian advertisement influence.

...what?