skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really curious whether this frustration is truly because of the limitation of the technology(which is totally possible) or because of some sort of cognitive bias/confirmation. Would they feel the same frustration if the van had no decals or visible sensors? Are they more frustrated at the cars more than the other drivers? Community "anger" can be really perplexing like how a community of people were complaining about the ailments from a phone tower when the company already turned off the tower six weeks prior.

[1]https://mybroadband.co.za/news/wireless/11099-massive-revela...
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I wonder are people really using go where performance is bottlenecking on code (and not say network)?
No, going straight has priority over turning traffic, a bike has priority over a minivan, and it's the responsibility of everyone to not cause a collision. The cyclist is right three times over.
We tested it, but the performancd was bad. We needed hundred workflows with few hundred taks each, and Airflow would just topple over daily.

We ended up with proprietary tool from Teradata thats basically Airflow written in perl - but it can handle all the work.

Other than scalability, Airflow is pretty nice.
I hate the "Gen X/Y/Z" terms, why do these even exist?
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Why are we trying to pretend that meaningful competition is possible in this sphere, or that it would produce a better result for the student?
this dataset contains the unique national ID, home address, cell phone number, bank card number of 130 million Chinese. you also get to know the exact time and duration of who they shared a hotel room with. it is _not_ common.
Maybe we should measure in decidegrees Celsius.

20.2°C = 202d°C
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I prefer /dev/urandom or /dev/zero. They have a much higher likelihood of returning the data I wrote.
Agreed.

compared to exactis and and experian leaks though, I am wondering what makes this data valuable? (pardon my ignorance)

Edit: appears you answered in another thread.

> this dataset contains the unique national ID, home address, cell phone number, bank card number of 130 million Chinese. you also get to know who they shared a hotel room with. it is _not_ common.
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I don't think that is the case. If it is, I am fine with it.
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This one we are discussing is simply a 4X JavaScript game. It has almost nothing to do with the actual Civilization game.

Screenshot: https://cdn.pbrd.co/images/HBqxLGp.png
You don't really get source code. You only get bytecode that's harder to reverse than a fully compiled binary if only for the lack of tooling.
Yes, even here on HN, in the fall of 2016 you'd recive massive downvotes for not hating enough on conservatives.

I ended up stating on most of my posts that I didn't like Trump and didn't want him to win but

- just tried to come up with an explanation for why so many others voted for him

- or tried to point out that the rules that allowed him to win had allowed democrats to win before

- etc

I still received loads of downvotes (I'd see my points rising and then falling sharply, seemingly when some part of the word woke up.)

All in all I came out positive wrt useless points but I still wondered about it.

And BTW: I still really don't like that man.
> I am usually sceptical of anything that has even a whiff of human exceptionalism

Why are you skeptical? There is clearly a huge leap in rational intelligence when you go from other animals to humans. I would expect we would eventually find a reason for it.
"These types of cells [inhibitory neurons] are extremely important," he says. And when there's dysfunction in them, he says, that can "directly be linked to different types of neuropsychiatric disease, like schizophrenia."

That's a really bold claim with nothing in the article backing it up. If I put my thinking cap on, perhaps there is an established link between failure of inhibitory neurons and neuropsychiatric disease (this would not surprise me but it's not called out in the article), but even if that has been established it's a big leap to assign so much importance to this particular variant of inhibitory neuron that has just been discovered (in dead people) and is barely understood.
That'd be so handy. Especially when going somewhere where the connection is by train or whatever and half an hour of biking at the ends is no problem.
These all seen like great reasons to resign in writing. You can be very clear and you won't forget anything important in the heat of the moment. Your manager can similarly provide a measured response.

I always do this and I've maintained cordial relations with former employers.
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>The state has handled juvenile detention pretty terribly all around, at least in america.

Isn't this just an example of private interests interfering with what the state can do sufficiently in the first place? It's definitely a common problem with the American government, but not necessarily a knock against the state's (as entity) ability to regulate social behaviors in a consistent manner.

Also with the splitting of families, we know that this was intended and explicitly designed as a process by the current administration as a way to socially influence immigrates; it was designed to reduce the amount of people who thought the risk of legal/illegal immigration would be worth it.

These are certainly inhumane practices, no argument there, and I definitely don't agree with them.
I'm aware of classical liberals, but minus some minor differences the contemporary term for them is "libertarian"; in my experience the only people who use the term 'classical liberal' are libertarians seeking to distance themselves from their own cohort.
yeah, sad you can't sell those things more than once...
There's a bunch of different tools to do the same job, from manual cron jobs, to Luigi, Pinball, Azkaban, Oozie, Taverna, Mistral.

I've started to use it for personal projects, and slowly probing for adoption in our shop, where applicable.

The good points I have seen

- It's simple Python, and not XML like Azkaban. I've seen people with less technical expertise build useful stuff quickly, and automate their workflows.

- Very good UI, which just lets you do what you need without fuss.

- Easy to build modular and interactive flows, with interesting stuff as sensors, communications between operators, triggers etc.

- Everything is stored into a database, which I can query about anything related to the processes run and Airflow itself

- Its source is grok-able and documented, it allows you to easily add your own modules (or "operators" as they're called)

- Many add-on modules for operators already exist from the community

- Easier to force the team to version control your process flows

Some cons, from the light use I've seen

- If you scale beyond a point, you have to take care of scaling the database as well, adding DBA work

- I've encountered some issues with scheduler and backfilled jobs, and `depends_on_past`, but it might be my limited experience

- People may start to use specific external dependencies/modules, which you will then need to keep track of

- Uses its own lingo/terminology, which you'll have to learn and use

- Uses system time, so no running in different timezones

I have high hopes for the project, as it's currently incubating for the Apache Foundation, and I hope it remains minimal and keeps the present scope.

If it seems interesting to you, my suggestion is to start small, keep in mind that it handles relations between tasks and not data, and try to automate some easy bash script that you currently handle with cron.
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Oh please. So everyone who has concerns about the loss of privacy must have a superiority complex?

"You're not a special snowflake just because you don't have an app installed on your phone"

...I think I figured out who actually has the superiority complex here.
can you elaborate on this? would love to explore, but where exactly to start?
Does anyone here have suggestions or similar experience with strategies to maintain physical practices like sports, martial arts or playing musical instruments?
Awesome and crazy Kotlin examples
It's basically Civilization 0.1
I’m guessing people see them as surplus unnecessary vehicles adding to the congestion they already experience. The alternative is that they are anti-automation, perhaps.
I agree the diagrams from text is what's needed, since they can be maintained in version control, or even just maintained. Since so many diagrams I look at are produced to share a message and become out of date almost instantly. Developers work in text, so should the visualization tools.
When the adults can’t catch enough to feed themselves and the chicks, they make an instinctive Malthusian choice; the chicks starve. Dr. Fayet called her quest “heartbreaking”: “You put your hand in the burrow and feel with your hand a little ball on the floor, but then you realize it’s cold, and not moving.”
With possibly great reward comes relatively great risk. Anybody currently mentally unstable or with family history of these things shouldn't touch psychedelics, or any other drug including higher doses of alcohol, probably ever. There are not that many people in the western world who never ever got drunk.

During one of few mushroom experiences I encountered, i was lying in the bed, alone, eyes closed. I gradually lost all the sensory inputs from whole body, perceiving via some sort of 'inner vision'. I got dissolved into white mist of atoms and just swirled around in an endless dance to the tune of some relaxing music playing in real world.

When coming down, I literally slowly assembled myself back to original me, atom by atom, first the mind, then rediscovery of body, eyes, taste and so on. I felt very strongly that if something was broken in me, this assembly back wouldn't work very well, or at least it would reveal some dark spots in my personality. Maybe not trigger them, who knows.

I could break the experience anytime if I wanted, but there was no need, it was beautiful all the way through.
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I highly recommend adding a browser extension to block out likes and other crap. Personally, I use Stay Productive for Firefox

(disclaimer: I am not the creator of the extension)

https://github.com/antitoine/stay-productive
I think a healthy level of social media use is to share photos, and ask for advice and recommendations. Anything else is social engineering that you are a deliberate manipulator of or unbeknownst participator. Flame bait, click bait, emotionally charged posts of the troll-or-be-trolled should be avoided. Also, comparison is the thief of joy. Don't do it. If you find yourself feeling inadequate compared to others, just keep in mind that most people feel that way, consciously or not. Keep in mind that you should only ever compare yourself to your past self, not to other people.
It sounds weird that you had these problems. Silly question, but might it have been a database optimization issue?
> The anecdotes highlight how challenging it can be for self-driving cars, which are programmed to drive conservatively, to master situations that human drivers can handle with relative ease, like merging or finding a gap in traffic to make a turn.

Human drivers are terrible at both of these. I'm regularly getting stuck behind people who won't make a right turn even as a line of people are making the left turn that shields the turn they're trying to make. I see a lot more promise of computer-driven cars at least being able to improve over time as a group.
Points lost for claiming VPNs are a way to access the dark web. Points gained for referring to Tor as a privacy oriented tool.
Maybe the presence of 7,646,237,844 people in the world has something to do with it; at the end of the day for as sad as it seems the best thing it could happen to wildlife is a plague that only affects humans (perhaps a plague that sterilizes us would suffice)
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The claim isn't that bold, there is a well established link between inhibitory neuron disfunction and neuropsychiatric disorders.

I think you're mis-reading the comment. The passage says that inhibitory neurons are important, not the 'Rose Hip' neurons.
I'm also wondering what part of this is due to them being programmed to follow the letter of the law, instead of driving like other drivers.
I had my first (of two) kid when I was 35 and a couple things helped a lot:

- I was one of the older cousins on both sides of big families so I got to see a lot of little kids running around.

- I read this amazing post from Jeff Atwood: https://blog.codinghorror.com/on-parenthood/

- I watched this talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/rufus_griscom_alisa_volkman_let_s_...

- I read a good quote that went something like this: "I asked my dad if I was ready for kids and he said 'If you are worried having kids will mess up your life, then you're not ready because you are still thinking about yourself. If you are worried that you might mess up THEIR life, then you are probably ready because it means you are already thinking about them.' "

Children definitely change your life and are a lot of work. That being said, the first time they smile at you or call you "Dada" or "Mama" it feels like you won the emotional lottery. Then each milestone big or small just keeps adding to that feeling.
Please don’t make up rules.
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14 year olds can't go into a bar in quite a lot of cities and towns in the U.S. sometimes not even with an adult or a parent. There's precedent for regulations that keep kids out of certain situations, rather than expecting parents are tracking their child's every movement.

The degree to which businesses and their platforms are subject to "free speech" vs "fighting words" is thus far entirely up to the officers/board of those companies, society has zero say legally, short of re-regulating some of these businesses as public utilities.

Ths is going to be open and on-going question as anonymity permits people the power to say and do things they wouldn't do in person because if they did, they know it would damage their reputations.
And online personas have trivially disposable and resettable reputation.
Anger is a choice (or at least learned behavior), and never an appropriate one.

People say that you should be yourself and don't listen to others despite the fact that we know that it's at best disingenuous, because we have a need for others to validate our identities. Similarly, we talk about "true love" and "justice" because we need to be loved and we need to believe that justice exists.
It does. Popper's answer to the paradox of tolerance works perfectly well regardless of which side of the political spectrum you're on:

"I'm righteously intolerant of the political right's intolerance of my beliefs."

"Oh yeah? Well, I'm righteously intolerant of the political left's intolerance of my beliefs."

In the end, invoking the paradox is just a convenient fig leaf for those who want to justify their bad behavior.

(And that's completely ignoring the fact that Popper's answer to his paradox is not the only one, as the Wikipedia article itself mentions.)
It really depends on the person I guess. For example I live close to the sea so I get to swim a lot in the summer. As a kid we didn't have air conditioning in the car so when I arrived I was super hot and I jumped straight into the water. After we got an air-conditioned car a bit part of the appeal went away. Nowadays when I go to the sea I make sure to turn the air conditioner off for the last few minutes before I get there to get some of the extra satisfaction.

Notice that e.g. on the coffee example I specifically didn't suggest ordering coffee automatically for you or something. I buy fresh grinded(is that the right word?) coffee myself that I buy from a local coffee shop so all I would want is a reminder-maybe a specific text file where I input the stuff that I need to buy and the coffee machine adds coffee on it automatically. Then I can sync that file to my phone when I go shopping( maybe a couple of QR codes?).

Anyway the point of home IOT for me would be to get ease the mental load of keeping up with the house and maybe save some time with e.g. the bath tub( maybe if you decide to connect the system to your smartphone with e.g. a key exchange via lan you could tell the bath tub to extend the time that it keeps the water ready).
It sounds like you are looking for a loophole. This is really bad idea. Don't throw away your future for something that is statistically going to fail.

However, after giving that a disclaimer, I know quite a few H1Bs who have side projects. As an H1-B visa holder, you are not allowed to work for anyone except for your sponsor. You cannot work for your own business same as F1 students.

So they don't make any money off them and are very careful to make it look like a business. They don't even have affiliate links or anything on their websites. Everything is 100% free.

However, privately their hope is that one day once they are citizens, they can monetize their product or sell it.

In a way, I envy their position because they are able to focus on product 100% without worrying about monetization.
Yeah, the scientific Python world is a different story, but I’d say most Python libraries are simple to use, including the AWS SDK. Agreed that SQLAlchemy is much tougher to use if you opt in to their DSL, but to be fair that’s true of every SQL lib with a DSL, in every language I’ve used.

Basically, I find that though it’s possible to do all sorts of crazy shit in Python, most popular libraries have simple APIs, because simplicity is part of Python’s culture. There are certainly exceptions though.
The upside of being a freelancer / contractor is that you make 100% of the rate you charge. The downside is that you have to take care of all the overheard as well (lead generation, benefits, tools, accounting, etc).

If you're able to charge a high enough rate, then yes you will make more money than you could in most full time positions. But this depends alot on your ability to market yourself and handle the overhead I mentioned.
Aren't you simply doing the same thing with an opposite opinion?

Your "communicate over long distances" reasoning is just additional bunk... unless of course, you consider email social media.
I agree that legitimacy of the job comes first, but don't think bail bondsmen are illegitimate. They definitely aren't illegitimate if you think there should be bail system. Instead of comparing it to slavery (which is borderline Godwin's Law), I'd compare it to being a distiller when 18th amendment passed.
It takes about an hour before I can start churning clean code and start any code reviews, so I think I’m ok. Really, it’s the 3 in the afternoon feeling that is the drain for me. Alertness fades and I can’t even listen to music without an occasional syntax error.
I recently watched the movie "Oh Lucy" (with Shinobu Terajima, Josh Hartnett, Kaho Minami)[1] where we (outsiders) can see the traditional mentality/way of thinking of a working environment in Japan. I do understand that this is a movie, so some things are softened/exagerated, and reading the article I immediately understood that the "normality" is and how the movie represented this elegantly.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6343058
We increased "vacuum_cost_limit" globally and decreased "autovacuum_vacuum_scale_factor" and "autovacuum_analyze_scale_factor" for large tables. Most of them by a factor 4~5x.

The docs explain the different settings: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/runtime-config-au...

When tweaking performance settings, always benchmark, especially with your specific load characteristics.
> The company's developers accidentally uploaded the entire database to Github

Wait, from what I've heard, the programmer just uploaded a configuration file that contains the password of the database?

And oh boy, he's not the only one, Maybe GitHub can do something about it.

To the topic: This is the exact reason why I don't support any sort of system that log users personal information without user's control.

Because regardless how strong and secure you think your system is, all it takes is one careless action, then everything blows up.
I was in similar boat. I was not really around kids most of my life and making the jump was pretty difficult including the enormous new responsibility.

read a number of books mostly full of things that are common sense just worded differently.

the two most helpful things in hindsight so far (only 11 months in :-)) were the following a book around sleep [0] which is fairly short but can be shortened to a single excel spread sheet (which my wife and I did). the books seemed useless until we met others who had major challenges getting their child to sleep through the night, either we were super lucky or this book was amazing. ask me in a year after our second and I'll let you know if it was luck or not.

and then being told that once the kid comes out thousands of years of evolution magically hit you in the back of the head. this surprisingly was completely true (although I still do not know how)

lastly, none of my friends that live close have kids yet and some relationships have gotten weaker while others stronger. I think some of my friends are keeping distance for 'reasons' which is frustrating because losing touch with a good friend was not an expected result after having a kid.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Twelve-Hours-Sleep-Weeks-Step/dp/0525...
This.

The amount of social anxiety and peer pressure from constant liking causes so many people on insta and fb to conform to popular opinion or get into harsh arguments with hateful language instead of having meaningful conversations. I think we need to encourage major social media platforms to remove quantitative features from social media such as likes and follower counts. It is just an emotionally destructive feature
People might also be interested in the Guardian article [1], which concentrated on the precipitous decline of Puffin numbers in Shetland. Compared to places where the drop has not been so steep, it seems that the birds are having to travel much further to find food (hundreds of kilometers in some cases), which is linked to changes in sea temperatures as a result of global warming; as sea temperatures change plankton are not available at the right time to feed sand eel larvae and so there aren't so many sand eels for the puffins to eat.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/03/shetland...
In other news, old people hate new things.
> The company has previously said that it plans to launch a commercial self-driving taxi service before the end of the year, but that its service will still include a Waymo employee in each car as a "chaperone."

Is this new information?
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