skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why not write under a pseudonym? If you don't want people to associate you with every little detail of your writing, the easiest thing to do is to disassociate your writing identity with your offline identity.
“ExpanDrive runs unlicensed and fully featured for 7 days giving you a chance to try everything out. Once the trial period expires you’ll need to buy a license or you will be limited to 20 minutes of use.”
Useful Tips for Couple Looking for Threesome
What do you do in finance now?
Yes, the debt needs to be used productively. Otherwise you borrow to build things that do not generate enough return to pay back the debt.

You also inflate asset bubbles, some Chinese property is as expensive as Silicon Valley or NYC, per square foot.
I mean, you shouldn't be all too complacent, but you should also not stop living and watch political youtube videos all day instead of going to work. And, you should consider more and more active forms of political engagement if you can. And it need not be 50-50, but the ratio should depend on how imminent catastrophe is.

I guess everyone sort of does this already but it helps to reiterate it I guess.
I'm just sad compatibility with data science tools (and scientific computing) isn't there afaik, numpy, pandas, scipy, tensorflow, scikit-learn, pytorch to name a few
You can grow excellent tomatoes yourself, or head to a local farmer's market for a reasonable selection of 'real' tomatoes.

The short answer -- a properly ripe tomato doesn't need any help whatsoever from salt or sugar to make it tasty.
> [Wireless] Speeds are competitive with cable (for now).

Latency, or just bandwidth?
Not quite...

McCarthy thunk up a beautiful self-evaluating eval function for lambda calculus and wrote it down. (The page-long "Maxwell's equations".) Then he showed it to someone (I forget who) who said, "I can implement that." and did. Suddenly: LISP.

Same pattern with Smalltalk: Alan Kay thought it up and someone wrote a little VM in C and suddenly Smalltalk was a thing in the world.
I don't have time to explore this topic in depth right now (way too much on my plate already, and I'm not that fast or brilliant), but I suspect there's literature on this topic. Something I could find is this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firewall_(physics)

Basically, my intuition is more or less in line with this firewall phenomenon and that no particle crosses a true event horizon, even in their own frame, and no certainly no singularity.
Sometimes they're talking about becoming experts at linear algebra† and we roll our eyes and fair enough, but sometimes they're talking about becoming "the" expert about disability compensation for West Virginia coal miners, and they aren't fucking around, that is for real.

But popping a couple frames back off the stack: the argument that most of what's in the NYT is superficial or "bullshit" is silly. Though maybe stay away from the opinion section.

What's annoying is how hard these dumb barbs are to rebut, even when they're plainly fatuous. Like, I had to go navigate through the Pulitzer categories and relay back to the thread how to do it, and all the original commenter had to do was write "the NYT and USA Today are the same thing and both are just superficial made-up trash".

† though I'm sort of waiting to spring a little quiz on the next person who takes a shot at Gladwell for "Igon Values".
Surprise, the solar system has hundreds, thousands, of planets of this guy gets his way
The big problem with tomatoes is that the ones that go to supermarkets are harvested green and ripened artificially. They don't develop the same flavors as a natural sun-ripened tomato. But, a sun-ripened tomato at the peak of ripeness is both too fragile and too short lived to be shipped and sold in supermarkets. I think the same is true for a lot of other fruits.
Thanks for that. Yep, I've seen that too.
This links to a detailed article titled "Doomsday planning for less crazy folk". Should I try loading it as JS? :)
> It's not hard to meet that protein goal given the corresponding calorie requirements

Just to reiterate the scope of this, it's easy to get sufficient protein from plant matter if your protein requirements are nearer the consensus daily minimum of 0.8g protein per 1kg body mass.[1]

But it is hard if 1.4g/kg is your goal, as it would be in a power-dominant sport like NFL football. I should have used the exact source of the data you linked to the first time around (mea culpa), which reports a protein mass fraction of 0.0250 [2]:

60kg*1.4g/kg/0.0250=3,360g

It is exceedingly difficult to consume 3.3kg of plant matter in a day, assuming these potatoes are representative. Beans are much easier, and even those are hard to sustain at the 1.4g/kg level.

Also consider that we're talking about the mass of a female powerlifter here. I believe most women in training would balk at more than three kilograms of plant matter every day. The 95kg, 175cm running back Emmitt Smith would have had to eat 5.3kg of plant matter every day, and he was a smaller man in the world of power athletics.

At the minimum daily protein requirement for seniors of 0.8g/kg, the numbers are more palatable:

60kg*0.8/kg/0.0250=1,920g

Assuming the protein content of potatoes is representative of plant food generally, an inactive senior citizen could get by on 1.9kg of plant matter every day.

Sources:

[1] Protein and Amino Acid Requirements in Human Nutrition, World Health Organization, p.114, 2007

[2] https://ndb.nal.usda.gov/ndb/foods/show/11674?fgcd=&manu=&fo...
Well sure, if you're already paid well enough to have a family in the Bay Area, discussion about compensation/COL anxiety is moot.

Only people I know who can make that work have either doctors or other software engineers for spouses.
I guess any activity that requires repetition becomes bleak sooner or later because brain craves variety. I guess it can be the inner voice telling that by getting obsessed over only one thing, you can miss out the chance to explore other aspects of life.
But as it has been said, everything sucks, most of the time we're simply choosing what sucks less.
> integer under/overflow

very few languages actually solve this completely. you'd need refinement types to do so.
Seems nice for basic REST calls, but it's a bit of a saturated market IMO.
I personally prefer Postman for exploratory and sharing with colleagues, shakedown ( https://github.com/robwhitby/shakedown ) for pure bash scripts if restricted to that, and karateDSL ( https://github.com/intuit/karate ) for a complete solution including cucumber, js, test report generation etc..
I train in martial arts, and contrary to the weird cultism about this, I wash my belt like every other part of my uniform.

The result of spin-drying a standard martial arts belt for an hour have often brought a smile to my face from sheer absurdity (5 half knots and a couple exotics), even if (sadly) they are not as impressive as the ones in this paper.
Outline version https://outline.com/DU9WRJ , since the page insists on you disabling adblock.
The neoliberal condition is in part characterized by the entrepreneurialization of everything, the penetration of Michel Foucault's homo economicus (entrepreneur of the self) into more and more spheres of production, consumption, and everyday life. Increasingly, you're an "entrepreneur" no matter what, whether you're a food truck owner, a freelance designer, an Uber driver, an Airbnb host, a YouTube star. Entrepreneur means a blurring of boundaries, working from home, homing from work.

In my possibly-naive opinion, it wouldn't be such a problem, if only we didn't tie value and self-worth so much on work, both culturally and politically. This entrepreneurialization goes hand-in-hand with the condition of precarity, feeling like you have to work your ass off, have to stay at the top of your game, to keep making a living, because you have no other way to live. It is incredibly dangerous, and it's increasingly defining us, the millennial and post-millennial generations.
Zbox looks pretty interesting, thanks for linking it!

Have you done any performance testing to compare zbox vs xfs/ext4/zfs/whatever on the same system? I saw the benchmark in the readme, but that doesn't necessarily show how much overhead or loss of performance there is over the native filesystem.
They usually document their tricks in the file itself. For example, see Chapter 8 in GP's link.
Inspiring story. Will be interesting to see what Chris is capable of if / when he's able to get access to more capital.

Are there VCs who invest in this sort of enterprise? The odds of getting a positive return seem favorable compared to many of the currently trendy software-only startups out there.

Also, I like Chris' tagline:

Create value, not excuses.
> Decentralization is a second-order effect.

I see, I was looking at it backwards.
My iOS app studycity may provide what you are looking for. If not, we might be able to modify it to provide some of the features freedom did.
I think mass murder of civilians on the basis of socioeconomic class is pretty damn close to a genocide, and definitely different than the Civil War, even though a lot of civilians died in the Civil War.
Happy customer of Expandrive for quite a while. Got a lifetime license.
It's not safe though. ATS/Rust are.
My story was: vim (5 years) -> emacs (7 years) -> sublime (2 years) -> atom (1 year) -> vscode (2 years and counting).

Switch from vim to emacs is obvious.
Switch from emacs to sublime was triggered by moving from Linux to MacOS (my Thinkpad was failing after diving in a tropical rain so I bought a brand new MacBook).
So what's up with tangentially related associations like Parkinsons, Lewy Body dementia (see: Robin Williams) and also Chicken Pox and Shingles. Aren't these all a relatable set of problems, then?
Here is the output from the handy `file` BSD utility which gave it away to me (see the comment field).

JPEG image data, JFIF standard 1.01, resolution (DPI), density 300x300, segment length 16, comment: "<html><body><style>body { visibility: hidden; } .n { visibility: visible; position: absolute; ", baseline, precision 8, 1000x667, frames 3
It is not just about paying more (although that is one tactic). There are so many other factors though that affect hiring and attracting developers to the work you have at your company:

* Company size
* Is it green-field or mostly legacy?
* Is it new tech / new platforms or more conventional (Java and C#)?
* Will the company allow you to work remotely, maybe even on your own terms?
* Benefits, time off, usual suspects apply. Are they crappy or really good?

It's safe to say that a lot of developers who might already have some of these things in place really don't care to move or change jobs for an extra $10K, $15K, or even $20K a year more. For most developers earning over $100K as it is, an extra 10% or even 20% isn't going to change where they eat, what car they drive, where they live, their house, their clothes, or even necessarily what kind of vacation(s) they go on every year. So ... shrug.
Black solider flies (BSF) are another popular food composting insect. Their larvae are absolutely ravenous, and chickens go bananas for them. Their castings are not that nutritious, but they make a good bedding for worm composting. As an extra plus, unlike cockroaches the adult flies are not pests - they don’t bite people and they won’t stay around unless there’s rotting food. I would NOT want a cockroach farm anywhere near my home, while I would be just fine with a BSF farm in my own yard.

Video: https://youtu.be/5M6u9ZX5ecE
I always thought it was called a chimera.
Alibaba's Jack Ma to unveil succession plan next week, remain chairman
Oh and I don't think you'll be as hopeless a coder as some other posters might think, because you did your PhD in a computational discipline and know Python and have heard of unit testing.

There are, say, physics PhDs who only write numerical Fortran or C++ routines (in one big file, sometimes even in one big function), who really might want to attend a boot camp or something but it doesn't sound like you're in that boat.
Other fields also pay well and can draw top talent away from software engineering. Take a look at "US News Best Jobs" and drill down by salary in top paying regions for each job. The information is a roundup of BLS data.

https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/rankings/the-100-...

Some examples:

The top paying market for software developers (the #1 job, apparently) is San Jose, at $133k a year median pay.

Here's the top pay/region for the next few jobs:

#2 Dentist, Peabody MA, $285k/year
#3 Physician Asst, Yuba City, $149k/yr (and $138k a year in Santa Rosa CA)
#4 Nurse Practitioner, $180k/Yr in Altoona PA ($158k/yr in San Francisco, CA).

A bit further down the list, a registered nurse (#18) earns a median of $138k/yr in San Francisco, CA. Lawyers (#33) make a median of $193k/yr in San Jose (top market)

I think national pay for software developers may be skewed by how many of them work in the valley. When you compare them to what other well educated and skilled professionals earn in those markets, you'll see that their compensation is ok, but nothing notable. There are lots and lots and lots of jobs that pay better, and may offer more fulfilling work.

My point isn't that software developers deserve to make more money. Maybe the deserve to be paid less because their work matters less, but that's hardly a selling point. It's never an apples-to-apples comparison.

But overall, I'd say the market is working just fine. There's no "shortage" of software developers, any more than there's a shortage of any other skilled professional in a high cost area. IN fact, there are probably considerably more software developers at the current price point, because of 1) government and industry PR programs designed to convince young people that they are desperately needed in software, and 2) work visa programs that put Silicon Valley companies in control of who is allowed to work in the US and the conditions under which they are allowed to remain.

In fact, I'd say as long as non-market mechanisms (such as visa programs that allow Facebook to decide that immigrants should be engineers but not florists) are used to suppress wages, we should expect an almost permanent "shortage", as people who have the freedom to be florists (or anything else they might wish to pursue as free people) go into fields where wages and working conditions don't reflect the negotiation power of people who can be deported if they lose their jobs.
Here it's worth knowing a bit about how Python manages data.

Each CPython VM stack frame has three tuples associated with it:

* co_consts is the constant/literal names local to the frame

* co_varnames is all other names local to the frame

* co_names is the all nonlocal names referenced in the frame

Under the hood, Python creates a structure called 'fastlocals' which is basically an array of (pointer to) PyObject, where the PyObject at each index of the array is the value corresponding to the name at the same index of co_varnames. LOAD_FAST and STORE_FAST are extremely simple opcodes; they do a tiny bit of error checking, refcount management (increment on load, decrement on store), and then just manipulate 'fastlocals'.

So, for example, 'LOAD_FAST i' consists in its entirety of:

1. Grab the PyObject at fastlocals[i]

2. If it's null, throw an UnboundLocalError

3. Otherwise, increment its refcount and push it to the top of the frame's evaluation stack.
Would you be willing to pay for something that ran much faster?
If you visit kickscondor.com be sure to turn down volume first. You may find out as I did that if you visit at night its bleeps and bloops can wake up a partner :O
I agree. I would like to add, doing something like The Rails Tutorial from Michael Hartl would be a great place to start. It takes you through a reasonably real world application including testing and how to think about the constituent parts. A PhD is like being an expert in materials science while lacking in craft-level skills such as running a vertical mill.
Yes, I do this all the time. Hold the bottle vertically with the mouth facing downwards. As the water is pouring out, flick your wrist in an upwards elliptical arc, keeping the mouth facing downwards. It only takes me one or two flicks to create the vortex, and no liquid sprays around or touches me.

It's kind of a swirling motion.
In my reading, there would be thermal radiation (aka light) and a high intensity photon beam (aka light) interacting to create particles.

I didn't see matter being consumed anywhere, did I miss it?
Welcome to being self employed. When you run a business by yourself, every hour not worked is money lost. No PTO, no sick days, no breaks... you're always wondering how much money any given activity is costing you, from doing dishes and laundry to going to a bar with friends to whatever.

It's certainly not a millennial thing at all. 500k a month now could turn into little to nothing if he were to take a two week holiday and his fan base lost interest (conceivably).
Matter to matter, actually. LHC shoots protons and antiprotons at each other, also it can shoot heavy nuclei and anti-nuclei at each other. Other types of colliders can also use electrons and positrons.

https://home.cern/about/updates/2018/07/lhc-accelerates-its-...
> "All humans are created equal and endowed with rights"

All humans aren't created equal, not even close. A 4 foot tall person without arms will never play basketball as well as a healthy 6 foot tall person.

Even if you meant to say "all humans should be treated equally", it's still a ridiculous proposition, because people are different, and thus should be treated differently. Will you let a person with the history of child abuse to babysit your children? I know I wouldn't, no matter how much they tell me they had changed.
OK, I googled it and "basically that he doesn't train" is a gross exaggeration. Same regarding diet. One link briefly covering both: https://www.gq.com/story/runner-usain-bolt-training-secrets-...

Same link also says Bolt has a freakishly long stride. I wonder if sprinting is one sport in which the very best are further from the rest relative to other sports due to sprinting involving exactly one activity? I'm not much of a sports fan but I can't recall another accounting of a great in my lifetime that didn't involve intense training.
Has an uncomfortable truth been suppressed?
> I agree the solution is not perfect and ideally I would nuke the language out of orbit.

> But that approach will never win the hearts of UNIXy kernel devs

I don't think this is fair. The Linux kernel contains (as of writing) 17913052 lines of C. If you have a plan to rewrite 18 million lines of code and patch every single dependency, fine. But until then such concerns will dominate.

It's also worth noting that the Rust many people write is not the low-level stuff that C programmers and systems programmers write. See https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~srk31/research/papers/kell17some-p... for a better explanation of that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel

> Squirrels are members of the family Sciuridae, a family that includes small or medium-size rodents. The squirrel family includes tree squirrels, ground squirrels, chipmunks, marmots (including woodchucks), flying squirrels, and prairie dogs amongst other rodents.

(TLDR, chipmunks are squirrels)
I couldn't agree more with you about nesting loops. It seems clever at the moment when you're writing but when you have to come back after a while or worse, another developer has to, it becomes a nightmare.

I would also go a bit further and put nesting if statements. Sometimes it's really required but other times nesting can be avoided. I try to avoid nesting as much as possible.
That's a good idea :-). It never even occurred to me...
This article is really relatable. Personal story time. I recently had a mini hit on Reddit where I started a community that's about 2800 people who come to me for marketing tips every day. It's both exhilarating and terrifying. Having a community, making content about my passion, and being able to perform is really all I've ever wanted. On the other hand I'm insanely cognizant of losing it at any time. There is no break and I know even a slight lull can stop it before it ever really even gets close to its potential. God forbid I give bad advice, or someone 1 ups me in the comments and I'm no longer the expert. That combined with the fact that most marketing isn't all that interesting has me increasingly searching for more and more all the time ever cognizant I don't want to bore and lose my audience. I've been mitigating this by filming 3 videos a day and embracing an intentionally raw style, but it still requires daily upkeep in addition to my agency which demands 10 to 12 hours anyways. Don't get me wrong I love it and I'm insanely grateful, but there is a lot of stress that surrounds this sort of thing.
I think most people would interpret "too high" and "absurdly high" to mean reasonably close to the same thing.

That's probably why you're getting downvotes.
> staff physicians who never, ever appear on site, yet who collects a paycheck by prescribing tranquilizing drugs for any resident at the facility's request, all sight unseen

My mother and her siblings have had EXACTLY this experience with my grandfather – and they've had prior experience choosing nursing homes. It's horrible. They dope him up on who knows what medications for perceived illnesses without consulting family. Thank goodness my attentive and no-bullshit aunt discovered they were medicating him for "pneumonia" and "congestive heart failure" prescribed by a call-in quack for what turned out to be a bit of aspirated fluid. She forced them to get him off the meds and he returned to normal (modulo Alzheimer's) in days.

The whole industry is based around appearing like they're doing something to oblivious or disinterested families (which unfortunately exist), while doping their helpless patients into a slow meaningless death. There are good individuals (my folks made sure to make ties with them, else my grandfather would quite literally have died due to negligence by now), but the industry as a whole is rotten.
I've had two periods of "intense health" so far. The first was high school through college where I was racing and training year-round. The second was in my mid-late thirties when I had a "full time" job that wasn't terribly busy, and I had kids. I definitely think that the job has a lot to do with it, but geography does too. I move around a lot and can tell you it is much easier to train in San Diego than it is in New Orleans or Norfolk, Virginia. Another key element has been friends to exercise with.

I may be entering a third phase with another job transition which came with a move to a new location with world-class diving opportunities and readily accessible pools with lap lanes, despite working about as many hours as I did at my last job where exercise was next to non-existent simply because of commute time.
Emptyness is relative: "Robertson estimates that there are fewer than a couple of hundred people living in the 826 square kilometres covered by map 440." So something like 0.25 people/km², not 0.0, in a 30km x 30km area. "There are [--] a handful of farms, a couple of hotels, and a few roads, nearly all of them single track."

Compare to this: "The most isolated point is 7.8 kilometers from the closest building and is located in Cairngorms National Park." So at least 191 km² with 0 buildings (and thus 0 inhabitants?). https://tjukanov.org/a-spot-of-solitude/
Could you have some extensions running in incognito mode that are leaking state?
>What we need is a framework, or a backbone, that allows people to easily create new federated-native apps ("dapps") without thinking about consensus issues, protocols versioning, and with native laws compliance.

This is really needed. There are endless great tools for centralized apps that make it trivial. I could build a usable forum website in rails in a day. I have no idea how to do that in a decentralized and secure way.
This new flight deal website is perfect for impulsive travelers