skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if that's a good model, up-to-a-point for people and groups. With people, by compartmentalizing some unsavory perspective someone has, you have the ability to change it later on through discussion.

Compartmentalization is part of the problem, not the solution. It's why some people can exploit and hurt a hundred thousand other human beings in the morning, enjoy their lunch break, fuck up the environment a bit more in the afternoon, and come home to a happy evening with their spouse. We shouldn't be encouraging more people to separate their private happiness from their interactions with society.

> ... in groups: if everyone good leaves organizations because they're "bad," well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.

The hope is that if enough people leave, the organization won't be able to keep functioning. Or, if it survives and becomes an evil-people-filled cesspool, it'll be easier to direct regulatory actions against it and just shut it down.

Also, Napoleon was famous, but not exactly a paragon of morality.
Having been in your shoes, and having had many friends in a similar place, I can only share what did and didn't work for us.

Diversifying was a positive for everyone who did it. John Doerr's advice to a friend was 'sell half' and diversify that. Because of the dot com crash (which may have been an anomaly) the folks who diversified completely (sold it all and moved into a balanced portfolio) did better.

Not changing your lifestyle. You have a 'burn rate' just like everything else (car payments, house payments, tuition bills etc). Leave that alone and your life will continue as it has, only more securely. One of the folks I know switched over to the lifestyle of the 'rich and famous', lots of parties, upgraded house, new cars, vacation trips all around the world. Burned through all their wealth and when it became obvious they had to go back to work, was in the place of going to people who had known them as the rich playboy type, and really impressing upon them how much they needed a job. It wasn't fun for them.

I would recommend you work with a financial adviser, or take a class at a community college on the basics of finance, or both. Back in the dot com days when I thought I was going to be a zillionaire I took the Forbes Wealth Management home study course. It was like 30 cassette tape lectures and a workbook. It did a good job of covering the foundations so that I could understand what people were talking about when they were comparing various options.

Put some aside for your kids college, giving them a debt free college education has a strong positive impact on their future success.

Sleep better and take care of your health.

EDIT: And talk to a tax accountant. Seriously. Moving around money in the "wrong" way can expose you to serious tax liability that might be surprising to you come April.
The law against not screwing your users and not being anti-competitive. The latter is actual law, the former is the kind of thing that leads to street justice.
Totally, totally agree. The threads on healthcare are the second lowest quality content on HN (after cryptocurrency). Maybe this is because HN readers are pissed off by the healthcare system. Guess what, so are the people that work there.

Eg. Sleep in hospitals. Everybody including the patient, nurses, doctors and the janitor knows it is hard to sleep in hospital. I'm regularly told by the patient, the patient's family, the nurses, the music therapist etc that the patient can't sleep. Believe or not, my response is not 'Well I didn't get much sleep last night either' or other such nonsense. The team tries to do what they can, eg stopping IV fluids overnight, or reducing unnecessary observations, or giving a sleeping pill, or moving disruptive patients into their own room, or best of all just trying to get the patient out of hospital as soon as possible. But that doesn't make much of a news piece, people just trying to do what they can for the patient.

Instead one problem with inpatient care is singled out in a way that is designed to foment outrage, and everyone piles on with their individual poor-sleep-in-hospital experience.
Maybe don't associate your existence with programming, tell them you're a guy with interesting hobbies and wide knowledge who just happens to do programming to empower people to do things/pay the bills/insert narrative here.

As with everything, it's more about the perspective and delivery than actual message.
I'm confused.

From the article:

"This is explained by the Hubble-Lemaître Law, the observation that more distant galaxies are moving away at a faster rate."

If we observe an accelerating universe how can be that galaxies in the past move away at a faster rate?
For those wondering about the Pilgrims Progress reference, this is probably what OP intends:

" HELP. Then said he, Give me thy hand: so he gave him his hand, and he drew him out, and set him upon sound ground, and bid him go on his way. [Ps. 40:2]

{33} Then I stepped to him that plucked him out, and said, Sir, wherefore, since over this place is the way from the City of Destruction to yonder gate, is it that this plat is not mended, that poor travellers might go thither with more security? And he said unto me, This miry slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore it is called the Slough of Despond; for still, as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place. And this is the reason of the badness of this ground."
What are the costs they imply landmark status will incur for them? Does it place restrictions on how the building can be changed or must look?
> Can the old factory machinery from 2005 be used to manufacture these new HAMR disks?

Probably yes, for everything except the heads. These HDs are built upon many decades of investments in manufacturing capacity.
By what? China's 5-10% annual growth in standard of living makes up for a lot.
Anyone have an opinion about Seagate? I had one of their HDD and it died on me within a year.

Not sure if this was a 'one-off' or other people had issues with their quality.

Similar issue with samsung on SSD.
ELI15: before, when you wrote to disk, you needed a stronger magnetic pulse to change the polarity of the bit. This meant a wider area per bit. Now, we can heat a smaller part of the disk, making it easier to flip the polarity with a smaller magnetic pulse, so the area of the bit doesn't need to be as large, so we can store more info.
plsql, packages and 'as of timestamp'
Wrong. The system is not the problem, idleness and boredom (1) (2) activities are in vain if you do for the sake of if.

But that's not all, its just that you cultivate it wrong (3). instead try awareness meditation, awareness is the opposite of dullness . and dullness is induced by a lot of stimulus e.g: TV

(1) Boredom: a lively history "nothing speeds brain atrophy than living in the state of boredom (ennui)"
(2) a good comment from HN about this subject is : there are 2 types , boredom , where you think about what next project you want to do (beneficial). An ennui where you have option to do stuff but everything is uncomfortable.
(3) Mind illuminated: a great book from HN , using stages for any level to cultivate meditation techniques.
I'll tell you why - try to update one column in 100GB worth of row data.

Postgress makes a copy of _every_ row and you need 100GB of extra space on the hard-drive until you commit the transaction. Now extrapolate to a 1TB table that needs updating.

Oracle has a way of doing this w/o copying the entire row.
My Tesla requires a pin to drive like a phone
> "1 is in so called ugliest town in France"

> "more like 50% French with their mess, inefficiency and corruption"

It's sad to bring an emotional "argument" to a rational one
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That just seems to add a lot of fashionable whitespace so that I can only use 50% of the pixels on the screen that I paid for.

Reader Mode just seems like the button on a tracfone that does nothing but burn up half a minute by booting up a useless web browser.
A 9 year old BMW without the comfort access package.
> Buses are allowed exemptions for pragmatic reasons, not safety reasons.

No, buses are safer, period, even without seatbelts. Occupants of bigger vehicles have much better outcomes in auto collisions, and buses are some of the biggest vehicles on the road.

Also, most school buses don't do much freeway driving... Not having a seatbelt in 25 mph collision is one thing. Not having a seatbelt in a 70 mph collision is lethal.
It's getting hilarious to see people more offended by FB's information being exfiltrated than the exfiltration of everybody's data that FB aided and promoted. Ah, but those are just your fellow people, not the money man.
Sometimes it’s clustering, upgrading servers, replication layouts that work and don’t have random issues with WAL, encryption at rest without requiring the os to do it (has this been fixed?).

Maybe having clustered indexes, good partitioning, etc.

Still, I’m hard pressed to ever recommend anything other than PostgreSQL or MySQL.
Oracle like many other databases has clustered indexes. PostgreSQL does not and it can have big performance implications.
> if everyone good leaves organizations because they're "bad," well, those organizations will just be filled with the worst of us soon enough.

An interesting analogy... The 10th amendment to the Bill of Rights was intended on allowing each state to be diverse in its laws. If people in state x want the laws in state y to change, a constitutionalist would say that you should move to that state and work in changing the laws from the inside, via the 10th Amendment and the state's own Constitution. If you don't want to put in the work of changing the state from the inside, and would rather change the laws from the outside (i.e. via federal authority) then you're probably an authoritarian.

I guess the only point I'm trying to make, is yeah, it's hard. Thanks for your contribution.
Carlota Perez (a neo-Schumpeterian, and popular reading among Silicon Valley VCs) laid out the mechanisms by which this shift occurs, using examples from 5 technological revolutions going back to the early 1800s. She divided the adoption curve of a new technology into four phases - Irruption, Frenzy, Synergy, and Maturity - which are themselves divided into the Installation period (Irruption & Frenzy, where the infrastructure underlying the technological revolution is built) and the Deployment period (Synergy & Maturity, where knowledge of this new means of production spreads broadly through the population and it's applied to all sorts of different problems).

Her theory is that financial capital - startups and venture capital - dominates during the Installation phase, because knowledge of the new techniques of production is limited to a few visionary individuals and they're forced to take risks that few established companies or management structures are comfortable with. And then production capital (reinvested earnings of existing corporations, assigned toward R&D headcount) dominates during the Deployment phase, as management becomes both aware of and comfortable with the new technologies and they can readily find employees to do the work. The boundary between phases is marked by a financial crisis and oftentimes war, as the inflated expectations of the new technology (necessary to incite people to take risks) cannot be matched by its actual usage within the economy. A financial crisis then usually spurs regulation which is needed for broader adoption (and keeps out competition, entrenching production capital), while a war disseminates knowledge of the new techniques throughout the victorious power(s).

One thing the book doesn't get into is that technological revolutions are often fractal: for example, the technology of "software" enables more specific technologies of "the Internet" or "mobile apps", which themselves spawn whole industries and companies within those industries. And that implies that you might be in "frenzy" for the general technology of software (which I suspect we are; we haven't had our war yet), but the specific technology of "the WWW" had its financial crisis in 2001 and long since entered maturity. There are other technologies within software (eg. cryptocurrencies) that I'd argue are still within "irruption", and there are technologies within cryptocurrencies (eg. ICOs) that just had their financial crisis and are moving from "frenzy" to "synergy".
Please see my comment above. You can use the language of gravitons and Feynman diagrams even for classical gravitational physics, but the calculations will be intractable for strong fields. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graviton#Gravitons_and_renorma... for example
From what I can tell, the only way to judge the competence of their driverless systems is to compare where they are today with were they were 10 years ago

That’s hardly the only way to judge the competence of their driverless systems.
Concerns in Europe about deepfakes are overrated?
I know that big disks are useful for a lot of people/applications. However, I topped out at 500GB about 10 years ago. That gives me plenty of headroom. Since then, I have gone from a 500GB HDD to a SSD, but my space usage hasn't really gone up. The largest disk I own is a 1TB disk in my Time Capsule (which I could probably stand to upgrade, but I don't feel like taking it apart).

I think this is probably because I stream everything, and don't download much content. Even most of my applications are web-based these days. Granted, I'm sure that a lot of storage in the cloud is required to service me...
> The onus was really on them to demonstrate that trusting third parties with our communications is a reasonable thing to do.

In general, I agree, but the context here is dozens of HN commenters claiming that FB is a bad actor/net negative for the world. These commenters cite lists of gripes about the company, many legitimate, some illegitimate, but get hand-wavy when someone asks about the "net" in "net negative".

I'm not rejecting the conclusion, here, by the way! If the company is ultimately bad for society, this line of questioning should embolden the consensus HN opinion.
When searching using / you don't need the escape part. There's also ' which only searches links.
This seems to be a general trend in film as well. Look at a recent movie credits (accountants, administrative assistants, lawyers and the like) versus the very short list of people who actually contributed to a film on an old film. Everyone likes to see their name in lights.
Obligatory "pay my student loans"

In all seriousness, mutual index funds. Watch it grow. Secure your grandchildrens future.
Facebook has released a statement[1] that accuses Six4Three of "cherrypicked" document dump, that is mostly just denials with no supporting evidence. If only they hadn't undermined their own trustworthiness by, a few weeks ago, denying that senior executives were culpable in their relationship with Definers and then doing a news dump right before a major US holiday admitting that they had lied in their first response, then people might believe their unsupported assertions.

[1]: https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/12/response-to-six4three-d...
Intel, Nike, Microsoft, and HP are just a few companies that have HUGE contract worker forces.. This ought to be interesting moving forward. I know for a fact Intel has been abusing the CW system for years... CW's are a "resource" aka tax write-off.
> Public search for sources of other people's breached personal data via monitor.firefox.com

That page is powered by haveibeenpwned.com. Mozilla just made a fantastic security tool available to user who don't know about Troy's site.

> you can enter anyone's email and see results

This data is all very easily available online anyway. It's just aggregating leaks that already public, and neither HIBP or the Mozilla page provide the _actual_ personal info that was leaked.

> Someone just lost the security vs usability debate there I guess.

That's the thing though; this _is_ a valid security tool. And a powerful and valuable one at that. HIBP has been used for years by thousands of users to secure their accounts after data breaches.
Google Makes Android Developer Courses Available Publicly
Me too, but the idea of having so much of my data on a single drive terrifies me. Not sure about you, but I'd probably buy a couple (from different manufacturers or, at least, different batches), just to RAID-1 them.

And automatically ship logs to another set of disks, preferably on a different continent.
For 1, right now it is still fairly easy to buy "identities" from black market to use with Chinese Internet services. With the so-called "4-piece set" (national ID card, SIM card, debit card linked to a bank account, U-shield (hardware 2FA key for online banking)), one can set up WeChat/Alipay to collect payments without revealing their true identity.

And those "4-piece sets" are not faked ones. People purchase those from slumdogs who woud like some extra cash and don't know or don't care what happens if their identities are used in criminal activities.

But with 2-5... It's possible that those dumb crooks were too dumb to consider that much and just used an WeChat account registered under their own name.
Have you tried to scale horizontally with Postgres?
I see complaining about GTK on your first link - have you heard of Qt?
Mine too! But only because the battery on my fob died and I am too poor now to replace it. Frankly I kinda like it that way, it makes me more conscious or the damn fob (I used to just drop it anywhere in the car).I have a Tucson 2011 FWIW
I don't think this move achieved much of anything, other than to encourage business executives to use ephemeral messaging for their confidential internal communications.
>So if I deploy a new static asset every hour via continuous deployment let's say, I must give it a new unique path?

I would answer yes to that. More specifically, if an old cached component could reference the new file and break, then the old component should never know about the new content.
Ouch. Also add in that the budget changes dramatically in year two...
I don't know how you can legitimately think this question is even worth asking? What do you think hospital staff do all day, deliberately try to ignore the obvious and torture the patient as much as possible?
Assuming you are the same Fricken from reddit, it has been interesting watching your demeanor become more and more...realistic as time has gone on.

And it's still unclear to me if everybody is having their NDAs lifted, as they are making a distinction between early riders and Waymo One but not specifying if everybody is making the transition or just a handful of people (or hell, even any).

As always, time will tell - the rollout of this technology has been slow to those of us who have been following it over the years.
My exams were regularly scheduled at 09:00 in the morning. I would regularly gasp when reviewing the errors I made, wondering how drunk I must have been to make such gross ones. Indeed I was drunk... from sleep deprivation. I wonder how much has this affected my overall performance as a student and later as a professional...
If you get a C128, I recommend a C-128DCR with 64k of VDC ram. Otherwise, you'll have an opportunity to do some soldering to get hires multicolor bitmaps from the VDC chip.
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It's prolly me that I am dumb and don't get it but I am already a Proton VPN paid user. On top of that I have to pay $10? What the fucking fuck?
Agreed, but even the medical services aren't coordinated. I was in for 4 days earlier this year -- in addition to being woken for blood draws, I was woken on a diff schedule for meds and still a third for breathing treatments..meaning every 2 hours I was woken up 3 different times...then early am they'd come to get a breakfast order.
Fixin' your automata
If the observations confirm the prediction of this new theory, Dr Farnes could very well be the recipient of the next physics Nobel Prize!
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I think we wildly undervalue two similar but distinct skills: the ability to cope with boredom (the focus of this article) and the ability to be entertained by boring things. If you can build up your tolerance for doing boring things, and also trick yourself into thinking "coding this boring feature is going to be AWESOME because it's going to make people's lives so much easier" you've got two extremely useful tools in your belt.

Of course, the third tool of "being extremely irritated by boring things and feeling a strong impulse to automate them" is also an excellent one to have.
Zuckerberg responds to UK Parliament publishing Facebook documents
This is a brand new podcast from Gimlet Media, where Alex Blumberg talk to people who have done hard things.

I've listened to the first four episodes, and I'm hooked. These episodes Alex talked to Andrew Mason (Groupon founder), Sophia Amoruso (Nasty Gal founder) and Nina Jacobson (Very Successful Movie Producer, of Hunger Games, Crazy Rich Asians etc fame).

They have all been very open and frank about their journey, and I found it really interesting to listen to them. So I thought this might also be interesting to the HN crowd. Recommended!
a lot like Windows RT, UWP apps = dead in the water, hopefully
Seagate is well known for quality issues. I usually have no more than one Seagate in a RAID and plan for it to fail first.
I have Seagate drives spinning for more than 5 years now with no data loss.

Some drives fail. It's a fact of life. Always buy more than one (from different manufacturers, if possible), remember RAID-1 is your friend and do your backups as if your life depended on them. Because, in this age, it does.
Because "nobody was fired for choosing oracle" https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hackernews%20nobody%20...
That makes sense. I've been doing some research here and there and have found some good alternatives, I'll definitely try to be as prepared as possible for that conversation. Thanks for the reply!
That's exactly how it should be! The developer version isn't behind any barriers - it's trivially easy to find and install - and it keep the majority of people from installing some of the most malicious extensions.
Nuclear energy based on the Brayton cycle instead of the Steam turbine.

It finally hit me that both coal and nuclear have been killed by the gas turbine. The steam turbine for a nuclear power plant is 10-20x the size of a gas turbine which means huge capital cost.

The steam turbine plus the interface to the steam turbine (steam generators, eg.) adds so much to the cost that nuclear will never be able to compete with the natural gas fired gas turbine unless we can ditch it.