skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In case you're serious, from https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/loneliness:

>Not surprisingly, feelings of isolation can have a serious detrimental effect on one's mental and physical health. Loneliness can be a contributing factor to heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, arthritis, among other critical diseases. Lonely people are also twice as likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease. At the root, isolation compromises immunity, increases the production of stress hormones, is harmful to sleep, and impacts cognitive abilities. All of this feeds chronic inflammation, which lowers immunity to the degree that lonely people even suffer more from the common cold. Loneliness can be a chronic stress condition that ages the body and causes great damage to overall well-being.
I was recently told about Tidelift [0] who represents that it wants to improve funding for OSS. I was surprised that I hadn’t heard about it before on HN in similar discussions.

[0] https://tidelift.com
Morally? Nothing.

Economically? Everything.

We have an oversupply of pilots, so we can afford to be harsh/abusive without fear of it boomeranging.
Interesting... did something happen today that there are 3 posts for db clients at the top of HN?
2. There are empty homes in 10 year old complexes in Beijing and Shanghai.

3. Many of the ghost districts never fill up before they are torn down as eye sores. Kangbashi will only fill up if coal makes a big come back, which is highly unlikely. Tianjin financial district is mostly a bust so far, but a derelict building or two for a decade is not abnormal.

The problem is really simple: China lacks a property tax, so housing is seen as a speculative investment rather than just a place to live in. And China is not wanting for speculators.
I went on a few dates with a girl who was a walker for Wag. She had just moved to the town I'm from, and she was between jobs. She had a background as veterinary assistant, was great with my dogs, and seemed over qualified for the work.

One day she was upset and I asked her why. She said it was because Wag had terminated her employment and deleted her profile, with over 100 high reviews. (She had been very proud of the number of perfect reviews she had gotten.) She said it was because she called animal control on one of the clients.

At first, I was like, "Holy hell, don't narc on your customers... no wonder they banned you... anyone who pays for a dog walker would surely be a good dog owner..." But then she showed me the pictures of what was clearly an puppy mill. My friend was only there to walk one or two of the dogs, the dogs that were used for photos, and there were 20+ other dogs locked in cages.

She did the humane thing, documented the issues, reported it to Wag... Wag did nothing, didn't even bother to move her to a different client, or block her from being sent back to that client. So on like the third visit, she escalated it to animal control. Naturally the client got mad and complained to Wag, and that's when Wag fired my friend. But... seems like the right thing to do in that situation.

I saw these pictures on her phone, dogs that looked so sad. Penned up in cages where they could barely turn around, and all very pregnant. Anyone with a heart would have done what my friend did. And anyone working as a dog walker should have a heart. Wag is a business, they only care about the bottom line. It's not a service I would ever use for my own dogs.

Edit: Went from +7 to -2 pretty quick. Hmm, maybe Wag PR is listening in?
In my best moments, i still can't get past the "rich liberals" problem. Democrats are too enriched by the system to make effective change. The tide of fascism is rising around the world, and by the time that pacificts wake up to the magnitude of the problem, it'll be too late
@irishcoffee: “Instead of being dishearted, propose a solution to enable the ability to make a living. First thing that popped into my head was some sort of support model. CentOS vs RHEL. Give the farm away for free but consult how to run the farm...”

Seems perfectly reasonable to me, who down voted this and why?
Say hello to Marty the Robot. He’s here for your job
it's cheaper and that's a distraction
No. It won't be fun.
If you're driving on the freeway and your car suddenly runs out of gas, the fact your vehicle keeps moving is not a sign that your car only optionally needs gas.
Downloads are programmatically disallowed while you're viewing the page under an ad blocker.

Of course, it only disallows the downloads via clicking the link. Easily circumventable.
Loved it! Definitely bearing Nietzsche's torch in many ways. All the talk in the beginning about the deer with fatally-large antlers reminded me of this recent, perhaps terser, essay from Venkatesh Rao: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2018/09/20/dodo-thoughts/
It's quite nice, but it's definitely going to get a DRM layer and geoblocking applied to it at some stage.
Think about the mechanics of how a wall might even work, the logic isn't really there to even invest in it. The only way a wall would be a practical deterrent would be if someone didn't even know it was there. One rope and you are on the other side. You'd still need border patrol to monitor the wall just like if there wasn't one. On top of that, the landscape is wide. Wouldn't it be far far cheaper to just fly a drone, maybe even with AI, and scan miles of desert at a time for anything that isn't miles of desert, and have a border patrol agent show up with a pickup truck? Because wall or not, you are gonna have to fly a drone or have that same border patrol agent cover the same area anyway to see if there's anyone crossing that stretch of desert to begin with.

For illegal immigrants vs. native born population, it still holds true that the immigrant population has a lower crime rate (1).

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/us/politics/t...
Looks fun! I have been moving towards using Go for everything so this might be a good excuse for me to figure out how to use C libraries.
I dropped my 2 year old son at day care this morning. Should I have not had a child if I can't look after him all day, every day?
> it’s not uncommon to see homeless sleeping in tents near a new food hall.

Sorry if it offends, but in my experience this IS the defining feature of America.

That and people talking out loud to themselves in public.
my point was that despite all these difficulties, long duration and it being Switzerland, cost was actually reasonable. ~22M / tunnel kilometer is an order of magnitude lower than many other projects abroad. In general I find public infrastructure projects here to be well run and within reasonable budget. With these kinds of things, labour cost seems to be less of important than inefficiences due to administration and legal uncertainties (unions, nimbys etc.)
Reproduce a machine learning model build in four lines of code
I think he meant he read it after he failed the class which didn' give him a proper understanding of the material while this book did the opposite.

So that sounds pretty encouraging.
Why docker? Seems like overkill for not much gain.
> the frequency of this comparison is almost certainly due to American perception of ethnicity. You don't see India/80's Japan comparisons or Brazil/80's Japan comparisons as often.

Isn't it more likely that that's because neither India nor Brazil have economies anywhere near the size or importance of America's, and don't appear to be on any kind of trajectory that will get them there?
Mechanics are often required to buy their own tools.
Higher end chefs are expected buy their own knives.
Machinists are expected to buy many of their own instruments.

It’s not universal but definitely not uncommon.
SF is not going to implode any time soon though, which is why I say it can 'afford' it. China is a different story.
Great tool with a great name. Anyone who doesn't like it is an idiot :P
the UN still exists?
That is naive. Many of those properties are built in places where they won’t fill up: coal mining towns that are on the decline, 3rd and 4th tier cities that barely qualify as urban, 40 miles away from the nearest job in a second tier city.

Yes, you can buy way outside the sixth ring road, but they have no buses or subway, what will you do, drive?
It's a SQL client miracle !

And I'm guessing it was more than DBeaver became popular and everyone felt like it was worth getting some free traffic to help boost sales.
> Harry Potter LEGO sets have a long life because Harry Potter has sustained popularity

Really doubt it. JK Rowling is the Enid Blyton of our time. How many kids read Enid Blyton now?
> a persons' dog is more important than most other humans to most dog owners, yet the law treats dogs as nothing more than property

Something I've always found particularly infuriating is how police dogs are considered officers and often carries a worse punishment than attacking an actual police officer. Not because I am upset that the dogs are being protected, but that the police basically can shoot other people's dogs but nobody can touch their dogs.

Jesus I am just going off on tangents tonight. I need to take a break for a bit.
Wow. The walker kicks and whips the dog until it vomits blood and Wag offers a refund and a $100 credit as settlement.

Who in the world wants Wag credits after an experience like that. If Wag wants to buy these folks’ silence, shouldn’t they at least make a non-insulting offer?
I was more surprised that service like Wag exists.
> Support for XDebug exists in all modern editors - Atom, Sublime, NetBeans, etc. etc.

It does, but PHPStorm's is particularly competent. From rewinding the stack, having an in-context command line prompt to run code in, conditional debug points, current context auto-complete for the command line, it can even read cachegrind outputs. It's the level of competence they implement in all their features that take it from a "text editor preference" to a professional level tool.

> I must say PHPStorm had a superior look-for-file (think: Ctrl+P) feature

You can also "look everywhere" which looks at literally everything from the same text-box, so if I type "show line numbers" it searches through the settings panes and finds the "show line numbers" setting, and because it's a toggle, I can just hit enter on the search result and it toggles the setting. Also class definitions (PHP, Javscript and CSS definitions) are all fuzzy searchable. "SoClNa" will find the SomeClassName definition and also the "Some/Class/Name" folder and so on.

I know I'm gushing about it but I really could talk for ages about all the little things it does.
The relevant data does exist, it's actually in this article (1). Once again, even undocumented immigrants have a lower crime rate than native born citizens.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/11/us/politics/t...
Wag are jerkoffs it seems, but it's still 'statistically likely to happen'.

Accidents happen in all things, so I think it should boil down mostly to whatever the reality is there.

... though Wag has shown some bad form obviously.
That's probably because you don't own one. There are dozens of small details which make it unquestionably a watch, and which no manufacturer other than Apple can even see as significant, not to mention replicate.
I don't believe Apple would do such a thing. Whenever you see Apple products in movies and elsewhere, those aren't product placements.
Interactively Grep Source Code
just a quick google, and there is some people who have done stuff with it in other languages...

https://github.com/davecan/dspguide-code
Let them know.
Obviously the author of the article haven't read Iain M. Banks (the Culture series).
Me too. I like their “commit” feature and that it shows you every action you perform with a query and you can commit or remove each one before allying changes
I have the exact same issue with MySQL Workbench. Since upgrading to Mojave, lots of Workbench is just unstable. Probably crashes 6-8 times a day. I spend most of time in CLI now since it doesn't crash. It has helped me understand the SQL much better since I have to bang it out rather than just "confirming" what the UI decided to do for me.
It hasn't been updated in a very long time. Constant crashes on Mojave. I have transitioned away to TablePlus and DataGrip. Too bad because it was a very good tool for quick edits.
Thank you. If it does a great job, it could pair with a great news reader.
Show HN: The C.A.T approach helps my app get 12K visits and ~$3.5K in 3 weeks
Nice to see someone that used HeidiSQL. I'm on the same boat. It feels like an abandoned project. I guess it's finally time to install DBeaver and say goodbye to Heidi.
Docker has a multitude of benefits for single machine multitenant deployment strategy, namely resource and file system isolation.

It also has the benefit of being self documenting of dependencies via layers, which is a nice thing to have. To be honest, running just about anything self-hosted can be deemed overkill when there are so many free hosted solutions. But that’s why we’re engineers because sometimes it just scratches an itch for us :)
Rumination is ruining your health (and how to stop it)
How would the arduinos make it more nefarious?
Well since your time span is indefinite I guess someone would have nothing to lose by taking the competing stance but everything to gain if God forbid that actually happens. ;)
The actual study would be more useful. Bloomberg gives us no idea where the vacant homes are. From the article: "China's vacant properties include empty homes of migrants seeking work elsewhere." China's hukou system[1] limits where Chinese can live and work within China, and what benefits, like schooling for their kids and medical care, they are eligible for. The other side of that is that with a rural hukou, someone who can't make it in the big city can go back to their village and have a peasant-level job and a place to live. So some people want to keep their right to go home again, and their village residence may be vacant some or all of the time.

There's nothing wrong with housing not being a scarce resource.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou_system
I do not subscribe to any single newspaper. Most of them are paid by a political party or state and there are few neutral ones.

I do read a set of opposing views in general.
My first email address was a Yahoo! address in 1997.
Hi folks -- study PI here. Happy to answer any questions.

We're working on a paper for submission to a research conference soon, so every viewer gives us helpful data for the system to learn in-situ and improve its performance over different kinds of Internet connections and congestion situations. (We are randomizing connections to get either our in-development algorithm or a bunch of competing ABR and congestion-control schemes so we can properly evaluate, so if you get a stall or bad quality...... we'll blame that.)

All the source code is at https://github.com/StanfordSNR/puffer and is or will be released with an open-source license. The study is led by my doctoral student Francis Yan, along with Sadjad Fouladi, Hudson Ayers, Chenzhi Zhu, and my colleague Philip Levis. The goal is to train video-streaming algorithms (bitrate selection and congestion control) online, continually, in situ, to minimize stalls and deliver the best picture quality across a diverse range of real-world Internet connections and users. This is from some of the same people who brought you Salsify (functional video compression for lower-latency real-time video: https://snr.stanford.edu/salsify), Lepton (distributed/parallel JPEG compression: https://github.com/dropbox/lepton), Mosh (functional terminal emulation for mobility: https://mosh.org), Remy (machine learning for congestion control; http://mit.edu/remy), and the Pantheon of Congestion Control (https://pantheon.stanford.edu).

There are some unusual details of the Puffer system to make experimentation easier (and, we hope, performance better): the ABR algorithm is server-side, and video is streamed continuously over a WebSocket and the client gives asynchronous feedback, instead of using DASH HTTP request/replies. The tcp_info struct (including the delivery rate estimate) from the congestion-control layer is plumbed through to the ABR, and to the neural network that tries to predict "how long will it take to send a video chunk of length y," so it's weakly cross-layer. The "transmission-time predictor" is probabilistic instead of simply producing a point estimate. We encode with libx264 and then measure the SSIM of every encoded chunk to calculate a reward for each possible stream (instead of making the assumption that more bitrate is better -- the correlation is not so good when you consider different times in the same video). And we encode 10 variants of each channel, so more than typical. And everything is done at 60 fps. Of course some of these details mean these algorithms are not going to be deployed any time soon on a production CDN or streaming service, but the hope is to demonstrate the value of some of the ideas in an academic setting for future commercial deployment. The use of WebSockets, MSE, and Opus is why this doesn't work on Safari or on iOS.

FAQ here: https://puffer.stanford.edu/faq/

Also I'm happy we were able to make some of the Grafana monitoring public: https://puffer.stanford.edu/monitoring
If you have found a way to circumvent the latest iPhone MAC randomisation I would be very very interested to talk to you.
I feel like part of why they're shady is because some of the people that partake in them are shady. It's relatively easy to get accepted to them (especially services like this).
IMO, I want everything is not really a category.

The Apple Watch certainly skimps on Battery life and can feel unwieldy to wear.

It in many ways, falls squarely into #1. It not being too shabby at #2 and #3 makes Apple Watch 4 the best smart watch on the market, but that is not why it sells.

Apple commands a SUPREME-esque brand value and the first couple of Apple Watch versions sold in millions despite being a clear #1 type of smart watch. ie. a fashion accessory.
What Are Merchant Services and Why Your Business Needs Them
2019 will be a year of change for the semiconductor industry
I always used to use various dusty old netbooks for this kind of stuff, and would run many applications on the same one.

A dedicated raspberry pi in a nice little case for each is certainly modern and cool, but it doesn't give me quite the same nostalgia as a ancient laptop shoved in a corner...
Millions of e-mail addresses have been exposed–here’s how to check if yours
Use the nightly
> Undeniably, Raspberry Pi has revolutionised the way we use computing technology in our lives

??? Shouldn't that be "Smartphones" instead? Even if the Raspberry Pi is popular among a certain segment of people, it is nowhere close to being as mainstream as smartphones which have revolutionized the way we use technology.
Multi-process vs. multi-threaded port scanner – I like threaded better I think
I looked into Table Plus when I found that Sequel Pro crashes more than NASCAR on a Sunday. But it’s pricing model doesn’t work for the way I work. I’m just one person, but use multiple computers simultaneously, making per-computer licensing prohibitive.

Obviously phpMyAdmin is a tire fire.

I’m still looking for a good macOS-native client similar to Sequel Pro. Bonus points if it has a usable iPad version.
You're right: there are only people's reported subjective feelings. The question is basically not studiable scientifically.

Michael Pollan's _How to Change Your Mind_ has a good overview of the attempted scientific research. Early research was tainted by overzealous experimenters, then research was banned for a long time, and recent studies have only been approved for serious conditions, like treatment-resistant depression.

The real problem is that creativity, the long-term generation of valuable ideas, is basically un-measurable. Scientific studies of "creativity" exist, but they all pull the ol' research switcheroo by measuring something easy to measure, rather than the kind of creativity that matters.

So, don't expect good scientific evidence of improved creativity, from any treatment, ever. That's as true for substances as for, say, whether to write on paper or at a computer. Most novelists swear by one or the other, but there's no feasible scientific study you can do to decide which produces objectively better novels. Same for whether meditation improves creativity.

(If you want to get into this line of research, start with meditation rather than psychedelics. It's much easier to get approved.)

For making your own plans about how to maximize your mental output, all you can really do is ask people whose works impresses you (and who are willing to talk about such things) what works for them, and then try those things to see if they work for you too. Being careful to compare the results side-by-side some time later, to reduce bias.
I'll have to check out some of these I havent heard of. I use SQLYog (there is an opensource community edition)
You haven't posted a single comment that makes me believe you've thought about why these things are happening rather than that they are happening.

To explain why the "why" is so important... I know someone that does amphetamine about twice a day. They have real trouble if they go too long without taking any. When their supply starts to get low they will drop anything on their calendar to make sure they don't run out. They also have a prescription for adderall, which their doctor can only fill a month at a time, and when they miss a dose their diagnosis comes roaring back in and their intellectual performance collapses.

Alternatively... I assume you're at least relatively technical. When was the last time you fixed a bug without first trying to find a root cause for it? Even if you didn't find one, fixing a bug by patching over the symptoms, without ever figuring out why it was happening?

Anyway, for all that "she's clearly addicted" and "she has panic attacks if she doesn't watch enough youtube", you haven't posted a single mention of your daughter's thoughts or motives or reasons. You talk about her like she has no agency whatsoever. Mandatory minimum daily family time that just happens to be a nice round number of minutes, "it doesn't matter what the explanation is", comparing a desire for solitude to drugs, etc. I'm going to be completely honest, you haven't done a good job convincing me that her behaviors are even maladaptive.

What videos does she watch, why does she choose those videos, how does she choose them, and why did she decide on that method? Why does she think she chooses those videos? Can she explain her process for choosing those videos? Why does she think she enjoys those videos? How much youtube does she think she needs to be watching, how did she choose that amount, and why did she choose that amount that way? What would happen if she didn't watch enough youtube? Why does she dislike that outcome? Why does she think she dislikes that outcome? Are there any videos that're more important than others? Why does she think they're more important? Why does she value youtube over family time? Why does she think she values youtube over family time?
what? how?
All those problems could be solved with money.
They do now.
Yeah it happens but to say it is the defining feature is laughable.
Interview with with Emrah Gultekin, Co-Founder and CEO of Chooch, an AI Training
Prolly does not work on redis
Tell that to mechanics, carpenters, or any other number of professions that are expected to buy their own tools or do so for security outside of an employer. Still a bargain.
Xilinx sends lawyers after an engineer teaching FPGA programming
> With 16GB of aquabolt HBM2 on a 7nm node there is no way AMD is losing less than $150 per card without even accounting for opportunity loss.

Just curious, but how did you come up with that estimate?