skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to be or not to be accepting or supporting. I was just trying to have a philosophical debate on what I felt was an interesting topic. So people's feelings weren't really a consideration of mine.

Your diabetes/insulin example is even more interesting than mine. As a person of color with higher risk of diabetes, I have family members who are diabetic and need insulin. Would I consider my diabetic family members healthy? Do they consider themselves to be healthy? If they were healthy, they wouldn't be diabetic or need insulin. But taking insulin makes them healthy. But then if they were healthy, they wouldn't need insulin, which they do. You really gave me something to think about and maybe even talk to my family members about. Thanks.

Even more, if there is a pill to cure diabetes, is a person who takes the pill more healthy than the person taking insulin?
First impression is that this is a good open source Datomic alternative, something a lot of people have been hoping for.

It looks very promising, and Juxt makes great stuff.
Conan O'Brien on Johnny Carson:

Rule number one is just be yourself. And that's actually the first thing, when I got the Late Night Show -- I bring them up now because they just did this great documentary about Johnny Carson -- one of the first people I talked to was Johnny Carson and he said, "Just be yourself." He said "It's the only way it can work." He didn't say it would work, because he's being honest; he didn't know me. You might be yourself and it would be terrible. But he said, "Be yourself, it's the only way." There's an honesty to that. I do think that that's a little bit timeless.
And then Scribd would get sued by publishers for making it too easy to simply repost content that they've been ordered to take down.
I found it tricky when working with junior devs. I remember when I was junior several years ago, I wasn't given the permission to update some shared google docs, not even correcting some obvious typos. Only senior engineers who "own" them have the write permissions. When I raised the question in the team meeting, the management simply said that's an established process and showed no willingness to change that.

Part of me interpreted it as they don't trust me and tried to defend from my stupid mistakes. But I told myself to be patient and shook off the negative thoughts.

Recently I updated my view. Since I became a component lead, I wanted to be a bit more open-minded and let a junior dev to help edit a document. He messed up a few times (fat finger typos, pasted letters without accents, unsorted columns, etc.)

I researched together with him into why he inadvertently made those mistakes and it turned out he's very new to the IDE and not familiar with some editing tricks. He was a bit ashamed about that and tried to learn. But mistakes still happened sometimes.

One day, faced with deadlines and no time for re-doing edits, I turned off junior dev's write permissions.

I knew that this would cause negative emotions and explained to him. He understood it too. Things went smoothly for that deadline.

What I wanted to say is, some micro-act of taking away permissions is good for team efficiency, but may also show distrust, especially for sensitive team members.

My current take is: Trust by default. If breached more than twice, build it into the process and explain carefully.

What do you think?
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Your memory must be fuzzy. You just referred to Miyamoto Musashi as "lesser known" :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi

"Musashi, as he was often simply known, became renowned through stories of his unique double-bladed swordsmanship and undefeated record in his 61 duels (next is 33 by Itō Ittōsai)."
If you click through it is listed for each image. Helmet 1 is 5kg, the others seem less, down to about 2.5 for the smallest I saw.
Well, SynapseFi is backend!
I was in a similar situation. In my case, i was on the ops team for a big chunk of the company, so it had an unusual amount of fires in production. I was rushed into oncall basically only because the existing rotation was only 2 people and they were very miserable. Later the company made more structural changes to relieve the situation (e.g. dev ops).
Wireless data has actually got more expensive.

A little older now, but:

- https://brooksreview.net/2010/06/att-caps-phone-data-usage-w....

- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-att-wireless-plan-caps-phone....

2GB for $25/mo with AT&T, $10/GB overage.

Now?

- https://www.att.com/shop/wireless/data-plans.html

$30/mo for 2GB, with $15/GB overage.

Data prices do seem to have gotten better:

http://about.att.com/story/att_offers_its_best_ever_pricing_....

where they reduced the plan from $80 to $65 for voice+2GB data.

Indeed, last year to go from 2GB to 5GB cost $20, and now costs $25.

- http://www.att.com/att/planner/

From the CBS article, "With that plan and voice service, a smart phone could cost as little as $55 per month before taxes and add-on fees, down from $70 per month."

According to AT&T's planner, that means in SIX YEARS, costs haven't changed at all, overall.
I think that it's the same phenomenon as happens in many species, where something like horns starts from a random mutation and then becomes attractive to others, resulting in a runaway selection based on competing for mates right up until it becomes counterproductive enough. It's not something profoundly unique to Homo Sapiens.

Interestingly, I found the following link which mentions that there is a form of tumor in humans (that may or may not be benign) which produces horn-like protrusions. Obviously this is not generally considered attractive, but if it were, society would change!

https://www.quora.com/How-can-natural-selection-explain-the-...
A comic from the same month making the same point: http://chainsawsuit.com/comic/2016/10/29/the-new-macbooks-ar...

"We want to make a laptop so thin you'll close it and never find it again."
I don't find this comment to be abrasive ;P

My onboarding experience at CircleCI was quite similar to yours (minus Pagerduty). One of the reasons my documentation gets shout-outs (as I mentioned in this post) is because there are sections of our codebases that didn't have any until I wrote them.

Succeeding in spite of difficult challenges is worth being proud of. Many of the moments I highlight in this piece are moments where coworkers helped me to see that I'd made it through a particular fire and had emerged alive and still-breathing on the other side.

I commend you for making it to where you are today, keep up the good work :)

Update:
(More thoughts, approximately 2 seconds after posting)

And, as many commentators have blessedly noted below, coming through the fires with the support of a team is a generally much more positive, and often more constructive, experience.

I have worked at places far less supportive than CircleCI and would choose not to go through several of the same experiences again having experienced how much _better_ this is.

There's a healthy balance to be struck.
The Commodore 64 has better sound and the graphics are more flexible in putting colors in more places and more larger sprites. This is great for games and the C64 would have been just as successful as a game console, and perhaps more successful as one.

The Atari 800 is better in virtually every other respect. It has an actual OS instead of a KERNAL, the SIO bus is what modern USB was based on and is better than the IEC bus as it is not crippled to tape speed like the IEC bus is and supports a tape drive and modem in addition to floppy drives and printers. It has a 256 color palette and more video modes. The 6502 CPU is faster. The DOS is easier to use with a menu instead of arcane commands. The BASIC is friendlier with sound and graphic commands, although slower. It can autoboot from tape and disk.

I had a C64 as a teen but today I appreciate the Atari 800 much more. It's an amazing system and the designers went on to design the Amiga, which was effectively a 16-bit version of the Atari 800 utilizing the same 3 custom chip design.

The C64 was more popular because it was less expensive and better for playing games, but it wasn't a better computer.
Well, not if publishers had immunity.
Is that a U.S. thing, having to see an optometrist? I did not need glasses when I lived in the U.S. But now living in a developing country my experience is similar to yours. Multiple eye glass shops in the shopping malls will check your eyes and cut lenses in a couple of hours. Cost depends mostly on how much you want to spend on frames - name brands are more expensive.
That’s cool dude. I love Black Flag and Rollins Band, and I reckon his spoken word is entertaining. You do you.
That's kind of the point. When they go after someone they're going to spend the money. No point spreading resources so thinly that they can't prosecute anyone properly.
Pity they didn't apply that to the officers of Goldman-Sachs, JPMorgan, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, Wells Fargo, and the whole rogues gallery that crashed the economy 11 years ago.

We are close to the condition of early 2008 now, so there might be another chance to get it right.
LOL! There is no way an Atari 800 owner would be envious of an Apple II owner. The Atari 800 is superior in so many ways.
I run one, a minimalist personal finance app. It's about 11 years old at this point.

I built it up as my full-time gig and ran it initially for about six years. At that point: A) I had hired someone part-time to do customer support; B) the feature set was stable enough that it didn't need constant attention; C) I was missing working with people. So I moved out to SF and started working with a startup as an engineer. Enjoyed that for two years, then moved on to another startup where I was for three years (first as an engineer, then had a chance to move into management [which I also enjoyed, but where I missed making things]).

This past October I left that startup to go back to working on my own thing. Revenue coming in to the app dropped significantly while I was doing other things, but since coming back to it I've rebuilt it (well … 90% of it) and am soon going to be shifting focus to improving business operations (in addition to building out some new features). My hope is that within a year or so it'll be back up to its earlier customer levels, but I haven't spent a lot of time forecasting that, and growth could be slow. It'll be a while before it'll support us living in SF, but that's somewhere on the horizon.

What worked for me might not work for you (it was a long time ago!), but in case it's helpful, I built a very basic MVP (literally a spreadsheet) to scratch my own itch and then shared it, for free, online. (At the time I wasn't thinking of it as a business, just as a way to help people.) It got a good amount of traction. I was able to build on the attention the free version got (and the feedback people shared) and to develop a web-based, subscription-based version that required less work and gave more value to customers than the free version.

I haven't ever taken funding, and am so, so glad I haven't.
I am a strong believer in the free market and neo-liberalism . But let’s be clear: this isn’t capitalism, this is rent-seeking and corruption.
It sounds like you haven't used an 8-bit computer for a long time. You're missing out. They're all the rage now. There are new games coming out for them every week now.
You got my GPS coordinates almost exactly correct. That's incredibly worrying.

I mean, it's impressive from a technical standpoint; but still, worrying.
The US is in the top 10 for global broadband speeds, according to Ookla and Akamai data. We’re not in the top 10 for any sort of government infrastructure (trains, roads, etc). Compare the US to say Germany or Sweden, and the only area of infrastructure where we can hold a candle is broadband.

In the NYT article detailing why it costs NYC 7x as much money per mile to build subway than other countries, leaders of subway projects in London and Paris pointed out how inefficient MTA projects are compared to theirs. Why would you expect government run broadband in the US to be better when our other government run services are so much worse?

Here in Maryland, our Comcast/Verizon duopoly is working pretty well. 60% of households have access to fiber. Most of the rest have access to gigabit cable, which in a few years will be symmetric gigabit. (I’ve got fiber from both Comcast and Verizon into my house.) Prices are comparable to Sweden or Switzerland for gigabit (places that also have high labor costs and don’t subsidize their fiber.) Municipal fiber fills the gap in rural areas.

The one gap is Baltimore, where Verizon doesn’t have FiOS. Should Baltimore build a municipal fiber network? I don’t think so. Baltimore recently celebrated hitting 75% on-time performance on their subway. MARC had 75% on-time performance this summer. My Metro commute is slower and less reliable than it would’ve been in 1985. They literally had to slow down the trains and run them less often because they botched the maintenance so bad. (And these are well-funded systems. We’re a heavily urbanized blue state.) Why on earth would I want to put those same people in charge of my broadband?
Many words in the English language have more than one meaning, according to the context. My favorite example is the word "scale."

In this case, within our own system the term "solar" refers to our own star. But when it is used for other stellar systems, it means "star" as such.

The key question, by the way, for proper word usage is if the particular usage in a case being examined is whether or not the usage would lead to confusion. In this case I think it would not.
As a teacher, I additionally see this from an edtech perspective.

The yearly cycle of education means that the next time I do something might not be until a year later. This is plenty of time for link rot or for an edtech start-up to go out of business (or even for a surviving company to break things in incompatible ways). This makes me reluctant to rely of technology in the classroom. Of course, a year is a long time in the tech world so these things are reasonable. In education, though, it feels like “I can’t believe I only used this website twice (I.e. two years) and they already went out of business.”
Damn, I didn't realize this was fiction until after I finished reading. Heartbreaking yet beautiful.
Looks like Sputnik, the first satellite.
Utilization rate is 0 if you pay off every month..
Thank you! I'm so glad to hear you found it actionable, I was really hoping folks it would be :D
Wow tptacek, thank you for all the insights. It’s a shame then that Kreb uses softening language “likely to be” when there is such confidence that Hutchins will serve little time. Though I imagine all jail time is slow time. I’m only learning now how separate the federal prison system is and it appears to have somewhat better conditions.
I didn’t read that as questioning the value of diversity. But questioning unfair management incentives that openly discriminates on gender and race.
How often have the experts confidently told us that something Musk was planning to do would be a complete failure, and turned out to be wrong? Pretty often, I would say.
did not know that...
and PS: that's one old post!
Totally off topic, but plants and fungi don't eat other life. Plants make their own food using waste products from animals. Fungi use dead and decaying matter for food.

Even more off topic, the only reason I feel the need to comment is my kid is prepping for a Singapore Science test and they seem to have a lot of questions about this stuff.
I just looked around. Great content! But how do you monetize a site like this?
I realize this is an unpopular opinion, The problem isn't just ISP's - the only reason community broadband in an urban environment sounds like a good idea, is because it can go around the permitting process. The permitting process to install shit is why any tom, dick and harry can't get themselves set up as a telco - yes, the big three/four/five as sleazy and slimy, but local government has made it almost impossible to compete with them either.

To give you an idea, I was working on a cell site upgrade project in from 2013-2015 - it took the City of Seattle two years to approve permits to do a simple no civil upgrade (swap equipment, move some above ground conduit), whereas in a more rural area, we had that same permit in 2-45 days depending on jurisdiction.
Edit. I should mention that that "Texas BBQ" happened 26yr ago today. God damn that shit makes my blood boil.
Man, what an all around tragic story. It’s well done. I didn’t realize it was fiction till the end as well.
Researchers report high performance solid-state sodium-ion battery
Send To My Cloud (https://sendtomycloud.com) is a one-person SaaS that I made 4 years ago. Its definitely in maintenance/passive mode but still profitable.
Oxytocin may assist with appetite control
I have seen fees up to $30k for each FT hire.
In a past life, long ago before I was but a wee bootcamp graduate, I was successful in other roles. If you'd be curious to get a glimpse into those experiences I wrote a bit about them here: https://medium.com/@HendersGame/is-coding-bootcamp-right-for...
Extinction Rebellion: Over 600 arrested in London climate change protests
As others have pointed out, if they’re in a stable orbit they won’t fall in (at least not for a very long time), because unlike luminous matter it won’t experience any force other than gravity. If you imagine a dust cloud of luminous matter around a black hole, it will tend to experience frictional heating the closer it gets, there is the chance of a collision or radioactive decay, and other forces acting to draw it in or send it far away. Dark matter won’t do that, it just couples to gravity. Our usual intuition about how a halo of matter behaves has a lot to do with interactions other than gravity. Clumping for example, aggregation and accretion pretty much work because of interactions other than gravity, until a body becomes massive enough.
Stellar Is Working to Convert Crypto into Fiat Currency Without Paying
> Some Amiga diehards await the day when we all realize that virtual memory and process isolation are passing fads, and go back to setting interrupt vectors and walking kernel data structures directly in RAM like real programmers did on the Amiga back in the day.

You mean, like a unikernel? I don't think anyone has tried to write a modern desktop stack that runs within a unikernel, as the Amiga OS did (parts of the desktop widget interface were even hardwired in ROM) but it can't be that hard if you can get useful language-based guarantees.
Could it also be possible that the current rate of emissions beefed up the planet's scrubbing capacity, and the climate return to pre-civ levels even faster?
Oh certainly. My comment wasn't to try to imply that employee ownership or to a stronger extent worker co-operatives were somehow impossible or impractical. I'm actually very optimistic about worker co-operatives in general. My point was more that their ownership structure isn't going to be quite like owning shares in a publicly listed company (as alluded to in the comment I replied to). I understand this is true for Mondragon, at least, where instead workers hold a capital account representing their 'social share' (or ownership stake) that they pay a membership fee into, that profits from the company are paid in to, and from which they can withdraw when they leave or retire.
Many struggling artists I talk to want strong copyright laws. It's not just something rich corporations want.
I never bought my first iPhone. I am however, not at the point at which I feel like the world should stop turning. I'm more like "ok, I am capable of selecting the good things from the bad, and letting go of the novel tech I don't like". Perhaps that is a product of being middle aged and I will feel differently when I am 80.

Douglas Adams wrote:
“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”

I like to look at classic car ads, and I saw one for a car from the 60s or whatever, and I forget the exact phrasing, but it said it had had a modern type of stereo installed, which had AM/FM and a CD player. Which I thought was funny, because that kind of pinpoints the assumed age/generation of a buyer. Going by Adams, someone who thinks car CDs are new, but good, could have been up to 35 in 1985 when the first car CD players came out. Which is exactly the age to remember mid to late 60s cars as desirable as a teenager. But now they are close to 70 years old, and that's why the prices of such cars are trending down.

I'm not sure that it's inevitable that you hate new things as you get older. Maybe it's more that people feel insecure about their ability to choose which new things they like, because it becomes a disorienting flood.
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I've also noticed that a lot of successful solo projects seem to be network/directory platforms - i.e. building an audience through free content that you then monetize through commercial partnerships.

As you said, these require a lot more on the marketing/partnerships side, rather than the technical side (in fact, one of the great things is that MVPs can be built in a couple of days on something like Wordpress).
Angle brackets and parentheses are just two of the many flavors of brackets you'll find in MDL. First, you got your regular, "boring" brackets:

<SETG X 0> ;FORM
(NORD BERT) ;LIST
[1 MONEY 2 SHOW] ;VECTOR
"Bracket-ish" ;STRING
{ what goes here? } ;TEMPLATE

Then you got your exciting brackets, where the first ! is mandatory but the second is optional:

!<REST .FOO!> ;SEGMENT
![2 4 8 16 32 64!] ;UVECTOR

Then you got your hashtag brackets, which pop up in the corner of the TV screen reminding you that there's another way to CHTYPE:

#FORM (+ 1 2) ;"same as <+ 1 2>"

And your hashtag voucher brackets, which are really just defective angle brackets you can exchange for a free hashtag:

<> ;"evaluates to #FALSE ()"

Finally, you got your bogus brackets, things that look like they could be a new kind of exciting brackets, but when you look closely they're just prefix operators that tend to appear before brackets:

'(OSCAR WILDE) ;"same as <QUOTE (OSCAR WILDE)>"
%<+ 1 2> ;"evaluate immediately"
%%<CRLF> ;"evaluate and discard result"

See also: https://github.com/taradinoc/mdl-docs/blob/master/docs/07-st...
obviously, that depends on the country. ;)

More seriously, when studying organization and lists in particular, I remember reading:

There are two types of list-makers - those who make them and use them, and those that make them and lose them.

If you're perpetually group #2, you're more likely to try it a few times then ditch the whole process.
I care about clean public hygienic facilities availability yet I don't care about prostitution at all, that's people's own business.
NYC subway denies using ‘Real-Time face recognition screens’ in Times Square
It's really hard for me to believe that a company with a billion dollars couldn't buy their way to favorable laws. Everyone else does it.
https://algodaily.com is profitable :-)

And we're just getting started! Still very much a side project too.
Cristiano Ronaldo: A new car joins the fleet of cars –. Do you know the type?
Or the more unnerving and less useful personality trait of lying. The Turing test is after all a game of deceit. Whether the human believes the AI to be human or the AI believes itself to be categorically human begins to blur the lines.