skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This, by the by, is also how I know what my natural sleep period is when unconstrained by scheduled obligations: nine hours.

I think this is my one super power. When unconstrained by social obligations and only working on things I'm excited about, my natural sleep period falls down as low as 4 hours. Normally I sleep 6 hours and on the weekends it goes up to 8 because I'm tired from the week.

But put me in vacation mode and after 2 days of rest I basically don't sleep anymore. It's weird.

Maybe that's what helps me adjust. I'm essentially cheating by sleeping less.

For me what causes schedule drift like you mentioned in the hermit situation is a combination of procrastination and excitement about interesting work. When it's time to go to bed, I say "Just 5 more minutes" and keep going. Suddenly it's 3am and then of course I'm not going to get up at 7am.

The next day it's evening and well I got up late today so obviously I'm not tired yet ... aaand it's a self-reinforcing cycle.

I have seen good results from forcefully cutting that cycle and enforcing a bed time. It takes discipline to stop what I'm doing and go to bed, but ultimately it's the only thing that seems to work. Usually once I'm in bed there's no problem falling asleep within 10 minutes or so. The hard part is convincing myself to get to bed.
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They took it out of Office Pro 2016 for some reason, but it's back in Office Pro 2019. (And 365)

https://support.office.com/en-ie/article/where-is-power-pivo...
Yes, and to a certain extent, you can study computation without a digital computer. Computation can be abstracted away from the devices that perform it. You can, for example, study Big O notation and theoretical computational complexity of algorithms without actually using a computer.
I am in the US and FDG PET does not work for NET. The "older" scan was Pet radiolabeled with indium-111.
Comparison is here: http://prntscr.com/o02jsg Left is the newer scan, which uses Gallium 68. The primary tumor is uppermost right side, liver metastasis is left side, and small lower lighted up areas are lymph nodes. All will be removed soon. Lit up area below is the radiotracer in my bladder before urinating. :-)
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>He used Twitter and Medium because people follow him on those platforms.

Of course, yes. That's where the audience is. I'm pretty sure we all know that. (A small nitpick -- Bezos actually didn't have any followers on Medium before his first and only Medium post[1]. Therefore, he could have directed the Twitter link to a blog his own domain "jeffbezos.com" but he chose not to do that.)

>You are overthinking this.

Yes I am! And I want others to overthink it too. The point of my comment is to dissect the topic of this thread "Always Own Your Own Platform" -- by using a prominent counterexample.

JB didn't follow Sean Blanda's advice[2]. He also didn't adhere to the POSSE guideline. Why?

("Because JB's followers are there.")

Let's try to break the infinite loop of nonproductive discourse. _Why_ are JB's followers on Twitter? Even if they're on Twitter, why does JB even _care_ about that? He could have just followed Sean Blanda's advice and posted to "jeffbezos.com" -- but he did not. Let's overthink the reasons why Blanda's advice was not followed.

[1] only one Medium article by JB:
https://medium.com/@jeffreypbezos

[2] https://twitter.com/SeanBlanda/status/1134076887821631488
I would definitely question how prepared he was made for this situation. How many active shooter drills did his employer run him through? Everyone isn't a natural born hero. In reality, rushing in could have caused more deaths, or it could have saved lives if he was mentally and physically prepared for it.

Everyone wants someone to blame in these horrific situations, and a cowardly officer who I would imagine doesn't get paid as much as most of the people on this forum, is as good a person to blame as anyone. After a single New Zealand shooting, they vowed to take action in policy. We'll see how it plays out but it seems a more appropriate response than focusing a lot of attention on one ill-prepared officer.
Bet you're right.

The great majority of the site's content is pulled from POD docs that come with the Perl distro. No reason to convert that at every request. I wouldn't be surprised if most of the tooling to make Perldoc is on CPAN already.
Yeah, that should do it, problem solved!

When you have to abuse copyright, you are doing it wrong.
I consider putting the following on my cv:

2016-2019: working for google - analyzing street footage for implementing AI for self driving cars.

Maybe I should also invoice google for the effort.
If you ask me, we're already past the point of this being effective.

Coming from the perspective of creating and selling a PC game, do you really think you can be successful by posting it up on your website with a Stripe checkout button? (Actually you shouldn't even be using Stripe, but I digress). If you do, you're fooling yourself.

I think the same could be extended to a number of industries, e.g crafts that are sold on Pinterest/Etsy. To get back to where we were will require a complete overhaul of the entire system. Until then, we are beholden to our advertising masters.

I actually don't think it's all bad, though. 15 years ago, you didn't have nearly the options available to you to make money that you do now.
Until "owning your platform" becomes as simple and as feature-full, and as valuable overall as using someone else's platform, this movement will always be akin to "the year of the Linux desktop". Always full of zeal, motivation, and good ideas, but lacking in adoption and execution.
A quick check shows the site is on DreamHost which offers $2.59 a month shared hosting which isn't going to handle the load (though they have the full assortment of hosting options you'd see, up to dedicated hardware).
Even more annoying are those sites that insist on using it, even though they know I'm human -- for reasons like I've paid them some money or jumped through their KYC hoops. At that point it's just being rude and exploitive, and, personally, I've reached the point where I'll simply take my business elsewhere if a site chooses to treat me with so little basic respect.
Human seems able to see face on anything.
WOuldn't be a good idea to use this as a way to make a captcha ?
The Android client Orgzly is a good introduction to the scheduling/to-do side of org-mode.

There's also the compact org-mode manual at https://orgmode.org/guide/

I use org-mode for to-do lists, nested lists with to-dos scattered among them, scheduling stuff, and habits (repeatable variable schedule tasks). Orgzly does a lot for me already, and spacemacs+org-mode lets me edit however I want. I also use spacemacs+deft for quick notes, and org-capture for quickly entering new to-do items.
Couldn't you backup the backup instead? More space, but transfer in a local network would be faster.
> Get a disabled person to take them to court for discrimination.

I was thinking something more along the lines of sponsoring them to take Google to court ;)
I'm even just thinking something as simple as Waze/Uber/Lyft disagree with the route googlemaps chooses
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Here in North Oakland we have these 29 added taxes to my property tax bill:

-COUNTY WIDE GO BOND

-CITY OF OAKLAND 1

-SCHOOL UNIFIED

-SCHOOL COMM COLL

-BAY AREA RAPID TRANSIT

-EAST BAY REGIONAL PARK

-MOSQUITO ABATEMENT

-CSA PARAMEDIC

-CSA VECTOR CONTROL

-CITY EMERG MEDICAL

-CITY PARAMEDIC SRV

-CSA LEAD ABATEMENT

-SCHOOL MEASURE G

-PERALTA CCD MEAS B

-OUSD MEASURE N

-OUSD MEASURE G1

-VIOLENCE PREV TAX

-CITY LIBRARY SRV-D

-SFBRA MEASURE AA

-FLOOD BENEFIT 12

-HAZ WASTE PROGRAM

-CSA VECTOR CNTRL B

-MOSQUITO ASSESS 2

-AC TRANSIT MEAS VV

-CITY LIBRARY SERV

-EBMUD WETWEATHER

-EAST BAY TRAIL LLD

-EBRP PARK SAFETY/M

They range from $1.74 for mosquito abatement to $991.28 for City of Oakland. the average is around $100 at quick glance.
If I considered constructing a botnet of Linux workstations, your software would be an excellent candidate.
Here we all are in the comments complaining about how all the focus is on front end instead of fixing the back end, and one of the first comments to a legit alternative is "yeah so what's it look like?" !!
Having just recently interviewed at one of the FAANG for a role that I felt was really well suited for me experience-wise, it's not worth the stress. I study all the time already, simply to do my job and out of interest.

The average whiteboard interview nowadays doesn't reflect my day-to-day work and tests a narrow slice of my ability to solve problems. It also supremely fails to qualify people from non-traditional backgrounds.

Enough of the "we should be thankful there's such a low bar of entry - you just need to cram exercises". FAANG and many others externalize the burden of qualifying employees by relying on volume and setting the bar very high. Many are going to wear themselves down when the entire process is skewed against them.

So my advice - don't worry too much, you're probably a great candidate and it sounds like you've already done as much as you should to prepare.
I would NOT recommend it unless you have deep pockets for syncing to a 3rd party database like Amazon RDS or Heroku connect. Mostly because your database schema will go to shit real fast either because business users will modify it arbitrarily or because you'll struggle to understand the performance implications / indexing requirements of various Salesforce tooling.

Bad Database Schema === Bad Time
That's a bit dramatic. I've load-tested database backed sites on $5/month DO droplets and gotten > 1k requests per second for extended tests.

My primary site not only stores articles in the DB, but runs them through an extended, custom markdown parser upon retrieval, and processes and reports event data on every page load. It was still successfully returning ~250 reqs/sec before I'd bothered implementing any caching or pre-compilation of markdown at all.

In contrast, people recently HNed[1] are reporting about 12-15k visits over a day. That's something a single server on a $5/month VPS can handle in a minute

1) https://getpolarized.io/2019/04/02/getting-hacker-news-lesso...
"Castle Rock v. Gonzales, is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled, 7–2, that a town and its police department could not be sued under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 for failing to enforce a restraining order, which had led to the murder of a woman's three children by her estranged husband."

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzale...
Confused why you call SalesForce “front end”?
Yes, the profit motive does enforce at least a little pressure on reducing unnecessary overhead. This is of course not universally the case.
I never use Firefox, but I'm pretty sure I've seen this same format before in Chrome. No?
Last year they acuired Empirical Systems, "an eight-person artificial intelligence startup based in Cambridge, Mass" [1].

However, 'Tableau Research' [2] has existed for years and its researchers regularly publish at major academic visualisation conferences like IEEE VIS (InfoVis/VAST) and EuroVis (see [3]).

[1]: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/tableau-acquires-mit-ai-spinof...

[2]: https://research.tableau.com/

[3]: https://research.tableau.com/papers
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Also, unavailable to most people.

Yes, I suppose it was kind of nice when the internet was only available to the tech-savvy, to those who didn't mind maintaining a second job as a Unix administrator. But for people who just wanted to _write_, it was not welcoming.

Yes, you can go to wordpress.com and sign up for your own blog, but then you're just on the wordpress platform, and subject to their whims. If your plan works, then wordpress.com becomes so big that they're the bad guys now.

Facebook, Medium, and others are here because we, the tech world, didn't give the rest of the world any other options. We didn't settle on a standard, containerized server platform that was simple enough for users to drag "Wordpress.server" onto "SomeHostingProvider.com" and get a working server. The tech ceiling was _always_ too high, and it was our own hubris that we weren't willing to build a more welcoming environment.
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https://youtu.be/RN1GZpTLoWw

the only sound i hear / is the cry of the wind / as it blows through the town / weave and spin, weave and spin
> 1) The images are so blurry and ambiguous it's really hard to get right, it feels like a test designed to make you fail

On top of that, I think some of the training sets are wrong. Multiple times I've been asked to find traffic signs, but it would only let me pass when including street signs.
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I remember web rings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webring
This! I have a Chrome development profile which I primarily use for testing. When I encounter a captcha it's the same painful experience as the OP's FF video. I don't have restrictions around cookies or tracking either. My best guess is that I just don't have as much "usage history" on that profile for Google to just declare me clearly human. Alternatively, on my main profile that I use for normal browsing captcha (which it still sucks) is never as painful.
Good luck with the surgery! You probably got Octreoscan which is used for NET - it's SPECT imaging which is generally worse that PET, but (until now) there wasn't a good PET tracer that works in NET. Awesome to hear a story of how this new tracer could really help patients.
There's something funny when this article links to several paywalled articles.
Somehow that's not the same thing. I don't always agree with what Mozilla is doing. But I want to support Firefox the browser, especially now, when privacy-wise the division gets more and more pronounced, with Google and Microsoft on one side, and Apple and Mozilla on the other.
NYT from 10 years ago would not have published this unsubstantiated propaganda piece.

Facts are commodity in the age of search engines, and the only "value add" journalism brings to the table is "opinions". Even the once infallible NYT apparently cannot resist this fundamental change, and this article is one grain of sand in a barren desert of listless opining masquerading as news.
Not so modern an invention then. Thanks for the pointer.

(Anyway, participating in the training of "mathematical engineers" and being trained as one are not necessarily the same thing.)
I'm currently studying a CS(-ish) bachelors degree (and I'm currently procrastinating on a group assignment) so I have some experience with this.

Our uni gives us quite a lot of group assignments. The university-wide solution to this problem is to include a mandatory section in each group assignment, where we are supposed describe the specific contributions of individual groupmembers. This is a neat idea in theory, but it doesn't really work. Because we've almost always lied in this section.

You'd think that the more productive student would want to claim their own work, but more often we've prioritized 'sticking together', and aimed for distributing the described workload as evenly as possible. The idea being that the highest grade wouldn't be higher anyway (the report doesn't magically become better), but it might give the grader incentive to give some group members a lower grade.

It's not a zero-sum game. So we might as well sacrifice some pride to keep the group dynamic strong, and to help out weaker students (regardless of whether it's a work-ethic or an intelligence problem).

That being said - we might be an unusual social group. We generally prioritize technical (and social) abilities way higher than grades (which aren't so important here anyway). We've all stuck together since the start of our studies, despite being a very wide span of academic ability - so theres a lot of teaching and learning within the group.

A survey of our uni recently ranked our line of study #1 for "How motivating the social life is to performing academically". So it seems that our approach is working.

EDIT:
I should mention that it's by no means the case that the actual workloads are distributed evenly. They are of course very skewed, and often a single group member will do almost no work.
It also happens to be Amazon's most profitable division, so it kinda makes sense.

Actually does Amazon's marketplace make any profit?
True, if the level found is 150% of normal, it's a problem. In my case, I was misdiagnosed for 10 years. When my docters finally ran the test for the right biomarkers, they found levels 50 times normal. So maybe the tests need wider margins to screen out false positives.
HeadSpin https://www.headspin.io/ provides a large set of real Android and iOS devices distributed around the globe. Testing on real hardware is always better than testing in an emulator, and testing in a real location provides additional data points that help you eliminate performance issues with your application.

Testing just mobile web browsers is of course supported, but if you ever have the need you can test native game engines and get video and network performance statistics at the same time. Automated testing via Appium is natively supported, or you can bring your own framework.
The Federal Reserve is usurping authority and here's why you should care
If you're doing a database lookup for every page load for comments, you're doing something wrong. Also, you'll be moderating comments, unless you want your blog to become a cesspool of hatred or spam, so the page becomes even less dynamic. Myself, I'd put the comments on a separate resource so that the static page would never be affected by that load, whether POSTing or GETing, and load async. (so your static site is always up, even if your comment system falls over)
Here's a video with this pool, and some other amazing pools around the world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV2BltuPbvI
Most typical programmers will be using malloc, or some mechanism built on top of malloc (C++ new). MMap and brk are useful for certain situations (explicitly getting Huge Pages), but I don't think that the typical programmer necessarily needs to know about those.

Since glibc malloc is built on top of mmap and brk, I think your distinction is mostly academic. For any programmer using Linux and glibc... malloc's failure mode IS mmap and brk failure modes.
But the original post we're replying to said:

> Having children bestows the incomparable gift of life on other people (your children). Bestowing that gift is the part of having children that makes someone happy. It's not a self centered happiness; the day-to-day of raising children is frequently miserable.

They're not saying they're making the world a better place, they're saying that the person they gave birth to would be happy to be alive and that happiness gives joy to the parent (in addition to satisfying base survival needs I suppose).

> Some of us choose not to participate in this willingly, others will delude themselves into thinking they are somehow separate from the rest of nature in terms of their biological drives.

I don't see anyone deluding themselves other than the people who think not having children is a moral position to take. It's a valid personal choice but nothing more.
Yes it was an Octreotide scan.
Would really love to hear what the final output sounded like. Some light googling found no recordings, did anyone else have more luck?
I'd guess the officer is already in their own hell of regret or second-guessing, and perhaps also PTSD from the event itself.

Instead of making the officer a target for outrage over the event, why not instead focus on learning what can be learned from this event, including with the help of the officer?

If someone wants their pound of flesh, it's not like the officer hasn't likely already suffered and won't keep punishing themself. And it's not like further punishment needs to be seen for some kind of deterrent effect.
You aren't working for free. You get access to a website and the publisher gets bot protection. It's a 3 way win-win-win transaction.
> Pardon the double post but I think I see what you're looking for. The full diatribe is mostly advocating for a new lebensborn program. The direct talk of breeding up ubermensch/supermen with that exact word supports this.

Actually, what I'm looking for is some evidence or reasoning that supports your claims of Molyneux advocating white supremacy or eugenics.

> Of course the lebensborn program was integral with the wider eugenics sterilization program but perhaps we think Molyneux wants to skip that part.

Unless you can demonstrate an ability to read minds, your perception of what Molyneux thinks doesn't count as evidence.

> Except the phrase in question refers to the _whole_ breeding arena.

Does it? Please excerpt the literal words he's used so I know you're not using your imagination.

> So the meaning is completely clear, especially in context not in-spite of it.

We shall see when you provide the evidence (actual spoken words) supporting your new claim.

> "absurd use of language", "nonsensical parallel reality"

Indeed.

EDIT: I'm not seeing the other post that goes with the "double" warning?
It is a feature of your chosen libc, which has to then interact with those system calls, in a way that gives malloc a peculiar behavior on Linux specifically as opposed to other OS.
It's funny, I had read that paper a few times while learning about bandit learning, and I never noticed their version, which funnily enough outperforms vanilla UCB1 in all of their tests!
The point is to tie you into the Google ecosystem. That's the entire purpose of Android, really.
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FWIW if your DB supports dumping to stdout restic can import that: https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/latest/040_backup.html#read...
I'm a long-time Firefox/Mozilla user, and I'd give it a try for $10/month. It would be an easy sell to me if it includes a reasonable amount of online storage.
Google respects robots.txt
Yeah, I can't imagine how Baker (and all the employee-shareholders) must have felt about being advised not to do the standard half-cash-half-stock purchase and then turn out to be a fraud so soon.
The simple correction is that the pot doesn't live in your pocket. And the lottery don't offer a fixed jackpot, they offer the contents of the pot.

So a realistic correction of this, would be that for each $1 game, 50 cents goes in the pot, 50 cents goes in your pocket. If 3 people play and all 3 win, their payout is 50 cents. Obviously 50/50 odds lead to a disappointing game for the players - a bigger pot needs lower odds - but either way, the house never loses.
do you have a nice workflow for images and files?

and what are the limits to keeping everything in one file? theoretically i see no downside to it.
Or it tells you to pick out pictures of cars and shows you a pickup truck. Now you have to figure out if people would call that a car or not. How about a delivery truck? A motorcycle?

Or it will ask for pictures of crosswalks, and you have to decide if 3 pixels of a crosswalk in the corner of one of the pictures counts.
Link to the opinion https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/17-1594
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My time in college also taught me a lot on groups. It soon became clear that an A team is very volatile because of egos and motivators are hardly the same. Every time we had groups bigger than 2-3, there was drama and/or resentment. I wish I knew more about people and project management at that time but times were also different..
AI deepfakes are now as simple as typing whatever you want your subject to say
Posthaven, Archive.org, or Github Pages.