skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have thought about it, although it is quite expensive ($1500 - $2000 out of pocket).

I am a few kilos under weight for my height, so it hasn't felt like an obvious move. But I do want to get to the bottom of my sleep issues- it affects every aspect of my life.
Direct link:

https://www.dbs.com/pshift/index.html

And the page is mainly white, here (latest public Firefox & MacOS), as there seems to be an issue with a background not loading, and it's white-on-white text?

And there's a JS error in the console:

TypeError: _jquery2.default is undefined

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
> The seed vault is an attempt to ensure against the loss of seeds in other genebanks during large-scale regional or global crises.

If we categorize climate change as a global crisis then it looks like:

vault meant to safeguard against global crisis is under threat from global crisis
Spot on. They've really dropped the ball on providing useful options to the production market.
Completely, if I’m a photographer in Texas I would be worried about the effect of this ruling on my work. It’s hard for people to understand when they hire a photographer that even though they paid for images and prints they might not even have the right to modify and/or print more. But this sidesteps that completely.
Good question. Zero marijuana, ever. The only drug I do is sugar.
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Was not at all what I was expecting from the title. Love the work, (of course I majored in math at Uni).

I totally support and encourage any efforts to make higher math more approachable and understandable. I remember the multiple hazings I went through with Rudin (both little, big, and functional analysis). The comic in the beginning is hilarious.
Well, I just use Overleaf to do my LaTeX work on my iPad.
Nah, I just don't care about alcohol, and coffee gives me heartburn (which is normally well under control thanks to a PPI).
Switch to phage treatment of the donor material?
Probably doesn't have anything with axing the political cartoon department. [1]

1. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/06/13/political-cartoons-ne...
Well. I’m glad that works for you.
How does their handiwork make them targets?
This is great to see, but also really frustrating. I see Apple pushing to make iPadOS feel more 'real computer', but these sorts of basic Unixy workflows still feel very hacky, particularly when it comes time to save things to the 'File system', as it were. I look forward to a day when I can someday actually use things like XeLaTeX and Pandoc on an iPad to accomplish my actual work, but for now, I'm finding myself editing Markdown and TeX now, and compiling later. Not great, but good enough.

I've often wondered whether Apple could do well by doing something similar to Crostini on ChromeOS, to allow these things to actually work as intended, but without impacting security. But that also probably doesn't sell software as effectively, as free software doesn't pay Apple's cut.
Well, that is the question, isn't it?

I feel like I dream all night long. Random dreams- nothing that speaks to a particular worry.
I take your point. Needless to say, that wasn't my intention.
Thanks for the link. This basically says in that scenario (which I did not see specifically mentioned in my admittedly cursory glance) is to just hit the brakes...and then since there's nobody in the truck and there's no wireless signal it's just stuck there until someone goes there in person or the cell signal comes back up.
Any suspicions on how this will differ from the last decade of crypto coins?
It seems the author wanted a solution that would work offline as well.
For me, panic attacks were scariest when I had no idea what they were or while I was (or am) still uncertain that they're panic attacks. The fear that they're something worse drove the feedback loop.

Being able to identify them as anxiety (focusing quite acutely on constellations of familiar symptoms and reasoning about how they might or might not be anxiety-related) made me ride all subsequent ones out successfully, and they also grew milder and more short-lived.

If a mobile device acting as crappy medical equipment told me I was having heart problems, though, my anxiety would definitely increase.
Our kid did not go to daycare until 16 months, so I don't know much about that, but also did not have a single stay-at-home parent. Both parents dropped days/week worked to 3 or 4 and we staggered our schedules, and then had a caretaker about 18 hrs/week. I think this should be brought up for people in jobs like software where flexibility is sometimes possible.
I had the same. I'll just reply w/ a laundry list of things that helped me. Black out blinds and eye mask, eliminate all sources of light in the room. Keep the heat down about 64 in the winter, in the summer I sleep w/ a thin blanket and in my underwear. Go to bed at the same time and get up at the same time even on the weekends. Exercise daily. No coffee after 3pm. No eletronics 2 hours before bed. I also sometimes take melatonin.
Then it's not a viable business. I subscribe to the papers I want. Tax payers shouldn't absorb their faulty business.
Overleaf's fine, but lack of offline editing, and more crucially, trusting my main working copy to live only on somebody else's computer, is a bit of a non-starter for me.

Plus, call me an idealist, but it feels like a huge step back when a device requires a paid web service to do something that's completely free on a real computer. I don't know that "pay somebody else" should be hailed as the solution to "good software doesn't work on this device".
I once bought a house. It was advertised as sitting on "an acre plus".

When we started doing the paperwork we noticed it was written as .85 acres.

But the tax map was broken up into two parcels, one of which was clearly about 1/4 as large as the other. They were both marked as about 40% of an acre.

Everyone involved in the deal, including my spouse at the time, was upset when I said that we had to go walk the property and figure this out. Apparently nobody gave a crap about half an acre here or there, even though this represented about half of the property under discussion.

I finally got my way. The real estate broker took one of those DaVinci wheels and, in his fancy loafers, in the pouring rain, walked the wheel through tick infested woods until he had surveyed the entire property.

It was .51 acres
I don't think so. I travel regularly to Sydney for work, the flight we catch to get a full working day has a check-in at 5am. None of my colleagues who I travel with have this problem.

I try and deal with it by avoiding early flights if possible and flying the day before and staying the night but it's not always convenient with schedules, etc.
> I think after the impending recession when VC money dries up this skill will be in high demand.

The next dry-up will be modest, it might last 12-18 months. The last one lasted a mere 2 to 2 1/2 years and required a rather extreme global recession. The US and globe broadly are drowning in truly enormous amounts of capital yielding nothing or close to nothing. Ten trillion dollars in wealth held in government debt yielding nothing. Tens of trillions more held in other low yielding bonds. There is a lot more real wealth (inflation adjusted) in investor hands today than there was just 20 years ago (at the dotcom bust). That capital is desperate for returns and will remain so. A 1/3 correction in the US stock market would merely set it back to April 2016.

The Fed is now permanently in liquidity mode, primed to rapidly flood the system as needed. They're on twitch notice for the next QE round. This won't change for decades at least, as the Fed must endlessly run debt monetization programs, and always keep rates artificially low, to keep the US Government solvent (5% * $30 trillion = bankrupt US Government).

Pretty much every central bank of consequence is in liquidity flood mode. They're mostly all behaving similarly.

Venture capital will remain ample in such an environment of perma low rates and relatively low inflation.

Ability, skill, will become drastically more valuable over the next ~20 years. Capital will become even easier to access and even more plentiful, if you are competent and or more generally have something to sell. The rich will get richer over the next 20 years and they will always be looking for somewhere to park it. The processes occuring now, including population stagnation in wealthy nations and aggressively advancing automation (robotics, AI, et al.) will push even more wealth to the top (taxes on the rich will rise in some cases to attempt to resolve that, certainly in the US). The returns that a capable individual can generate for capital, will soar in the coming decades. It's going to be an era of rather extreme value-capture amplification for people that have consequential skills; ever greater returns going to ever small groups of people.

With population stagnation and or contraction in much of the developed world (which is only going to get worse), finding enough skilled / talented people will remain the problem, not capital. Simply put, the capital to skilled person ratio in affluent nations will continue to rapidly climb in favor of the skilled persons.
It's sovereign immunity. Any state agency can do whatever it wants and claim immunity unless the Feds get involved. The Feds can do whatever they want full stop.

The only constraint is that the state can allow itself to be sued, and therefore you have some recourse that way.
Its a cloud service and is fully managed - we provide the servers, storage, networking, connectivity - everything. You just need to bring your code.
>And that's just the thing. Many, many people don't have time to shop around gathering a variety of high-quality news sources. Many will just run Fox, or CNN, or whatever as their primary news source. And that implicitly shapes their view of the world.

Everybody has time, if they are interested, to get informed. Time is only an excuse.
If it's a state university then, yes, they could claim Sovereign immunity.
Apple doesn’t care about minuscule lost revenue because some people would want to run containers of free software. Drop in the bucket.
Deeper integration into the most popular social network meaning more people have exposure to it. In terms of functionality, it won't be any different.
I'm not sure either, but I kind of agree. I think it's the whole us vs them thing. Most people like to feel like they're on the right (correct, superior) side of whatever issue they decide divides them from the others.
There are no rapid UI dev tools anywhere that hold a candle to VB6. Winforms comes the closest. Web development is just a disaster area; I've tried a few things like Bootstrap Studio that try to get something like the ease of slapping together a UI with a visual designer that we used to have, but it is not even close; wiring up events is still laborious because of client-server and data binding, and CSS makes a mockery of attempts to have a WYSIWYG editor. Razor Pages looked like it might have been trending in that direction, but I am unclear whether that is still being worked on.

So I'm hacking away in a text editor, running a babel/webpack compile and bundle process that makes my Visual Studio solution builds seem instantaneous, firing up the app, hard-reloading the page a few times to make sure nothing is cached, then realizing I fucked something up or made a typo, and starting over. It's stupidly laborious and time-consuming. This is not progress.
As it's often said, the mission of journalists is to "comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable." Making people feel uncomfortable is of course a lousy way of staying competitive.
Kind of makes you wonder if human evolution was driven by predation.
The problem with steam is that external combustion tends to be very fuel inefficient compared to internal combustion. This is true in general, but becomes even more true when you constrain the size and weight of the engine.
The traps are there to kill the introduced predators that hunt the Kea, their eggs, and chicks.

By disarming the traps there are more predators to hunt them.
great, do the challenge and show how much better it is to write out all those INSERT statements by hand!
It's happened to me pretty often in California.
Constitutionally, they aren't. But congress passed laws waiving S.I. in some cases.

Of course, laws can be repealed.
But why do you stress the "public" bit?
angel.co does not proivde an API and their job postings are hidden behind a login which requires significantly more work to scrape...
Browsers are moving towards more restricted extensions and don't allow the unlimited UI edits that Firefox used to allow so it's unlikely that an extension would allow that exact functionality. Maybe one of the Chrome/Firefox forks could add it as a base feature.

It does bring back memories, I wrote what I think was the first extension that did that type of tab grouping. Was something like 12 years ago and even had the name "Tab Groups."
What should we know about AWS Networking?
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Out of interest years ago, I spend $20 on a few different gigs that offered link building, the results were actually amazing. (Not in a good way)

They usually offer to post links for a couple of days, and sure enough, right on the dot, you can see traffic flowing in, once the period is over, it suddenly stops. Of course all traffic came from AWS or Google Cloud.
I confronted one of the guys with the data I saw, he then decided to just keep one of his virtual machines up, and drive fake traffic to my site for months.

I did have some good results with some tedious data scraping tasks. But you have to explicitly tell them what you want, and in what format.
what time do you go to sleep?
The file manager improves but not by a lot.

I think iPadOS is only usable as an actual computer when they finally make the Terminal app on iPad and a much better File app
Aren't games the easiest apps to sandbox? They do everything custom and it's not like they even need an open file dialog.
There's an interesting example of technological synergy at the dawn of the steam engine industry.

To build an effective steam engine, you need a precisely ground piston and a precisely bored cylinder, otherwise you can't get useful working pressures. Grinding the piston is laborious but straightforward - you just need two centers and a cutting tool to achieve a rotationally symmetrical part. Boring the cylinder is much more challenging, because you need to cut a very wide, very deep, very straight hole into a huge lump of iron. Cutting that hole requires a very rigid, very powerful machine.

John Wilkinson developed an effective boring machine in 1774 for making cannons, but it was limited in speed and capacity by the water wheel that powered it. The next year, the Boulton & Watt company was founded, building stationary steam engines with cylinders made by Wilkinson. Wilkinson received the second steam engine built by Boulton & Watt, which he used to power a bigger and faster cylinder boring machine, which he used to build more and bigger steam engine cylinders for Boulton & Watt.
Thanks for that.

Unfortunately because I live in New Zealand for a global company I often have meetings in the middle of the night so the no computer before sleep is tough, I'm also worked up after those meetings and usually need to wind down somehow.

I do try and do most of the above, including no coffee after 12 (which is tough because I love coffee).
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It seems like at least parts of the government argue that any government copying is inherently fair use http://www.loc.gov/flicc/gc/fairuse.html

Fun fact, the government opinion for patents for the government and its contractors is also that the federal government cannot be found to infringe on patents either. At most they say they voluntarily choose to provide reasonable compensation. This especially applies if the use of a patent is deemed to be in the interest of national security.
This sounds like a great way for FB to know even more about you.
No one has demonstrated any benefits of space-grown crystals. Semiconductor makers have shown no interest in orbital fabrication. Sintering enables any alloy mixture without weightlessness, and without worry over miscibility that would remain a problem in a weightless melt.

I don't hate space. I just really hate nonsensical, fallacious, and dishonest claims. Promoting falsehoods poisons the well, making legitimate motivations suspect.
Yes and no; if it was a browser extension that would limit the functionality to browsers that support extensions, and half of my browsing is done on Safari on iOS. This is the only option that covers my browsing in all cases.
Weather data is a system where we have a really good understanding of the underlying physics but can’t do enough computation to simulate them in a way that’s detailed enough to make truly accurate predictions.

Machine learning is all about finding an unknown function that underlies known data. This is sort of the opposite issue: we know the underlying function but can’t compute it.

That said, ML models are being applied to situations where the whether data doesn’t translate directly into known physical quantities, like satellite images (see https://developmentseed.org/projects/hurricane-intensity/)
> L3 latency you're so worried about

I'm not sure where this is coming from. If one cpu is generating new data and another CPU is picking it up, it's wasting locality. If lots of new data is generated it might get to other CPUs though shared cache or memory, but either way it isn't necessary.

Data accessed linearly is prefetched and latency is eventually hidden. This, combined with the fact that instructions aren't changing and are usually tiny in comparison, is why instruction locality is not the primary problem to solve.

The difference it makes it up to measurement, but trying to pin one filter per core is a simplistic and naive answer. It implies that concurrency is dependent on how many different transformations exist, when the reality is that the number of cores.that can be utilized will come down to the number of groups of data that can be dealt with without dependencies.

> SPSC ring buffers

That's a form of memory allocation. When you fabricate something to argue against, that's called a straw man fallacy.
That would be extremist meritocracy. Just like capitalism doesn't mean you can sell cocaine and communism does't mean you have to lease your underwear from the government, meritocracy doesn't mean everybody gets to be on the team. To the extent that there is meritocracy, it exists to benefit the team -- that is, the existing team.

We do in fact see complaints about this in sports, particularly with national teams. People want their chance at stardom, which is reduced if shared with the entire rest of the world.
Have you done any experiments with sleeping position?

On my back I usually have trouble sleeping, on my left side I'm well enough to get a full night's sleep (usually with some rolling around), but on my right side, with my arms in the right position (right arm under pillow and curled back under my head, left arm over pillow and reaching around towards the other arm's elbow), I'm usually completely out.
An amazing accomplishment. Your entire team should be justifiably proud.
> So for example, their new UI framework is called SwiftUI which builds off the swift legacy and logo and the emotion of being faster therefore better

I mean the pun is obvious, but a swift is a kind of bird.

I specifically think it's a bad idea to name things "fast", because history will catch up to you and it might not be fast anymore, or it might be unsafe - and then what will you call the next thing?

Actually, this happened in Swift. -Ounchecked (no bounds checks) was originally "-Ofast", but thankfully they changed it.
That's very interesting. I hadn't considered that at all. I do find I fall asleep on my side, and perhaps wake up when my hand falls asleep or something.

Good idea.
Lobsters is more tightly focused, but has a lot less traffic and submissions.

So depending on what one means by "an HN alternative," maybe that fits. Maybe not.

I bet some folks could also recommend some good Reddits if you list what type tech is your thing. Some Reddits are really good, I just try to stay off the main front page which tends to be all the drama for which Reddit is infamous.

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The Economist writes up this history well and I learned a few things. But in particular in the conclusion, the Economist does their usual Mr-Market-knows-best, and Mr-Govt-makes-us-weak, shtick.

There are true believers of the left - and there are true believers of the right.
Here is how I did it: 1) Pick a challenging language that you have to do memory management (C++ for myself); 2) Start learning it and building applications that you care about; 3) Start learning design patterns (gang of four); 4) Pick up a second language at a higher level (Java was mine); 5) Add databases, caching, etc., to your programs; 6) Ask what is practical to learn in the field you choose based on your local market; 7) Get a job as jr.; 8) You've made it and the learning just begins.
I have been waiting for the same since PDF got invented. I thought it was going to be an obvious consequence, but I guess it hasn't.
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It’s a shame that making simple games doesn’t require coding like it used to. For myself, and a lot of others I’m sure, games were a huge motivator to teach myself programming. Now kids won’t be as motivated to do that
you say “obviously” there is no genetic criterion for being Latino... there’s nothing obvious about that at all. you say here yourself they aren’t a random sample of the population - then what are they? and whatever it is that ties these individuals together, I’d wager there’s a genetic history overlapping in those tying elements. Or else you’d find much more ancestral diversity within “Latinos” (or “Asians”, or “Blacks” or “Italians”. there’s a reason these partially-cultural-mostly-ancestral groups _tend_ to have similar ancestry. tend.)

just one example of the genetic angle of Latino-ness: https://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/latino-ancestry/

if you go far enough back, we’re all african, and if you go far enough forward, we’re all exactly X% everything after enough gene-mingling. but we’re not at that X% mix and we’re also not all african. we’re in an in-between stage where the cultural groups that are typically called “races” in this in-between moment on average tend to share ancestry and as a result, on average tend to be genetically similar.
why are you making this sound like it’s a wild claim?

I think of it as similar to taxonomy of species - there’s no line during evolution where something stops being one species and starts being another. just like there’s no hard line between races. but a sparrow is clearly not a giraffe. that’s a useful comment about their genetic differences that may or may not give you information related to the correlations of those differences.

> “Naturally there are rough correlations between genes and ‘race’ in some instances”

you don’t seem comfortable letting this fact lie without caveating the hell out of it, which makes your position seem ideologically motivated - which makes me question how much truth you’re willing to accept without obfuscating.
Mmm no, it doesn't assume that. It'll still work even if you don't know you're being tracked.