skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somewhat related anecdote:

I live in the Finnish countryside, and since much of the power grid out here is still ancient, there are power outages rather often.

However, if the power goes out, there's always something that tries to power everything back on automatically after exactly 30, 60, 120 and 240 seconds. If something's still wrong, the power will simply flick on and then off within a few seconds. If an outage lasts more than four minutes, it usually takes much longer to get it running again (I assume it's because it then triggers an alert that will be handled by a human operator).

I would assume there's a lot of similar stuff going on in the US power grid, considering it's immense size what I suspect is a somewhat similar mix of new and very old equipment.

And yes, surge protectors are mandatory here.
If you worked for the company, I'd usually expect 'lead engineer at Facebook'.
The Year 2038 problem is going to cause computerised doom
Hi, author here. I agree that straight away throwing a bunch of language extensions without an explanation of why we need them at all wasn't a good idea. The original blog post was written in literate Haskell, that's the reason why the code is organized that way.

I will think about rearranging the code blocks or add more explanations to make it all fit more naturally. Thanks for your feedback!
I bet I can work harder and longer than you.

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Looks interesting...
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I suspect most people just reference a paper or book and use the letters to match the source ( x/y/n/m/etc. )

If you do this (and I'll certainly admit that I do this as well) make sure you link to the paper in question somewhere in either comments or the documentation so that future developers can find the canonical reference to what the variables mean.
Regarding weed [1], regarding stress/sleep deprivation. I've heard that from a mental health professional. That's what he saw in the couple of patients he had to treat.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...
It seems like a lot of this is just the tension between what management wants to be focusing on (big picture product or business-level questions) vs what it makes sense for individual engineers to be focusing their efforts on.

As an individual contributor, it's vitally important to keep up with new technologies in order to remain employable. Maybe that isn't in fact the best strategy for your current job, but it's crucial to getting your next job.

Put another way, there are probably a lot of businesses that sensibly standardized on ColdFusion in the early 2000s. Engineers who buckled down and focused on "So what’s your company trying to do?" using CFML could easily find themselves in a really bad spot--unless they were also sacrificing their home life to teach themselves something else.
how nice of you to finally specify a drug instead of making a blanket claim.
But they do have the actual content since they show the meta title an description on top of what I assume is heavy NLP to drive the search engine itself.
I wonder if they'd also be less ego-centric, given that they don't perceive the world in terms of their orientation?
I liked the original form of this idea better, when it was hypothesized that universes are packed into a stack-like structure of membranes, although the mirror hypothesis has the benefit of being theoretically accessible to experimentation.

There are a couple of neat effects that fall out of the (mem)brane hypothesis. For example, it offers a model for why gravity is seemingly so weak compared to the other forces: because a large part of it leaks out into neighboring universes. In that case, we'd have a handy explanation for dark matter as well: it's gravity that leaks in from neighboring universes. This would mean that stuff clumps together across universes. It could also be an auxiliary model for black hole formation in certain cases where we have yet to find out how some black holes could grow very quickly.

If we ever become a K3 civilization we could attempt to send a message across universes with gravity, or possibly even paint a symbol into the sky using large masses. Not we know how likely the other universes are to support life (probably not very).
I think human rational thinking is completely f*cked. We are just not capable of thinking very logically/rationally.

I think all the more reason to meditate, be mindful and adopt philosophies that are not always rational, but good instead.

Also, the truth is often very complex or very dark, so thinking is only going to bring incorrect simplified (black/white) conclusions or negativity/resentment.
I'll disagree with Viktor Frankl, not because I've read the book - but it is worth knowing the man was a questionable person and his ideas have some questions over them too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Frankl#Controversy
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In my mind/opinion, Rust is a potential replacement for C++, while Zig is a potential replacement for C, and both have their place in the world.

Rust feels more restrictive, but that may be the right approach for building large software projects with big, "diverse" (in terms of skill level) teams.

Zig is smaller and feels more nimble, and might be better suited for smaller teams working on smaller projects, and for getting results faster, while avoiding most of C's darker corners.
Have you tried Minitube?
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That link does not say anything about science or a carbon tax. What did that economist have to say about it?
ES is a wonderful concept, but comes with many pitfalls and design contraints that are very different from the classic CRUD workflow, which is what most devs are familiar with.

The biggest problem is the lack of available tooling.

The only custom built ES database is Eventstore [1], and it has many issues.

Many are abusing solutions that were not built for the use case (like Kafka), and end up hand-building a lot of related functionality that often ends up brittle.

Ad new purpose-built DB could do wonders for the space if it had these features:

* Horizontally scalable

* schema validation for events

* schema migrations and event upcasting

* Built-in projections + state rebuilding

* index projections

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Very interesting. When I was working with young people I noticed something completely different (in europe).

They tend to be better at communication with technologies but a lot worse in real face-to-face communication.

They stand some meters apart and rather text each other than standing up in front of a group of other people to just talk to the other person.

I also see greater economic insecurities but I don't understand how this is connected to less or later gains in self-sufficiency. Shouldn't it be reversed?
In my time it was so important to get some extra bucks to spend on more/better clubs, booze and gas that we did nearly every shitty job to earn some.

What I think the article got right is the risks involved with this tendency towards less risk taking. Many activities we took part in our youth forced us to deal with unknown situations and people and we learned to cope with things. We spent hours at the riverside, in the forests etc. getting wasted, building stuff and doing nasty things that teenagers do - I think it was for the better of our development and a friend of mine who works with young people professionally supports this hypothesis.

When there are no insecurities and problems to tackle you don't learn to stand on your own feet. Learning to cope with stressful and strange situations and people at least helped me to find ways out of trouble instead of ending my life or get killed.

When we were bullied at school we met the bullies at the yard and beat the sh*t out of them instead of being overwhelmed by pseudo-anonymous groups of people on the net. I think that was easier as a mechanism of coping and at least you could do something about it.

I wouldn't underestimate the psychological stress they have to deal with nowadays and I think I also wouldn't want to switch positions.

I'm happy I grew up before this digital revolution just early enough to know the differences.
Great article.

There is this excellent talk by Maslach, "Understanding Burnout" which dispels most misunderstandings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kLPyV8lBbs

However, as with most conditions it's unlikely you will have any interest in it until being affected.
For personal use, I prefer Google Task and Google Keep.
Asana (https://asana.com) is a very good choice, but they keep raising the price. I'll check out Quire (https://quire.io)
This would be more attractive if it had controls to select only the language(s) that I am learning and control the frequency and maybe even allow for spaced repetition.
This wasn't for youtube-dl, but a long time ago I used to have a somewhat similar system using a simple named pipe. Write the URL to that file, one URL per line; a simple ksh (back then :-) ) script read it on the other end and did its magic. The cool thing about it being that all you had to do was echo $url >> ~/.dl/queue.txt .
I was using this around 2001:

Freecom Beatman Mini CD MP3 Player ( https://www.semox.de/23-06-2008/verspateter-fruhjahrsputz-is..., scroll )

MP3 players in 2001 were either expensive or had tiny capacity, eg a single album, which was never enough.
Yes, you got it perfectly. Start-ups are especially wary of sharing their IP with VCs or their portfolio companies so we come in handy as trusted third party (trusted by both) to not leak critical IP while still being able to say something useful about it.
I have no problem working twice as much as normal. What I want is to be paid twice as much (at least).
Well, people shared your intuition for a while but then new results came up. This literature started with the supposed rationality of compelling axioms of decision making by Ramsey, von Neumann, Savage, etc. These are in the end based on measurement theory. People noticed early that humans seem to remain rational even if they violate intuitively acceptable rationality postulate.

Take Luce's coffee cup example as an illustration. You prefer black coffee to sweet coffee. Suppose you compare coffee with no sugar to coffee with one grain of sugar added. You're indifferent: a~b. Then add another grain, and so on. You will get comparisons a~b, b~c, c~d, e~f, ..., j~k, and then suddenly a>k, a violation of the supposed transitivity of equipreference (aka indifference, equally good). But that seems to be rational.

So people relaxed rationality requirements and now there is the problem what 'rationality' actually means.

Fast forward a few years and empirical studies found the following strange behavior: If you mention a high number before asking people for some fictional charity contribution, then people tend to be be willing to pay more than if you mention a low number before, and it does not matter in which way you mention the numbers. (Actual experiments were made by making people roll a rigged lottery wheel before doing some completely different task, for example.) You can even tell participants about the observed effect before, it will still be observed.

I see no way how this "anchoring effect" could be described as being rational.

But many people nowadays share your opinion, and there is a whole field called "ecological rationality" in which scholars try to re-interpret supposedly irrational biases as good and rational heuristics increasing e.g. evolutionary fitness. I don't think they're right in general, though. Some of the biases are just flaws. If I flash a number before your eyes and this affects your subsequent decision making, then that's not a useful heuristics, it's a flaw in your brain processing. My 2 cents, others disagree with me.
Try https://github.com/MrS0m30n3/youtube-dl-gui/blob/master/READ...
I already encountered such cable. Red cables from Oneplus phones rated for dash charge tech (5V, 4A) won't charge regular phones (e.g. Samsung A8), despite being rated for higher current.
There's a longer term issue that appears to be missing here.
At what point do you change? There must be a point otherwise we'd all be here writing COBOL/CICS with some whizzy Javascript interface library.

Over time it becomes harder and harder and more and more expensive to maintain old technology. Because frankly maintaining old technology is pretty boring and career destroying so you need to be paid more and more to do it.

The marginal benefit of the new shiny is indeed an overhead you should try and avoid, but also you have to dodge the trap of being stuck in a technology when everybody else has moved on.

Anyway back to the Adabas support...
There is a bug where if you disable blinking textcursors, notifications in the taskbar never gets cleared. Been that way since Windows 7. How are those two things related?
Doesn't seem to have slowed the Canadians down much:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loonie
Manipulative headline, which put me in a bad mood. What they're doing is good, but this article left me feeling annoyed. Like contrived cheerleading.
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I think bug that they are embarrassed about
We can imagine all sorts of arbitrary transformations of our universe into various geometrical forms, but they're just imaginary. What turns speculation like this into physics is a mechanism.
So why not just write the original formula into the comment above the code? Maybe it's not the purest approach, but it sure would help parsing the code in this case.
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An odd one here. 'Chimpanzee Material Culture'[0]. It's getting on a bit (pub 1992) so perhaps others can recommend a more updated study, but it's a sophisticated presentation of chimps, their culture, how they compare to human hunter-gatherers (and how difficult it can be to distinguish between crude stone tools used by one or other), how difficult it is to even phrase the right question when it comes to comparing chimps and humans, and a list of open issues. Anyone who wants to talk about limits of nonhuman should read this.

And with a sense of humour too. Not too heavy, and I found it a genuine page-turner (rather unexpected that!)

And as I mention humour I just reminded myself of 'The Innocent Anthropologist'[1] which is kind-of similar in a way but totally hilarious [1]. It's really funny, also very educational, and would make a very good complement to the first.

I suppose to continue the theme of other cultures (which fascinate me because they teach me so much about my own culture and assumptions when I read how very different other societies can be), 'Aztec'[2]. It tracks the life of a (fictional) aztec and the destruction of his culture and people as the conquistadors arrive. The author does take some historical liberties; allow for that a little.
I'll call it the best book I ever read, however it is dense so it either works for you or it doesn't. But if it works, it is amazing!

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[1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Innocent-Anthropologist-Notes-Mud-H...

[2] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Aztec-Gary-Jennings/dp/0765317508
more than 100,000 people

100,000 trips... means, at most, half that many people.

In a typical use case of 1 transfer per direction, 100K trips = 25K riders.
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Tech innovation: is our obsession unhealthy?
This is a very important point indeed!

It's anxiety that drives national-socialists for example. Do we want them to rise again? I don't think so!

Also your example with the psychopath is a very good one. Success and money are not the most important things in the world even when instragram & co are bloated with pictures of "happy", rich, dumb people who have nothing but their looks.

If men wouldn't have taken risks probably they'd never have left Africa in the first place.
Some of the wildest sci fi I've ever read. So many mind stretching concepts are explored while still remaining a great story.
it's a stretch to call any neighborhood in San Francisco suburban

The Sunset is the very definition of suburban.
Obviously hyperbole, its more about access to proper nature, be it in form of vast forests or even better mountains. There is something about soothing touch of nature that can't be mimicked by any other means. Especially important for kids
React is independent of layout and rendering models, it's not in any way tied to HTML or CSS.

AFAICT the way SwiftUI works is basically the same as React.
When I teach or write about Haskell I try to break down the parts in a way that the parts can be tested using ghci and just composing it at the end.

I think there are quite a few parts in there that one can easily "try out on their own".
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Future?
Most modern CPUs do this to some extent. Remember you can only have a very simple model here, because the inference time has to be extremely fast.
Haha, in Stephenson's latest we find he is even more than that!
The two first are about political platforms to organize political events or to spread the word through online guides.

The third link is a tracker app.
They didn't :-). The cursor -- a moving indicator, as part of a slide rule or any other similar instrument -- has been called that way since the early 17th century.
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What is your source for Waymo having hundreds of millions in revenue? I'd be surprised if they've even hit hundreds of thousands at this point, considering how small their trucking operation is and how few people are part of their always-in-beta pilot in Phoenix.

The reason Waymo would be cancelled is simple: self-driving cars are far from a reality. Why would you continue to spend billions of dollars developing something once you realize you have no idea how to develop it?

Obviously if they can make self-driving cars they will make a shitload of money. But why do you assume they can do that when they've missed their public milestones (not to mention their internal milestones), almost the entire original team has left, many of those original team members including the former lead are publicly saying the technology is decades away, and if you talk to anybody in the industry that's worked on it for more than a year they'll tell you it's all demoware?
Not anymore, that's exactly what the article is about.

> ICANN has agreed to remove price restrictions on .org domain names, letting the domain’s manager, Public Interest Registry, charge as much as it wants for the domains. (It also agreed to let .info manager Afilias charge whatever it wants for .info.)
A related article on the thinning of Antarctic ice sheets [0]. So we've got the decrease in ice extent as well as thickness, which is equal to total volume decrease?

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/may/16/thinning...
Defense mechanisms are far more interesting
Yes I agree. I will edit for clarity.
> But the article highlights that discovering the de facto standards is still a challenge for new Rust users -- does anyone know of a well-maintained list of the 10-20 most critical crates that new users should familiarize themselves with after reading The Book?

I came across this exact thing recently: https://github.com/brson/stdx
> Is that a hyperbole or meant literally?

It is of course an allegory for the general lack of nature within cities. Of course there are some parks and German cities tend to be green. But that is all relative and for many people no substitute for "real" nature, where you can leave your kids on their own without needing to worry about traffic or other dangers. That is the thought process of most couples that had kids in my circle.

Of course cities offer more childcare services, but that isn't an argument for people having a certain mobility.

Some lone trees on some boulevard or avenue just doesn't cut it for many people.
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