skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>> Carpel tunnel and tendonitis? How'd she do that?

Same way they all do it: Practicing for hours a day with barely discernible deviations in technique and physical approach. Feeling pushed to play through the pain. Facing deadlines such as competitions and auditions. Knowing that taking a break in order to heal means dropping out of the scene and falling to the bottom of call lists. Perhaps subtle genetic variations that make some people more susceptible than others.

What does a hobbyist know about these things? I certainly don't. I'm also a techie by day and a musician at night -- a jazz double bassist. I will never be as good as the top bassists in my locale -- they all have music degrees and have practiced more than I ever will. But I can choose my battles, and that includes putting my health first. My hands are in great shape.

But the injuries are real. Rumors are true: The bass is big. You can see technique problems from a mile away. It saddens me to see this, but I watch promising young professional bassists coming up through the ranks, and a lot of them show evidence that they are playing through injuries that will eventually limit their careers. Some time on YouTube will reveal this, though I don't want to call anybody out.

Physical occupations are always potentially dangerous. People get hurt. I've watched tradesmen work, and it's rare to see workers at my age (55) who aren't hobbling and broken.

Like you, I opted out of a music career pretty early. Luckily, I was equally interested in other things such as math. Realistically, I wasn't good enough to progress in music beyond, say, the community orchestra level.
I'm not a musician but this bothers me

"Those who achieve such heights are capable of playing the most complex, technically difficult music on equally complex instruments that take decades to master"

Complexity just isn't of value in software and I don't know if it is in music. One of my favourite pieces is Bach's Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, and that's extremely simple (ISTM. IANAMusician. YMMV. etc).

The only value to music is a purely subjective one, how do assess merit in such a situation.
Are you capturing enough of the value you create?
I knew a guy who went to Stanford then became a doctor. While his friends were living in luxury in their 20s, he was working 90-100 hours a week and sleeping in a dingy old bed in a hospital room without AC, while he was on call.

It was that point I truly understood what people mean when they say you don't become a doctor for the money.

very few exceptions. Although you do see some in plastic surgery and other cosmetic medical fields.
Will never use a cloud password store.

I use Codebook which provides phone and desktop apps, and allows database syncing over LAN. It’s the best solution that gives you both ease of use and syncing.
A friend who spent a short time there said "you know that tool that you want to build before you start working on your real job? At G, it already exists"

This is less true now because a lot of their tooling has been exported either directly or by rumors leading to it getting rebuilt outside. I'm talking containerization / orchestration and protobufs specifically.
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Even really smart people sometimes write really dumb code. Including you. :)
From that answer: "You can't parse [X]HTML with regex".

I've always wondered how that came about. How come very early in the development of the web no one important enough for people to pay attention to them said, "Hey...wait a second. If this thing becomes popular, people are going to really want to processes web documents with their usual text file processing tools and techniques. We really outta make this thing reasonably easy to process with grep and sed and awk and Perl and such"?
India Says It Has Located Chandrayaan-2 Lander on Moon’s Surface
Please don’t call it “free” if I have to “enroll” and hand over information in order to watch the videos. They’re not free. They cost me information/privacy.
"Miles per battery" is possibly the stupidest metric to use to describe a battery capacity.

Any battery can last one million miles if it's just sitting on a seat in a vehicle.
>physical analog medium (superficial, but has value to some)

I dissagree that vinyl medium is superficial. It is different entirely. Vinyl has a unique sound. Dynamic entropy is added during the playback from imperfections, many favor this outcome, not all.

Audio sources for vinyl duplication will undergo a seperate mastering process that is taylored for the vinyl version. Even if you do not request another mastering any good vinyl shop will have some adjustments they make before duplication.

All these variables will produce another version of the audio at the end. This will change propective and therefore put a perfect digital copy above or below the other in their mind.
> What to do with the tax money

You return the fee directly back to the people. In fact there’s a bill in Congress proposing exactly that and it’s overwhelming supported by progressives.

https://energyinnovationact.org/
Hm, that makes some sense, but taking SUVs out of the picture, I can't think of any analogue that would happen here.
Please forgive me for presupposing that your life is nothing close to the lives of the people we are discussing here and your intuition is not a useful model for figuring out what is normal and what isn't.
Usually a team of 4-5. 2 are more senior and know the code area. 3 developers are new or never worked in that area.
You can ask the senior people to estimate or if you ask everyone, the juniors are aware they input random numbers. It feels like a charade.
And the talk "why do you think it'a 4, mine is a 2" usually results in a shrug and it randomly becomes 2 or 4
I agree—even though solar electricity prices are falling fast, they aren't going to beat a greenhouse; I explored the question in more quantitative detail yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20905366

Obviously the issue is most pressing for sun-loving crops like corn, but I think it applies even to leaf crops like lettuce.
UBI, Automation, and Plutocracy = Dystopia
AFAIC, dynamic range compression is very nearly as bad as clipping. It just curves out the signal so you don't go straight off of a cliff, but you're still trying to fit 10 lbs of potatoes into a 5 pound bag.
There is of course the terrible secondary effect of encouraging more ransomware but the insurance companies can simply sidestep this by saying "we don't cover that."
It was spotted from the satellite which carried it there and is now orbiting the moon. Not too far I guess.
Ya, slope, not half-way braking. Applying or releasing a pedal smoothly is different than braking at 50%. The pedal always moves quickly between 0 and 100. You don't see the driver braking into some corners at 50% and others at 75%. If the driver only pushes the pedal to 50% and then backs off, that is almost certainly a mistake. Throttle is variable. Braking is all-or-nothing.
Fun fact: when London Breed, the mayor of SF wanted to build homeless units that are modular units made in Mare Island(in nearby Vallejo), the unions did not approve.

It was decided that a factory building modular homes will be built instead to maintain construction jobs locally. They still haven’t found a site to create this factory. Almost 4 years now and the homeless population has grown in SF and has spilled into neighboring Bay Area cities.

It’s easy to make scapegoats out of the productive tax paying, home owning, working class by branding them NIMBYs. Perhaps NIMBYism is the needed inoculation against chronic homelessness that is getting worse under inefficient state and regional governments.
I had some troubles ages ago and one of my bosses hinted me to read the Siddharta by Herman Hesse. Today I wouldn't remember a single word about the book, but back then I liked it a lot although I experienced it from an atheist point of view.
Did it solve my problems? Not at all since most of them were caused by a PM in the same company whose assholery was right on par with his utter technical incompetence, but the suggestion by that boss may have helped afterwards; who knows...
What a weird thing to say. The analogy was vinyl : digital :: old cars : new cars. Obviously cars are way more expensive than music, so it doesn't make sense to directly compare their popularity in an absolute sense.
I was a bit irritated by the section about employees not doing outreach well enough.

Who does hiring reflect well upon? I’m not bothering people in my network so you can look like an effective recruiter to your boss. Maybe employees don’t try because you don’t give them a reason to, and they have incentives in the other direction, like not being the guy in the friend group that’s always talking about how awesome their company is. When in reality, our industry is made up of people hopping between companies so they are more similar than dissimilar.
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Come on, I’m sure that the tests are more extensive than that!
I wasn't making any particular point.

UBIs have to be universal (most proposals are not Universal, they are just Basic Incomes, Italy just created a fake one called "reddito di cittadinanza" literally translated as "citizen's income")

We may have public healthcare and schools, but most parts of the world, including the US, don't.

We also have universal public welfare, unemployment benefits, public housing, public transports, in Italy we also have mandatory car insurance, it means everybody has to pay for it, it also means that the prices are heavily regulated and must be affordable and - most of all - non discriminatory (you can't set a price based on personal data and background of the single client and there's an authority reviewing the methodology).

These are all things that in US don't exist or are seen as "socialist", hence bad.

If you add an UBI but don't fundamentally change the way the system works it won't make a difference, companies will just adjust the prices accordingly because more money will be in consumer's pockets (the market is always right! right?).

The only real point I can make is improving on the things that already work, just throwing money at problems won't solve problems.
My quality of code has been immensely helped by code reviews by senior people. My team also has a good culture of getting feedback on design. I've learnt a lot on designing with security on mind - sandboxes, SELinux etc. I had no clue about them before I joined.

Design docs and comments by great engineers like Jeff Dean are openly accessible. Treasure cove of knowledge that I try to dip into everyday.
Re-reading this, check is orthogonal to autovectorisation. Opposite of autovectorisation would be manually written SIMD assembly / intrisics code.
Counterpoint: I've worked on a production >100-KLOC >10-programmer Python system, and lack of types was not an issue at all.

For the past week I've been updating a (much shorter) solo app, written in a statically-typed language, and having a bear of a time getting the compiler to stop throwing false type errors at me. Yes, it's the stable release version of the compiler. That has never stopped any compiler from shipping with bugs. These type inference systems can be pretty complex.

Then again, I seem to run into more compiler bugs in general than anyone I know. How do you all do it?
I agree on the make believe. And I remember long discussions about what 5 points are. Are they 2 days or 4, because 3 points was 1.5 days, etc.

And all that precise talk was about something that can't be precisly estimated
> Even the less-populated parks and recreation areas- how do I even tell if there's someone 29m away from me through a forest or behind something?

You pay to rent the space and put up a barrier. These laws were designed to allow drones used for filming (and ensure the production company has to cover the costs of ensuring safety for said filming.) They give no consideration to hobbyists, or anyone else who isn't making enough of a profit off of the thing they're doing in the air to be worth paying people to clear out of the area.

Basically, it's like food licensing. They only care to ensure that people trying to make a profit off of their food-service business aren't doing so at the expense of public safety; they don't care how many "food hobbyists" (e.g. parents who bake brownies for school bake sales) they prevent from engaging in their hobby in the process.
FAANG don't share the same engineering culture.
So, long story short, run the app and then blame the FAA for a myriad bullshit rules 5 levels deep?

In reality perhaps what we really need is a queryable API for state and local laws? I know DC has their primary legal codex as a GitHub repo. Surely they could provide links where a state law or fed law is modified ?

With this many laws, and bureaucracy creating laws within laws with no oversight, how can we mere humans be expected to follow said laws?
The question title is ambiguous but the question tags include both HTML and XHTML. Self-closing `<element />` is an XML-ism which in HTML is treated the same as `<element>` but it was still fashionable to use them in HTML when XHTML was at its height.
With the best kind of leaders / when the work is finished / the people all say / "we did it ourselves."

~Tao Te Ching
A bottleneck can be running the model only on GPU, where CPU is more efficient. But most of the bottlenecks are memory issues. GPUs do not necessarily have enough memory and so you end up having to access "external memory" that slows down forward pass a ton
Digitalization Introduces Catastrophic Cyber Risks
> FAANG is Facebook, Apple, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Google.

LinkedIn? Was that a tongue in cheek joke that I've missed,
Okay there you're becoming too Aspergers and literal about language.
>>additional theft is ultimately put on the honest customers.

That's true up until a certain point, but eventually the business is no longer profitable. I think this explains many 'food deserts' in low income areas
Not Google but similar. I learned that my motivation is proportional to the quality and amount of free food I receive. This includes willingness to participate in pointless meetings.

Note: this is not something I'm particularly proud of or anything. Just an observation.
It's hard to build this to have a good user experience on a multitude of devices. Having human challenges like ReCaptcha has its own weeknesses, but the world is like one big GAN when it comes to this approach.
Yes, we need a fair-o-cracy, but nobody so far invented the rules for it.
I don't know if you actually read the whole article you linked, but the "unique" part of that is the packaging, not the actual operation of the system or the individual components.

Like the literal placement of the parts in that piece of plastic (which have no effect on it's function) is what's interesting, the parts and workings besides the actual plastic bottle's shape not surprising or unique.

It's impressive in the "wow they really went out of their way to make this thing?" sense, not a "how on earth is that possible" or "no one else could do this". That's why it's described as "slick"

Other manufacturers wouldn't do this because you can make the same exact system using parts that have an infinitely better economy of scale, and the penalty in space taken is not large relative to a million other things going into an EV.
I was on Grand Bahama island in Freeport last summer for my Brother-in-law's wedding. We took a guided tour one day and there were still entire parts of the city ravaged by the previous hurricane that came through.

China Town was uninhabitable and was just a bunch of collapsed buildings.

I can't imagine the damage there now.
"However, the prime minister's office said specially developed software is helping with the count."

I have no doubt people are planting trees but this quote makes me feel like perhaps someone should do so numbers on this, 300 million just doesn't sound right unless somewhere like 500,000 people are participating, if that is what is happening I feel like getting 500,000 people to participate is a story in and of itself.
Seems like the author of this video has gone silent after being asked for the references he used to make his claims.
I trust RDS to backup the DB properly.

I don't trust myself to have perfectly configured RDS backups; to not have missed something critical (S3 bucket); to not have any number of other things outside the DB itself that may come into play should the worst happen.

Running through a "restore from backup" exercise every so often helps suss out where the missing pieces are.
Everybody comments about how there are all these amazing tools that help your productivity (which is true), but they don't talk about how the opposing force of organizational complexity ultimately results in "just normal" levels of productivity.

They don't cancel each other out exactly though, so some things are way easier (spinning up a huge computation), while some things are way harder (making a small change to shared components).
The reality is, if a cloud based password manager doesn't fit your threat model, you probably need to adjust your threat model.
Sometimes, I get some North American food items in recaptcha in India, which I'm quite sure not many have heard in this part of the world; I wonder what decision process went through in selection of food images.
I have no opinion of whether or not drones should be banned over national parks, and am happy to defer to them on the topic.

We live in a democracy governed by the rule of law though. I'm strongly against attempts to work around the rule of law by government agencies even if I think the outcome is somewhat positive.

In this case that means in order to ban drones flying over national parks they either need to convince the legislative branch to grant them the power to do so, or if the FAA has already been granted such power they need to convince the FAA to pass such regulations. What they shouldn't be doing (in my opinion) is work arounds like this trying to seize authority that the legislature has not granted them. (I acknowledge but disagree with an argument that this is not a workaround/splitting hairs but instead a legitimate use of their granted power)
Looking at headline levels doesn't always work especially if your middle class, Share options are taxed much less harshly you get pension tax relief at your effective rate.

we don't have to pay some one to do our taxes either.
Oil-derived fertilizers? What are they? Do you mean NATURAL GAS derived fertilizer? Would that be ok if the hydrogen to synthesize the ammonia were instead sourced from renewable energy? It would be the same ammonia!
A CD, and a FLAC-rip for me, please. I'd pick it over vinyl or any digital stream any day.
I’m actually on the same boat, and I haven’t been able to upgrade to any of the newer releases of 1Password due to this. I feel exactly the same way. I refuse to cave though!
What if we stopped pretending the climate apocalypse can be stopped?
Wherein the author discovers we have a federal system of government with diffuse responsibilities such that no one group has any clue what the other groups are doing.
There is some value in certain conditions for some of the items he has indicated. His most egregious error is thinking that no one is investigating or leveraging them.

Generating specific taste profiles of fruits and vegetables based on inputs is fascinating and very real. What is being completely glossed over is the difficulty in creating a branded customer experience that permits any additional value to be extracted from the effort.

For example, it's great you can make a tomato that has a unique taste, but most customers who purchase a tomato want it to taste like a traditional tomato, and those that don't really like the traditional taste of tomatoes aren't going to try it because they already dislike tomatoes.
For context the current CCU makes it the 1,898th most played game on steam right now (out of 10,772 games that have at least one player).

The drop off comes very quickly!

1st most played game has 694,472 CCU (Counter-Strike: Global Offensive)

25th most played game has 19,744 CCU (Terraria)

50th most played game has 13,172 CCU (Counter-Strike)

100th most played game has 4,367 CCU (Sims 3)

500th most played game has 529 CCU (Octopath Traveller)

1000th most played game has 167 CCU (Shadowrun Hong Kong)

10000th most played game has 1 CCU
> 3. obviously necessary

One could argue that drones should be allowed to get right up next to helipads, lat/lon-wise, as long as they stay a safe distance away from the helipad altitude-wise.

There are helipads on top of buildings. If the helipad is at ~1500ft, and my drone never exceeds 300ft, then it's not endangering the helicopters, even if it's right next to the building with the helipad on it.

But instead, because of the way the law is phrased, if there's a helipad on top of a building in downtown, now I'm not able to film anywhere in downtown.

(This same argument could apply to airfields, but airfields "above" neighbouring geography are pretty rare. I guess you could be filming against the cliff adjoining Lukla Airport in Nepal?)
yeah, this is where I got the knowledge about lag compensation from :)
A management UI showing me stale data sounds like a terrible experience, honestly
Sure, but why am "I" the one and not the other?

Whether this is a problem or not depends on what your conception of consciousness/identity is. I see a conflict or unanswered problem there; you may not.
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I think the "good enough" phrase you used really touches on the reason vinyl still exists.

Streaming is "good enough." But physical media is a different experience. It's more intimate. You can touch, feel, and examine the music and the packaging. Some bands (REM is one) even put Easter Eggs in their physical media that can't be reproduced by digital.

Streaming is fine for when you want to fill your space with sound. Physical media is for when you want to really enjoy the music. Read about what you're listening to, see the artwork and photographs, and experience an album of music on the order it was meant to be heard.

As one of many examples, a streaming service can play "Home by the Sea" by Genesis. But I've never encountered one smart enough to then follow that with "Second Home by the Sea," which is how the music was made to be heard. Some services will even play "Second Home" on its own, which is jarring.

Music is one of the increasing number of areas where people are figuring out that abdicating human curation for machine selection just isn't the same thing.
That's the 'sunk cost' fallacy. Anyway you know better for next time now.
Ha - fine. I guess you take my criticism of the "well actually" behaviors are more of a threat to a good community than those behaviors themselves. Thanks for your concern.

Edit: Interestingly, it looks like you guys are friends, so this is just favoritism on your part. So much for your concern... haha.
> empirical reality

Unfortunately, yes. Empirical reality is limited by the empiricist.