skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is infinite opportunity to screw over a new hire. Just getting setup in the dev environment on any team is usually 50% undocumented and you need help from coworkers.... it's one of my least-favorite things to do on a new job.

Also undocumented in large companies: how to get ANYTHING done outside the team.

Then when it comes to reviews, especially in large companies, you are utterly beholden to whether or not your manager likes you. I've only ever seen one person the manager disliked get a glowing review, and the manager did it as a joke since they were quitting.
What annoys me about the whole "Socrates was against writing" is the follows:

1) Even within the narrative, Socrates isn't "speaking". He is creating a fictional narrative set in Ancient Egypt where he believed writing originated (wrongly, but that isn't the point).
2) On a second level, Socrates didn't even write this. This is part of Plato's work. Plato was a student of Socrates, and maybe is describing something Socrates really said. Or maybe not. He may be simply giving his own opinion and attributing it to Socrates, who had a higher reputation.
some complications "hide" when the watch is locked now (Fantastical's "next calendar event" being one of them). I'm guessing it'll support something similar.
This is similar to a problem I ran into when building Bezie. I needed to keep track of the current tempo to send out MIDI clock events. I ended up using a web worker since `setInteral` was unreliable in backgrounded tabs. Here's the worker: https://github.com/jperler/bezie/blob/master/app/workers/tic...
> enabling an unprecedented leap in battery life to easily get through the day

Sic.. they don’t even really try to sell a longer battery life, they just are content of getting through the day
All we are is dust in the wind, dude
The older I get, the more I have come to realize how little contentment one can gain in life by being a rent-seeker.
Very interesting analysis.

I used to use google metronome but the constant hiccups were annoying. I wonder if they are using Web Audio scheduling or setInterval().
Chernobyl happened during a scheduled shut-down test that was delayed by 10 hours because there was higher than expected electricity demand. They tried to speed-up the shut-down and the results did not go as expected. I think it may be a little naive to say that nuclear can spin up and down by controlling the fuel rods.

I think Three Mile Island and Fukushima also had issues with getting rid of residual heat during a shut-down that at a minimum damaged the fuel and resulted in a loss of the unit at TMI and a melt-down and major cleanup at Fukushima. It seems to be the basic safety issue with fission and not one that can be dismissed so easily. 6-10 hours for a controlled shut-down seems to be the minimum safety margin.
FaunaDB is quite amazing. Someone who have used DynamoDB and Cloud DataStore/FireStore extensively, I find FaunaDB is a lot more flexible to build bigger applications with complex data models. Their GraphQL offering is equally good. It works really well with Lambda. Row-level authorisation and other security features are out of the box. Only thing, which stops us to switch to FaunaDB is the lack of search support. Only, if they can stream document changes to Kinesis/PubSub then it can integrate seamlessly with other public cloud services including ElasticSearch.
Same phone here, for the same reasons. It still does everything I want, as quickly as I want. It’s actually a little mind boggling to me that they have nearly doubled the version number without adding anything at all that I find compelling.
2-3 hrs is too less, as a father of 2 we used to get woken up 2-3 times a night, over an 8 hour period. More so with my older one who had colic, and it continued for a year. She breast fed while I changed diapers. You get very good at going back right to sleep. I remember I got eczema because of the stress ( under my eyes ). Looked like a racoon!
Evolution has prepared women's bodies to thrive on little sleep after childbirth.
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personally I just don't like to decide what I'm listening to ahead of time. I like to have my whole library available at any time. I'd love to have all my flacs/v0s on my device, but it just isn't feasible with current capacities/prices.

music is an extremely personal thing though. I guess I shouldn't be surprised that people have very different usage patterns.
"The time frame of nuclear reactors is very long - like 50 years. So they're very sensitive to capital costs, and capital is sensitive to risk"

50 years doesn't sound like all that long a timeframe when people are talking about 100 year bonds, and the idea that capital is scarce and expensive doesn't quite seem to apply when $15 trillion in global debt pays negative yields.
I like Trump better than the alternative, and history has agreed.

We have record low unemployment for Blacks and Hispanics. Retirement accounts (401ks) are fat, good news for retirees. We have had rising wages for the working class for the first time in many years.

That's why I let myself be represented by President Trump. He isn't perfect, but he's done very well for most of America.
Not quite that old, but early to mid-50s - Pretty sure GenX is 1965 - 1980. I'm on the tail end of that and yeah no pensions... Baby boomers got all the good stuff :)
> And rather than the left being shocked into a higher state of consciousness and considering they may need to rethink their overall political strategy, instead it seems they've essentially decided to double down with more of the same theater.

Every time I think I've found the first mover, there's a justification that goes further back. I'm a solid left-liberal, represented most closely by Obama, who discovered through the left's increasing embrace of dishonesty/bigotry/other dirty tactics that his liberal identity was more important than his leftist one. This was years and years before Trump ever entered the scene, and I know people on the right who consider Trump almost as much of a monster as I do, but also consider him to be a necessary fight-fire-with-fire evil against the left's dirty tricks.

And of course, many leftists who embraced illiberalism in that period can reasonably point to something that GWB did as their justification for further weakening norms. And so on and so on ad infinitum.

Anybody with a brain and a history book understands that that's a positive feedback loop that's caused untold amounts of suffering over the course of history, and the social technologies we call liberalism smooth out the tendencies of this cycle to escalate and sublimate the "kill everyone you disagree with" impulses of most of history into progressively gentler forms of resolving conflicting ideas of how the world should be, while still allowing for progress.

That isn't to say that norms and institutions are always sacrosanct and that sharp breaks are never a good idea, but thinking that this started with Trump betrays a misunderstanding of the way these things work and why liberalism exists in the first place.
Not only that, the (current) global demand for poker is quite robust. You have probably tens of thousands of people who are willing to risk tens of thousands of dollars per year for a chance to walk away with a liveable income.

If this AI is able to dominate the competition, at a certain point the punters will stop risking their money and move on to greener pastures like esports or etc. It would be the end of a semi legitimate industry that lots of people are using for ad-hoc, on demand income from a computer.
Portable consoles haven't gone anywhere - Nintendo is releasing a new one in just 10 days!

Other manufacturers may have stopped building them, but that's because (with the exception of Sony's PSP) Nintendo's handhelds are the only ones that have ever really been successful.
Used to be you'd read the paper and all the shitty things going on in the world and then... you'd stop reading the paper. And talk and deal with people making an ordinary day of it.

Not it's in your face 24/7.
Gas and hydro are highly controllable, but nuclear, coal and geothermal aren't really - just in the opposite way to solar and wind.

Those sources are slow to ramp up and down - that's why the time-of-use power prices I face right now are at their lowest overnight (so I currently time shift as much load as I can to those times).
It was the same thing for me. It happened suddenly. Never got to the bottom of why. I'm in my mid thirties now.
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Awesome, do you think it’s a hard sell for old school government contractors? I am passionate to write embedded systems with Rust, but I worry it will be too hard of sale to d school contractors with stacks already written C, and C developers on staff.
serious question: can you expound on this based on the article posted?
I’m not sure whether this is just post college life but I feel like social media has really reduced the amount of direct interaction between people, both via phone / computer, and in real life.

I don’t really care to passively consume what my friends are doing, or broadcast to them what I’m doing; I want to interact with them.

Thus could be a millennial issue though - the next generation seems to use Snapchat and iMessage for much more direct interaction.
Since you're on an iPhone 7: The jump to FaceID and home-buttonless UI is actually probably bigger than you think. The jump from 7 to X/XR/11 is going to be much bigger than, say, 7 to 8.

By removing the home button, Apple turned iPhone into a device completely controlled by gestures. It's arguably the biggest UX change since the first iPhone, and one that was surprisingly unreported at the time. It makes the phone feel more cohesive, and the initial impression, once you learn the app switching gestures, is vaguely futuristic. FaceID works great, too, and certainly feels futuristic, though on its own it's not really a game changer. It's the integration into the buttonless UX that makes it a worthwhile feature.

(I actually wish there was also a fingerprint sensor, because the FaceID doesn't work well for contactless terminal such as the ones you find in stores -- you have to first hold the phone near the reader, then pick a card, then hold the phone at the right angle for it to recognize your face, then bring it back to the reader. Not ideal, though someone claimed the new phones would do FaceID at steeper angles, so maybe it's gotten better.)
When Socrates and other ancient philosophers criticize writing, it's not because of the lack of in-person, non-verbal signals--at least, not directly. It's because they had peculiar beliefs about the origin and nature of knowledge. As alluded to in the post, in their epistemologies memory isn't just a way to recall facts, but often considered the very seat of knowledge and even reality itself. Plato takes this to an extreme with his Platonic forms, which exist and are slowly revealed as memories. Suffice it to say the contention of the anti-writing crowd was that writing as a medium conflicted with the nature and/or embodiment of knowledge. This conflation of knowledge and memory persisted up to at least Augustine.

Note that not all these philosophers were anti-writing, just that you can't understand the debate without understanding the premises. Would Socrates be cool with electronic Socratic dialogue? I know enough to know that I don't know enough to be able to say one way or another. As far as I understand, Plato had different theories about knowledge and memory than Socrates, though both (in keeping with the era) emphasized their interrelationship. So we should be skeptical that Plato accurately conveys the essence of Socrates' epistemic theories.
I've read several of these articles about genetics allowing some people to feel well-rested on little sleep but a key factor always seems to be left out of them: Are they actually well-rested? That is to say, how is their risk of sleep deprivation-related illnesses such as heart disease, obesity, diabetes, and depression? Is it as low as that of people who get a full night's rest or do their genes simply mask the effects of sleep deprivation, making them feel good while ravaging their physical health?
The water in the tank is functioning as a battery in that case.
Dare I say that a better indexed web is a public good that we all benefit from immensely.

Logging into Google and providing it with the URLs isn't analogous because that only benefits Google, it provides a barrier to the entry of competition, which isn't good for us users.
Why a gap? If you did good work there and weren't aware of any wrongdoing what reason is there to strike it from your resume?
hard to imagine an environment with worse input response and timing behavior than web browsers. Buffering audio output would be easiest way to compensate for callback jitter, but shortening delay between user input and a note playing seems unresolvable.
> 26 cents per ride
That's terrible.

Other non-tech businesses, hell EVERY business that I've ever worked in that used AWS did better per transaction - healthcare, digital advertising, virtual office tooling, gaming. If you can't do better than a credit card processing fee per paid customer interaction across the company on AWS, you might as well be selling retail goods...and depending on age, your company might be soon.
Uber didn't make their own chat app. They just use Mattermost. It was a comical sham internally perpetuated by the team that rolled it out that it was "built in-house".
"The idea that wind goes completely dead all at once across statewide areas is not how wind actually works."

The idea that wind currents are uncorrelated across geographical areas, even on the scale of states, is not how wind actually works.
Stripe sets a limit for the company, then you can see limits for individual users
Yes, there is a gene mutation that allows certain individuals to fully recover after only 4 hours of sleep.

Lucky them I would say :)
you can't beat a good teacher for teaching, but only a fraction of what I know has come from classes -- there are whole fields that I know something about without ever having taken a class in them, and I imagine the same is for you.

What happened was that good authors learned to effectively have a dialog with their readers, anticipating their readers' expanding knowledge, what they have probably overlooked, and the questions that would be puzzling them.

I doubt Socrates -- or Plato, for that matter -- ever imagined an almost entirely literate society, let alone what powers that would unleash.
> parents can thrive on 2-3 hours of sleep

Oh, we didn't thrive. It sucked. There was absolutely a cognitive decline, and physical exhaustion to boot. We adapted in the sense that we weren't falling asleep on the subway after awhile, but I flat out told work not to expect my best work for the next six months.

But it also wasn't 2-3 hours of sleep a night. Unless you get really unlucky, babies do sleep for hours at a stretch; and you're very incentivized to sleep when the baby sleeps.

There are adaptive strategies! If you're supplementing with formula (or even if you're not, to a lesser degree) you can take shifts. I would go to bed at ~9pm, and my wife would be "on call" until ~3am. After that, when the baby woke up, I would be on call, and would wake up and take care of her until ~9am, when I had to leave for work. This guaranteed a six-hour period where even though we'd get woken up, we could at least not have to get up and take care of the kid. Granted, it's still interrupted sleep.

But in general, the experience is: you're happy but also low-key miserable, and you feel like your head is full of cotton.

The low-level stress also impacts your immune system, so you get sick more, and when your kid goes to daycare, you get sick a lot more.
How would you combine HIPAA with another data source to identify the individual? Not suggesting it can't be done, just wondering how one might do that? Being able to link data that can identify a person to some de-identified would only be possible if the original data was not properly de-identified right?
Replace [video games] with [war games], or even [IRL combat procedure].
Something's wrong with this era. Super subtly wrong.

Has it been the case that so many ~innovations things become quickly a problem, that you need another thing to use it safely, and when you happen to stop well, you don't miss it.
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> conspicuously consuming the most expensive phone on the market

This is an iPhone 7+ we’re talking about... Maybe not the best springboard for your complaint.
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Ask HN: I cannot stop pursuing ideas and it’s ruining my life
Some ideas can be so strong, so compelling, that you want to neglect everything to realize them even if you know that doing so will further isolate you socially and provide no financial upside. I feel there are only so many years living this lifestyle until I have passed the point of no return.

Have any of you dealt with similar themes? How do you moderate yourself?
I don't think you know what rent-seeker means...
Eurasianism
I'm curious, would a secret order from a judge remain secret after his death? Forever?
What if sharing cookies with your site is the intended behavior, e.g. for API's that you're calling directly from your frontend?
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Warren Buffet's theory.

Write down the top 25 ideas you have.

Now choose the top 5, most important ones. The absolute best.

Now cross out the other 20. They're distracting you from the ones you should be focusing on.
Yeah this guy should be considered a scam artist and seems damn good at it.
What does it means for not poker players?
If you're going to write the frontend, do it in Gambit! That way you're (hopefully?) playing to the strengths of the codebase and potentially opening up loads of customizability.

Then the cynical side says that if they're talking about rewriting but haven't decided the language, they're probably doomed already.
Can you tell me if the M3 (time series db) team is still healthy? I was planning to evaluate it soon.
I'm on a Mexican Radio. [0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw
According to Amnesty International, after 2 year suspended death sentence, he could be executed in September of this year: https://www.amnesty.org/download/Documents/ASA1710062019ENGL...
Venezuela? Chavez took power fair and square in an election, and then turned it into a communist authoritarian dictatorship later.

The modern revolution in Czechoslovakia turned out fairly free of violence, at it was not communist.
Maybe, but it's a lot less stressful seeking contentment if one does not have to worry about the day to day.
I got all my teenage bullshit out on detroit.freenet.org. Now I'm farming HN points.

16 year old me is so disappointed in 45 year old me.
New iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro Models Ditch 3D Touch in Favor of Haptic Touch
Well done, adding in some nice lighting from three.js or glslsandbox.com style would awesome.

Art Gallery:

https://3dforreddit.com/r/art

Earth Natural Art Gallery

https://3dforreddit.com/r/EarthPorn
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"Most countries have a legal system that would sit up and take notice if someone signs up for a billion dollar transaction, takes the goods and welches on paying"

Yes, but why bitcoin then?
We have a crate internally that uses type-level programming to do statically tracked memory allocation (technically the method can be used for other kinds of resource management too), so that we can have compile-time guarantees that allocations will always succeed and we'll never allow memory to be allocated from inappropriate regions (e.g. mapped registers).

Layered on top of that we can also ensure that if at runtime your device memory configuration is sufficiently different from what your assumptions were at compile-time, then we don't allow the device to boot so that you don't end up in a dangerous resource exhaustion situation by accident.

We use this for no_std embedded shaped use cases, but you could also use this library and programming model to create a special heap in your normal programs which have statically tracked allocations to create some region of your program context that you want to have assurances like that.

We have 3-4 things kind of in that vein in our pipeline to open source, and I think that's number 3.
My quick prediction is that if Apple intends to continue with the SE, they would quietly announce it around spring next year. Announcing an SE at this time may cannibalize holiday seasons sales.
Many people will develop chronic, expensive health problems that will persist beyond bankruptcy. Someone I work with has a chronic blood disorder with medication costing $10k per month. That does raise a good point, though. Would a health insurance provider have to take you once you've gone through bankruptcy? This is the type of question that convinces me the US medical system is incredibly broken.
I've never heard the term resource scarcity used to refer to something like software, music, or televisions.
I don’t have a car and don’t drive. My post shared what drivers have always told me over the past couple years. If you’re willing to drive for Scoop, you can also drive for Uber or other ride service.
> Are you implying the average student is not capable of obtaining a liberal arts degree at an average university?

about 70% of US high school students currently enroll in college. [0] of those, about 60% graduate in six years. [1] multiplying these two fractions together yields <50% of high school students graduating college in six years. so without drastically changing the current system (or accounting for choice of major, admittedly), it seems fair to say that the median high school student is not actually capable of attaining a bachelor's degree at a typical university.

do we have to continue with the current model? perhaps not, but my intuition is that allowing people to "learn at their own pace" would be more expensive per student. this is just based on my experience as a TA; it is far more work to grade assignments that aren't due on a predefined schedule. to what extent, I am not sure; TA time is not exactly expensive.

[0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2017/69-point-7-percent-of-2016...
[1] http://www.higheredinfo.org/dbrowser/?level=nation&mode=grap...
For the client, it's only marginally more difficult because you have to specify an extra header--since you'd have to specify the path anyway, versioning via path gives the client one less thing to specify.

For the server, it's annoying because every backend framework I've encountered ultimately boils down to "here is a function that gets called when the server receives a request to a given path". If you're versioning by path, you just write a new function for the new path. If you version by header, now you have to have a single request-handling function that performs conditional logic based on a request header--at which point I would probably just dispatch to separate functions for each version, which is exactly what path-based versioning would give me for free.

I'm also not exactly sure how, if at all, it's possible to document this type of behavior in OpenAPI/Swagger, if that's of any concern or relevance.

All in all, versioning by header isn't dramatically more annoying than versioning by path, but I see virtually zero concrete benefit from incurring the cost in the first place.
I did lousy work there.