skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm illustrating the problem, which is that we have to decide that one gender or group has "a thing" to the exclusion of everyone else.

I don't see how your solution of "men hav[ing this] thing" helps men who have body image issues, nor women who don't feel they have close friends.

It's not like the dude with body image issues is saying "oh, thank god my problems would be recognized if only my issue were a lack of close friends."
* trackpad not mouse and use sparingly
* avoid emacs bindings - use evil/viper/... in Emacs and `set -o vi` in the shell.
* elbow height at desk height
* eye level near top of monitor level - this implies minimal use of a laptop without external accessories
* I actually like the very short travel keyboards (e.g. mac)
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I am sorry this happened to you. In future, at the minimum, you should have 3 accounts.

* In bank 1, a current account, for everyday use. This should not have more money than 1-2 months of expenses.

* In bank 1, a savings account, which is your primary savings.

* In bank 2, a savings account, which has enough money for a few months of rent.

* Stash somewhere in your house, in cash, enough money for a week of outside food and transport to family/friends who can take you in, in case of you losing your primary accommodation.

This all depends on you being rich enough to afford all of this, but I imagine 30K in the bank account is rich enough. Also, as others have pointed out, you should consider investing.
Sounds like every bloody "interviewer" in the West now -- interrupting people whilst they're speaking, loudly assuming the worst possible characterisation of what was said (or flatly misrepresenting what was said), and going off on a tangent to promote their own agenda/viewpoint to anyone unfortunate enough trying to follow along.
His channel reeks of typical click bait & you come out with no insight at the end of it. Nothing original ever came out of him apart from cringey memes & parroting HN top articles.
The view that money is just a store of value is only held by BTC maximalists, because BTC is too unreliable expensive to be a good medium of exchange. When they say store of value what they really mean is investment vehicle.
> Customers at a hotel in Tunisia reported being locked in by security guards as the hotel demanded extra money, fearing it would not be paid by Thomas Cook.

This is quite bad behaviour from the hotel. Presumably their business relationship is with Thomas Cook, not the people on holidays?

They went as far as grabbing people who jumped a wall in an attempt to get out!

More details here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49787563

The hotel is this one, maybe one to avoid: "Les Orangers resort in Hammamet, near Tunis."
Push ups & pull ups.
I'm seeing a lot of comments, both positive and negative, but no answer to the important question: what the hell is the mechanism? How is this light supposed to actually get through to your brain? These aren't X-rays or microwaves; like visible light, infrared light gets stopped almost completely by skin.
Given that the whole system is targeted for laptops, this seems somewhat obvious and does not seem to be something you need to measure?

The worst thing I can think of is classroom environment - and even that would be at most 1 update per hour, which is pretty infrequent in the context (the update frequency needs to be much bigger than the clock skew, which is normally under a second)

And even that assumes that each record is updated every time user logs in (since each record is stored separately). In practice, records could be added or removed to the system, but the actual modification will be pretty rare - once initial setup is done, it will be only periodic password changes.
this whole thread is hilarious

https://i.postimg.cc/vTZgX2jp/hnmeme.jpg
> Interesting to see that Japan both has the most "can't use computers" and "strong" users...

There was a good post about this from foobiekr a couple of months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20571481
We have!

https://docs.keydb.dev/blog/2019/06/17/blog-post/

Still though I hate seeing needless waste. There’s no reason the active thread needs to block on a soft_irq when there are unused cores to process them.
Here's a Twitter thread that sounds like this is a very unusual take on "quantum supremacy":
https://twitter.com/isislovecruft/status/1175557089067823104

I'm not deep enough into the topic to judge. Thoughts?
This book is already translated in many languages by a lot of different publisher (just saw the French version published by Seuil at a bookshop). Good luck with trying to get the money for all the sales outside of the US....
All you need is a certain amount of karma - which you currently don't have. There is no other criteria.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
I've been using snapchat since it came out, and it's definitely gotten worse like a lot of users have said. It used to be that you'd have your list of recent snaps and a camera—that's it.

Then they added stories and a contact list, and then they had to make money with the platform and things truly went to shit. That being said, it's not nearly as clunky as instagram's clone. I'd say regular users have gotten used to the death by thousand cuts at this point, like Latin evolving into vulgar Latin then later romance languages, and totally incomprehensible to someone who's just downloaded the app.
Completely playing devil's advocate - continuing to operate whilst knowing there is a high risk of them going bust gives the CAA more time to put in contingency plans, rather than going bust _now_.
Aren't you saying they're someone who won't yield until they've said their peace? That doesn't sound like the church of civility to me, but more like the rarer "interrupts, but doesn't want to be interrupted" (Barker) style.

Combined with their lack of experience, I can imagine that would be frustrating to be around.
This exactly. Just being able to throw a quick interface at a powerful CLI would save the day for your excel-lover boss, or your mom. And save you hours of searching a bad-but-with-GUI alternative
See here[0] at p 622 for an image where his right arm is visible.

0) https://www.jstor.org/stable/3050477?mag=why-are-cities-fill...
My experience: The combinantion of signing (being Deaf) and programming were deathly to my wrists. I had carpal tunnel surgery on both hands and now they are fine. First the right hand then two years later the left hand. They recovered completely but it took a long time (18 months). I could work with the hands after 1 month but felt pain when pressure was applied on the scar even a year later. For example biking was a problem. Now I feel that my fingers aren't as strong as before, but I still think it was worth it.

Before surgery I also switched the mouse to the left hand, and a bonus of it, now I can use two mouses simultaneously (for example the laptop mouse with one hand and the desktop mouse with the other hand).

Another bonus: My wife is left-handed therefore I can use her system without fiddling with the mouse. I always took care to switch the buttons when using the mouse left-handed. This means it's like going over to the UK and suddenly driving on the other side of the road with a rental car and not my own continental car. The side where I sit in the car is the middle of the street. This thinking also helps with switching mouses, so that's why it's important to switch the mouse buttons, at least for me it get's easier because of symmetry.
That quote s about user record - full name, password, expirations, limits etc.. how often do you change this?

It does not apply to user files, there is a completely different mechanism for them
The research on the subject goes back 50 years to the 1970s and is essentially considered open and shut.

As a rule of thumb, men will interrupt women 3x as much as women will interrupt men.

You can Google and read dozens of studies over decades all repeatedly confirming it in various cultures, countries, and jobs. It applies to women Supreme Court justices and to women janitors.

FWIW, instead of the confrontational "is there any reason to think", I feel like a more humble phrasing would come across better, especially since you didn't seem to know about the research on the subject. And knowledge of it is pretty widely known, as it comes up and is discussed frequently. A recent example were the Democratic debates where, once again, the same dynamic played out and was discussed in the popular media.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
That will depend on the market in question, wouldn't it? I mean, for example from the freelancers perspective it is not. From their perspective it could have the opposite effect; enable them to earn more by running parallel subscription based services.
Like a bicycle bell on the handlebars? :-)
Re: "I think it's more likely is that..."

I'm struck by how many times you refer to rather blunt instruments (e.g. "scheduling drivers in advance" / "blocks of time in which they need to drive" / "quotas to meet"). There is a much wider canvas of tools available to guide and shape behavior, as I would guess you understand. (You seem to use language like an economist or business analyst, so you likely know about various incentive structures.)

Given how cutting-edge and innovative the ride-sharing companies claim to be, I don't think they can also authentically claim that they cannot find smart, incentive-based ways to work within slight adjustments to the business and regulatory environment. Market-making and matching algorithms are powerful, interesting, and applicable here, in a wide variety of regulatory configurations. In my view, the "ride-sharing" companies (after all, the driver is "sharing" her car with the passenger... right!) should leverage their people and infrastructure as a competitive advantage and, well, innovate.
> The Flynn effect says we're gaining an avg of 3 IQ pts every decade since the early 20th century. Meaning our great grandparents, on average, would be considered mentally handicapped compared to today's intellect.

According to Flynn's later work[0], this gain might be explained by:

> The Dutch data proved the existence of unknown environmental factors so potent that they account for 15 of the 20 points gained. The hypothesis that best fits the results is that IQ tests do not measure intelligence but rather a correlate with a weak causal link to intelligence. This hypothesis can also explain difficult trends on various mental tests, such as the combination of IQ gains and Scholastic Aptitude Test losses in the United States.[0]

> do our brains act like muscle and the info age as a super gym?

I'm not quite sure what you mean by "age as a super gym", but cognitive functions can be increased, much like how exercising strengthens the muscles used.

Some research supports earlier introduction to abstract concepts contributes to increased fluid intelligence. Other research posits nutrition might be a contributing factor. It would not be unreasonable to think both contribute to some degree.

As far as "brain hacking" goes, there is research supporting increasing fluid intelligence via far-transfer cognitive training (working memory, set switching, sustained focus, etc.). It also is hypothesized that these cognitive training tasks contribute to near-transfer benefits.

EDIT: corrected cognitive training enumeration.

0 - https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-17534-001
Pretty neat and definitely very different from the Go community.
All of these calculations are predicated on us existing in a physical universe and not a simulation (simulverse?) it could be we are the only life in this specific simulated existence, even though the mathematical rules of the place would make it appear there should be others.
Because license to interrupt often gets applied unequally WRT gender. Smart women go where their career isn’t impacted by boorish behavior.
EEVBlog review:

https://youtu.be/Ong91Ji3iDk
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And the Waterman Butterfly

https://xkcd.com/977/
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”There is a common misperception in public and government domains that compelling clinical evidence exists for the broad and strong efficacy of mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention,” a group of 15 scholars wrote in a recent article entitled Mind the Hype. The reality is that mindfulness-based therapies have shown “a mixture of only moderate, low or no efficacy, depending on the disorder being treated,” the scholars wrote, citing a 2014 meta-analysis commissioned by the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
Source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5758421/#!po=0....
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Take a look at the top posts on /r/justrolledintotheshop and you will see plenty of examples of people who drive with their fingers in their ears and the dashboard lit up like a christmas tree. And those are only the cars that people begrugingly have brought in, probably 10 more like that on the road for every one in the shop.
I don't agree, I'm far left leaning and consider Chinese money or rather, seeing a greater scrutiny of it's use in Australia to see partisan support.

Similar to how Sam Dastyari [1] was forced out after he'd been shown to receive significant donations. I'm not across this piece as much as I would like so I may be missing some nuance there.

I imagine China's influence in Australian State and Federal government to be a lot more pervasive than this. But it's more of a dirty secret than we're led to believe.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/dec/12/sam-d...
You're severely underestimating the amount of effort that went into MyRocks. The development and deployment was a 3+ year effort spanning quite a few different teams.

Automating the physical rollout (as you correctly described) is the easy part. That doesn't account for all the many difficult spots that occurred prior to it: the massive complexity of mysql storage engine development in general; huge numbers of various performance edge-cases; converting replication-related system tables to MyRocks in order to achieve crash-safe replication; developing online hot-copy for MyRocks from scratch; schema change support; adding tons of new status vars and system vars; fast bulk import to MyRocks which is necessary for the replica migration to even be possible; updating hundreds of thousands of lines of automation code written under the assumption of InnoDB being the only storage engine in use and using various InnoDBisms...

The MyRocks migration wasn't a project I personally worked on, but I'm very aware of what was involved. It appears you joined FB PE in 2017 and therefore missed much of this historical context? I'm not really sure why you would have such strong opinions about it.

You say that FB is using MySQL because "changing is basically impractical", but also say MyRocks "provided major wins", which seems to be a contradiction. In any case, I'm not aware of any pg feature that provides compression ratios anywhere near that of MyRocks, and pg is only recently even adopting an arch that supports pluggable storage engines at all. In combination it's really hard to make a case that FB is using MySQL just due to historical investment and inability to change.

Honestly I would also not be surprised if FB moves some core tiers off of MySQL to a pure-RocksDB solution at some point in the future. The number of intermediate data services and proxies make this sort of thing absolutely possible. For the same reason, in theory a move to another db like pg would be completely possible without needing to run both in parallel for years (again, just talking in theory; moving to pg just doesn't make practical sense).

> The right thing to have said would be that the query patterns that are used are extremely simple selects over a single table

For UDB, sure. What about all the other MySQL tiers? The non-UDB MySQL footprint at FB, despite being a minority of FB's MySQL fleet, is still larger than the vast majority of other companies' relational database fleets worldwide. The range of use-cases in the DBaaS (XDB) tier alone spans a massive combination of different database features and access patterns.
I was recently debating booking a flight to Europe on Norwegian. It didn't affect my decision, but I'm very aware that they're struggling financially, so I'd only buy the tickets less than a month out on a credit card so it's the bank's money, and if they declared bankruptcy and cancelled flights, c'est la vie.
Destroying Kashmir’s autonomy more like, and it’s democracy, and try to turn India from a multi ethnic, diverse country into a jingoist Hindu nationalist state, intolerant of diversity.
I don't think it's much of a stretch to call authoritarian measures passed via democratic means undemocratic in themselves.

I hate to be That Person, but I don't think anyone thinks the regime Nazi Germany is democratic in the slightest, yet was brought to power with the backdrop of a decidedly democratic constitution. I'm not calling anyone a Nazi here, for the record, just that actions undertaken under a democratic framework can totally end up being undemocratic and is fair to characterize as such.
A US government trying to prevent "Regular Joe" from becoming rich would have an infinite number of better ways to do so.

Not running lotteries, for example. Or regulating the health care market to bring doctors' and lawyers' salaries down to European levels. Or taxing income in the 6-digit range at the rates of comparable countries. Or taxing investment returns at levels comparable to incomes.

But there really isn't even a theory of why "regular Joe" striking it rich is in any way threatening to the status quo, is there?
This is not a fallacy, and certainly not an irrational belief :). It is a very rational response to things you have no control over.

May be this needs some elaboration. For me, the low probability event of blowing up your life's worth of saving beats the ephemeral gains you would expect to get from a higher risk investments, every single time. For me, it is irrational to think otherwise, something I can't understand why people do. I will invest in the riskier investments only so much as I am comfortable to lose completely.

And there is the rub, with the modern banking systems, it is very difficult to achieve that unless you use real hard assets like gold which is becoming difficult, real estate which is quite illiquid.

Is one missing out on potential gains ? Perhaps, but one is ok with that.

P.S
>> You can never recover the time you spent earning money to make up for missing investment gains.

I didn't quite understand this. The investment gains are not certain or guaranteed. You talk as if they are a certainty.
FWIW, my eyes made it to about 40 before I got pushed into having an eye test because I'd started to get headaches in the late afternoon/evening - the optometrist measured me up, gave me a reading glasses prescription, and told me I had "perfectly normal 40 year old eyes"... :sigh:
whoa. so a helmet that bathes your skull in near infrared light could supercharge your brain (or fry it...)
there's so little evidence of it being a simulation just for us. Even if all of this is just a simulation, I'd bet that we're just forgetten children of the simulgods and the true focus is something more obvious.

See also Omphalos by Ted Chiang.
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Another relevant paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.03238
On the contrary, I would say that it makes a large difference whether someone interrupts me because they have understood the idea I was trying to communicate, or because they never cared about that idea in the first place.
What's strange? Scenarios where democracy is used to limit democracy aren't hard to understand. See the 2009 Venezuelan constitutional referendum or much of recent US policy towards immigrants and refuges.
What’s the problem with TLS? The performance overhead of it is minimal these days.
Yes, we haven't gone with anything. These are proof of concept prototype systems. They serve real customer traffic in my testing, but are unicorns at this point.
If I were to build a POS system from scratch in 2019, ncurses for the interface would be my top choice, and I can't think of many reasons to pick a GUI toolkit, except if there was a need to show pictures.
So this is sub level 1:

> An example of task at this level is “Delete this email message” in an email app.

But it's probably at least level 3 to realize that actually deleting email messages is impossible.
This is not the enclosed system case, but light gases do escape easier and heavier gases do accumulate more predominately towards the ground:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth#Stratifi...

At extreme elevations you find much higher concentrations of H and He.

It doesn’t fully separate like you might see with liquids, but there are tendencies.
That still counts as "X11" IMO.
Interesting, does the async/await pattern always imply stackless then? Might you or someone else have any resources you could share on stackless vs stackful coroutines?
> I would say sort of the breaking point was seeing the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, directly lie on oath to Congress. There’s no saving an intelligence community that believes it can lie to the public and the legislators who need to be able to trust it and regulate its actions.

https://edwardsnowden.com/2014/01/27/video-ard-interview-wit...
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I'm a female interrupter. I have two adult sons. We have lively conversations.

I try to be less aggressive about it in other social settings. I currently attend public meetings and my tendency to interject definitely stands out.

I work at finding good openings to make my point, reminding myself that I'm not the only one with something intelligent to say, reminding myself that there will be other opportunities to make a point, etc.

Not everything needs to be said right here, right now. That's not even effective communication in many cases.

It's possible family members get interrupted more by female members if that's the only safe outlet some women can find. Sexism is alive and well and significantly impacts communication in myriad ways.
I think part of that contrast is in face to face situations, the person on the other side knows inside and out what needs to be done as part of their job. You can call a hotel with zero knowledge on how to book a room, and the concierge will hold your hand and walk you through the process until you have a room booked.

Even online chat support is pretty lackluster and puts a lot of work on the user. At an old job of mine, IT wouldn't even mess around with trying to troubleshoot a ticket going back and forth chatting or emailing. They'd just remote in to your workstation and fix the problem, same thing a concierge at a hotel would do with their keyboard and mouse rather than you struggling through booking on hotels.com and managing an online chat.
Data science seems like it has a feedback issue. If you design an experiment poorly, it's easy to never know you learned the wrong thing. If you're building an ML model and it's less accurate that what an expert would build, you might never know either. When you build many other kinds of products, it's easier to know whether they're working. Data products don't seem that way. I wonder if that could lead to weird "market for lemons" sorts of things.