skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our society still hasn't processed just how fundamentally different the psychological experience of today is from the rest of humanity's existence, just as recently, say the 1980s or 1970s. Prior to the advent of smartphones and ubiquitous computation and surveillance, social media and the narcissism economy, one could actually live their own lives from a first person perspective without worrying about people looking over their shoulder every single second. Now, today, we are literally carrying around an audience with them everywhere, whether that be the photos they may consider posting to Instagram, or the machine learning algorithms monitoring their location to figure out what advertising to direct at them, or government surveillance to determine if they are some kind of threat. Heck, people even install apps that monitor their sleeping patterns and upload that data to a third party. It's almost as if we have created either the all-seeing eye of Sauron, or a tiny portable film crew following everyone around all the time for our egos.

I, for one, do not plan to put anything in my brain I have not designed myself, and for sure nothing that auto-updates!
Yes; the tracks are owned (or maybe just operated) in a lot of places by the freight rail companies.

This is a bit of a tangent, but one of the most frustrating things about riding the passenger rail (I've experienced this most going through upstate New York) is being slightly behind schedule, and then falling far, far behind schedule by having to wait for a freight train using the same stretch of track to pass.

As I understand it, passenger trains are always supposed to be given priority. But in practice it never seems to work out that way. The dispatcher or whoever's making the decision often prioritizes the freight.
I have quite a bit of experience with #2.

We use a SQLite hybrid with JSON blobs (stored as regular TEXT columns) as the principal transactional store for our clients' business system state. The simplicity of this approach (which is definitely not for everyone) is what made it feasible for our small development team to manage the project as far as we have. If we were still using a big-boy SQL solution like PostgreSQL or SQL Server and managing all of the concerns specific to these dependencies (multiplied by the number of environments we are responsible for deploying these to), we probably would have been forced to close up shop by now.

Being able to deploy a single binary which brings every dependency (including the database) it needs along for the ride proved to be a lifesaver for us. The process before this involved spending an entire day getting SQL Server configured relative to the service accounts, and whatever ridiculous quirks may exist in each clients' specific AD. Today, it is literally a 30 second file extract, sc create, and it's running. We go from RDP into a blank box to a working production system within 5 minutes. This is also how we've been able to completely sidestep the docker question, since no one could justify the added complexity once we got the equation down to: a single binary folder + a bare-ass Windows Server 2016/19 box = good to go. This is also enabled by .NET Core's Self-Contained Deployments, so SQLite isn't a free lunch all on its own.

Again, the above is not for everyone. We are responsible for maintaining production services running across many client sites, and needed a solution that could scale not only in terms of our clients' requirements, but also in terms of our abilities to manage all of these environments all at once. Managing a hosted SQL service requires direct access to each of these environments which has tremendous overhead for us due to the email back-and-forth remote access game that has to be played each time.

If you are in an environment where its just a single instance of the production/test/qa/development stack, I would absolutely push for a hosted SQL option like PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQL Server. In these cases you have a single (or 4) points of touch, and it is very reasonable and consistent and all within your control. If you find yourself in a situation similar to mine, I would still advocate for the hosted SQL by default unless you are a very brave soul and understand the risks of going a bit off the beaten path. Disclaimer aside, there really are some interesting treasures out here. If you can afford to waste a month, try doing your entire persistence layer in SQLite with JSON serialized business models where appropriate. Assuming you budgeted for complete failure, worst case you walk away with a new perspective. Better case, you end up in the position I find myself in now.

Just don't forget to set PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL; if you decide to go on the adventure. It makes orders of magnitude difference in concurrent write throughput (SQL Server was never this fast for us).
I don’t get the anger here. Quite simply if you don’t know what QUIC is then you probably don’t need a library which implements it, and so there’s not much point doing all the groundwork to explain that.
This is awesome. I've long felt a nostalgia for the close-knit forums I participated in as a kid. One was a worldwide group centered around an online game (CyberNations), the other was just a group of kids with similar interests in one metro area who met up occasionally. Both were vital for me in coping with feeling like I didn't fit in at all at school.

It's great to see that that kind of close, friendly, personal Internet dynamic didn't completely die with Facebook's rise.
Why don’t we have an AI programmer yet? “Write a sorting algorithm” is a well-defined problem, and easy to test for correctness to a reasonable degree of certainty. Why don’t we have machines finding us better sorting implementations?
"And yet, if only from my dreams when I was asleep, I might have learned that my grief for my grandmother's death was diminishing, for she appeared in them less crushed by the idea that I had formed of her non-existence. I saw her an invalid still, but on the road to recovery, I found her in better health. And if she made any allusion to what she had suffered, I stopped her mouth with my kisses and assured her that she was now permanently cured. I should have liked to call the sceptics to witness that death is indeed a malady from which one recovers. Only, I no longer found in my grandmother the rich spontaneity of old times. Her words were no more than a feeble, docile response, almost a mere echo of mine; she was nothing more than the reflexion of my own thoughts."
—Marcel Proust, Cities of the Plain
Some WeWork Board Members Seek to Remove Adam Neumann as CEO
A simple game where you get to kill time :)
Take this post with a grain of salt - I've never worked directly with a DER. Hopefully others can correct me where needed.

> So these software engineers would be referred to as Systems and Equipment Engineering leads in this case?

I suppose you could say so, however my understanding has always been that DERs are highly specialized. "Systems and Equipment" covers a wide variety of aircraft components; I would think that's more of a category than a title. As a software engineer, on a project level, we've always simply referred to them as "The DER".

While DERs certainly have a background in engineering, they don't actively help create the product - I wouldn't classify them as a "Engineering Lead". When it comes to designing something, its safety is derived from different internal groups with different goals continuously evaluating each other's work. At each level, everyone signs off on the work they performed or reviewed. As I understand it, the DER oversees all of this, and on a technical level, is ultimately responsible for convincing the FAA everything is safe. On the software side of things, whenever there's a release, a DER has to sign off on it.
The issue is that people end up at age 40 with no ltr, no marriage, and no kids, and end up as fodder for this article. Because it gets a lot harder to find your ltr then; women generally are at the "last chance kid" stage and have been around the block, so LTR steve usually gets a very cold eye unless he sees the light and wants a marriage too.
Yes. I've worked in the advertising industry for almost ten years. As soon as I see the word "Detox" it raises enough red flags to wonder why my DNS-BL didn't already block the entire site.
I don't think my marriage would be as good if I went into it with an exit plan.

For instance, it would be easier for some things, especially huge things, to be "her problem" instead of "our problem" if I had an escape hatch present in my subconscious.
Here's the thing: divorce is much less common in first time marriages than in all other marriages. That is to say, divorce is much more common among those who have divorced already.

While relationships can change, those in them can chose to grow together or to grow apart. Well, it's not always a choice, but the sense of fatalism regarding change isn't necessarily warranted.
Testing React – Setup, Unit, Integration and E2E Using Jest and Cypress
The NYT is a great anti-Trump outlet:

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/new-yo...
Well, it's not that simple. The CUDA model has a inherent penalty for divergent thread behavior, that is, when all threads do the same, peak performance is attained. If they all follow a different path, the result can be disastrous.

The relevance to media encoding is that the higher profiles do a lot of data dependent special casing. It's no accident that the earliest CUDA Video codecs only handled the base profile.

This also hurts a CPU implementation but much less.
True in the case of wework yes but in the case of Airbnb the founders seem to have collectively cashed out only a few tens of million, which just sounds like they cashed out just enough to buy themselves nice cars or something
Not mentioned is the use of plastic by health care. In a hospital, each patient generates a large stream of plastic for disposal.
https://steemit.com/@x22report
> This work was supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, Germany.

What an odd area of research for Volkswagen to fund.
Reason Why Men Cheat in Relationships
Six Degrees: Facebook met LinkedIn in 1997.
> A single user listening to a 128kbps stream, non-stop for a month, would use about 300GB of transfer. Just one user!

Is that how broadcasting works on the internet?

Is there not a more efficient non-proprietary protocol for broadcasting on the internet?
Just FYI, “have no close friend” and “loneliness” aren’t the same thing. I have no close friends, and I prefer it. Don’t try to “cure” people like me.
It’s not an American thing. It’s like this everywhere. Poland, England, Germany, uSA, Ireland, Australia. Everywhere.
Not really, there will probably still be ways to keep secrets, as that’s what privacy basically are
It’s not that significant though. For every 4 men with no best friend there are 3 women in the same position. If being a man is so difficult, this is a small part of it relative to being a woman; and I would wager that women do better here simply because they put in more effort.
A friend was early at Square and left options on the table when he left, because the tax bill shocked him.
Surprised it took this long!
People almost always are referring to added sugar when they talk about dietary sugar. If anybody told me they were weening themselves off sugar, I would expect them to continue eating fruit unless stated otherwise. In fact I'd probably expect them to eat more of it as they're trying to make more healthy choices, and I wouldn't consider them inconsistent with their stated goals given what we tend to refer to when we say "sugar."

I get HN/reddit's obsession with haha-gotcha snickering, but c'mon.

Also, consider googling "sugar in fruit" to find info about fruit vs sugar: https://nutritionfacts.org/2016/08/09/what-about-all-the-sug...

It's very interesting and surprising. For example: "Adding berries can actually blunt the insulin spike from high glycemic foods. For example, white bread creates a big insulin spike within two hours after eating it. Eat that same white bread with some berries, though, and we’re able to blunt the spike. So, even though we’ve effectively added more sugars in the form of berries, there’s less of an insulin spike, which has a variety of potential short and long-term benefits."
Unless one has coeliac disease, cutting off gluten is very much not recommended for one's health(on a scientific level, that is; reaching for Instagram likes is another matter) Gluten is not nefarious, for Hypocrate's sake!
Also, there's no such thing as a "detox", and fasting does not do your body any good.
I think part of the problem is that social media, and Facebook in particular, has cheapened the meaning of the word "friend."

I see people on HN all the time saying that they have better friends far away via social media than they have in their own neighborhoods and offices. It's popular inside the tech bubble to believe that digital communication is as good or better than real communication, but it isn't.

That's a lesson one of my family members is learning right now, and the rest of us by proxy.

She was walking to work one day and got run over by a car. Living in a different state, 1,300 miles from her family, she didn't bother making new friends because she could still communicate digitally with the people already in her online relationship cloud.

But where are they in her time of need? When she needs actual friends, not social media friends? None of her Facebook "friends" are going to go to her apartment and bring clean underwear and toiletries to her in the hospital. None of her Twitter followers are going to move her car so she doesn't accumulate tickets over the next six months when the street sweepers and snow plows come. None of her Instagram people are coming to see her, to comfort her, to see how she's doing and just talk to her during visiting hours.

When she regained the use of one hand, she started looking at social media again, and realized it is all so hollow. Talk, platitudes, and shameless self-promotion does not make a real relationship.

When she comes out of this, I hope she realizes the value of real human-to-human connections. But because she's as addicted to social media as the companies want her to be, I believe she will relapse into the void of fake friendships once again.
Probably homes and enough to guarantee a comfy lifestyle if things went sideways.
Right, and we don't even have subjective continuity ourselves. Every night we fall asleep, and our consciousness dies. Every morning it is reborn. We don't worry about it.
Here's an easy solution guys - make friends with more women.

A couple years ago my wife asked for a divorce (we are still married but separated). It was very much a wake up call that I was very dependent upon her emotionally and I had neglected my other friendships. I did two things. I invested myself in some old friends from high school and college, but as none of them are living in my city, I realized that I really needed to invest in new friends.

Several friends that I did have were runners, and they suggested that I join one or two local running clubs which I did. I wasn't and am still not a "runner", but now I have so many friends I don't know what to do with myself. I am I'm as happy as I've ever been in terms of having friends with whom to socialize. There are presumably clubs like that in every city. Obviously would help to be a runner, but like I said, I am not. I run for social reasons not because I enjoy it.

Another interesting thing with socializing in middle-age is that 4/5 of my friends now are women. I think that's because women make better friends. They are more outgoing. They are more emotionally aware. They're more willing to invest in friendships. I think guy friendships are harder because of social expectations of of what a male friendship is - especially if like me you don't enjoy drinking or spectator sports.
Equity is monopoly money and or a lottery ticket.

As someone whose spent nearly 13 years in the startup world my advice is this. Expect your cash comp to be your only comp and negotiate cash comp separately from equity.

Most startups fail... and even those who do succeed? The VC's get first payout... then founders... then maybe what's left for you...

Also there many other situations a company can pull to invalidate or take equity away from employees (think Zynga).

There is alot to gain in working at startup, just dont think the equity is the main reason to.
That can be explained by economics alone.

There were no financial driver to make X11 a more optimal local solution.

There were huge financial incentives for MS to make their terminal-server offering more appealing.

And that’s all you need to explain the outcome.
I just did some calculations: If every person on earth flies only once a year (to and from), we would increase daily air passengers from 2.7 million to 44 million (1481% increase), we would also increase the number of daily flights from 44.000 to 650.000.

Meaning, if you fly only once a year, you should consider your self privilege. If you fly more often then that, you should consider your self a carbon hog.

We really can’t afford to loose the train network in America. If we are going to be serious about preventing climate catastrophe (or at least minimize it) people have to stop flying for anything other then emergencies and inter-continental travels. People are going to have to ride the trains as long as Boston to L.A. if they have to get there regularly.
Talk about all these pharmaceuticals .. Shortcuts will fry the hardware.

A dangerous game. Good luck to those who dare. Ill always propone meditation and developing attentive discipline.
Reverse-engineering precision op amps from a 1969 analog computer
Receiving empty box gives you evidence to submit for Police investigation. Much easier to prosecute than "system said I receive package".
My favorite is Microsoft Terra which was designed mostly to show off their SQL database. THey had no idea about the power of personal data that Google would exploit much later with Google Earth.
The "physical you" changes too. Your cells are constantly being replaced resulting in a "whole new physical you" roughly every year. [0]

"You" must be a state. If carried to a complex enough substrate my state may continue while the old substrate dies. What concern to me is the nature of this substrate so long as it adequately exists to run my state machine?

It is true that the substrate holding my state may have its operations sabotaged to update my state in strange non-standard ways, but this appears also to be the situation now, in the physical realm. There are untold conditions I can apply to my body and brain that would have marked affect on the unfolding state of my mind.

The concept of multiple mes is confusing, as would be the potential to merge mes and access memories of my own "death(s)". Techniques for confirming consciousness in others are largely non-existent. These are deep and still open questions that cannot be so easily dismissed with a claim that all that's artificial must be artifice.

[0] https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-for-most-of-the-...
I've wanted to see these trees for a long time and recently got the chance to camp in Sequoia National Park. It was breathtaking to say the least. One of my favorite places.
How LiveNation stays secure in a zero trust world
You're not broken. I've always been the kind of person who's happy to have one to three close friends, and that's it. After getting married, I stopped feeling any need to reach out and try to make new connections.

There may be value to the perspectives given by others as to the value of making friends now before the kids grow up, but I just wanted to chime in and reassure you that you're not the only one who feels no need right now. :)
Families get help from the state, so the public hates single males?

> that is the general view

You should prove that.
Nick Bostrom's “Vulnerable World Hypothesis” working paper touches on some of this. https://nickbostrom.com/papers/vulnerable.pdf
Psychological Effects of a 1-Month Meditation Retreat
It's OK, you're safe. I never used those words, and given that it requires some effort on your part nothing will happen unless you want it to.
You're not broken. If your family is your number one interest and responsibility, then you're doing life correctly. Don't let anyone else tell you differently.
No. That's how only one bomb worked (little boy). All other bombs use the implosion technique. One mass and the implosion changes its shape/density.
Tl;Dr; We don't know and this article sheds little extra light on the subject. It asks questions and doesn't answer them.

I've left the conclusion here to save you time:

> “Spying was one thing, but his willingness to switch sides in the middle of an armed conflict, and fight against the men who had a year earlier been fighting by his side, was something that people of that time and maybe ours could simply not understand.”
MySQL or MariaDB?
The ultimate diet!
It's not a commercial story.
Perhaps they put the fruit in a jar with some yeast, let it ferment so the sugar converts to alcohol + CO2?
Different as in the reason for morality. Why is morality important? It is not because a soul will be judged for violating 'thou shall' commandments. It is explained more in terms of Karma, the intentions your mind generates (karma) will be the forerunner to future states of your mind. Think of it in terms of causality in the context of plasticity of your mind. Your mind becomes conditioned by intentions it generates. The intention for greed will lead to a more greedy future state of the mind. Here is a short explanation of 'sila' (morality)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VBbQvM4CBY
> Airbnb is by all accounts a wildly successful company

I remember 5 years ago when I turned down a lucrative offer from Uber because I just didn't believe in the company. People told me I was crazy, that Uber was the future of transportation, and how could I not understand how stupid I was? I just looked the fundamentals and said it will never make money.

AirBnB and Uber are very different companies, the most notable difference being that AirBnB actually makes money. That said, AirBnB has lots of issues to be worked out before I would consider them a "wildly successful company" in the sense that they are not doing remotely as well as they should be considering how many years their competition was paying regulatory taxes and they weren't. Based on anecdotal evidence, their dark patterns are making their users grow to hate them more every day (not a great sign before an IPO) and they're making weird moves in the hotel space - that industry they were supposed to replace instead of become. And now they have real competition from HomeAway and others and I just don't see a growth trajectory for them anymore - honestly I see them shrinking in a few years. The fact that it took them until 2017 to generate a profit in a space where they own nothing, rent nothing, and have no expensive infrastructure in an enormous market where they didn't pay competitive taxes (but managed to win a local election despite this clusterfuck https://slate.com/business/2015/11/airbnb-defeats-prop-f-in-...) is a fucking alarm bell. More cities across the world are starting to ban their service, and laws are being created to actually enforce this. I am certain if this comment gets seen by many people I will get replies telling me why AirBnB is healthy, and all is well, and I just don't understand - just like I did all those years ago with Uber.

I'm not convinced AirBnB is going to exist in 10 years (for many more reasons than I listed in the paragraph above). Maybe I'm wrong. But until AirBnB is a public company for ~6 months and we can see their financials, watch the stock price fluctuate, and see how many people jump ship the moment their equity vests...well it's just another unicorn story where the VCs are pumping up the price to dump the stock.
One in 5.55 men. One in 8.33 women. High for both.
Nuts :)
"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less."