skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s much more complex than that these days. With the CFS scheduler a process will run for somewhere between the target latency (basically the size of slice that N processes waiting to be scheduled are competing for, I think defaulted to 20ms) as the upper bound and the minimum granularity (the smallest slice that may be granted to a process being scheduled) as the lower bound, I think defaulted to 4ms.

This is made more complex by the ability to configure the scheduler with high granularity, including the ability to schedule different processors and process groups with different schedulers (and the rules that govern how the schedulers can then preempt each other).
I had a screwed up septum which created apneas & poor sleep. Took a long time to figure out, none of the sleep doctors noticed. I imagine nine out of ten of their patients are there because of alcohol, caffeine, or obesity.
These two articles sum it up nicely. About 5.7% of men are depressed and about 8.7% of women. Most people are just fine. I hate alarmist journalism and sensational headlines.

https://www.healthline.com/health/depression/facts-statistic...

https://www.verywellmind.com/depression-statistics-everyone-...
The real problem sounds like you are stuck having to hot-desk or some other foolishness. A dedicated workstation should not be a luxury.
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Freenode channels can require users to be registered and identified in order to join. This solves the spam problem. Given that I am on Freenode 24/7 and have been for years, on 40+ channels, and spam has never been an issue I stand by my original comment.
I've used RocketChat at a previous company, basically a clone of slack. I didn't have to manage it, but it seemed to work great.
I think so, yes. I also use Jitsi for pre-arranged video/audio chats, as opposed to persistent audio chat channels like Mumble offers.
As much as I dislike using a proprietary chat app, Discord is well designed and easy to use. Reliving the early internet is great and all but my time is limited, and I'm sick of sacrificing my time and sanity faffing around with bouncers and garbage IRC clients. It's the same reason I use macOS instead of Linux. I don't just want a Unix environment, I want a polished Unix environment where apps don't have Linux UI syndrome and plugging in an external monitor doesn't require me to pull up the man page for xrandr. That's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
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> And I think I could accept all this if it was for a good reason, but I think it is just stupid nonsense (did we learn nothing from Brexit?).

It's not for you to decide that. If a majority of people in a region (yes, still to be conclusively shown for Catalonia) wish to have independence and their own self-government then they should have it. Otherwise you are promoting tyranny. You're like the husband who tells his wife that she is wrong for wanting a divorce because he's still happy with the marriage. Actually, the principle of indissoluble marriage has a lot in common with Section 2 of the Preliminary Title in the Spanish Constitution:

> The Constitution is based on the indissoluble unity of the Spanish Nation

Both principles of indissoluble unity - both in marriage and in the constitution of a state - are expressions of tyranny.
> One of the biggest problems with IRC is that there is no immediately obvious way to jump into a channel and browse or search the history.

There's literally web-clients available where all you gotta do is click a link and write a name that hasn't been taken by anyone yet, and you're in. No email address, no password.

History is even more straightforward — anonymous access to all IRC history is frequently provided by most projects. How do you get history for Slack without having an account?
A pernicious notion.
Emojis, reaction gifs, ugh.

https://drewdevault.com/2019/07/01/Absence-of-features-in-IR...
> Acting like IRC is equal in functionality to Slack or Discord is straight up delusional.

The author doesn't equate them - they even list many critical things that Slack has that IRC doesn't. Which makes their conclusion even more silly.
Is there any link between cannabis use and deep sleep?

I find cannabis completely removes dreams from my sleep which come back very vivid after stopping use. Many people online report the same.
Rather than quoting the HR, it would be more useful to share the % of MHR. Is your MHR 220bpm? 170bpm? Dramatically changes the meaning of exercising @ 150-160bpm.
The self-storage industry.

Hyper fragmented. 10% of the industry is owned by the industry giants (like Public Storage, which is a $39 billion publicly traded REIT), leaving 90% fragmented to small owners / independent businesses.

Very low productivity growth, very low innovation, poor management software options in the segment.

Someone could make a billion dollars just through consolidation of a tiny fraction of that mess, backed with better software and process.

Public Storage only has 5,600 employees and via their REIT structure spits off $1.4 billion in operating income every year.

The entire industry's value, going by what Public Storage is able to manage, is probably $1.2 to $1.5 trillion. And it's not going anywhere in the coming ~30 years, people are not going to suddenly stop storing their junk. It'll take an operator a lifetime to roll-up, consolidate even 1%-3% of the industry.
How do you think Prefect compares to Airflow / Dagster?
At least then we can call it what it is. Remove the façade.
> Part of the problem with unit tests that mock everything is that they are very time consuming to write. Minor changes in how classes interact result in 5x the time needed to update unit tests.

Unit tests are supposed to verify a software unit's design contract. If a minor change breaks your design contract then either the change is not minor at all or you have more serious problems to deal with than writing unit tests.
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You are right - I always forget that political affiliation is not a protected class within our legal system. However, I think it should be, because we've seen the whole ugly side of persecution and discrimination that came about during the McCarthy era and beyond where people like MLK, Chaplin, WEB Du Bois, and Linus Pauling were targeted for their political beliefs.
Looks at US, Russia, China, Turkey, etc.

Yeah, good thing everyone can agree on A), right?
There are a few downsides to using restic:

No support for compression yet

No support for deleting data from snapshots

No support for continous backups (restic walks the directory tree for each backup).

No support for resilience from disk errors using par2 or similar

Backing up millions of small/empty files uses a lot of memory
You envision society as a battleground for various moral perspectives. I think there's some truth to that. But are there any ground rules? If so, what are they? Are you giving me license to firebomb ICE facilities because I "believe strongly" that ICE is evil? Or is the law a red line that no one can cross? If so, what about "bad laws"? What about civil disobedience?

Another perspective on this is that, for a society to function, people need to be able to agree to disagree about most things. This means that we are all morally compromised and we all must be morally compromised in order to live together. A society in which everyone follows their own moral impulses is a society that will not function.

I find myself wavering between these two perspectives (the first being yours). I don't mind people protesting. But how about blocking roads? How about vandalizing your ideological opponent's office? How about smashing windows? How about preventing your ideological opponents from speaking? It seems to me that your perspective minimizes the danger here. There's no guarantee that things will just work out. We might reach a level of polarization after which we simply won't be able to cooperate.
> I've been dealing with a hormonal issue that's been negatively impacting my deep sleep for almost two years.

Also, not getting enough sleep can wreak havoc on your hormones.

"Men who sleep 5 hours a night have significantly smaller testicles than men who sleep 7 hours or more. Men who routinely sleep 4-5 hours a night will have a level of testosterone of someone 10 years their senior."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MuIMqhT8DM
> strace -e file uptime

Is probably easier to remember. You can filter from there.
Senzing and Tamr are two options for this
What law have the people in the camps in the southern border broken? Think carefully on this, and ask yourself when they had their day in court.

We have due process, and that applies to everyone beholden to our laws, whether or not they are citizens.
> Overbooking.com means someone might be made to drive around late at night, tired, with nowhere to sleep.

I would say most of these cases, the renter wouldn't have a car. I've been stuck in cafes after booking/Airbnb scams
> Clients largely look like some 90s programmer’s idea of a chat tool,

If by that you mean that it doesn't require a machine with 32GB of RAM to run smoothly, then I'm all for such 90s chat tools!

Sharing files is trivial with Gist; and you get a fully proper history, ability to fork, plus works much faster than the clumsiness and memory waste that comes with Slack.
They don't disagree, otherwise they would openly embrace the practice instead of shrouding it in secrecy.
I remember it also built like 8 observers in one match, supposedly because the AI was so good at sniping them (and it trained on itself).
12 factor seems to have stood the test of time really well—I was introduced via Heroku (who I think invented it?) quite a long time ago in tech years, and yet it still seems to be probably the most popular ‘framework’ for devops.

In fact, my startup EnvKey[1] was heavily inspired by the 12 factor approach. While it has always worked well for me, one bit that always felt thorny was using the environment for configuration and secrets. It’s obviously great to get this stuff out of code, but then you face new issues on how to keep it all in sync across many environments and pass potentially highly sensitive data around securely.

EnvKey fills in this gap using end-to-end encryption and a seamless integration that builds on top of environment variables—it’s a drop-in replacement if you already use the environment for config. Check it out if you’re looking for something to smooth out this aspect of 12 factor! We have lots of folks using it with GCP/GKE.

1 - https://www.envkey.com
Most people speculate it's to account for losses from harassment where it somehow finds easier to overprobe than bother with more defense.
If everything is political, politics is just background noise.
> just because we happen to work in a field that lets us exert our influence over society doesn't make our moral sensibilities any better than the rest of society.

I agree this is problematic. However, programmers are uniquely well situated to create a system for asking "the rest of society" questions about what kinds of systems they would like a programmer to support.

> make the deliberate decision that refraining from exercising that power is the morally optimal choice.

Quitting would be (as close as one gets to) refraining from exercising power. What you're describing is cooperating with the status quo, which is definitely an exercise of power.
I just wanted to see if dunstad would support such a ban. And they did, as you can see by their agreement. This shows how real that slippery slope is for many people...
The reason that this kind of protest is happening now is that companies like GitHub have to continuously serve the product, they can’t just sell into a channel and forget about what happens like a boxed software vendor or a furniture company.

I wonder if this can create a new business model for an arms-length distributor, a company that maintains GitHub deployments for customers and pays royalties to GitHub. This distributor could sell to all kinds of unsavories while giving GitHub plausible deniability.
Additionally, some humans are far more skilled at aiming in a video game than you might think possible.
Hopefully it's a special kind of black hole like the one mentioned in the article. Wait...
It's tied to your phone number and they don't support virtual numbers
> First name and last name are bad proxies for given name and family name.

It sounds like you are agreeing with me here.

> Anyone from an Eastern culture filling in an English form knows or should know that. If they don't, it's mostly their fault.

A bad form design collects bad data and it's the fault of the person filling it in? How about we just use better form fields?

> This is mostly an imagined problem, and it goes away if you ask for "first name/given name" and "last name/surname", which removes any ambiguity.

If you acknowledge that this ambiguity can be resolved by changing what you are asking, why are you arguing this point? Just use better form fields.

> (I happen to have an Eastern name, so I did not call it an imagined problem because I knew nothing about it.)

I have a western name and my name is backwards on all sorts of documents and I've been called "Mr Jim" a huge number of times because of this issue. It's not mostly imagined, it's extremely common in my experience.

If you want to know their legal name, ask for their legal name. If you want to know what you should call them, ask what you should call them. First name / last name are not good fields for this and the solutions are simple.
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- What do they do with the male chickens? About 50% of hatched eggs will be males.

- Do they let the chickens live until they die of natural causes? Or do they kill them before this?
What Is a Nation? (2015)
> But if I am talking with someone that can speak a language I speak, and this person insists using one I don't understand, I indeed find it impolite.

Sorry but this is a position of arrogance and entitlement. No-one is obliged to talk to you and if they don't want to do so in a language which has been forced upon their culture at the cost of the indigenous language then they are completely in the right to do so.
> History is even more straightforward — anonymous access to all IRC history is frequently provided by most projects.

Most projects? Really? I'd say at most 20% of IRC channels for open source projects I've been on have published history.

Shopping around for a log bot and figuring out a publishing channel is not straightforward. In fact nothing is more straightforward than builtin. While I'm not a big fan of using Slack for open source collaboration, saying IRC history is straightforward and provided by most projects is indeed delusional.
I have another target for your second one: We share a Google Drive full of resumes and people put their names on a spreadsheet when they like the candidate. Then we interview them!

It’s super innovative and fit to our business context!
I don't think the AI learns from pixels (nor does it move through mouse/kb commands), it has direct API access to the game. Nonetheless it is impressive.
While the title of the paper says a low-mass black hole, the abstract does say it could also be a high mass neutron star:

> Constraints on the giant’s mass and radius imply that the unseen companion is 3.3+2.8−0.7 solar masses, indicating that it is a noninteracting low-mass black hole or an unexpectedly massive neutron star.

Presumably, further observations will help determine what it is.
Hotels have horrible inventory management. They don't have the revenue management tools that airlines have. I believe there are whole call centers of 1000s of people at expedia who call hotels to verify room availability and rebook customers.

Another example is Marriot will commonly let the local management control inventory. They commonly use the cheapest room to book to max capacity and upgrade people until they are fully booked. It almost never makes sense to book a more expensive room unless you are booking within 30 days.
Evolution is quite good on untangling confounding factors (the larger the population, the better it works with them), so while that's literally the plot, the consequences of it on real life should be very different.
> Long-click on the Reader Mode button and you can set it to always use it on medium.com.

Learning this just made my day!
But the accuracy point is a big deal. The fact that it doesn't work well should frighten the people who claim they are OK with it because they have nothing to hide. (However much we disagree with them.)

Imagine being thrown in jail because somebody who looks like you committed a crime. (You didn't like the social justice angle, but actually, racial minorities get that all the time in the US.) "The computer said so" is going to be convincing evidence to a lot of people, even if it shouldn't be.
I have a warm place in my heart for Pidgin. For a long, long time I had to deal with IM clients that wouldn't let you sign in more than one account per instance, and some of them used mutexes to prevent running multiple instances.

It looked like hot dog vomit, but it worked wonderfully.
Riot/Matrix is a decentralised, open source slack alternative. Almost like irc .

https://about.riot.im/
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Static binary as the whole interpreter and modules bundled in a fat binary? No thanks.

I know the difference, but this way we have 4G volumes we could eventually burn to DVDs if we'd want to. No backup repositories, cloud storage solutions or new and obscure network protocols involved. Deduplication is also uninteresting for us because the largest part of our backup are SQL dumps. This is why we make full backups every time.
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> Sharing files is trivial with Gist

Apparently not all files that need to be shared are text files. Developers have a million ways to share text files, thank you.

(I know how to use gists to share images and other files. It's not pretty.)
But that’s only part of the metaphysics of it all! We actually absorb the properties of what we consume! An apple contains within its seed the potential or power of an apple tree, which is dense and fibrous, and by consuming the apple we absorb its fibrousness and density. An animal has the power of movement, and by consuming its flesh we absorb the power of movement, which is why it builds up our muscle tissue! Metaphysics is the real physics, our physics are only a shadow of that.
> A better approach is to store configuration in environment variables.

It's about damn time, Google! I've been working on a number of GCP projects this year and have consistently bumped up against the awkwardness that was Google's (former?) preference for configuration files over environment variables.
> if you want to know what a SQL query is going to do in the black box of your query engine, you might try to parse the esoteric language of a query explainer.

Possibly a side effect of nosql movement/proliferation that these basic things became esoteric. Like a vet care for dinosaurs :) The tooling around data pipelines, like debugging, profiling, lineage, etc was too a typical stuff of the ETL tools of yesteryear like Informatica for example.
Was it https://www.graphiti.dev?
I'm being lazy and don't want to dig, but does anyone know which of the AlphaStar networks (Protoss, Terran, Zerg) is best at beating the others?
The biggest problem for me in IRC is lack of good mobile clients. You can't get push notifications and if you want to stay persistently online then you need to keep a perpetual battery-draining socket open.
You could setup a relay on your server ,but it's cumbersome and too technical for most people.
I did a quick dig into the wikipedia article, and it has the roots for the names as follows:

Both acetaminophen and paracetamol come from a chemical name for the compound: para-acetylaminophenol and para-acetylaminophenol.

No real reason for why one took off in one area, versus the other, just what happened to stick!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#History
"tylenol" is a US brand name, not used much elsewhere. ("acetaminophen" is a name only used in a few countries, including the US)
> All of these tendencies allow for niche fields like quantum physics to be viable.

Well, Quantum Physics was created by a population that was approximately 1/6 of ours.
Are new strategies more important in SC2 than go/chess? From the blog it seems like the AI learns from self-play so if it doesn't come up with a strategy, it won't know how to counter it. But that seems like it should apply to chess and go as well.
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> Australia has banned 5G as it is sourced from china

What does this even mean?
The best solution I have found is to use Riot/Matrix and connect to the channel via an irc bridge. That way you get a modern app/protocol which works on mobile. A better solution again would be to an actual matrix room for your foss projects.
Sometimes, lessons from the past can help to remove some of the rose-tinted glasses that people seem to associate these newer companies with. For example, it's worth reading Enron's Vision and Values statement (http://www.agsm.edu.au/bobm/teaching/BE/Cases_pdf/enron-code...) from 2000.

I don't think there have been any fundamental changes since 2000 that would incentivize make communication from large public corporate entities to be more honest or logically rigorous.
I think I have a good understanding of SQL optimization, and it came from an environment of writing endless adhoc SQL for database updates and reports, where, no, it didn't matter in the least if your query took 6 seconds or 60 seconds.

But the challenge was to write and run a query in a matter of minutes and not hours, or days, or weeks, and not to spend time on false starts or elaborate queries that left you uncertain if your results were correct.

When I first started, I would write something, and start it running, and wait. And then after five minutes, you're thinking, well, I have to finish this within half an hour, is it going to take 10 minutes or weeks, in which case I need to try something different? But then, if I cancel it, was it about to finish, in which case I wasted five minutes, and if I do that three times, it's going to be late? I've seen queries where the time estimate goes in reverse and it starts out predicting 2 minutes to finish and 10 minutes later it's saying days or weeks. And the results were needed ten minutes ago.

Optimization becomes important when you're talking about several orders of magnitude, and opportunities are all around in a business environment. I was given a report script in T-SQL once that did the job it was supposed to adequately on a few hundred (maybe thousand) documents but my manager wanted to run it on all the things - millions of documents on hundreds of databases. It turned out to be very doable, but required changing a largely procedural script that ran SQL in a loop to a single query that was something like 10,000 times faster.

Worrying about 6ms -> 6s -> 6min isn't the environment I'm used to. It was always about human scale time - will it be done in 15 minutes, will it be done by the court deadline tomorrow, will it be done this week, or this month.

What I learned from an inhumanly talented analyst was that the Oracle optimizer is the enemy of performance and predictability, and the way to get reliable, fast results is to break down things into simple queries and temp tables and ignore gurus like Tom Kyte that say all those fancy database features are there for a reason and you should write beautiful multipage masses of SQL. (someone like Kyte would also say if the optimizer is fighting you the database is configured wrong, which might be true but is utterly unhelpful in what I consider the real world where the admins exist to tell you "no" or ignore you)