skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>we seek happiness instead of achievement and get neither.

Probably because we've been conditioned (through billions of dollars, spent yearly, on marketing) to believe that happiness comes with the acquisition of certain items, status or experiences.

We've conflated happiness with dopamine rushes and short-lived pleasure, and believe the feeling can be elongated by merely emulating the actions which either provided both or could provide more of both.

Many of us have also altered our lives to support the above mentality - living in densely packed cities with air and sound pollution, or poor commutes, working around the clock, or in chaotic and stressful companies, doing ultimately purposeless or even outright destructive work, with the hopes of gaining more money or more status to fund the above, etc.

Coupled with the increasing social isolation and division, the never-ending outrage we're told to feel over today's new issue, which we as a civilization are going through, it's not hard to see why people are finding it hard to say they're happy.
About GPT-2, is there any site like talktotransformer.com that can generate longer output? The length generated by that site leaves a lot to be desired.
> Then why are you discussing?

I replied because you stated an assertion as truth which has no evidence substantiating it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

> As far as I know from my history studies, the old egyptian society didn't practice slavery.

Since you've already linked to Wikipedia above, here's an entire article specifically focused on slavery in Ancient Egypt. Unlike the topic which we've been discussing, there is written documentation of actual slave labor being extensively used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Egypt
I have also noticed that text goes behind the smiley or formatting icon this past couple of days. On the last MacOS app. Which is mildly annoying.
I agree w the above r.e. lsd/shrooms .. never done dmt tho.. not particularly interested. I've done salvia which I've been td is like a super light version of dmt, and was not a big fan.. thought at least salvia is only about 15 minutes :D lots of ominous dread.
Here's what NOT to do, from my experience in the first decade of this millennium:

1. What came first: More work or more developers? Don't stress your development team for ages without hiring new employees. They'll burn out and hate working for you.

2. Don't focus all your energy on outward appearance. Your work should speak for itself, not your amazing expensive new car and tailored suits.

3. Don't stop innovating. The developers who were there since day 1 who refuse to adopt new tech? Yeah, get rid of them. They're pulling the rest down to their level.

4. Seniority isn't a guarantee for superior knowledge; and being junior doesn't mean their opinion is invalid. Don't fall victim to playing favourites. If you hire people, then they're equal.

5. If you are one of two founders: Don't have sexual intercourse with the wife of the other founder of the company. He will find out and because you have 50/50 shares in the company, everyone needs to pick a side. This destroys the company.

6. And that also means you can no longer afford to lease that $1400/month luxury off road SUV that you only drive in a town without even a single hill in a 100 mile radius.

I was just an employee for this company, I was in my teens when I started working there, and I thought these 30-something owners of the company knew what they were doing. They didn't.
The only times I’ve had semi-decent product managers was when I was consulting, and they were paying our company for every hour worked.
Guaranteed to loose value over time. Ever since central banks forced gov fiat currency on us all, we're stuck investing just to save for the future. Back in 1905, most people could save in gold, and very few invested, but now that dollars/euros/yuan saved loose value over time, we're all forced to use equity as a money-substitute for savings.
Nowadays if a site does this I simply don't visit it. If it's a really important site (which often does support FF anyway), I just use Edge. Chrome is now like an absolute last resort.
Even just applying the basic principles of efficiencies of scale, it's almost guaranteed to be true that cloud is greener.

Utility scale power, utility scale chip production, exabyte-scale storage racks, generally more efficient chips (xeons vs desktop models), more efficient server PSUs.

Not to mention less overhead like deliveries. You only need 1 truck to deliver the hardware to the data center, whereas you might need 30-50-100 to deliver computers to individual households.

> But given that a home server can run on 10W of electrical power, and potentially off of a solar panel I found this unpersuasive. I didn't have any quantitative estimates then, and still don't now.

This is laughable. It's not an argument for individual servers in households, if anything, it's an argument for utility-scale solar and more efficient software that runs efficiently on 10W CPUs.
But the primary cost of lifting fuel (if you have a reusable rocket) is fuel. Leaving us back at cheap.

But we're essentially arguing whether max payload per launch or payload efficiency to orbit is more important.
It looking like a piece of shit is an unpopular opinion?

I assumed that was a consensus. The thing isn't trying to win any beauty contests, it's covered in ugly seam welds.

And none of that matters, not one bit.
This hides the row with the buttons, but the behavior of textinput remains the same
Poor presentation.

I didn't have "sleep." So now what?

"So we're gonna do a little experiment, memorize these words, then write them down, now I'm gonna read ... oh will you look at the time, it's been almost 2 minutes, that is we're almost at the end of your attention span, so here's the conclusion, bye."

He could have at least read the (supposed) entire list, then tell us which ones weren't actually on the original list, or ask us which ones weren't. Or something.
I've witnessed someone else getting stung (well pieced it together after she realized)

My friend wasn't compromised but the person she was dealing with was. evidently they were reading the other guys mail and when mention of invoicing came up they made a fake email address that was almost the same as his (swapped a l for a 1) and sent through a new banking detail.

the woman at this end didn't realize the email didn't come from who she thought it did and sent a 10k payment directly into the thieves bank account.

She was mortified afterwards.
That example worked fine for me, the second example (a variation on the first) worked as the article described. Once foo() was "code", I couldn't update it (at least I couldn't discover how to do so outside of killing that bit).

I'd bet the first example didn't work at some point, and then was quickly patched.
Google, Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter prefer monorepos but this is not indicative of most large orgs.

You'll notice that those listed have had to customize or creat new vcs's to meet their needs.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17605371
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789182
https://medium.com/@maoberlehner/monorepos-in-the-wild-33c6e...
Press the "Aa" button and the row of icons goes away.

Based on the title, I was dreading checking this out but... I kind of like it; Keyboard accelerators for dropping in and out of the various block and list modes, quick action for code etc.
What to do if the Space Shuttle payload bay doors won't shut properly
I absolutely loved the opening “The first day of the world was born in the year 1985, in an old side of the world, and the air of the old sky of lemon and waves and berries.”
I was thinking about non-repudiation [0]. It seems with the keys, you could have more certainty that they are who they are (e.g. stolen password vs stolen private key file). But just thinking about it now, I don't think it matters for anonymity that much.

0 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation
You can turn the icons off with the Aa button on the right. You can't turn off the auto-formatting though.
What Is Confusion Matrix and Advanced Classification Metrics?
Pah. Next you'll tell us that once Ripcord shows you some messages, its "N new messages in this chat" notification actually goes away. Now that would be a killer feature, if Slack managed to implement it.
With exponential compounding, I wouldn’t be so sure that it’s still cheap…
Assuming you care about taking on more responsibility. That's not the path for everyone, though. I'm fine being just a very experienced programmer. I couldn't care less about "leading".
SpaceX has built part of their business around the idea that it's worth trading a moderate amount of payload for re-usability as long as they can still reach the orbit their customers care about and it was considered an extremely risky bet before they made it routine.

It doesn't make fuel cheap, let alone very cheap.

Actually another significant part of SpaceX business is modern engineering and modern mean of production. They used to launch without recoverability for some high orbit payloads and they were competitively priced for that too.
Barfing is literally the point of ayahuasca. It's even called "la purga" by some.
Seconded, Zulip is awesome.
isn't it also the convention not to bicker about the rules in the comments?
Isn't that much what psychiatrists do, they guide you by asking questions?
40% of adults would call in sick if they needed a break
I'd rather just not talk to someone like that so if they don't want to be friends anymore over being suggested a mechanic when having car issues or something then good. There's a youtube video about those kind of crazies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4EDhdAHrOg
That's a great question! Feedback from employers about graduates have always been around new graduates and hires not being 'work ready' - and we've found many colleges aren't flexible enough to solve this problem quickly.

So our solution was why not give that training that makes everyone 'work ready' accessible to the world? That way when people do hire, they won't have that complaint anymore and people will know if they'd like the actual job itself!
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An empty soda can is much stronger relative to its weight than a full one.
They take referral links when you go to Amazon and in exchange they just try multiple coupon codes.
See Figure 5 on page 10 of "Prices and the Growth of the European Knowledge Economy, 1200-2007" https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:384596/FULLTEXT0...

Note that after the continuous decline in price from 1350 to 1650, the price of paper stabilized due to the demand from printers. The availability of linen rags was another limiting factor until the development of wood pulp paper.

On page 9 -"Vellum and parchment were not viable for mass production. A well-known example is the Gutenberg Bible, of which 30 copies were printed on parchment. Each parchment copy required the skins of more than 300 sheep."
Another activity not given enough attention is fishing. Remnants of fish, as well as fishing tools are perishable, but they played an important role before the neolithic revolution. The name seems to be misleading.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/01/190115200036.h...
Ah, I hadn’t tried to type code since the change so I wasn’t seeing the difference.

The new behavior is maddening.
I don't think Slack is building a chat service. Based on the features they are building, they could be aiming to be The Groupware[1] of 2020's.

On the web site they put it this way "Slack is the collaboration hub that brings the right people, information, and tools together to get work done."

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_software
It’s heartening to see I’m not the only one with this problem, and also incredibly depressing.
>Do you know that your messages arrive in all cases?

"I have no trouble sending to anybody (that I've heard of from recipients" might not be as artfully written as I would like, but that's what that refers to.

Furthermore, blackholing emails like you suggest is generally rare. RFC 5321 (SMTP) states:

"[D]ropping mail without notification of the sender is permitted in practice. However, it is extremely dangerous and violates a long tradition and community expectations that mail is either delivered or returned. If silent message-dropping is misused, it could easily undermine confidence in the reliability of the Internet's mail systems. So silent dropping of messages should be considered only in those cases where there is very high confidence that the messages are seriously fraudulent or otherwise inappropriate."
> This means that we can be zoom in better on the issues that lead to such crimes being committed

The problem of stereotyping is that people take a complex problem and attempts to reduce it by measuring people based on one or a few bits of information.

Crime is a bit like rain. The more one attempt to zoom closer to the atom the less we understand it and the poorer the prediction becomes. It get even worse when attempting to zoom in order to understand rare events.

If we look at the specific crime of rape in Sweden we see that P(person is Muslim | person is a rapist) > P(Person is a Christian | person is a rapist), by around 300%. The political reaction to people noticing the data is a bit volatile to say the least.

It is possible to still use the data, but its best to zoom out rather than in. A common one for crime is the acknowledgement that high risk groups tend share a trait of low social economic status. Thus a popular general prediction method is to measure social economic status when determining risk. What we then get is a more general P(person is socially isolated AND low income AND low education | person commit a crime) that we can compare to other prediction models. People then take each of those classifications and zooms out even further by addressing them independently and outside of crime prevention as improving them has value in itself.
"My car's been having trouble" "I know a good mechanic" "Oh my god how dare you take my agency away from me, I'm never talking to you again"

Good riddance if that's how somebody in my life ever reacted in that situation.
Not to poop on this article, but isn't the point of IPA that every phoneme has "its own dedicated IPA symbol"?
So this is CDN reselling with ease of use added?
Carrier pigeons would be a step up from Lync
The secret to cooking corn: put the corn in a pot of cold water and set the burner to bring it to a boil. When the water boils the corn is done, and never overcooked. May require some fiddling, but this has always worked for us. Scrambled eggs are similar: creamiest eggs are cooked slowly. Essentially put eggs and cold butter in a cold pan and stir while slowly heating up until they are done.
So do you have some arrangement with Cloudflare to satisfy the the "Limitation on Non-HTML Caching" part of their terms?
More than just broadcasts as we think of them in networked systems, it requires serialized/transactional broadcasts. Network distributed systems also have problems with ordering which is something made easier when you have a single bus with all transactions in sequence.
The stock exchanges also changed quite a lot from 1980 to 2010. That's what brought new rules to the companies.

A great question is why did the stock exchanges changed? I can't find any single answer, but I think operations optimization and the consequent low transaction costs played a large part.
> And if God doesn't exist, then nothing matters anyways, so why worry?

I would argue the opposite: if god does exist, then nothing really matters anymore, except the whims of a powerful entity.

Not having a supernatural power meddling in our affairs liberates us to do great things.
What about Danish? I think they would need a lot of IPA symbols of their own?
The laws weren't "changed" to make those monopolies. They were monopolies by the original definition of the law.

And whether you "personally" think they are monopolies. They are in no sense of the word "monopolies" by any definition that has been used by the US or EU.
Have to have checkpoints and goals. Everything you're doing is an experiment to increase revenue/velocity. So measure, frequently and correct.
So many in tech were speaking up about how bad of an idea it would be to add .co when it was announced, totally foreseeable problem.
I actually got a job after completing the modules for https://www.workatastartup.com, the last module asks you to apply at ycombinator companies.

Would recommend to others. The tasks aren't very difficult, there are PDFs that hold your hand pretty well.

Also completed the JP Morgan Chase one recently for fun. Wonder what the law ones are like.
Sounds like Atlassians approach with Jira - "it supports markdown, except when it doesn't!"
Agreed on the code/quote block woes.

> never rendered larger than 64x64

On a high-density display, that 64px x 64px image covers a lot more surface area than 64x64 actual pixels on the physical display. I suspect that this 512x512px requirement is related to scaling factors on devices with high DPI displays.
> Heaven isnt eternal punishment?

It could be. Think of all the boring people that would supposedly be in there. Now think that you get to spend infinity time with them.
That's cruel, not only because the throat rasping for the foreigner but also because the meaning.
Huh, my most vivid dreams are when I go to sleep on edibles.
The Editable PDF Initiative
No chance of passing the Senate unfortunately
Why are men expected to be the only ones who have to put in any effort and make any changes in this situation?
When you announce that you're shilling something, you remove all chance of risk ;) That said, Zulip looks promising. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, but most phonemes are in multiple languages.
It's something so simple that they made complex. It's not just code formatting, even things like italics are annoying to escape from if you're used to the old interface.

Also, I totally understand their desire to get rid of the subdomain aspect of slack. As a developer I get it, I really do, but now there is no way to easily go in the browser to the slack that you want. It used to autocomplete now I have to figure out which slack is what and I get confused.
You keep using this word "blogspam". I don't think it means what you think it means. (Or "blatant" for that matter)

"Noun. blogspam (Internet) promotional material posted to a weblog, often one specifically created for the purpose" -- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blogspam

This definition makes it the very opposite of the post, since it's neither promotional, nor "specifically created for the purpose" of promotion.

At worst this is a personal blog site that posts interesting links and curates them. Don't know if you missed the whole 2000-2010 era, but that was a popular thing back in the day.

Sorta like a non-social HN -- where a single person selects the best bits and comments on them. Is HN "blogspam"?

Is anything that's not an original post "blogspam"?

If we were talking about automated aggregation, listicle sites, "link farms", etc, one could agree...
Check this video at youtube: "maximizing alphaness" it helps a lot.
> Tell me how uninformed I am
From https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
Amazon Aurora is a MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of traditional enterprise databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.

Compatible
As I understand it they're protocol compatible and that's it. I shall have to ask my guy at Amazon about it further as clearly it's somewhat ambiguous.

> MySql
I've managed to happily provoke all manner of poor behaviour from MySQL and MariaDB. Some of it repeatable, with certain backends. I've used and admined MySQL since 98 or so. Enough to compare and contrast it with Ora/MSSQL/postgres.

Before I swore off the frankly horrid lamp stack about a decade ago, I had built quite a number of sites for SMEs, including Recruitment Agencies , A racing federation, A major airline ticketing company, I could go on, but I assure you that I'm not a noob as you suggested.

My point before, what just because LAMP stacks are well used, doesn't make them GOOD. It doesn't matter what's built with them. Even Facebook uses/used PHP, but it completely redesigned its own runtime IIRC.

> Shades of grey/240v
I estimate that there's only about 50 ;)

Yes, get it going through your heart and you're toast, or you bridge live and neutral and your muscles contract stopping you from pulling away.

Anecdotally I've had bigger zaps from electric fences than mains.

Anyway my assertion still stands, MySQL is a toy database and should not be used in a critical environment.

LAMP stacks are horrible.

Arguing with a stranger over the internet is futile. :-)

Good night!
Tangentially if anyone is dealing with a stimulant substance use disorder, the new research on N-acetyl cysteine around stimulant abuse cessation is looking very promising. Something to discuss with your doctor - but it's available over the counter.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993450/
That's a surefire path to irrelevance. Nobody wants groupware. Nobody uses it unless forced.

On the bright side, that would leave a hole in the market for an enterprising chat developer to fill, hopefully with something less annoying and resource intensive.
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Your article says people with cars spend less, not nothing.

So in fact reduces fares would have a negative economic impact.
I mean, it looks that way, but who walks around telling that to people? I recognise it as that. I took some interest in Zen Buddhism, years before this happened, and would sometimes experiment with meditation and controlling my breathing.

“In the oldest texts of Buddhism, dhyāna (Sanskrit) or jhāna (Pali) is the training of the mind, commonly translated as meditation, to withdraw the mind from the automatic responses to sense-impressions, and leading to a "state of perfect equanimity and awareness.”

I don’t know if it’s perfect exactly but the whole training the mind to reduce automatic responses to sense impressions sounds exactly right to me.

I still have some difficulty controlling it but it gets better every day. It seems that the more I dare myself and confront my fears, the better I get at self regulating my emotions.

And damn do I wish there was science to this, because I was very committed to a scientific viewpoint before this happened, which is rather inconvenient at the moment, because my only source of information about what I’m currently experiencing is religion.
Risk depends on how long you have until you are going to start pulling on that money. The only people screwed investing wise from 2007 were the people who pulled out. If you can keep a level head, which might preclude some people, investing in stocks is hardly risky. Specifically using index funds, because there is a lot of risk in picking a few stocks.
There was a public accusation that a competitor shot one of their rockets with a rifle, causing it to fail. If they had reasonable suspicion of that, they should have kept it to themselves and the FBI/law enforcement. What really happened is that a strut failed due to faulty batch of material that wasn't tested before fabrication.

I'm not sure if this was deliberate spin, but it seemed pretty shady to me at the time.
And it's insanely myopic that software companies don't understand that stability and predictability is a feature you best not mess with when it comes to _tools_.