skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tolerance does (empirically) not develop for ritalin/amphetamine used at appropriate dosages for ADHD, nor do users incur "sleep debt" or anything similar.

This model of people "crashing after a few weeks" and similar are mostly driven by people's idea of how a just world should operate, not by actual data--as your use of the morality-laden phrase "catch up" nicely demonstrates. While some drugs exhibit such behaviour (L-DOPA, caffeine), far more do not (insulin, Aspirin). Some even become more potent with regular use (glucocorticoids, unfortunately).

Many are somewhere in-between. Alcohol is a pretty good example to calibrate your intuitions: it's probably at the "yes tolerance!" end of the scale. If you have ever gone to college you will have noticed your alcohol sensitivity decreasing. But this effect has an even more noticeable plateau, and it's a far cry from no longer being able to get drunk.

The ADHD reaction to amphetamines is somewhat atypical anyway: it does not produce agitation as it does for "normal" people or at higher doses, but rather calmness/zen/serenity. IIRC sleep duration and quality tend to increase, for example.

Even amphetamine abuse is unlikely to actually kill you[0], nor will you accumulate <negative mojo x>. Just look at the average life expectancy on Wall Street. It does, however, significant alter behaviour: it provokes a certain OCD-like enjoyment of stressful but repetitive work (fighter pilot, stockbroker, Elton John) while somewhat ruining your ability to function socially or cope with varied tasks.

[0]: Speed will kill you the first or second time you take if you are unlucky enough to have a pre-existing heart condition. Cocaine will kill you with constant probability over time.
It's good to reference RFC 2119 and using the language there.

But other than that, it seems like a terrible response to the question asked, missing the point of the original question by at least 80%. Or phrased another way, it sounds like somebody's trying to push for RFC 2119 and sacrifices giving good answers to questions.
Selling Keynesianism
"Thank the Lord /
That we have got /
The Gatling Gun /
And they have not"
There was a decent podcast on this about a month back, on Bloomberg "Odd Lots": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-11/this-is-w...
> This find xargs mawk pipeline gets us down to a runtime of about 12 seconds, or about 270MB/sec, which is around 235 times faster than the Hadoop implementation.

https://adamdrake.com/command-line-tools-can-be-235x-faster-...
Women used to not eat bread? Potatoes? For centuries?
It's wild how much faster iterrows and itertuples are. I wish I'd known a year ago.

This is one of those cases that really isn't just pedantic, "pythonic", nagging. It matters.
Looks very interesting. In the README it says:

> The text mentions connection type phpmyadmin, but it doesn't actually work. Don't use it.

Will phpmyadmin support work in future? My use case is making backups of a DB where I don't have SSH access but do have a phpmyadmin account.
If one pumps iron, then one gets big and strong. What is the if-then for ego depletion? This entire fuzzy informal idea of common-sense causality is what is being wagered by these flimsy psychological concepts.
It's pretty new, so not historical, but I'm interested to see how the Magnitsky Act could be applied in situations like this. It targets the wealthy ruling classes by seizing the assets they keep abroad. I'm not sure if it would be more effective, but at least the pain is felt by those in charge and not the general populace.
It is, but a vast swath of useful stuff on reddit is related to images. That crowd will still need to go somewhere. Whatever replaces reddit will need to allow image links as well as text posts and content links if it wants to get serious usage like reddit.

Tild.es is okay but it has very few users. Because reddit has so many users I can find good discusion on just about any topic that I'm currently looking into, etc.
You can't in Google ads that's correct. There are plenty of 3rd party analytics services though that will get you that info once someone has clicked to your page. The integrity of that data though is up for debate and often times inaccurate. So basically, yes, but not really and Google ads isn't the one doing it.
Agent Based Modelling, an approach for modelling complex systems - The most popular open source tech is Java based NetLogo. Here is the web version, hit setup and then run to see an example simulation of ants collecting food - http://netlogoweb.org/launch#http://netlogoweb.org/assets/mo...
Man, why so cynical? I don't see how those Infocom games spoiled you since they were limited to whatever a team of writers could come up with. And a well-written, dynamical-feeling CRPG is so rare that we still trumpet the handful that were any good from 20 years ago like Planescape: Torment.

Here's an example of how this game is fun: https://twitter.com/ptychomancer/status/1203246078989987840

It's just fun to play with.

> you can see contractions and lack of flow that good human author would never make.

That doesn't seem like a sensible goal post. Unless you think the technology is magic, why would you go into this thinking it's going to compete with a master-planned work of fiction by a human writer?

I, on the other hand, am inspired by the game. Imagine Crusader Kings 2 (free on Steam btw) where the events are randomly generated by this kind of story-telling technology. Right now it's kind of boring wondering which of the finite human-written events are going to show up. After playing for a while you go from wondering what crazy event will happen next to knowing all of the events and waiting for your favorite ones to show up.

We're a ways off from embedding a game in this technology, but I think we are within reach of embedding this technology inside a narrative-driven game.

Another example is Dungeons & Dragons. The fun is the sandbox and interacting with the narrative even though the human-driven dynamic storyline is often complete nonsense if you were to read a transcription of what actually happened.

This is the second comment I've read so far that seems to gleefully pat itself on the back for wondering how someone could enjoy something else.
This is interesting. I'll keep this in mind for the future.
The meaning is as if "not" modified "run", but syntactically "not" is attached to "must", I think. You can probably convince yourself of that by considering a sentence such as: they can yet must not run. So you are absolutely right to be confused by such sentences. There is something weird going on.
I've used call rail before. They don't IIRC. I believe he's using the IP (from Google?) since he says "Yet Callrail still withholds your IP address (exact location) from us.". So it seems he's taking 1) Your IP, 2) Your Phone Number and 3) matching your phone number to your name (I don't think call rail does this natively, unless you have a CRM).

I'm not a Call Rail expert, but couldn't you do this with a pixel or alternative measure? Like really you're baiting them into calling you, then layering on the IP of their device to triangulate where they likely are.
Who never once got anyone to build a ship or anything else
Update: the issue has been fixed, apparently:

"Should note for anyone who comes and sees this that's no longer how were hosting the model. :) Model is now hosted on a peer to peer torrent network so no more costs for us."

https://twitter.com/nickwalton00/status/1204064712394076160
please don't strawman. I never said rags-to-riches. I said upper middle class (25th percentile). Elite universities take great students from upper middle class, and many of those billionaires did not graduate from elite universities.
Take a look at Ninja and Bazel. I ahree with you that CMake is worse than autoconf but I would argue that the tools which came after CMake are better than CMake and autoconf. So while there certainly are regressions not every new generation is worse than the previous.
"This data includes the words clickers type, but also their web browsing history, where they work, the size of the company they work for, whether they rent or own a home, whether they’re married or single, whether they have kids, how old their kids are, the apps they use, whether they’ve recently gone through a “major life event,” whether they drive a Chevy (or prefer Ford), any degrees they hold, whether or not they graduated high school, and more."

I would love to know what google knows about me. Is there a way to find out?
I have seen this many times, generally the high profile containers do that, and these issues are more common among my peers. This requires self discipline and containers were pushed as a panacea for environments where the discipline is lacking.
EQL is surely a great alternative to Graphql because of namespaced keywords and rich data structure (in contrast of Graphql's string base). It is also inspired by Datomic's Pull API. However, it's a specification and the most popular imlementation (Pathom) has nothing to do with Datalog.
Strongly agree. For many people, it's just a job. Clear direction is a must. However it need not exclude narrative story telling. A leader needs to adapt their style of leadership to the people they lead and the situation they are in.
Anonymous messages from founders and VCs about the Away culture controversy
The difference being that C++ developers have around 6 years time to get acquainted with each version.

The 3 years for each ISO revision, plus around three until the standard is actually usable in a portable way.

My old dusty non-maintained MFC applications still compile on latest Visual Studio.
>how do you ensure that a build is reproducible if you have no control on which required dependencies are downloaded by a build system which requires root access?

By having control over which required dependencies are downloaded. As Nix does. Why would you settle for not solving that problem?

Sorry to hear you don't think my comment adds to the discussion, but I'd disagree
The mechanic doesn't want to re-engineer anything, they want to make money. It's quite a bit less tinkering for an A&P to drop in a new engine than it is to replace an interior part that may require tearing part of the engine down. Even a $300 part would pretty quickly become a high 4-figure bill if you're paying a mechanic or two $150+/hr to tear down your engine to replace it, then rebuild it, then test fly it.
where on earth does he get the figure that there are only 101k (32% growth = 35500 new jobs) cybersecurity jobs? in US federal space if you want any upward mobility you need to know as much if not more than your CISSO about infosec and hold certs or degrees. Red team Blue team type jobs may be few and far between but the tenets of the field are going being upstreamed to all operations, development and even management jobs in all technology fields. I know electrical engineers working on ancient serial networks that are pen-testing and hardening industrial control and defense systems.
Man's DNA changes to that of his donor following leukemia bone marrow transplant
I think the main difference here is that it's way easier to get a CC charge than a debit charge. Anyone who happens to stumble upon your credit card information can try using it and cause a charge. If you want to cause debit charges you need to know a PIN number and physically have the card (since, afaik, chip&pin hasn't been cracked yet) or you need access to a second factor such as a TAN-code list.

Either system is a valid solution to the problem of fraudulent charges, both have their advantages and disadvantages.
"Whichever version you need" comes with the responsibility of providing security and bugfix upgrades in a timely fashion. Almost all developers fail spectacularly at this, with latencies in the order of months. This is clearly not viable.
>>Get-there-itis kills

In my opinion, this is one of the more important things to member.
In my life, it explains why I ran out of gas tying to get to a meeting and why I didn't backup $busy_executive Outlook PST file before doing a "repair".
There’s way more going on with RAII.

With RAII, you’re expressing ownership in code. That means that you have to write all the extra code to track that ownership in the type system or at runtime. Every time I want to write a class that manages a resource with RAII, I am almost always writing a copy constructor, move constructor, assignment operator, move assignment operator, and destructor.

On the other hand, if I write the equivalent code in Go or Nim, I can just add something like a Close() method. Because ownership isn’t expressed in code, there is a higher chance to make mistakes, but the code is simpler.
Even > 400 km and HSR has an edge if your destination has an HSR station but not an airport (like my wife’s hometown in southern Hunan).
Joe: Golang bot library inspired by Hubot
Innovation and the 2010s
> LegitScripts don't certify apps.

I wonder how long this will continue... because apps could definitely compliment other therapy in many innovative ways.
OK, I see - in theory, an attacker in control of the backend could write a handler that could craft a bash script that writes different content when `curl | bash` is used.

TBH, while I take your point, I do think it's a little disingenuous of you to claim that "You don't have the opportunity" to inspect the script prior to executing it - you ordinarily will, but can't in the unlikely event of an attack like the article describes, which would require an attacker to be in full control of the web server.

Off the top of my head, this could be mitigated in a couple of ways:

1. Hash a known-good script and check the hash matches prior to executing (this does however mean that you need to update the hash every time the remote script is changed)

2. Use curl to download the remote script to a local file first, and provide the opportunity to inspect it prior to piping it into bash
Mind explaining the origin of your 32 TB figure? I must be missing something enormous, but as far as I can tell the SciMag database dump is 9.3 GB, the LibGen non-fiction dump is 3.2 GB, and the LibGen fiction dump is 757 MB. That's a pretty huge divergence.

Source: http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/
You can use your CPU, certainly. It'll take a couple seconds per reply.
Changing the odds is the only way to increase your edge... but admittedly, that 'half the income' will become a very large fee, such that the odds you need to offset this would make it unlikely that someone would take the other side of your bet.
General Aviation is specifically excluded in every general life insurance policy.
Everyone should listen to this podcast. It is short and informative. I've learned a lot about the difference between fiscal and monetary policy.
Azerbaijan's secret to long life? Mountain air
He's been known for his penchant to take certain substances and hang out at Burning Man—and it certainly hasn't hampered his coffers or brainpower. Not to say it contributed anything, either.
Modern "affirmative action" is not about "equality of outcome" - that would be a silly and unsustainable model. Most of the efforts in that direction are about "ensure there are women and PoC at the interview" and "blind the interview", not about hiring people based on gender or race without consideration of their abilities.

To your particular example, see section 1.c and 1.g for research on the usefulness of their mandate. I personally feel that more research is necessary to understand these effects, I can even agree with someone saying that these efforts are a silly and unpractical bandaid. But instituting a rigid rule against measurable biases is not "equality of outcome", it is very much "equality of opportunity" (nobody would hire an incompetent woman as a board member if that is what worries you)
That definition doesn't seem right. The repo rate is just the rate paid on repurchase agreements, a type of risk free, short term loan where collateral is exchanged for cash, then exchanged back again. Central banks shouldn't be involved. The Fed is only involved now as an emergency provider of liquidity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repurchase_agreement?wprov=sfl...
I've spent some time looking into this as I was quite excited about the possibility of building one of these for the school where I work. It seems like an engaging project which would have benefit for the younger students, and could have all the content generated by older students, and make for some fun 3d printing projects as well.

I was a little surprised to find it is a closed EdTech commercial product and not open source. The whole thing feels more like a Hackaday project than a product offering. It is the kind of idea that when you look at it, you instantly get how it is built and can see how you could assemble one yourself given a week or so of time to tinker with a 3d printer, a Raspberry Pi, and another $10 to $20 of electronics, and make your own decisions over how much to focus on audio vs. putting a touchscreen on it as well. There just is not that much to it. And to have no real way of engaging other than as a big name museum they want to partner with, it is off-putting and discouraging -- this thing could have some real legs if it was open source. As it is now, it feels like they are artificially constraining the growth and application opportunities by holding the thing close to their vest. Good luck to them I guess, but it seems like a mismatch.

Yes, yes, "execution is everything" and ideas are a dime a dozen, and if it is so easy to build why haven't I made one yet? All good points.
But you can come to your own conclusions about virtually anything including conspiracy theories if you are relying on subjective observations and your own interpretations. You should be free to do so but it should come with a strong disclaimer so others don’t take it as truth. That’s the value of cited research. It lets you assume some credibility and objectivity in the claim.
Yes, that's why I originally added it. After a day of hacking I had it (mostly) working on one particular instance of phpmyadmin, but when I tried it on another one it completely broke. Not sure why that was, but since I didn't have the need myself anymore I stopped developing that part.
You're about 3 years too late, that train has left the station.
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I know Heroku is built on top of EC2 instances so there's a limit to how low their prices can go, but as EC2 prices go down, it doesn't seem like Heroku has changed their prices at all.

Heroku's lowest priced professional tier (Standard) is $25/mo for a $3.50/mo EC2 instance. I know they do a lot of value-add which is worth paying for but yeah, it's still crazy expensive. Elastic Beanstalk gives a comparable function for just the price of the EC2 instance itself.
Sounds like a defeatist mentality. What should I do then?
I'm looking for a contributor, but I also know people are flakey... Especially the group I hoped to work with (college students).

I intend to do my share, how do I ensure a contributor does theirs and not make my life hell if we decide to put ads on the page after they disappeared several months prior?
It is quite easy to encrypt a jabber or a similar server. My inner circle of friends still uses one. You can have transports to some other forms of social networks if you want to.

Compared to modern social networks thinks like IRC and private IM-Servers look like the future again. Yes, it is more exclusive most of the time, but just so much better.
For one, a database may receive a query such as "WHERE x >=10 AND x <=100". I.e. having an ordered index is useful for accessing ranges, whereas a hash lookup is always just for a single entry. The question then becomes - why are lookups in RAM more likely to be single lookups rather than ranges (and stats on ranges)? Partly at least because DBs provide a query language that make range based queries easy to do, and just because that's where most business data sits (most of it necessarily needs to be in a persistent store).
Not an expert but I've used it before. Think of it like gmail + VOIP put together. When you run an ad on google that incentizes a non-click action (i.e. call us!), to track that result, google randomly generates a phone number (I think) which then gets forwarded to your business.

So let's say your widget business is 123-123-1234. When Johnny searches widget, Google will show 123-532-4355 (to track your attribution) then forward that to your real line. What call rail does is insert itself in that path, and basically serve as an inbox and faciliate that. So you can have someone offshore listen to the phone calls (or some other technological method) and say..."hey did this person actually book an appointment?". And then you can track that conversion, and theoretical ROI.

I'm sort of misunderstanding the whole value prop of call rail, but this is no more nefarious than using a VOIP with call display and recording everything. If you can bait individuals (by paying Google Ads to place highly) to call you, then yeah, you can sort of figure out who they are right?

I think that's the jist of it, just really amped up to make it sound cool.
More likely to die due to being less risk averse?
This is fluff. Sure if you build a few multi families in 10% of lots it wont affect neighborhood characteristics much because you're only adding 10-20% more housing.

Its doubling and quadrupling (even 10x) the number of housing units that is really needed and that affects everything - more cars, more schoolkids, more water, more trash, more crowds.
What Is Distributed SQL? – Spanner, TiDB, Amazon Aurora
Some things every C programmer should know about C (2002)
Oh, wait. I'm dumb. I see that your first link is a citation.

Continuing to be dense, why is there a difference between their "database dump" and the total of all the files they have?
So be more constructive, I'd like to learn more about IBM Cloud as I have no experience with it. Is there a Lambda-like service, pay-by-use 'serverless' database hosting, and support for direct client-to-DB connections with RLS/ACLs?
Also, the log N constant is much smaller on disk than in memory, because the branching factor is really high.
Next stop: NT and XNU?
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Postal code can't isolate people. IP Address can be done at starbucks. Or for ++ security, using someone else's open wifi.
Really old school, but why not stick plain old cash in an envelope? Make sure that the envelope contents are not visible (eg, wrap the bills in plain paper), and mail the envelope to the charity. Put a fake return address if you want. Explain in the enclosed note that the return address is made up. Or use the name of someone real - they will get a surprise tax receipt.

Yes there is a slight risk that someone in the delivery chain will open the envelope and steal the money, but I suspect the chances of this happening (at least here in Canada) are slim, especially if the envelope is inconspicuous.

Cash is still the ultimate way to make anonymous transactions.
I believe we do. For example, the book "Why we sleep" goes into the health and performance costs of not enough sleep. And even one hour of lost sleep is already significant.
I really want to like this guy, but he seems to slightly misunderstand every topic he presents. In this case, the pulleys work by dividing the work, making a ratio. Same as increasing the length of the lever on one side of the fulcrum. Simple. Instead we get confused ramblings about rope pulling and other verbose half-understandings of tension mechanics. Nevermind the dubious value of including your children in your video, a simple scale would have been much more demonstrative. A few more hours of preperation before hitting record would make these videos much more useful for teaching. Instead we are just left with his enthusiasm and some hasty examples, and patronizing 'explaination' not even useful for most children.