skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would recommend join Toastmasters.

Toastmasters has apparently helped a lot of people develop their public speaking skills. Their meetings also have impromptu questions, which help members develop fast thinking before responding.

I joined them recently. So far I am really enjoying their meetings.

EDIT: I see a few more people have recommended Toastmasters. I will expand a bit and say that Toastmasters should be first step. Reading books, meditation, working out etc are all good options but they help you with public speaking/shyness indirectly. But Toastmasters will help you with public speaking immediately.

It is free to attend their meetings as guest for as long as you like. You can try different clubs until you find one that you really enjoy.

After a while, you will get to know your club's members and it will get easy for you speak in front of them. But then you can join local competitions where several local Toastmaster clubs compete together. So you get to speak in front of larger and different audience and continue improving your public speaking skills.
With Lyrics I get distracted, with music it helps me.
The issue with that, I've found, is that you do actually have to read the code. I do JS professionally, and you can definitely tell some of what's going on just from the shape of the code, but I've found Clojure doesn't do that. That said, after a couple minutes looking at something, it's usually clear.
Do they swap it with a cheap model or just take it and run?
I’ve always wondered why the military hasn’t created massive airship aircraft carriers using a collection of small bladder cells each isolated from the other, inside of a heavily armored hull.

Such a platform could remain stationed above a battlefield, above the range of small arms fire, and if properly constructed, even tolerant of multiple SAM hits.
Debugging Assembly with GDB
Are Prometheus and Thanos developers against fair competition?
Hi all.

I'm the core developer of VictoriaMetrics - open source time series database, which can be used as remote storage for Prometheus monitoring system. It implements opinionated query language, which is backwards compatible with PromQL from Prometheus. Is it called Extended PromQL [1]. It slightly derives from the original PromQL in controversial cases [2]. Additionally it implements user-friendly functionality on top of PromQL:

* `WITH templates` (aka `CTE expressions`) [3].

* User-friendly simplifications such as `rate(q)` as a shorthand to `rate(q[$__interval])`.

* Additional functions and operators aimed towards solving practical issues, which cannot be solved with the original PromQL.

VictoriaMetrics constantly evolves and sometimes implements Prometheus feature requests. For instance, recently it gained the ability to show the lower and upper bounds of the estimation returned by `histogram_quantile()` [4]. I mentioned about this in the original feature request, so users could find the solution. This led to the post from Prometheus devs [5], where they:

* Blame VictoriaMetrics for pointing Prometheus and Thanos users to solutions for their issues in public channels.

* Say that VictoriaMetrics cannot use `PromQL` word in the documentation, since it is registered trademark. Why anybody didn't patent SQL yet?

To me this looks like a case for unfair competition. What do you think about this situation?

[1] https://github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki/ExtendedPromQL

[2] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/3746

[3] https://victoriametrics.com/promql/expand-with-exprs

[4] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/5706

[5] https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/5706#issuecomment-564532929
I work to live, not live to work. Jobs change and move offices around, but my heart is with the places where my family and memories and good scenery is.

I'm glad that remote work is an option today and I can choose to live where I want.

One day, hopefully, it'll be out of town and I have my own quiet little garden, with apple trees.
> What kind of structure would you build in the wild, if you'd never seen a house, or hut, or lean-to?

For an instructive example-- a crow's nest of sticks, leaves, etc. Especially if that human comes up happens to come upon a crow's nest in the wild. Notice that the human can probably scale that design to fit their own larger stature.

Now imagine a crow coming upon a little 1x1 dugout crawdad battle arena, or a little lattice-structure of sticks that encloses a caddisfly larva collection of a 9 year old. If you saw a crow observe and then build that you'd have quite a research paper on your hands.

But we're probably going to get stuck in physical differences so let's change the subject and just give both animals a stick.

One of them uses it to extract a morsel of food from a hard to reach area.

The other uses it to mark time according to either the moon cycle or possibly something else that lasts that long. I.e., this animal has created a calendar.

Using historical evidence please tell me which animal performed which feat?

The thing is-- I really do find the intelligence of crows fascinating! I just don't get the desire to pair that with the "human's aren't such hot shit" trope.
A lot of it is fiction, so I would assume it is for enjoyment. No need to remember all of it.
no, GP is correct. only in the tiniest 2-3 man lots does the salesperson also set the price.
Only thing I can really listen to is drone or ambient. Mostly stuff from cryo chamber that is on the dark side of ambient/score type music. Classical and electronic music has a lot of nuances that draw me away from it.
>> guests will most likely attempt to take the mattress at night when the reception desk isn’t open.

But even then, how the heck do they lug a mattress out?
What makes us think that they aren't smarter than primates?
Exactly that one, yes. Well, I can't view that URL from here, but that integer is in the MP3's filename. Case closed! There's a lady's / small persons's voice admonishing someone for make noise with what sounds like a screen door part way through. It's not in English that I can tell. Do let me know if you understand what they say. I'm assuming it's just "shut up, recording!"
One problem with that line of thought is that law is so complex that just about anybody could easily be tripped up by an agent educated on the nuances of the law. While most agents are honest, truth-seeking individuals, clearly some harbor political bias and/or are being used for ideological ends.
“Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime” - Lavrentiy Beria, Chief of Police under Stalin

A system that is highly secretive and whose only accountability is to pretend to investigate itself inevitably will be abused more than an open one with transparent checks and balances. One has only to see that FISA has only turned down 85 out of 40k requests to understand this is a rubber-stamp process. (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...)
It’s because of your music education that you become an active listener and can’t use the music as just noise.
Currently listening to this great Piano Chill playlist [1]

https://music.apple.com/de/playlist/piano-chill/pl.cb4d1c09a...
> Remote work involves a hell of a lot of flying in my experience.

I don't think that 's true in general though. Is that even remote work? There are now hundreds of companies who only meet for yearly retreats. and these are optional.
Isn't this how things work in dynamic languages like Python?
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I can't listen to lyrics because I find it hard to a) parse them at the speed they come out, and b) hearing them through the distortion of them being sung. I also get distracted very quickly. I do not know most of the words to my favorite songs.
Glean into any app internals with powerful APIs
In Argentina we have the other problem: the right media accuses Wikipedia to be hijacked by leftists or peronists, because they don't like that biographies of genocides of our last dictatorship and their civil accomplices (now in politics) being exposed. The Right is the problem of our modern world.
Have you considered that self-assembling nanotech might be much, much harder than it seems? Or do you know something we don't?
I don't think the expression "wild untrained human" even makes sense. There haven't been any wild untrained human ancestor since a long time before humans appeared.

Also, most smart animals have persistent knowledge that they pass from one generation to the other.

We are just smarter than those other animals. Tens of thousands of years ago, humans were already a force not to be messed with. Hell, a million years ago our ancestors were already on the business of extinguishing their predators.
I’m guessing music transmits a lot more “information” to you than the average person. It’s hard to have something you love as a background.

I love scuba diving. If there was a monitor with rotating images of underwater scenes, I wouldn’t just think it was pretty. I’d be glued to it figuring out where they took the shot, wondering how deep they were and wishing I was there. I’m guessing something similar happens with you and music.
Ukraine really was about 2016 not 2020.
Potato potahto. When I need to GSD it's thrash metal (Slayer, etc) or RATM.
Paul Kalkbrenner is great! I met him in Toronto in a show and shook hands. Super down to earth guy. It's funny that I ended up living in Germany — he's from Berlin :)
Begich Towers
Perhaps because information was leaked that Konami was planning on removing his name entirely from the game; fans revolted, so they put it back - in excess. The excess part is my hypothesis.
Agreed - there are companies that specialize in ad-hoc towers to provide service. Example: Mobilitie in Chicago. Very important piece of mobile data infrastructure, but a rogue tower is still a real security risk.
There are no tax brackets in Czechia. Tax is flat 17% + social and health insurance. That wage is now completely ordinary for average senior developer.

Things in Prague indeed did change dramatically in the past 10 years, especially during the last 5, the Prague IT market grew several tens of percent a year during that time. Right now Czechia has the lowest unemployment rate in Europe, and looking for a good developer indeed is very desperate (I am responsible for hiring from my position - which I hate to do, because it's nearly impossible).

Culturally, I think you should try Prague for a month or two again. The city did change a lot, including a large influx of new people (several hundreds of thousands in the past 10 years have immigrated into Prague).

I remember Prague of 10 years ago (I was born in a smaller city in Czechia) and it was a place I did not like. Today's Prague is awesome.
What are some must read books for people in their 20s?
Service elevators are on every floor, so:

Service elevator > service dock > load the truck > go
Yes, it isn't heterodox, just not inline with Paul's model of eldership.

FWIW the whole notion of priests (but not paid workers), seems flatly contradictory to Christ's "tearing of the veil".
You're not the only person; it's why I absolutely despise open offices. I have trouble getting things done with people talking, and "just putting on headphones" doesn't really work because I have trouble focusing on anything but the music.

The closest thing I'll do to address my particular problem is find audio of stuff like thunderstorms or waterfalls and more ambient stuff. Personally, I find that much easier to tune out.
> What about the elderly and the poor?

If it's on income, wouldn't this group always be approaching 100%?
did you check the trackmania series?
This is really awesome! How difficult would it be to extend it to generate other languages (e.g. Java, Kotlin, Node/typescript... )?

If the effort isn't massive I would be up for helping out with that, as that would enable me to use it in a couple of systems.
How EU and US Consumers' Data Is Treated by Amazon, Netflix and Spotify
"Once a day, ask 5 people for a funny cat photo; send the results to 5 more people to be rated; send the top-rated photo to 5 people for a funny caption; send to 5 final people to rate for funniest caption; finally, post the best captioned photo on my blog."

I'm still laughing :) wth! (My fear is that this might actually be sustainable with ads.)
If you take Kojima games at surface value, then yeah, nothing makes sense and he seems insane. Even the most die-hard fans will admit the plot of the Metal Gear games was incomprehensible batshit. If you look at his games the same way you would an art film that is obsessed with understanding why the modern world feels so inhuman, they start making a lot more sense.

He's basically showing us what impressionism / magical realism looks like dressed up as a AAA video game. He focuses on themes and emotion rather than then who/what/why of the story. His games are subversive as fuck; Death Stranding is a game about how the modern world has isolated us from other people, and the only way out of that grey and black world is by reconnecting with individuals. By doing so, you can literally carry more weight -- the "weight" you have to carry around and balance is literally a stand-in for emotional weight. The more people you connect to, the more you can withstand. Every funky random mechanic that seems random in his games is a metaphor for something.
We all know exactly what they do. I don't care what the OP does specifically, they are collaborating in building something that makes the world worse for all of us.

> there is ABSOLUTELY a place in this world for advertising on the internet

I have no idea what this means. What I do know is that adtech turns everything it touches into shit.
It's amazing how many places you can go with a polo shirt or high visibility best and a contractor's clipboard.
The funny part is that mic-ing a room is a solved problem. It just doesn't look invisible enough for "enterprise" deployments.
Compared to traditional banking real-estate, employees, physical operations and security ... yes.
Elon has explicitly stated in interviews that one of the benefits of the design is that here on earth, it means they can be carbon neutral. I'm just relaying what he's publicly stated already. Yes, Mars ISRU is a HUGE benefit of this design, but it also means they can make their own fuel here on Earth with nothing more than some big machinery and solar panels.

I believe his exact quote was:

"""
Sometimes I get criticism for, ‘why are you using combustion in rockets and you have electric cars’. There isn’t some way to make an electric rocket. I wish there was. But in the long-term, you can use solar power to extract CO2 from the atmosphere, combine it with water, and produce fuel and oxygen for the rocket.
"""
This is great, nice job. I tend to like Dark Ambient for programming. Espeically Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross (Social Network soundtrack) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yydZbVoCbn0&t=1016s
You're not the only one. I'm this way too. However, I can listen to music while doing system admin stuff but for anything else I need absolute silence.
Yeah, because that's a solution that will work for everyone. The majority of people do not have that option. Saying "Just move closer" is reductionist bullshit.
Crows also have vocal chords capable of producing human language, and - similar to parrots - they can learn human phrases in the right conditions.

My partner used to volunteer at the local Wildcare and they had an injured crow resident that they couldn't release named Da Vinci. Da Vinci would always greet visitors with "Hello! How are you? How are you?"
This change by Google is about blocking bots and automation, as their error message makes clear.

All the big service providers have a large problem with botnets logging in to accounts with stolen credentials, or with fake spam accounts they created themselves. They do this with automation and so detecting automation is a good way to detect and stop them without major inconvenience to users (who generally don't automate their own Google accounts).

The nature of this technique means their servers can't tell the difference between a niche browser and a dedicated abuse tool. If a tool claims to be Chrome and gets spotted because it's not, the obvious fallback is to just make up new user agents that are rare or unusual. Sure, the traffic is very visible to humans who may be watching post-hoc, but a UA is just a string so it can be constantly changed. Blocking bad traffic means adapting to changes in it automatically and quickly. So eventually this pushes companies towards just locking out browsers nobody uses because it's too hard to tell them apart from malicious automation software.

That's unfortunate: it makes it harder for someone to get traction with a genuinely new rendering engine. But those cost billions of dollars to develop these days and even Microsoft doesn't want to play that game anymore, so it's a rather theoretical loss compared to the gains, which are large and real.

Source: I used to work on this stuff.
That website brought me ambient music. I listen to that style about everytime I have to think deeply. It became like a ritual.
> When someone does figure out the pattern, they waste a couple minutes moving their mouse very slowly across every square inch of the screen in search of more.

Ableton Live (a DAW) has an interesting solution for this: There are no tool-tips at all. Instead, you can open an 'info' box in the corner of the window/screen that instantly shows a quick explainer and relevant keyboard shortcuts for the control you're currently pointing at (and its name), without obscuring anything.

It's not perfect (e.g. there's no way to hyperlink to more information in the on-line help), but on top of being easily discoverable and put-away-able, it can do another nifty thing: For controls that are user-configurable, the 'info' text is user-editable as well. It's like source code comments, but for the GUI. E.g. instead of "Macro 3", you can have: "Glitches the wubs. Don't forget to wax the sidechain!"
The constant credits in MGS V are a sort of joke / reaction to the disastrous relationship he had with the studio. They threatened to take his name off the box, so he made sure his name was all over the game.
Physical access is easier to get than remote access when you have a baton and the intelligence of a cop.
If you know everyone well, sure. But often videoconferencing in larger institutions involves at least some strangers.
Are you suggesting that we should move whenever we have a new job? What about people with partners who are also working?
6 interview questions to crack company culture as a remote developers
That was my thought, but I’m guessing the housekeeping staff would notice that pretty easily when they swapped the sheets. They see hundreds of that hotel’s usual mattresses per day.
Thank you for the advice. I'm trying two now: Ubuntu for my daily driver, Emacs (with spacemacs to simplify config for now) for most writing.

I bought an rpi, but could never figure out something to do with it. Any suggestions?

My feeling with languages is that they may go in cycles but it'd be useful to learn either something with a completely different conceptual model (Lisp) or requiring me to understand pointers. But I'd been thinking about trying to lean Unix instead lately.

I feel like I'm pointing a flashlight around a cave with Linux systems. Any advise for some systemic learning? My cs curriculum won't cover anything that applied.
I mainly see a computer like this useful for things like this https://veertu.com/. That said, although it has nice specs, I do agree that it seems over priced (400$ for caster wheels as an example).
IIRC its his way to protest having his name removed from the boxart by Konami.
So... is anyone actually surprised by this?
They can suffer orthogonally, but when it comes to realtime, how much bandwidth you have compared to the data you want to carry absolutely matters for the latency you'll see.

If a 10K "hello" voice sample (that takes 2 secs to be spoken) needs to pass through a 1Kbps bandwidth line, then it would have lotsa latency.

In any case, we stream 4K movies with not much buffering (as evident by the ease of skipping ahead at random points). One would expect better audio latency based on that.

And we also stream 4K video games as video streams (or Google claims so).
DPhone: Shielding you from data phishing; securely connecting the world
I guess the actual transportation isn't the problem. But why doesn't a 5 star hotel have even one guard on duty in the areas that could serve as exit for freight (presumably the reception area / front entrance since the reception is mentioned as not having service at night)?

If one can walk out with something as big as a mattress then they can walk out with anything that fits through the door. It's a bit ridiculous that they imply anything in the hotel could just be taken at night with little to no effort, other than actually carrying the thing.
Oh no, it is extremely complex. However, every step along the path towards it provides benefits and, slowly but surely, researchers are moving forward. I think the field just needs more funding and more scientists dedicated towards it.
I've worked with applied math PDE people and they use supercomputers to full effect. Granted it's a real pain and your cross connect bandwidth matters (hence supercomputer), but you can scale up pretty well.
Uber: How to Use Famous Economists to Spread Corporate Narratives
Wow. I had no idea it was this bad. And you didn’t even touch the hazards of actual driving for 8 hrs a day, often on tricky mountain passes, with heavy snow
> If you're in or adjacent to academe, you'll have to travel to conferences.

I really think we should be working to change this - conferences are huge wastes of resources IMHO. I usually see a handful of inspiring talks, which could just as easily have been delivered as webinars (which would also allow asynchronous viewing, involving a wider potential audience).

Then again, I'm antisocial and terrible at "networking", so those aspects of conferences don't really appeal to me.
I see you've bought into the "Death Stranding is bad actually" mindset. Hope you take pleasure in that. Meanwhile, in reality, it has high ratings from critics and decent ratings from users. And you can find lots of anecdotes from happy people playing the game. I enjoyed the gameplay quite a bit myself, although the clumsy story telling fell short for me.
> I have a pretty good idea of what it's recording.

Like an 8 year old girl?[0]

Yeah, it's a Ring doorbell camera thingy, but Ring has been an Amazon product for just shy of two years now. Sure we can blame the mother for setting it up 'wrong', or for using an old password, or some other very common problem that <99% of all user will have. But creeps have shown that it's not just straightforward, but easy, to get into these devices.

It's better to just not have them in the first place.

[0] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/man-hacks-ring-camera-8...
I assume they just put it in their suitcase when they leave? At least here they don't check the room until you're gone. People stealing sheets and towels is a classic.
Bigger servers just get divided up into more VMs. As long as it's cost effective to scale vertically, it will continue to happen at the cloud platform level.
I'm a pianist with an active performing schedule and I'm the same way. I'll listen to music at work if I have relatively mindless tasks to get out of the way, but when it comes to actual coding or anything requiring careful thought, forget it. All music ends up being distracting, either because I really enjoy it or because I find it really annoying.

I'd be curious to know if there are any serious musicians here who can concentrate on writing code or any other similarly mentally-intensive task while listening to music.
Isn't obstruction of justice only for a judicial proceeding? It wouldn't seem to cover so many of the other cases.
No, many aspects are not captured by a picture. E.g. borders.