skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I see this wrt. Software Development all the time. There are Tons of Online Curses, Books and other self learning material but:

1. Completely self learned people are more often prone to develop some bad habits or worse have some subtil but fundamental misunderstandings which are hard to get out of them. (in my experience)

2. Often just a view month with proper guidance can have much better effects then a year+ of self study or "isolated" experience. The problem most times not the general ideas but the details, wrt. the situations for which there are no clear rules you can "just" apply. And often making a wrong decisions doesn't matter that much and sometimes fall under "programming style", but there are hundreds of such small decisions and making many somewhat suboptimal decisions can easily pill up and cause serious problems.

Best example is KISS (Keep it Stupid Simple). Seems easy right, but what does simple mean? Is less code more simple. Are less sanity checks or maybe less validation more simple (due to less additional complexity in them)? Is using less abstractions more simple, even if more abstraction allow you to have code which is harder to get wrong when writing/changing it, _assuming_ you got the abstraction right? Is it more simple to sometimes just repeat yourself, or should you keep strictly to DRY? Is it more simple to sometimes explicitly write out type which would be inferred anyway? What about kinda unnecessary temporary variables? What if it's like `var valid = ...; if valid { }`? What about splitting functions, is it more simple to have 2 pseudo independent sub-functions you will not reuse or one slightly to large function where everything is in the same place?

The answer is always: It depends on the exact situation.

There is no clear cut definition of simple. The best would probably be based on code readability.

But then is it more readable to have one large function body or to split it into sub-functions which are well named but to which you have to explicitly navigate to "fully" understand all details of that function?

Sure we do have guidelines and they allow you to generally get it right (well ok, if you use some good guidelines, there are many bad ones, too). But there is a limit on how much you can learn from them and the rest needs practice. But many problems only show if you do large projects by yourself _and care to maintain and reflect on them, and come to the right conclusion unbiased by the programming language induced bubble you are in_ which is super time consuming. (So guidance is important, but hardly done as many companies do not plan in any time for that at all).
I believe you, but I just wanted to read up about where serotonin receptors are expressed in the human body in what amount, but the Wikipedia page on serotonin receptors didn't write about it.

I'm not in the medical field, but try to keep up just a little bit to have some basic knowledge, but it's quite hard as often I see that Wikipedia is many years behind.

At the same time medical articles take a lot of time to read, as they are much less accessable.
What worked for me was quitting and starting working as a freelancer. I'm not sure there is a burnout scale but I'd say I was around 7/10 I felt quite miserable at work. I don't think I was fully depressed but I knew that if I didn't change anything then I'd have issues.

Before I quit I did one solid project on UpWork and had about 6 months of runway funds saved and I was very lucky that my girlfriend would support me if things went south. My plan was to quit, try to find more projects and worst case start job hunting after 6 months.

Things worked out really well, I'm approaching year 2 as a solo consultant and I'm loving my job. When I think of my burnout times I realized much later on how risky my approach was and in normal circumstances I wouldn't do it.

I would advise to only follow my approach if you have a solid plan or circumstances that make it a low risk. Remember that your well being is most important. If you can be happier in a job that pays less money then it might be worth it!
Very normal. I went to numerous different temples but mostly just the one nearest to my house.

I also had the Navjote ceremony after which one is "oficially" inducted into the religion. After that you can wear the Sedreh and Kusti after your daily shower.
Those workstations use server motherboards.
Close. About 1.4% for farming and under 13% for all other tangible goods.[1]

Take a close look at that table. It's really important.
Growth areas: Health care and social assistance, educational services, leisure and hospitality, and construction.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/employment-by-major-industry-...
Thanks for that. There is no open source SAS parser. There are commercial versions, but that is why I ask about a generalized approach, so as not to build a bespoke parser.

There are a couple of Python libraries for converting SAS datasets into dataframes which I plan to use.

Converting the existing program logic is the main challenge.
French is very much not a race, and France was very much forged in a melting pot, celts, romans, franks, vikings (the latter both germanic but not exactly the same) etc etc.
Yes, Harari's Sapiens also builds upon this premise.

> Imagine if the dictator then tells all his subjects - "whatever you have heard about me is untrue, it is just some haters hating".

I regularly read criticism being waved away with exactly that argument, for example by polticians. It is inherently an ad hominem. Calling someone a fanboy or hater and ignoring their argument in the process _is_ an ad hominem, too. Does not mean the entire argument is (in)valid though.
Have you seen his Green Arrays? Not sure what the best use case is, but primitive it ain't.
Ask HN: Who has the most leverage to affect climate change?
Whether it be governments, intergovernmental organisations, private companies, who is in the best position to make change?

Furthermore, who is _currently_ doing the most to reduce climate change?
I literally laughed out loud at this. Well done.
Is it not abundantly clear that a photon is just a photon? What else could it be?

> the perception of red is the chemical cascade starting with the stimulation of L-cones and ending with the firing of neurons in the visual cortex.

So this quote illustrates the gist of your thinking, but I think you've got some muddled terms. For you there is "red light" and "the perception of red". So for you:

"red light" is the photon &
"the perception of red" is the chemical cascade.

Whereas, I would break it down as follows:

"red light" is the photon as well - ie a photon with wavelength between 620-750nm (though I'd caution that despite calling this photon "red light", there is in fact no "red" associated with it - except that it can cause the perception of red if it hits and excites specific cone cells at back our eyes, but it is still just a photon, albiet with a specific energy level but the point is this photon has no quality "red")

Where we differ is I believe:

The chemical cascade is the chemical cascade &
"the perception of red" is "the perception of red"

So I think the real problem with your understanding of this is your confusing the chemical cascade caused by a 620-750nm photon to be "the perception of red".

In a sense, you are claiming that this chemical cascade is 2 things: 1: a chemical cascade and 2: the perception of red (i.e. the subjective sensation of looking at red); whereas, I would say the chemical cascade is just a chemical cascade... that's all it is, because of course chemicals can't be chemicals AND sense perceptions - that's the real incorrect leap of faith in your argument.

I believe it makes much more sense to consider sense perceptions to be a separate distinct phenomenon. You say that I have yet to present an observable phenomenon that is clearly in the mind, but just imagine a red triangle, boom there you have it - that red triangle only exists in the mind. Sure, in the brain there's electrochemical activity within the visual cortex, but you won't find a red triangle in there, because the red triangle is made up of fundamentally different material - i.e. the sense-perception of red in the shape of a triangle. Now, I have no idea what red actually is, except that I know it is a qualitatively different material than the brain and is fundamentally irreducible.

If you still disagree with this, tell me where is the red triangle? Because I think it's patently absurd to say the red triangle IS a chemical cascade in your brain. No, it's not. It's highly correlated with a chemical cascade in your brain, but it is an objectively distinct and separate entity/object; it's simply made of qualitatively different material than the brain. Ultimately, as I said before, I believe you're confusing 2 correlated processes/things for a single process/thing: the chemical cascade and the sense-perception.
Effectively rendering B and C incompatible in sharing D objects and structures. Just because you technically can doesn't make it a good thing in software architecture.

There is a reason why most globally linked runtimes (e.g. C++ or Java) do not encourage such mechanisms.
Show HN: DTail a distributed tool for tailing, grepping, catting remotely
I've always been curious about the general directory structure they use for this. Does anyone have insight?
There are design issues currently being worked on to minimize crevices and spaces where bacteria may remain (redesign) or avoid the issue completely (design and implement disposable endoscopic heads)
In times of security fixes sometimes there is only one secure version but the whole ecosystem is built around the fact that older, flawed version can still be included. Another drawback is performance, npm install is amazingly slow. In fact package resolution is NP-complete: https://research.swtch.com/version-sat

I generally agree but the problem is even worse :)
That’s crazy. They weren’t haters.

In both cases there were career incentives that drove each to pursuing their targets. At no point did either say to themselves, I hate this fraud because why good on him/her and not me? They thought, I’m going to bust this crooks ass because this is a true injustice that should be exposed, and I’m going to be the one who benefits from doing it.

There’s a big difference between cheating and succeeding (that’s what I think haters don’t want to believe), and in some cases like the two you mention, it wasn’t just perceptual. There was hard evidence of fraud.
All ARM Servers need to be SBBR compliant. Which means UEFI+ACPI so each Linux distro just boots and works.

SBC market is completely different thing. But that blog post was not about them.
What is required is an optional "No" element.
Then you can say, I have a "No" Problem, and people will think you're joking and remain on their happy path.
The way it's worked for me is more like:

1. Buyer approaches seller for strategic reasons.

2. Seller tries frantically to probe interest elsewhere while early acquisition discussions continue.

3. Buyer writes a LOI, seller demands reverse break-up fee and changes, tries to stall to continue discussions in #2 without scaring away buyer.

4. Eventually some LOI gets signed.
So it uses memory mapped files for all operations? So whether the file is 1 MB or 1 TB, it'll read what it can via streaming? Sorry, not knowledgeable here. Sounds neat though.
Why podman is more secured than Docker – DevSecOps
Cisco uses a monorepo approach for IOS-XR. All platforms exist within the same repo, but the build system picks up only what’s needed to build the required platform’s image.

Of course, the scale is much lower, since it’s a really a single OS.
Why? One does pay more for a metro ticket in area 9 compared to area 3. And metros are usually as subsidised as it gets. Also the cost/rent of an apartment in area 9 is less than one in area 3.
I mostly dislike the general bugginess, the need to use plugins of varying quality in all your tools, the centralized design and/or poor dvcs support, and the strange feature dead zones you get. As far as I can tell (and I opened a ticket but maybe I pulled a bad support tech) it's impossible to see what CLs were merged into a branch, only what still needs to be merged.

The general low quality of a lot of the Perforce tools has me scratching my head every day. How hard is it to make a log window that scrolls to the bottom? The p4proxy doesn't have a max size, you need to manually delete files on the machine to free space!?
Future – Life Is Good (Official Music Video) Ft. Drake
We went to Paris in a rainy November, took public transit exclusively and stayed in a building with an elevator that could fit one suitcase, by itself, and a shower about the same size. We saw some homelessness and scams.

And yet it was absolutely lovely. I could talk endlessly about the people, the sites, the food (and hardly just French food) and the museums. I'm sort of dumbfounded at people who can't see that.

No one was rude to us, even outside of tourist areas, mostly just professional.

Of course it's not Disneyland. We had to learn language basics, checkout travel books and scour the internet. I think this gave us rational expectations.

Semi-related, I live in Portland, OR which has a similar climate, possibly similar civic challenges and interestingly, a similar fascination from Japan.

https://www.wweek.com/we-went-to-japan/

Oregon even uses Japanese style animation in ads, presumably because of that.

https://m.youtube.com/user/oregon
From t1spec.pdf:

"Postfix source code can be readily serialized into an executable format running on threaded code, a
well-known code generation method that can allow for a very small compiled code footprint"

What's that method?
I’ve had pretty decent success getting Linux to run directly on Chromebooks. Does this have anything in particular that makes it a better choice than a standard distribution?
Free Kindle Book on Python: “Data Science in Production”
The FBI Wants Apple to Unlock iPhones Again
It's literally the name of Amazon's Android fork for Fire tablets.
Except for the fact that the Bay Area has some of the worst air pollution in the country [1], and air pollution exposure is positively associated with loss of white matter [2].

So I would say maybe it's a wash?

1 - https://www.lung.org/our-initiatives/healthy-air/sota/city-r...

2 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132565/
Inasmuch as “Caveat Emptor” is the Latin to live by, physicians and hospitals are indeed responsible for making sure what they’ve just bought is safe and fit for purpose. Especially with HIPAA et al already breathing down their necks.

The big problem is that tech grifters, just like AltMed scamsters, are just way quicker and better at burying all their shit than surgeons and scientists are at digging it out again. And, to be fair, doctors do already have far more pressing things to be digging out: wood spales, fence railings, guinea worms, and so on. Hence the need to hire in [ostensible] specialists in the first place.

Still, be consoled that us countries with socialized heathcare are just as adept at Medical IT disasters as yours are. :/

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“A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on.” Of course, this was before we invented the networked computer.
From the article:

But in contrast to professional athletes in the traditional sports industry, League of Legends players are not considered employees. According to the 2019 Championship Series rules, gaming athletes are independent contractors and the Riot Games gamer contract does not define the employer/employee relationship.

Why wouldn't Riot Games move their HQ and not deal with the California law? I realize that companies that want the regional market (such as Uber and Lyft) wouldn't go, but if you don't have to maintain a presence in CA, why would you?
the fact is all the knowledge that a data scientist has should already be discoverable by any decent programmer. Basically college level statistics is required to be a data scientist. If your engineer cant handle that I hope they are more frontend than backend.

Data science does have particular algorithms and analysis graphs that are unique to the field but the underlying math is set theory and statistics.

"Data scientist" is a fancy title for "smart math guy". But math without application gets you no where. You need someone to put it into the machine.
SpaceX conducted a pressure test on a Starship dome tank at Boca Chica today
Note that the comments thread below the article addresses some of the natural objections to the novel results exhibited in the post.
Oh cool. Joshua Newman's print scifi dystopia short, "Feral", is coming true. https://glyphpress.com/talk/2014/feral
The conclusion of this post can be summarized as “haters gonna hate”.
The article is about Lambda School, for those who have not been following on Twitter.

if you’re a startup CEO and you spend a year relentlessly bragging about your startup publicly you invite scrutiny on yourself. You are practically begging others to ask questions you might not want asked.

His chief of staff literally insulted the intelligence of anyone who dared suggest Lambda School was worth less than $100B https://web.archive.org/web/20190921045339/https://twitter.c...
Agree with the premise of the article. Haters and fanboys alike all end up wearing themselves out anyway.
I think this is an argument for the "we live in a simulator" idea - details appear just when they are needed and whenever we think we completely discovered something, another layer of details opens beneath us.
Front channels, back channels. Trump has a show for the spectators, and the real deals are brokered behind closed doors.
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Apple is (perhaps?) the only smartphone maker that doesn’t advertise RAM capacity or CPU clock frequency — measures that didn’t really mean much in the PC era (except to confuse and confound consumers) and didn’t matter in the smartphone era. If your hardware and software are integrated well and optimized, you don’t need a lot of RAM (as seen in real world responsiveness and performance of Apple devices with half or one third the RAM that some Android devices have). Taking a wild guess, at the current rate of change, it will be two years before many new Android phones have 16GB RAM, and at least four years before the new flagship iPhones have that much. Heck, even most laptops sold today are not yet at “16GB is the base RAM” level and start at 4GB (or worse).
Extra PCIe x1 slot on mainboard would be fine instead of on-board audio.
Calling you hater based on this post is just using the argument of the article to make a point. That's like saying: "this statement is true" and anyone who disagrees with that, is a <fill in>.

Is a hater akin to a criticaster? Like a critic without substance? And a fanboy a fan without substance? Then the burden of proof to prove a lack of substance is with the person who starts to use the word "fanboy" or "hater". As such definitions are essentially ad hominem (and no, you being attacked personally does not warranty an equal ad hominem).
You take each symbol in sequence and append a reference to the compilation output. It's super easy and it results in a very small code footprint (it can often be smaller than compiled C for equivalent code).
Fair point. But I think that a lot of the support for the "we live in a simulation" idea is because we see ourselves able to produce better and better simulations, and it feels like we might be able to progress to the point where we can do it. Realizing how much detail there is makes it feel much less achievable.

I use the word "feel" for a reason. I think we're dealing with emotional reasonableness, not careful analysis.
Man builds RC drone out of Lego (+flight controller)
I think a portion of haters are post-fanboys.
That is, at some time there was an experience where the fanboy could no longer deal internally with failures of their obsession, they flipped and gone hater.

Sort of like borderline painting black and white.
Pijul: a distributed version control system, written in Rust (2019)
Japan is a fairly ethnically and culturally homogeneous country. It is natural that they would expect Parisians to look and behave a certain way. When they don't, it is of course a big negative to many visitors - they come to Paris expecting a certain look and feel, a certain atmosphere and culture, but they are getting something else.

You do not need to be from Japan to feel that way when visiting Paris either. And I do not see anything wrong with pointing that out.
My dad discovered they drive nicer, too.
As someone who had worked on cloud gaming for a few years, I think using Linux is the right thing to do.

We used windows, and it was a disaster. Windows is not a multi-user system. User isolation is so difficult. Without user isolation, user A can access user B's data or login information, and it's difficult to clean up a seat's state without a slow reboot. We did lots of ugly hacks to make it work, as the OS is not open-sourced. Also, existing windows games don't support multi-users, the same CD key can only be used by one user. All these issues made virtual machine sharing difficult and hence resulted in very high cost.

The one thing done right by google is moving to linux and developing games specifically for cloud.
>>the poster didn't claim to be an American

they claim to live in the state of California, and are concerned about voting so that would imply they are at minimum a Naturalized Citizen of the US...

>> there are lots of different opinions on what things are important to spend time on

True, however they are the one acting shocked about a new law being passed, if they do not believe new laws in their state is something important to spend time on, they should then not be shocked when a law passes they were no aware of.
My Python code ultimately runs on a circuit, but it feels lacking to say that my program is the circuitry. The program itself only has meaning inside of my mind, and in fact could exist equally well on paper. It exists conceptually even if it never manifests physically. So where do concepts like this exist, given that they don't exist as matter? What do we mean when we say that something like 1+1=2 is true - that that truth exists - and would exist even if there wasn't any matter to have 1 and 1 of?

The more you look at it, the more it looks like truths and ideas are even realer than the material world. After all, the only thing we know of the material world is what we experience of it in our mind. That was Plato's point, that the material world is a shadow of the real, immaterial world of thoughts, ideas, and truths.

Similar argument patterns permeate most ancient philosophies. The meme is that mind is the ultimate reality, of which the materialistic worldview is a surprisingly fragile inverse.
This looks to me like WeWork on a smaller scale. There is nothing innovative about borrowing money in a central bank facilitated bubble.
Hipgnosis is a beautiful portmanteau.
AArch64 servers tend to have 10G (or faster) SFP+ ports rather than 1GbE.