skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not going to lie, his life story was written and presented with the precise goal in mind to make people feel this way. I stopped reading after half the article because I found it way too self-promotional.

So don't feel bad about your life just because someone on the internet pretends to have a more interesting one. Those people are usually just attention seekers and for some reason need the outside validation to feel good about their achievements. And remember that not needing that validation can be a strength too!
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I think it does work for developers. You also learn programming by doing it, rather than by thinking about it. Write 50 apps, and your 50th is bound to be better than if you start out trying to write the perfect app on your first try.
People take plenty of risks before the tail end of their life span now. Don’t see why that would change if we live a long time.
This is always an exciting question... You know, it's nice to daydream about all kinds of secret and mysterious projects. But I think another question is more about necessity, and I think necessity is what fuels a lot of politics around these kind of military projects. People pull towards both extremes and end up somewhere in the middle, which is maybe the mean of perceived necessity.

If the US is clever (NSA: this is your queue) it would find a way to use the current difficult political climate to focus on what they are supposed to do (I guess preventing war maybe) and in a relevant way for the times. The Russians basically did this with internet trolls. They took something simple (and amusing at times) and weaponised it.

I guess one would hope enough people that are both clever and uhm, ethical, work for the three-letter organisations.
I think that your post is a little bit too cynical. It is not like CD47 has disappeared, and many clinical trials are ongoing currently (15 trials currently recruiting), some with quite positive result (36% of complete response in heavily pretreated patients phase I study) (https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1807315). Other immunotherapies have saved many people something that you cannot dismiss.
On the other ends translation from research to an available treatment is a very long path, but we should be excited every time a treatment save a person that should have otherwise died.
As oppose to having some books free but riddled with vpn and pill commercial very 10 mins?

They need to make money somehow.
I'd use std::memset and have something that works without needing a benchmark to detect obscure template quirks.
The definition of "idiom" as per the google search is

"a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words (e.g. over the moon, see the light )."

The sentence "speak for yourself" has the meaning that is directly deduced from its words. How does it qualify as an idiom ?
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And notional atheists crusade for political positions with equal fervour. I think what he meant is that there's a probability distribution of religiosity among the populace, and the curves aren't too different within and without churches.
Its a substantially different article mostly about running on Windows 3.1; whereas the first is about shrinking the executable under 8 kilobytes (but not DOS).

And yes the game now runs on MS-DOS 5.0 https://twitter.com/MStrehovsky/status/1218966180104458240

> 1/n It has always bugged me that I can't run my 64-bit C# games on MS-DOS. Today I fixed that. A thread.
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Enterprises are still spending on data centers. What gives?
DMA implies going to DRAM or in some cases L3. It's going to be way slower.
I'm needing this a lot right now for a massive project to deliver at work. I get so tangled up in the mess of trying to make it perfect or thinking that I'm not approaching the problem in the best way that I end up twiddling my thumbs for hours, pretty much doing nothing worthwhile the whole time.

I'll be trying these out tomorrow and see how deprocrastinated I can get before veering off again.
Keep this pinned on top of Hacker news, please.
I came here to post the very same link :D
Pet peeve: when people take phrases intended for one thing and uses them for a slightly modified purpose. I take Branson's "screw it, let's do it" mantra as something entreprenurial, a call to break the rules (and stuff like that). Using it in this purpose feels more like "screw it, let's work even though I'd rather stay in bed", which is different emotionally, and kind of saturates the sayings power.

(Maybe nikes "Just do it" would fit better, but I get that its associations to big corporations isn't as well suited for the startup atmosphere we're surrounded by.)
Virgin Records was British until it was bought.
> inconvenient if the focus of your panic attack is fear of a heart attack

This is called Cardiophobia.
I'm not much of a bookmarks guy, but I used to have the same problem 4 years ago when I used Facebook. I would find an interesting video or article, save it (very similar to bookmarking it but within Facebook), and then forget about it. Facebook even reminds you every couple of weeks that you have 10 saved articles that you haven't read.

And then it happened again with Reddit. Same thing: I save an interesting comment or post, and then never see it again. I sometimes go back to get a specific comment, but it takes forever to find it. So my solution was to make it some type of game. I find time every month to just attack those saved posts and comments, and check them out 1 by 1. Some of them are either videos that I couldn't watch at the time, or articles I thought I should read later. I watched the videos, read the articles, and then unsaved the posts. If their is a post I think there is a big chance I'll go back to again, I'll keep it saved.

After took me a couple of sessions to go through all my backlog, but after every session, I learn so much, probably laugh a lot as well, and my bookmarks are kept to an absolute minimum.

So yeah, no extension will help you, I'm sure more than half of your bookmarks are a one time read, many are also not interesting to you anymore, and those you really want to keep are less than a hundred.
Maybe you could do a topological sort over references between articles? There's certainly cycles but those could be broken arbitrarily.
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More like cmd+l (address bar), n (autocompletes to news.ycombinator.com), enter.

At least I'm getting efficient at bad habits ;-)
It's not just about traveling. It's just one of the components. This guy was a teacher, musician, maker and now DL expert. And it doesn't seem like he is settled on that yet. He is still exploring what he wants to do. Changes his life to match his interests. I lived some of my life like that. Took some non standard paths. But it is getting increasingly hard for me to do this. Not because there aren't opportunities for me, but because it's getting unjustifiable to "society". And I know the usual line about "who cares what others think" in the west. Although it's logical in the west its not so in South Asia. Even if you don't care, your parents will and you will care for your parents. So it's inescapable. By Western standards I should be a totally free person, I am not married, don't have any debt, a high earning job which I'm bored by only 50% of the time. But these same things trap me. Single status leads to public derision in social gatherings (also friends get married and it becomes increasingly hard to be the only single guy in the group), my insistence on not taking on any debt means I live in a small rented apartment which it hard to be accepted in the society around me, a high earning job means I can never just quit because then I will have no social support due to it being a bad decision.

As I write this, my (admittedly limited) understanding of how Western society works makes me think these would not be problems but my biggest assets.
Google doesn't use data stored in GCP for their own purposes any more than Amazon uses data in AWS or Microsoft uses data in Azure.

That said, it's completely understandable that companies don't want to help fund competitors. --Walmart knows that they could use AWS without having any real fear of Amazon employees looking at their data to get a competitive advantage, but they chose Azure because Microsoft is not a direct competitor.

Likewise, companies providing healthcare software look at what Google is doing in that space and they don't want to fund the competition by using GCP.

These are rational decisions that we would expect companies to make. It's actually more surprising that, for example, Netflix still uses AWS given the fact that Amazon is a direct competitor in the streaming business. --GCP or Azure would make more sense here unless Amazon is giving them a really good deal to keep their business.
I understand the point they are trying to make, but I still think the anecdote is harmful. It gives the impression that it is more important to put in the work than any real effort. The only thing you’ll be good at after producing 1000 crappy pots is producing crappy pots.
Ah yes, it seems totally reasonable for netgear to not patch bugs they paid for.
I used to be sceptical that the concept of overtraining was a thing, but it definitely is. Just saying that running every day consistently might not necessarily be good for you in the long run. Listen to your body.
Dont be stubborn just to save virtual face, you are losing an opportunity to learn.
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Our focus on results (and in turn expectations) is completely wrong. The result is subject to million things which are not in our control. The only thing we can do is to do our part as well as possible and enjoy whatever the result there is.

This way one can be as productive as currently possible for him/her and at the same time have no struggles with stress or failure.
> the New York Times reports based on its own research.

The original NYT article, with only a few HN comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22098270

"Boeing’s Responsibility in a Deadly Crash ‘Got Buried’"
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Speculation time. It's year 2050.

AirBnB and the likes have come to their full realization. What do you think your city looks like? Where do the locals live? What do you think a "AirBnB plateau'd" equilibrium looks like?
Curing aging doesn't mean you'll live forever. Something will eventually get you. I'd be surprised if the median lifespan were more than a few hundred years once age and age-related diseases are eliminated as causes of death.
if you don't mind a noise you could buy a 2nd hand vacuum cleaner with a built-in hepa or water filter (ideally also with adjustable speed to make it less noisy) and just let it run without a hose, sucking the air and pushing it through the filter...
I'm sure the typo is that lunar calendar is 354 days, not 364
Ask HN: How many of you thought of building an API instead of an app?
Hi,

I am a data engineer. Like many of you, I've always had these ideas to build something myself.

Right now I do have one well-going side project where we work as a group of people. However, the complexity/time invested in managing and communication grows exponentially when it's not your full-time job.

Therefore, at some point, I realized that a good alternative might be to start from an API that you can build yourself (that actually can be heavily used to build an app).

So, my question for those who are good with the back-end things, have you ever considered such an option?

I, for example, started building an API that gives access to a database with the news data.
>annual carbon footprint of an average UK citizen

However annual carbon footprint of a regular citizen is completely meaningless in the greater scheme of things. Stop shifting the blame onto regular people, we're not going to give up on civilisation just because some monopolies are burning coal and gas.
Very correct! I love the thought. We have to replace the lazy tasks into the active ones by telling our brain just "one more time". And I have realized that whenever I tell myself to do something which requires getting out of bed and be active, the thought is itself exhausting. But ones you do that you feel amazing and your day just go right! You just have to push yourself for that one time again and again.
WikiVoice is a lightweight but expressive markup language used by voice editors for fine-tuning synthesised speech while editing raw scripts. Wiki2SSML turns WikiVoice into SSML which is a W3C standard widely supported by TTS vendors.

Feedback, contribution and PRs are all welcome.
I stumbled upon this when trying to get started with my master thesis. In frustration, I threw a bunch of buzzwords and random thoughts at LaTeX and then stashed it for a day or two. After that, I picked it up, looked at it critically and went "well, this paragraph is obviously wrong, here's what it SHOULD say..." and two hours later I had a very rough draft finished.
That's correct. If one is solving a problem and its requires learning of complex topics, then those topics become a part of the individual's intrinsic motivation. However, the problem with his idea is that learning always requires a goal and ones that do not have any have no intrinsic value. My argument here is that learning doesn't have be attached to any goal and the process of learning can purely be a stimulating activity and might not necessarily have any capitalistic value attached to it.

Few ex:

Like, reading literature is a purely fun and mentally draining activity that might/might not have any goal attached to it.

Like travelling, is a purely fun activity and might/might not have any intrinsic goal attached to it.

I started learning Algebra out of the random, without any intrinsic goal. Because, it was purely out of fun. Playing chess is an activity without any intrinsic goal.
Anybody even surprised by corporatism?
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Yes, and that's exactly what the post you are responding to said. Read it again: it says that the money is far more than skunkworks could possibly spend, so it's far more likely that the evaporating money is being boiled away by ordinary bureaucratic waste with nothing to show for it.
If it's just a phase they can choose to go back. But if people are to structure their life around any kind of community, the best ones seem like they would be the ones that dont seek to harm others, and are inclusive and not judgemental for how people are. So while I may be associated with it, the LGBT community seems like like a much better one then basically any traditional one.
APL/J/K have been there for the last 60 years. I think the challenge is to change people’s mindset much more than it is to come up with the proper language.
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This reads like an advertisement for learning Ansible, where you could achieve the same in a few lines.
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Not more resistant to new tech at all, they love tech and they certainly look very deeply at new self-proclaimed breakthrough tech.

But they are probably more resistant to the current hype train, and they experienced the various pitfalls of hype-driven marketing. "Fake it till you make it".

E.g. as with the current safety hype around Rust, they probably know more about the three fundamental safeties Rust proclaims to support (Note: it does not). E.g. That Java proclaimed memory safety for a long time, and just last year really started to remove their memory unsafe API.

The maturity argument is relevant to managers only, not technicians. Older technicians love improving approaches to build and maintain software, be it more abstract, more elegant, shorter or just better. Older technicians love the new CI/Deploy pipelines, simplier OO or FP paradigms, better garbage collectors, better type systems, better concurrency approaches.

And maturity does not say that much. POSIX is pretty mature I would say, but has completely broken string (unicode) and concurrency support. Blocking IO does not help neither.
GCC and GLIBC are still a horrible mess. Linux/Windows/FreeBSD also.
I agree a lot with this. A blank page is the worst - I find it hard to get started. But if I just put something (probably something bad) it is much easier to just continue improving it.
Google's EHR, are you referring to this youtube video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3SYqcPXqNk

Because it (atleast the demo) looks like readonly-data aggregation application (that has somesort note functionality that is not directly linked to actual ehr data)
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That site has in impressive number of pop outs pop ups fly outs and fly overs.
One group writes as many tests as it can, the other one big integration test ;-)
That is pretty horrible. Of course the police would suspect drugs. Maybe they should mandate medical personal being available in every police station.

One of our teachers went jogging and just dropped dead from an aneurysm in the brain. His wife told us that he wasn't feeling too well that day, but good enough for a little bit of exercise.

He was 33 when he passed and was the youngest teacher we had. His condition was only detected after his death. I don't know if it could have been prevented and if this form of atery damage could have been repaired.
pinboard.in

It's great (again).

I have around 3.5k bookmarks, sloppily tagged, and it's such a great resource to have.
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> learning doesn't have be attached to any goal

For some people it does. Everyone has a different approach to learning and I think outside of the heavily regimented strata of traditional schools it would help everyone if we could celebrate that. Maybe that means not everyone learns for the sake of learning, but then again not everyone has to do the same things.
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Albeit if you have a broad network you're more likely to have high quality connections. At a huge cost to maintain it though and reasonably manageable networks of relationships are never that big.
This indeed works. It is to in my experience the only way out of the mess.
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This is so interesting because this question comes up about two times per year.

Please reach out to me (contact info in my profile) as I have a side project I would like to resurrect that tackles these same issues.
It's also easier to find those we disagree with if you are curious. It's also harder for the incurious to suppress such curiosity. If you have never found and explored deep wells of previously alien thought online, then I doubt you would have been so interested in meatspace either.
The product is improving quickly - I'm happy it doesn't have the weight of two native mobile apps to drag.
Agreed, "listen to your body." is really important advice. I've been running every day without exception for 1252 days now, and there have been really slow, really short (2k) runs whenever I felt my body needed a bit more leeway for recovery. It takes some practice and it's not for everyone, but daily/streak running can be transformative (and was/is for me).
Fair point with regards to combined therapies.

The Emperor of All Maladies is one of my favourite non-fiction books. As long as you can get through the human experimentation. That’s hard going (and horrifying).
He is out of his mind
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I can’t remember the name of the ceramicist, but hearing him interviewed on Radio 4, his apprenticeship in (China|Japan) involved every pot he made being deliberately smashed at the end of the day for a year. A way to get over a fear of failure and to learn to keep repeating the process of learning.
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The problem being that maintaining and shaping networks is very expensive in the most limited resource: time and attention.

And the more realistic model of such networks are cliques, and switching or merging cliques is hard - were it easy we would not talk of charisma and makers.
To join a clique you have to be compatible with its selection process in some way, and certain cliques are made of birthright.

Face it, we're all elitist. We have to be or we would be socially overloaded or worse, exploited.

Ultimately, because there are statistics involved, there will be social butterflies and successful climbers, but they will be rather rare and it's hard to discern chance, opportunity and genetic (including environmental) source of said success from each other. It's extremely hard to run such experiments due to age number of social feedbacks involved.

I do not trust the "simple math" involved, though certain coincidences might have enough weight to statistically dwarf others. A lot of the alleged laws like Zipf's is trivial restatement of correlations between diverse subgroups of a group. They're not constructive nor prescriptive.

Cliques tend to not obey commands of individuals who are not influential nor even if influential ones if the command goes against the existence or success of the clique, and an outsider is especially not influential. (The degree by which they do is called stability.)

People tend to be in many networks but rather few cliques. Network is much less relevant than the cliques. (E.g. being a banker vs personally a few bankers in a specific bank vs knowing and working with Congress budget committee.)
The overarching network effects tend to be shared by big groups and likewise can prove to be big barriers or boons, but they're not something you can change on your own or even as a society most of the time.
It's often that genetic reasons cause the relatively even probability of being in or out to shift due to feedback effects, and feedbacks are rather hard to change.

Most importantly, few people have the resources to explore properly.

There's no question of probability of high achiever group when genetic causes are not in place as that clique will reject you. (At least earlier in life.) Likewise if you're ugly, good luck getting into cool kids club. It can change somewhat, but more often than not it doesn't.

Society tends to put social success on pedestal, while such aspirations might not be achievable by most due to lack of any of the necessary components that are unknown.