skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
not op but everything feels sluggish. Waiting for all the latency everywhere - over years/decades - feels really draining. i.e slow websites, slow desktop apps, slow languages, slow OS updates, slow IDEs, slow DB syncs, slow email clients.
They do, but my rebate from my credit card is the same percentage, so it’s a wash. Sorry if my post didn’t make that clear!
Thank you for sharing. And this is part of why I shared. Because I feel that I myself harassed and enabled this abusive behavior. It is weird, of all the places to actually feel welcome talking about this, it is Hacker News. When I talk about this with friends I'm often met with "Mormons are the nicest people I know." I'm sure others experience this too.

> The mormon church has even taught terrorists and hitler will be able to seek forgiveness in the next life and go to [the Telestial Kingdom [0]], but not as low as outer darkness.

For those that think this is hyperbole (though I heard you only went to outer darkness [Hell] if you had active proof of god and rejected him), I have heard the exact same teachings and have never lived in any of the states jacurtis mentioned. This belief is also why when you're a Mormon, you feel the need to save those that left.

[0] (this says that those that leave are on the __same__ level as mass murders) https://www.mormonwiki.com/Celestial,_Terrestrial,_and_Teles...
Quote: "Overall, if I were to list traits of a senior engineer, technical skills wouldn’t be in the top 3 on that list."

...aaaand that's where I stopped reading this. It's like saying sex isn't in top 3 marriage binders.
> Schmidt’s findings closely mirror what O’Connor discovered in the few years corp.com was live on the Internet after he initially registered it back in 1994. O’Connor said early versions of a now-defunct Web site building tool called Microsoft FrontPage suggested corporation.com (another domain registered early on by O’Connor) as an example domain in its setup wizard.

> That experience, portions of which are still indexed by the indispensable Internet Archive, saw O’Connor briefly redirecting queries for the domain to the Web site of a local adult sex toy shop as a joke. He soon got angry emails from confused people who’d also CC’d Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

If only Gates had gotten more annoyed back then and bought the domain just to stop the emails...
Microsoft has deep enough pockets to make that happen.
Just a tip: Most internet browsers have a "reader mode", it's a single button you can click to remove extraneous graphics, leaving just the text!
Pen and paper is great but if it's something I want to hold on to, I have to add it to my digital system. Sometimes that means taking my written notes, doing some editing, then saving digitally. Other times it just means taking a snapshot and saving that.

I still use Evernote for my long term storage (although I do worry about the long term viability of the company) and it does a pretty great job of finding and indexing text (even handwritten text) in images. The search operators are also pretty great.
> It is also cheaper to give a schoolyard bully your lunch money than it is to visit a doctor. The thing is, once you pay the bully, he’ll just come back again and again and again. Eventually, that lunch money adds up to a lot more than a doctor’s visit

doctor? wat?
I can’t be the only one who put Linux on his home desktop to discourage gaming... darn you valve.
But IMHO on a public event that rule doesn't apply, right?
> Turbine gearboxes are typically given a design life of 20 years, but few make it past the 10-year mark.

That's why the biggest and best are direct drive.
I browsed the website and I still don't know what colony is. I understand it has something to do with crypto currency. is it a wallet? Is it a miner? Is it a game?

This is a good example of how not to make a website.
But it's very valuable and he wants (needs?) the money for his retirement. Microsoft may not be willing to pay up.
In Norway, sandwiches with a spread of mackerel in tomato sauce is a breakfast/lunch staple
As a 20 or so year long linux as a desktop user, I've had my hopes up so many times that more people would embrace Linux. It's always been about the games, largely. Hell we had id's stuff running, and there was even a company porting Blizzard stuff if I remember right. This is the first time I've been genuinely enthused that "it's happenening", and I cannot be more thankful to the Wine team and Valve.
The War Between Music and Mathematics [video]
Sounds like it was targeting Fortran.
I hate to be one of those people demanding sources, but I'm wondering where I can find someone who's carefully weighed the evidence.

The article does mention that smaller fish often found canned are lower in the food chain and thus have less mercury, but I would think that you'd have to look carefully at each species, and the sourcing, and the packaging before you could really say the health benefits are worth it.
This study hinges on binning by variability of the magnetic field. It’s important to realize how small these variations are. The authors measure variation in the field direction in “percent”, but the units are arch minutes (1/60 of a degree in compass heading) per minute of time [0]. Calling this a percentage is kind of an odd pun on two meanings of the word “minute”.

According to the authors’ own interpretation, variation of 2 arch minutes of heading per minute of time is enough to destroy the claimed effect. In other words, they’re talking about a 0.03 degree change in direction in the amount of time it takes a dog to poop.

Perhaps you believe dogs are sensitive to magnetic fields, but can you really believe that they are also sensitive to such tiny relative variations in magnetic fields? Much more sensitive than a handheld compass?

I also agree with the general criticisms about p-hacking, but I think it’s worth having some sense of the actual size of the thing the authors are talking about, and how implausible it all is, apart from any details of the statistics.

[0] See figure 4 in https://frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.11...
> PSSL doesn't need to be emulated

...which makes the job much harder. Shading languages aren't terribly complicated; implementing a compiler from one to native spir-v/whatever is a reasonable task. Translating from one shader bytecode to another is a more involved operation.
That's a towerstrike and overspeeding, nothing to do with the blades being worn out.
It's not boolean.

There's a lot of options -- salmon (I personally have salmon sushi at least twice a week), omega-3 supplements, a dozen other healthy foods.
A distributed database engine with the same semantics as single-node Postgres that's easy to operate reliably.

Cannot tell you how much time I spend fighting solved-since-1980 RDBMS problems at the application layer. But we really are too big for single-master (pushed it to its breaking point and a little beyond).
> businesses are expected to do somewhat better than "the bare minimum that makes you not want to demand your money back".

Since when? Economic theory explains that they are expected to do no more than that, or else they'd leave money on the table.
When your presentation and marketing is so atrocious that Apple and Google have built solutions into the operating system to make it bearable.
Typically the driver does. I’m sure there are a few can firms running there own fleets and leasing them out, but in most cases it’s the driver who has responsibility for everything, right down to paying for the meter to be checked once a year.
one thing that doesn't get talked about RDS is that network cost for replication of data for RDS multi A-Z deployments is free. Depending on how much you write to RDS, this cost can dominate cpu/memory costs on non-RDS installations.
Using sanity checks in software is normal practice, especially in software that calculates critical things. It works.

> I’d argue

I'm sure if you put some effort into thinking about how to make it work, you'll be successful.
It's never been the browser sticking index.html on the end, that's 100% the server since time eternal.
http://www.pcug.org.au/wp/

It was quite a thing back in its hey day.

Had a shop front, a regular magazine, hosted a BBS, and held regular meetings with door prizes (I think I won a mouse once). When the internet came along they offered isp services and I remember connecting via trumpet winsock and then Netscape navigator.

I was just a kid at the time, but I still remember reading through the magazine when it came, and I think I may have attended some of their training courses as a kid amongst the adults.

I don't know if they were affiliated with the computer fairs (semi regular events held in schools and community halls where everyone came to sell/buy computer and tech parts), but they were another pretty central part of the culture at the time.
“Ctrl+Alt+P” does it for me. Right click a paint shortcut > Properties > Shortcut > type “P”
:)
I'm saying that's not a major space savings.

Consider two things you may have not: low storage space systems that need to prioritize security updates over functionality where every megabyte matters, and savings at sufficient scale from reduced bandwidth, cpu usage, energy costs, etc.

At the individual system level some things often don’t make sense until you consider them at the scale of hundreds of millions of systems or for particular environments.

This is a good thing, really.
> I seem to spend far more time on the deployment of code than I ever used to, more time writing CloudFormation and ansible than the Java backend, python lambdas and static UI that it deploys.

I'd really like to understand more about what the pain points are here. In contrast to your experience I spend almost no time deploying code. We commit, tests run, we click a button and the deployment is updated in our kubernetes cluster. We did have to put a fair bit of work into our gitlab pipelines and the tooling that patches config into our kubernetes manifests and depoys them to the right place (let's say 2 person months all-in), but the payoff in the end was pretty significant. We're a fairly small company so if we could afford to put the time in to build the foundation for painless deployment I wonder what prevents larger orgs from doing this work? Is it access to the right skills? Difficulty prioritizing non-revenue tasks?
Equity has unlimited upside for investors while debt has capped upside. Most companies use both for good reason.
Mine is tech related, but make it easier to form and operate tech cooperatives. In general, I've found engineers have the knowledge of what the best thing for their product is, and are often pulled away for various reasons. Making them a part of the owenership structure for their work could pay dividends in quality and usability of software.
> Online communities like /r/exmormon have a very large portion of people like me who have not had bad experiences in the church or leaving the church, but yet still have plenty to talk about for what should be obvious reasons.

Well, the problem is that reasonable people like you get drowned out and dominated by the people on there that just want to vent or otherwise have an axe to grind. Sometimes I'll pop by just so see what's on the front page and I'll be disappointed to see memes dancing on the graves of dead people (anytime a general authority dies).

It would be like a moderate liberal claiming that there are a "large portion" of other moderate liberals on /r/politics. Probably true, yet, /r/politics is dominated by the hard left, and you'll rarely see balanced viewpoints there; it's an anti-right echo chamber with zero nuance.
Sailing yachts too. Millions of affordable fiberglass yachts made since the 70's are now reaching the end of their lives. In the past abandoned wooden boats just rotted away. But the fiberglass hulks stick around. It's a coming problem.
"Modern" architectures can get quite complex and fast at scale & in complex cases. This is merely a simple introduction to simple components of modern cloud architecture.
Just deployed a new infra using nomad, consul & docker swarm.
Much nicer than k8s
Understanding the problem.

Most of the time the users haven't taken enough time to understand their own problems and have trouble articulating them in a way that's meaningful for a product manager or developer. And on the opposite side of that product managers and developers often do not develop sufficient domain experience to understand the problems users are trying to express.

This is why the absolute best software is built by people who are developing for themselves. You know when it's not solving your problem and you fix it because you know nobody else will.
“Never seeing it again” here contrasts with what happened for the 2009 H1N1 virus, which is now a recurring part of the annual flu season.
rkt was always open source. It was donated to the CNCF and eventually "retired" by them.
mh, can't reproduce on Windows 10 and Firefox 73 get a "Server not found" page as expected
One thing I've always wondered is how much "per-game fine-tuning" Proton requires.

I know for some console emulators, it's not uncommon to require some per-game profiles that tweak the emulation for better compatibility for that specific game.

Heck, even GPU firmware updates will mention specific games in the patch notes.[0]

Is this necessary for something like Proton?

[0] https://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/156781
"...provides the latest performance optimizations, profiles, and bug fixes for Zombie Army: Dead War 4. In addition, this release also provides optimal support for Apex Legends Season 4 and Metro Exodus: Sam’s Story..."
It's a shame they are expected to express belief in
racist, sexist, or other bigoted beliefs in order to be
fully acceptable to their in-group.

It's a shame you feel that way. I've been to churches in Massachusetts, Utah, Missouri, Texas, Yucatan, and Guatemala. I'm not sure where you're getting that.
The modern church teaches that you should pay tithing irregardless of living condition, income level, destitution or poverty conditions. I taught this principle to people who were literally starving to death in Honduras. It was extremely hard for me to tell people who didn't even have a cup of rice in their 4x4 corrugated steel shack that they needed to donate 10% to the church before they could buy food for their three kids.

Later I learned that it hasn't always been this way. The church has deliberately misrepresented its own doctrine to extract everything they can from these people.

In 1899 the Church was almost bankrupt. President Lorenzo Snow and the GAs went around Utah shaking the members down. The 1899 General Conference was "the tithing conference" and where Lorenzo gave pivotal instruction about tithing - which defined the church in relation to tithing going forward.

Lorenzo Snow said in the 1899 Conference Address

"...I plead with you in the name of the Lord, and I pray that every man, woman and child WHO HAS MEANS shall pay one tenth of their income as a tithing..."

Conference Report Oct 1899 page 28 (3/5th way down column 2 on page 28) [http://archive.org/stream/conferencereport1899sa/conferencer...

However, in the 2011 Lesson Manual, in Lesson 12- Tithing, the Church quote this talk as:

"....I plead with you in the name of the Lord, and I pray that every man, woman and child ... shall pay one tenth of their income as a tithing...."

Teachings of Lorenzo Snow manual, page 160 [https://www.lds.org/manual/teachings-of-presidents-of-the-ch...]

THE HISTORICAL IDEA THAT YOU ONLY TITHED IF YOU HAD MEANS HAS BEEN REDUCED TO AN ELIPSES.

So yeah...the broke church from the past only asked for tithing from those who had means, but the "prudent" multibillion dollar corporation of the present expects it from people whose children will only grow to 5 feet tall as an adult because their diet consists of rice and yucca and parasite-infected water.

The church is a wealthy corporation today. Sure they manage their finances well. But their coercive tithing policies that are misrepresented by their own modern literature are extremely burdensome to a huge portion of their membership. They don't need their money, and they should stop asking for it and pretending like their salvation depends on it. And if it really is the case that their financial secrecy is hiding their personal enrichment off the backs of those experiencing poverty, I really hope that a hell exists that is as bad as they deserve.
Depends on the instrument.
I love Repl.it and taught my daughter python there. Can you please make a self hosted version? I think the only thing I've seen is that maybe sometime in the future you'll have it.
The US will never adopt public transportation as their primary means of mobility. Never.

There will be skyscrapers in the suburbs before Americans deign to ride a rail car to work en masse.
We will have AR-based work-from-home before Americans wait at a bus stop in any meaningful size cohort.

There is simply too much mistrust in those systems and too much desire for independent mobility.
Same with python. I was looking for a good message queue yesterday and all the results were from 8 years ago due to stackoverflow's zealous dupe rules.
> A senior engineer should have T-shaped knowledge. It is expected from a senior engineer to have broad knowledge about various topics and deep knowledge about some topics.

More than that. A senior^Wgood engineer should be a generalist who can specialize as needed.
Requirements specification. It trumps every single concern raised so far. If you're seriously considering R&D in this space, count me in.
I always wonder why systems like this so rarely do even basic plausibility checks before data is updated.
> Because the substantive truth of the theology isn’t dispositive of whether family members have a right to criticize each other from departing from certain practices.

So are we talking about what rights people have now? We have all sorts of rights to engage in all kinds of harmful activity. You’re not going to find in me any opposition to the idea that people should have a right to criticize others. Let's not muddy the issue by talking in terms of "rights", because that is just as irrelevant as the idea that the genuineness of beliefs justifies harmful actions.

And let’s also not lose sight of the fact that we’re not talking about people “encouraging” their family members to conform to generic values of family duty and hard work. We’re talking about people telling their friends and family that they are damning their families to an actual real hell, and that they are going to be eternally cut off from an omnipotent loving deity that has massive hangups about coffee and masturbation. We’re talking about people who genuinely believe that their gay kids can and need to be “fixed”. These are concrete claims that have no rational justification, and the actions that result are harmful.

Your study link also doesn’t support what you think it does. If you looked at these numbers and compared them with people who are active in anything else, you’d find a statistically insignificant difference. You could be active in your local book club, your monthly astronomy meetup, or your local atheist group and be just as happy. This is just the difference between socially active people and people who aren’t socially active. But since the idea that people who are socially active are happier is too obvious to publish, let’s instead pretend that somehow it’s religiosity that matters.
Many varieties of tinned fish are very low in mercury, often due to their short lifetimes or shallow depth: https://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine/2014/10/can-eat...

(For any readers who haven’t tried a great sardine, look for Matiz, La Gondola, any Portuguese brand, or in France, Rödel.)
On the other hand, a zero-day could make your life interesting if you live in a high density city.
There is no data to back that up. I won’t suggest that it can’t happen, but if it were as common of an occurrence as you suggest there would be no used cars to drive. They would all be at a junkyard. If you exercise caution and due diligence you can score a decent used car that will last you more than a few years.
Would seeing any kind of analysis benefit you or boost your motivation? Like something that would clearly show based on your own data that, say there is a strong correlation between feeling ill and drinking less than 4 cups of water throughout the day?

The reason I ask is because I'm building something like this. And not many people track their habits as systematically as you do.
Workflowy accomplishes the same but a bit more structured.
The headline doesn't mention he mainly uses a calendar app to hold a list of to-dos and builds his 'things-to-do-tomorrow' list from that every night.
I read this as 'Say Goodbye to ChromeOS' and though 'well, Android finally won inside Google'.
Self-directed trader? Opt-out of data collections
Beware that your trades, credit worthiness can be used against you by the app that doesnt have trading fees.

Another case of, if you aren't paying you might be the product.

http://ally.com/privacy
Those systems should not be running a >10GB OS...

And no matter what, notepad should be near the bottom of the list of things to make removable.
Oh. So it really will save space, but as a FOD you won't be able to install notepad offline. (On a system by itself.)
I find that worse.

Not strictly speaking true. You can always provide the cab files for the feature via some other means and still install them using the dism command.

Note also that this makes the feature removable it does not necessarily mean it won’t be preinstalled.

Regardless this is no different than a typical Linux system where you can remove and add packages as desired.
Except what's the human cost of this? If there is a stream of sensitive info, real people will be impacted.

Big corps are not usually the ones that are affected the most.
Why do you want to discourage gaming? And who do you want to discourage?
I recently discovered this and cannot get enough of it. I'm trying to find a good place to purchase it (at a reasonable price) in the USA though. Damn tasty!
I love this and have also used a txt file for years. I’ve moved from Google Docs to Vimwiki to org mode for notes, todos, and journaling. Most recently I’ve started incorporating a moleskine notebook to take to meetings for note taking and it’s been a nice addition. Sometimes I’ll copy notes over from it to org so that it’s all in one place, but I’ve found it isn’t too hard to page back through it to find something I wrote weeks or months ago if I have a general sense of when I wrote it. Plus the experience of taking notes with a Pilot G2 is just more fun than using a ballpoint on a legal pad. Maybe that’s just me.
I have a script that removes duplicates and HISTIGNORE set to ignore simple commands like cp, ls, mv, mkdir etc.
In the past 5 years I've only executed around 20k unique commands using up around 900kb.
> It takes almost 2 hours to so from San Diego to Irvine by train--most of it spent getting from San Diego to Solana Beach.

The schedule seems to indicate that it takes 11-12 minutes to get from San Diego to Solana beach. Where is the extra time coming from?

How synchronized is local transit (MTS trolley or bus) with commuter rail (Amtrak) ?
Nothing has ever beaten the Newton Messagepad for me for this (certainly the last models made, the 2100).

I really wish a modern Newton existed. Evernote started off quite Newton'y (Newton team members were on board) but I fell off quite early.
We're working on this at Spaceship: https://spaceship.run

We've still got a lot to build, but the goal is zero config deployment for any app/service.