skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Also, for future reference, it's better/nicer to assume people are intelligent and try to understand their reasons for something rather than assuming they're idiots.

The older I get, the more I learn this lesson.
Indeed when he wrote that paper code looked quite different (multiple entry and exit points) and was mostly in assembler.

What is a break;, continue; or return; statement but a goto?
> officers with degrees like psychology and political science were better at taking in large amounts of information

I met plenty of officers with useless degrees that were plenty useless. The people that had non-technical degrees that did well in a technical field would have done just as well without any degree whatsoever. They key takeaway here is that for the vast majority of folks, political science, sociology, or even 'psychology' is a complete waste of time and resources.

> Non-technical students would look at what the result should be, and do whatever was necessary, creating their own checklist as they went along.

This is how you end up with people doing chmod 777, opening up your firewalls, writing for loops in application code instead of a proper select query. Sometimes those checklists are there for a reason. Non technical people don't know what they don't know.
The required open protocol already exists along with support in Netflix and some other apps, DIAL. What is needed is a convenient packaging of a DIAL server along with an open platform for developing applications for use on the TV.
here is the list of companies they named as using Uyghur labor,

>In all, ASPI’s research has identified 83 foreign and Chinese companies directly or indirectly benefiting from the use of Uyghur workers outside Xinjiang through potentially abusive labour transfer programs as recently as 2019: Abercrombie & Fitch, Acer, Adidas, Alstom, Amazon, Apple, ASUS, BAIC Motor, BMW, Bombardier, Bosch, BYD, Calvin Klein, Candy, Carter’s, Cerruti 1881, Changan Automobile, Cisco, CRRC, Dell, Electrolux, Fila, Founder Group, GAC Group (automobiles), Gap, Geely Auto, General Electric, General Motors, Google, H&M, Haier, Hart Schaffner Marx, Hisense, Hitachi, HP, HTC, Huawei, iFlyTek, Jack & Jones, Jaguar, Japan Display Inc., L.L.Bean, Lacoste, Land Rover, Lenovo, LG, Li-Ning, Mayor, Meizu, Mercedes-Benz, MG, Microsoft, Mitsubishi, Mitsumi, Nike, Nintendo, Nokia, The North Face, Oculus, Oppo, Panasonic, Polo Ralph Lauren, Puma, Roewe, SAIC Motor, Samsung, SGMW, Sharp, Siemens, Skechers, Sony, TDK, Tommy Hilfiger, Toshiba, Tsinghua Tongfang, Uniqlo, Victoria’s Secret, Vivo, Volkswagen, Xiaomi, Zara, Zegna, ZTE. Some brands are linked with multiple factories.
I love how one comment is ''We may need a historian to chime in here'' and then you reply minutes later.

Thoroughly enjoyed that. Thanks for sharing.
How would I add functionality to add a button that runs that exact command you just typed?

By adding an 'add button' with a text field where you type your bash script.

All I have to do to make a GUI superior to your terminal is to add some GUI to an existing terminal that people find useful...
My Honeywell purifier has a button to turn off the blue LED lights.
Complex-Step Differentiation
I wish that it was possible to do a caloric restriction study on people who work out. I spent most of my 20s eating roughly twice as much as average and hitting the gym 3-4 times per week and I never felt better, especially after 20 rep squat sessions that naturally raise hormones like testosterone and HGH.

I occasionally cut calories to lose weight or train my metabolism to be "ready" for emergency situations (which was honestly camping or going broke, not exactly military excursions), but in my experience it basically felt like death. Like I could feel my body catabolizing muscle and I had flu-like symptoms if I took it too far for too many weeks.

Anecdotally, my parents' boomer generation felt that bodybuilding was generally a waste of time. If you watch old movies from the 60s and 70s, people were especially lean. And then unfortunately juicers in the 70s, 80s and 90s ruined the reputation of bodybuilding so everyone figured that being strong meant taking steroids. It's only been in the last 5-10 years or so that I've noticed a resurgence in natural bodybuilding (check out Jeff Nippard, Steve Cook and Mike O'Hearn for examples of what's possible natty).

So personally I really feel that lifting weights from about 15-16 years of age for life probably replicates many of the health effects of calorie restriction. Like, Arnold Schwarzenegger did some of his best work in his 40s when he was in better shape than most people in their 20s. Many athletes in their 70s and 80s look like they're 50.

An untrained human bench presses about 100 pounds. When I was growing up, a 300 pound bench was considered mastery. Today with YouTube and better workout programs and supplements, that's probably 400-500 pounds. I personally would choose to have 3-5 times average strength (anything above 4 is metahuman IMHO) rather than spend my life at a withered calorie restricted strength of 1/2.

Of course ethically, it would be better for the planet if nobody worked out I guess. That's a separate discussion though, and I feel that some of the downside could be alleviated if the extra calories came from relatively benign sources like rice and beans. So my question is, is this all just vanity? Or would a diet/exercise approach be comparable to calorie restriction?
Hi, Postgres.ai founder here.

Production is not affected, the chatbot works with thin clones provided by Database Lab https://gitlab.com/postgres-ai/database-lab/.

In general, you are right. If, in your case, using the "raw" databases is unacceptable, it is better to anonymize data first (of course, the physical layout will change in this case).

However, Joe doesn't reveal the data. Engineers see only EXPLAIN (ANALYZE, BUFFERS) plans.

It may be considered acceptable. Of course, there are ways to retrieve particular values with some tricks like "explain analyze ... limit (select value from...)"), but this will be noticeable. Massive data leaks are not possible, Joe filters the output, presenting only metadata -- the whole idea was to provide the data for backend engineers, many of those don't have access to production data.

The question you're raising is broader: let's think how many times we send some personal data to our colleagues in Slack, how is it controlled now? are we okay with that? Emails, tokens, and so on.

At the same time, Joe does boost the development speed because it becomes easier to troubleshoot SQL performance and discuss it with colleagues, collecting reliable facts.

What would you say if it would be:
1. A chatbot for on-prem Mattermost?
2. A specialized GUI, SaaS or standalone?
Giving new businesses with no assets and no cash flow unsecured capital is inherently risky. It only makes sense if there’s a potential for outsize returns.

The only thing that would make an investment like this less risky is collateral, not worse potential returns.
Been using it to control my projector from my sofa when watching stuff: the remote control allows me to pause, skip intro or choose a different film altogether.
Why ? And where are you from ?
A number is just something that acts like a number. Polynomials are numbers. True and False are numbers.
Yeah, when the moderates move out, the hard core that remains swings towards what makes C++ unique, and that's not general purpose application programming and language features that support it.
There are a lot of data about how many people have been saved through research. Anecdotes are data with n=1. Not a great comparison.
My point is that you cannot prove something that is true by definition. The OP trying to prove that the product of two negative numbers is positive is like asking to prove that 0 + 1 = 1 in Peano arithmetic.

The OP thinks that his "proof" is showing why multiplying negative values yields a positive result. But the proof is a load of nonsense because it assumes facts like distributivity of multiplication over addition and subtraction. It is literally impossible to prove that $\forall a, b, c \in Z. (a - b) * c = (a * c - b * c)$ -- distributivity of multiplication over subtraction -- without having already defined the meaning of a * b for all integers! This leads to a circular reasoning loop that the OP's "proof" can't get out of.

The thing to realize is that multiplication is not some magic operation handed down to us by god. It is just a binary total function defined over the integers. What the OP is trying to confusedly get at is the following:

1. There is an intuitive definition of multiplication as repeated addition over natural numbers.

2. It is not clear what the corresponding definition of multiplication over negative numbers is.

3. If we want to define multiplication as a total function over the integers, we need to define what the result should be when multiplying negative integers.

4. Specifically, with (3), we are taught in school that the result of multiplying two negative numbers should be positive, but it is not clear why this seemingly arbitrary choice was made.

Unfortunately, the OP is going about this all backwards. One cannot prove what the OP wants to prove. What one can instead do is argue that the specific (but seemingly arbitrary) definition that one has chosen for multiplication is a "good" choice because it has the same properties (distributivity etc.) as multiplication over natural numbers. At its core, this is a stylistic appeal about the "naturalness" of the definition.
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There are many enthusiasts who have experimented with cramming multiple monitors and desktop-class computers into a briefcase form factor. You can see various triple monitor briefcase setups on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/b5z9g5/rate_m...
https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/comments/f1a1t5/was_told_...

The author had a preference for larger monitors over ease of transport, but if you're willing to sacrifice screen size, you can cram desktop components into a standard briefcase pretty easily.
According to his LI, he was a VP at Lazada for 1yr and then became a senior data scientist at another company.
> Why not use a wiki for the documentation of high-level decision-decisions?

Because if you create different solutions to meet the publishing preferences of different groups inside the organisation, then I don’t think you’re meeting the goal of institutionalizing the knowledge. If a consumer wants to find some documentation, you don’t what their first step to be trying to find the system it’s stored in. Especially in very large organisations, where you could easily end up operating quite a few different publishing platforms.

SharePoint is the closest things I’ve seen to a one-size-fits-all solution. But SharePoint is rather terrible to use.
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this is something of a bush to beat around.

- when the virus docks with the ACE2 receptor there is a loss of the ACE2 receptor function as it is a destructive process.

- when the virus inhabits the cell there is probably a cytoplasmic down regulation of ACE2 expression as the cell is now "claimed" as a place for replication

so the question would be when would we administer or withdraw such an ACE2 blocker

the loss of ACE2 functionality is devastating to the cell
but the presence of functional ACE2 receptor makes a cell vulnerable to entry

-and should we be using a blocker pe se or should we use some sort of hypothetical receptor inhibitor that is not displace by coronavirus spike protien, as in competetive inhibition?
> Is it possible that alongside the conscious experience of “me,” there is a much dimmer experience of each individual neuron?

No.
"Rather than consciousness arising when non-conscious matter behaves a particular way, is it possible that consciousness is an intrinsic property of matter—that it was there all along?"

Umm, really?

Sounds nice and touchy-feely new agey, but, I'm saying no.

More likely you just haven't tried to define consciousness clearly and non-circularly, and when you do, it just kind of goes away as a concept. If you can tell me, in any sort of scientific terms, why a self driving car isn't conscious but a human is, maybe we can get somewhere.
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It's for SQL query optimization, so you probably wouldn't run it on prod.
> I doubt his built in GPU can drive 3 large monitors and the laptop display at the same time.

Well in that case it works. Last generation integrated GPU can handle 2 4K monitors at 60/s or 3 full hd at 60/s if I remember correctly
I don't know about openssl's status on old / weak platforms. People who need AES without hardware AES instructions should be using BearSSL code or the rust code that has been reviewed by the author of BearSSL (see e.g. https://github.com/RustCrypto/block-ciphers/issues/65).
Keto works well in my opinion because of the way humans self negotiate. It's far easier to have a list of yes/no items. No fries, bread, burgers versus calorie counting every food (even in simplified systems like weight watchers). Sure eat all the bacon you want, but it works to limit eating out and limits unhealthy fried foods and take out.

Personal anecdote: my bread tolerance dropped dramatically on a 6 month keto stint. Sandwiches were gross there's just Soo much bread! Yuck! Then I got used to it again but now I stick with mostly rice/beans and have maintained my weight loss which is great
It's surprising at how little this matters.

I came back from a tech event once with a build a robot kit, except I'm a very light packer and the box was huge so I had to take everything out and fit it into a backpack along with everything else I had.

I had a compartment that had an assortment of circuit boards, screws, wires, plastic pieces, etc..

No one even batted an eye and the bag went straight through the carry on x-ray machine. This was in San Jose, California while preparing for a cross country flight. I was surprised too.
Only kids from wealthy families can afford to move to say DC or NY and spend a year there on an unpaid internship. So that becomes a selection criteria to exclude those from poor and middle classes from advancing in those domains.
It's for SQL query optimization, not OLAP or similar, so it seems to me like the target audience probably already knows about the psql cli.
Fair. I find writing a useful exercise even if no one ever reads it (although processes should enforce someone reads it; like a PR).

Calling a meeting anyway is great! You have a document to reference to guide the meeting, answer questions, and scribe discussions/decisions! If your worst case scenario is that your technical document becomes a glorified meeting agenda, that's not so bad.

Also remember that documents live ~forever, so even if you get no immediate response: write for your replacement 5 years from now who has to figure out wtf you were thinking. :)
I find this writing style completely unreadable.
That said imagine if the SGML working group had held their ground and used s-expressions! At least the soup would be easy to slurp. (I can’t find a reference right now so maybe I just had a fever dream once?)
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I wouldn’t characterize that group as “the community”. True there are a lot of such people, mostly clustered In the game industry where superstition is rife.

Take a look At C++ (or c++ 20!) as if it were a brand new language you’d never seen before and forgetting that it’s name includes “c”. That language is a pretty clean, expressive and straightforward language IMHO. I like programming in it.

It’s not claiming it’s unicorns farting rainbows, but it’s definitely pretty good.
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it doesnt explain it, but it is something worth chasing to its end for a possible therapeutic benefit.

its does suggest that such comorbidities such as high blood pressure or existing lung disorder disease or other wellness impairment ---

--- could contribute to mortality
Did strike me that one larger one might be easier.
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I was happy with my chromecasts, until one of them stopped working on one screen. It boots up, google logo does its thing and then its black. Device can be communicated to, and resets do not work. I have read that this is HDCP related and that using a chinese hdmi splitter works... The device works fine on my Dell monitor, and I am not using any extension cable...
> One thing to worry about is that you’re effectively taking over the job of the OS scheduler.

Exactly. And some apps automatically do that by default, as if they are so arrogant as to think they must be the only program running on that machine. Maybe good for a server app, terrible advice for a general desktop app.
> pocketbook [that] secretly incinerate[s] anything you put in it

is it weird that i kind of want to build this?
I work for a municipal government in an area where wildfires hit. During the emergency our city’s fire department gave city hall a molekule air filter to run in the office. Knowing our typical budget I can only assume these were sent to us free by molekule, and I did not notice any improvement in air quality, likely as the technology is more for voc’s than large air particles. Felt super shady to me
Inductive Programming
> it actually saves you time not fighting the editor.

And from merge conflicts.
How do you make people replaceable? By sticking to org structure with roles that most other companies in your sector use, so that they can be replaced by other people who have worked in other companies.

Knowledge is 'institutionalized' via experience first, documentation/formalization second, schools based on that documentation third, mass media fourth, gossip and other forms of informal communication fifth.

Stick with boring tools, boring tasks, then they can be replaced with boring people who won't quit to work on the next cool thing as long as the paycheque is right.
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In mid-2001, notably before 9/11, I had to quickly move a 4U Sun Netra server from San Jose to Washington DC.

I just carried it on.

It was enormous - 4U and full length - and weighed a ton.

No packaging, no box - just carrying a huge server down the aisle of the plane ...
The Windows ‘solution’ is really fragile and dangerous because it involves injecting code into all programs.

If there’s a vulnerability the whole system is compromised, if there’s instability the whole system crashes and if part of the system is separated out, like what Windows does with windows belonging to elevated processes, these windows follow the original rules set by Microsoft.
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Yes I left soon after it was acquired by Alibaba (didn't like the 996) and wanted to put my skills to help in healthcare (in a 10-man startup).
They aren't looking for electronics - they are looking for large masses that could be fuel for the explosives. Big blocks of clay, liquids, etc. A jumble of electronics alone with nothing that can actually explode is common and doesn't ring any alarm bells. I discovered this after talking to a TSA agent after flying a few times with my modular synthesizer, where I was surprised that it was never pulled for extra screening.
This ties quite well with what Alan Watts says about the universal consciousness, its manifestations and the role of ego in all of this.
Sometimes its quite believable that two consciousnesses coming in close contact for a moment give rise to something quite new and bigger than the parts.
I have never heard of one of these. Link to where I can buy one for my laptop?
That seems like a misconception about the driving forces behind C++ today.
Meh, intelligent people do silly things sometimes, I consider this case like that.

There are larger portable monitors too.

https://www.alibaba.com/showroom/24-inch-portable-monitor.ht...
That quote does not portray you as the victim. In fact, it reinforces that you should have the right to choose as you like. If everyone had the choice, there would be nothing wrong with anyone choosing, just as you have, to give up your control.
Nautilus articles seem to frontpage on average once a weekend. The weird thing is the articles have very low engagement on HN in terms of comments. Given the weekly cadence and low engagement on every article this may mean Nautilus is running an internal upvote campaign.
The Science is clear from the article:

"We also know that brain entrainment is a genuine effect that can occur in response to particular rhythmic frequencies perceived by our senses. A deep-pitched musical tone or a lightbulb flickering a few times a second can indeed cause your brain cells to start firing at the same frequency."

"the researchers [found] that binaural beats can elicit “cross-frequency connectivity”, in which the brain coordinates its activity across different types of brain waves." [and] "a recent analysis of 35 studies demonstrated a modest effect on attention, memory, anxiety and pain perception."

"They found that both binaural and monaural beats can entrain the brain to their particular frequency. But when they asked participants to describe any changes to their mood, they found that neither types of sound had any significant effect."

So the factors we can measure, brain frequency, and entrainment are conclusively proven. What was not proved, was when subjects were asked to self-assess their mood, they reported "[no] change to mood" and since entrainment is something that occurs over multiple minutes, it would be expected that the subject would have difficulty quantifying the change.

The factors as far as mood, shows this study should have selected for other criteria in determining mood adjustments than simple assessment by the subject.
The one pictured was a jailbreak tweak called DetailedPowerUsage: https://legitcomputerwhisperer.github.io/depic/InternalBatte...

DPU hasn't been updated for compatibility with iOS 12+, but another tweak "System Info" can show some of the same info: https://old.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/8ecxdm/update_sy...
I've been out of the Microsoft loop for a while (thankfully). Their new certs are confusing, it's not really clear what the person that does the "Active Directory" stuff even needs at this point.

MCSA was pretty straight forward, not really much marketing fluff. "System Admin" right in the name of the cert. Matched industry job titles and responsibilities.

"Microsoft 365 Certified: Teams Administrator Associate"

Does that have to do with Microsoft Teams? The description talks about "Office 365." Microsoft has lost their minds with this 365 nonsense. "Administrator Associate" also sounds inferior to "Administrator". Is this an entry level certification? It used to be somewhat simple hierarchy: Administrator, Engineer, Architect in the IT world. Now it's buzzword soup everywhere.
Nice article. Logical next step is to drive all 3 screens from a single power supply (as these use LED backlighting, they do not require much power each). I would build the AC transformer into the middle screen and have it output DC to the ones on either side.
It takes a little more research to find 24 inch portable monitors even at 4k.
Fancy buildings are a marketing tool for schools, even if they're unneeded. Schools would rather raise tuition and compete for ever-wealthier students than refuse a shiny new building.
Call / email your political representatives, for one. They are the ones who can enact sanctions against the Chinese dictatorship.
This article uses a Julia implementation to explain how the complex-step method allows us to easily compute derivatives of analytic functions up to machine-precision.

Possibly the best short blog post on this subject on the internet.