skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can relate to that.

Sometimes I'm dealing with a problem that is really complicated and I tried to solve several times without success... I can feel the resistance in bed, when having breakfast and before I sit on my chair and fire up vim to go to that very block of code. It also tears me apart to go to work and leave it unsolved.

Resistance drags us down really, really bad. It makes it difficult to go back to working on a problem.

Not a professional here, but boy this is the point where amateurs quit and that's exactly where I feel the urge to quit too... but somehow I just don't. That's where it clicks "I have to find a solution to this somehow!". Maybe it's a bit of ego but I don't drop something I started[1] and when I finally find the solution, it's almost orgasmic. I feel like I'm the biggest man in the world, and that's my drive to keep moving[2].

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[1] Unless it becomes crucially destructive and is clearly harming people, but I guess you get what I mean.

[2] I don't want to make it over minimalist because there's a lot more to it, but I'm referring to this specific motivation building block (I believe motivation isn't just an isolated urge to accomplish thing, but rather several `blocks` that together compose this `will` to do things).
Imagine von Neumann on a podcast like Lex Fridman's "AI Podcast" or Eric Weinstein's "The Portal". Would this diminish our view of his legacy, for him to come "down to earth"?
Electron is not reusable, so expandable mode is a fairer comparison.
Well in that case the definition of a generalist is much more narrow. Would we call a mathematician who is comfortable with all topics within algebra a generalist?
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Also note that JPEG supported arithmetic coding for somewhat better compression, but most encoders and decoders didn't support it (do they currently?) because of patents that expired over the last few years.
I'm pretty sure you can already track all phones from satellites already.

Phone initial handshakes with the tower are done at high power and are always identical, meaning you can get a ridiculous coding gain to detect them.
These "natively" formatted HTML documents are perfect for the Firefox reader view, which includes text-to-audio.
There are a few vlogs of people in Wuhan.

I particularly like this family, as they show what they cook everyday.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsa3H2gvWgP5mm4OUcu7rLA

Early on, when they could still go out, the husband would visit various supermarkets that were open and before you entered, the greeter would take your temperature.

Then when the lockdown intensified and the people were restricted to their apartment complexes, designated sellers would visit the apartment complexes every day at a specific time so you could buy things.

I was surprised to see so many fresh vegetables.
The Governor did nothing but coordinate. Any central known figure can do the same.

The government never pays for or produces anything.

At best it can be as good as private enterprise coordinating work efforts but usually it is much more inefficient as there is no motive to save money.

So yes, all the govt produces is waste.
And it does require a certain amount of discipline. So far Italy hasn't done great, we had trains of people trying to escape the quarantine, which is pretty much the opposite of what you want.
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Deductible of several thousand per person in our household. Good ol’ HSA plan (our other options guaranteed higher spending than that every year on premiums). Bet your ass we’re not going to the hospital unless we absolutely have to. And we’re lucky enough to have insurance and the means to pay if we have to (though it’ll hurt a hell of a lot).
I constantly think about taking a 6 month sabbatical and writing a game engine or hobbyist OS for fun, but it seems unrealistic financially.
“I did spend 9 years as a manager at a pizza place”
Cecil Adams of "The Straight Dope" had a column about this issue back in 2006:

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2661/when-the-rubb...
I don't think that's really an adage. It's also flawed. A broader experience gives you a much better idea of how much you don't know.
Like everyone here, “Yes, the history is super useful”. So, I’m curious about fixing the actual problem.

What happened in the CVS => SVN migration? You don’t have 30-years of SVN history. Do you have an SVN mirror / backup for which you can try out the git svn to try to import the codebase?

Besides, it may be 30-years worth of commits, but I’d guess it’s smaller than the LLVM SVN repo was at the time of the first git mirroring. How many commits are you talking about? (Including all branches, etc.).
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"It was a perfect fit for me because it meant I could continue my digital activism. That means constantly working to remind my colleagues of the existence of the digital divide and how this can impact healthcare."

Interesting that she calls it 'activism' when really it's just blue teaming for the NHS
And your olive oil might not be olive oil.

Our daughter is allergic to sunflower oil which is commonly used to adulterate the olive oil. Chips supposedly made with olive oil will sometimes give her a rash.

For bottled olive oil we try to buy local California olive oil...,
> A modern CPU has a transistor count in the billions/low tens of billions

A large percentage of that is simply 6T/cell SRAM L1/L2/etc cache though
Rubber turns into microplastics?
you forgot a key fact.

Most EU students don't even get into the labor market until their late 20's (because the lack of jobs, erasmus etc).

In the US, it is not uncommon to see very young engineers making some serious money in their early career, due to accomplishments during their teen years.

So in effect, if you adjusted for age (not seniority or title) the gap in pay bet would be worse against EU.
Absolutely. Its shocking to me that any experienced software developer could even pose this question.

The sequence of diffs is much, much, more informative than the current state of the software.
Actually it's more likely that this longer quote is a recent formulation.

See the research in this thread:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/408782/is-jack-o...
I definitely think that attitudes like "only do what you love/is automatically motivating" is a huge source of imposter syndrome, depression, and anxiety in me as a grad student
The other day I uploaded an image to Wikimedia Commons at maximum JPEG file format resolution.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Panorama_of_Sydney_f...

This is likely to become a more frequent issue in future.
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"“We have tested SARS-CoV-2 isolated from a patient and found that camostat mesilate blocks entry of the virus into lung cells,” says Markus Hoffmann, the lead author of the study. Camostat mesilate is a drug approved in Japan for use in pancreatic inflammation. “Our results suggest that camostat mesilate might also protect against COVID-19,” says Markus Hoffmann. “This should be investigated in clinical trials.”
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Iran's leadership is experiencing this right now.
Organisms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangeomorph

Temporal period: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacaran

Fossil sites: Hubei and Guizhou (especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doushantuo_Formation @ southwest China), https://www.researchgate.net/publication/321898478_The_Cryog... (Ghaub Formation, north-west Namibia), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ediacara_Hills (South Australia), https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22359896 (Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, UK), http://www.ediacaran.org/mato-grosso-do-sul-brazil.html (Mato Grosso do Sul, South Brazil), http://www.ediacaran.org/newfoundland-canada.html (Newfoundland, Canada), http://www.ediacaran.org/white-sea-russia.html (Northwest Russia).

Other: Apparently scientists study these organisms in part using algorithmic botany, eg. the application of fractal L-systems to create generative grammars matching fossil observations. http://algorithmicbotany.org/virtual_laboratory/ Cool.
DNS queries just show domain name though, not any cgi parameters. Or resource names.
Being a great specialist commands a premium but can be tricky as niches can evaporate and then you are master of nothing.

Being a generalist can be tricky as you do not have a differentiating factor making it harder to get hired into highly paid jobs but easier to adapt.

People and communication skills are often more important than any of this but hiring in our industry is sadly keyword driven. As a very broad generalist I found myself in a fairly turbulent corporate environment. It should have been easy to get the jobs I wanted but it did not work so well - what I got were firefighting jobs leading to more firefighting jobs. I adopted now a portfolio of related technology and skills as my core and am marketing them actively. Works much better in getting work I like. It does not change who I am but it helps to get the tasks I want and also give me the platform to say no to things outside of the portfolio.
PR descriptions/discussions, ADRs, and READMEs are often germane and useful, but the revision history itself? No, almost never. Any rationale motivating a piece of code as it exists in the repo is, in my experience, best provided as a comment in-situ with the code. Information that's in the revision history but not in that kind of comment is, in my experience, historical noise.
Why would stacking layers make it impossible? The process will be destructive, but I would expect it to work.
The greatest technical book I’ve ever read is PBRT. It’s a computer graphics book, but is a phenomenal achievement.
X86 was designed way back even before pre-9/11, so "now" is not any different from the past. We all know the rep X86 gets for poor documentation - poor design in general. Claiming that older ISA's were better documented and easier to understand will not get you very far.

Most if not all top computer science / computer engineering programs in the states teach digital logic design, x86 / x86-64, computer architecture, compilers, communication networks in very fundamental detail as required courses. The emphasis is still there.
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"Boeing rejected the opinion of the FAA technical specialists and persuaded FAA management that it was still in compliance with safety regulations." basically says it all
Yeah, I had a GF that worked for a government research department. The last quarter of the year the department staff did ridiculous things to ensure every penny of the budget was spent. Frivolous travel, non-relevant conferences, parties, etc. As someone who worked in the private sector and managed project budgets I was blown away haha.
I had more than one project where people were cheaper than machines, and going tight on budgets for machine resources led to the project surviving instead of dying.

Hell, a big example of that is Stack Overflow, which runs a very busy site on much less hw than they would have needed otherwise, just by taking high level optimization questions up front.
According to the first example in the article, they not only “risked” death...
My experience tuning the Chromium rendering pipeline doesn't match this. The actual jpeg decode is fast, but all the rest of the drawing and compositing required is sloooow. For one thing, the skia graphics library has to reprocess the drawlist for all things in the layer, and the drawlist (including the elements outside the clipping rect of the image) needs to be serialised and sent to the GPU process each time for every update. Perhaps I'm missing something tho.
As others have said, as a small isp you're gonna need to start off by buying transit. But the core philosophy is to peer with your peers, might sound stupid, but you should look towards other isp that look like you. There are already a lot of diy internet communities, most doing one kind or another of wireless mesh to connect to end-users. Some have as numbers and can peer at regional colo centers.

* guifi.net (spain, mostly in catalunya, as49835)

* ffdn.org (france) (see also: gitoyen.net, as20766)

* freifunk.net (germany) (see also: community-ix.de)

* ninux.org (italy, as197835)

* riseup.net (as16652)

Most networks can be found on peeringdb.com. You can also start poking at local NOG mailing lists (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_network_operators'_gr...)
Claim 1: Parents have to put their 3 month old in daycare.

My response to Claim 1: (Parents have options, one of them is daycare. Another is to have a parent stay at home with the child. Extended families can pitch in. Many range of options here. Those are just examples.

Claim 2: The bottom 80% of Americans don’t have better options.

My response to Claim 2: Not sure what better options you’re referring to or what evidence you’re providing to support that the bottom 80% (by income?) have no better options.

Claim 3 (from your most recent comment): If you’re not making passive income, you’re worried.

My response to Claim 3: Most families make something work without having passive income. One or both parents may have a normal job or jobs.
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Is a good choice
That seems too easy to game, and the system might have low compliance. Who's to say when a person is joyriding vs commuting to work on a bicycle? If we're taxing based on the economic output (which we hopefully already are via income/sales taxes), does the time value of goods being transported now get included in the calculation?
What’s the old line about experts answering “it depends” for everything?

I’d give good odds that the person doing a 2x2 matrix didn’t even notice it was linear algebra. I wrote a trivial image rotation, zoom and crop feature a number of years ago and I bet if you looked at that code you’d tell me I fucked up by not using linear algebra. Instead I had a series of geometry diagrams on my whiteboard trying to figure out unit tests for my hand written code. Which the next guy promptly broke but that’s another story for a different day.

If I know it’s linear algebra, it will probably come up again. Now my decision is somewhat informed and also more difficult.
There's a good recent book about being a generalist https://davidepstein.com/the-range/
At my current company they place a huge value on that history, so much so that they haven't transitioned from SVN to git solely because of the logistical challenge of migrating 30 years of commits.

You can convert a repo from SVN to Git with history intact!

There's a tool called cvs2svn that I have used to upgrade really old CVS projects to git (it can do git too), and there is also an svn2git. And, I believe there is git-svn that provides a git interface to an svn repo.
> The use case is quite different.

If you want to make this argument you should account for the weight of a loaded F150
Okay. If we're just talking maintenance taxes then I agree the idea isn't nonsense. Excuse the misunderstanding.
sort of a weird question. libertarians don't necessarily consider large concentrations of private wealth to be a problem in and of itself. they are concerned more with the power of institutions, usually (but not always) the state.

the libertarian dream, as I understand it, is sort of like the unix philosophy applied to business: a large number of small/medium-size firms each offering a focused line of products. of course, libertarians disagree on exactly how to get to that world, but most don't oppose stuff like antitrust regulation on principle. intervening in the case of market failure is usually considered to be one of the (few) legitimate roles of the state.
Funny thing is, some things are considered general while being rather special.

Sure, being a "software consultant" is more genral than being a "mobile software consultant" but overall, most people on earth are neither.
Having gone through some of their algorithmic questions, about the only thing consistent between competition programming and their questions was that N was large, often larger than resources of single machine. A very practical issue, compared to many competition problems.

The first stage of the question might be very competition-like, though.
I should think that if the quantization matrix (which is stored in the JPEG file) is known, then it should be possible to re-encode the JPEG file losslessly after it has been converted from JPEG into a lossless format so that the DCT is lost. However, I do not know if any program actually does this, or how to write such a program. Another thing I considered is if a decoder could be made to somehow try to improve the quality of the output by producing a picture which could have been the input to the encoder with the specified quantization matrix.

(Of course, all of this is not what the article is about (it is about progressive and multi-scan JPEG), but still it is my questions/comments anyways.)
Bike lanes can handle more traffic per surface area than car lanes. Utilization is unfortunately low in most areas, but capacity wise it’s a clear net gain for city centers.

Oddly enough, sidewalks are the most efficient use of space, but require good public transportation and extreme density to reach that threshold.
The FAA does have skin in the game; you're just discounting it.

The FAA's track record led to a situation where for a good portion of the world, the FAA's word was considered good, and bidirectional approvals between the local and American aviation regulatory agencies were common. This allowed the capability to run a much tighter and cheaper ship industry-wide, because companies could rest assured that their FAA papers were de-facto gold standard everywhere else.

It remains to be seen whether that will remain the case, and the reputation of the agency has been heavily damaged by the MAX disasters, especially given how the FAA were the last regulatory agency to ground the plane, provably through political machinations.

As long as the FAA continues to function as a vestigial appendage of the American Aerospace industry instead of as the last word by the most competent the system can muster, there will be a magnification of the costs of getting new aircraft approved as local regulators crack down.
Ask HN: Email service for sending personal emails?
I run a webapp and I'd like to send a bunch of emails to my users at different times in their journey, such as an email asking to schedule a meeting to see if they need help after they signed up. Another instance, I'd like to send monthly emails to ask for feedback with surveys. But I want the emails to be as personal as they can. Which email provider can I use to make my emails personal?
Airbnb has more scumbaggery than just this, so I'm not really sad about their complacent employees not getting their stock options...
Accepting the cookie is the price you pay for the content.

You can always use Firefox containers to maintain your privacy.
And he's not saying "do what you love" either. The word "love" appears only once in the article, and that is inside a quote. He's saying "do what you can't stop thinking about." That is not the same as "do what you love."
It looks like you enjoyed it which is great!

Mine are always triggered when life stress and anxiety build up and it makes me even more stressed.
In January there was this report: Microscopic pieces of plastic have been discovered in the most remote locations, from the depths of the ocean to Arctic ice. Another place that plastic is appearing is inside our bodies. We’re breathing microplastic, eating it and drinking plastic-infused water every day.Plastic does not biodegrade. Instead, it breaks down into smaller pieces, and ultimately ends up everywhere, including in the food chain. Pieces that are less than five millimeters in length, around the size of a sesame seed, are called “microplastics.” https://graphics.reuters.com/ENVIRONMENT-PLASTIC/0100B4TF2MQ...
No. They boffed it with that transparent background, and the letters scrunched up against the circle.

Envision a black ring instead of black, no white border, and the letters B M W in a tighter, more modern sans serif. That could have been slick.
This is a good observation and applies to non-professional skills as well. For example, you can learn to repair your clothes at an 85% level using only a $20 sewing kit and some YouTube videos. Taking a well-loved shirt to a tailor is a chore, throwing it away is sad, but mending it is gratifying. Yet somehow, despite the amount of knowledge freely available on the internet, things like this are increasingly neglected or left to specialists.
I used to get irritated that peers made me jump through hoops to collapse commits into singular meaningful commits. Why bother. Nobody looks at history.

And then I started looking at history and its invaluable to have particularly when understanding rationale or debugging issues.
Not quite IMO.

Anyone who has done any amount of virtual traffic engineering (aka: Factorio, City Skylines, OpenTTD) knows that intersections are where the bottlenecks are.

Its incredibly difficult to design a max-throughput intersection. Roads have a huge amount of throughput, most "traffic" just gets stuck at offramps and traffic lights.

Narrowing a road to make room for bike lanes is a lower cost than people might think. If you're all going to get stuck at the next intersection anyway, it doesn't matter if you're a 2-lane, 4-lane, or 8-lane road.
Just because Google does something a particular does not mean it's right for everyone else. Most of us will never experience the problems of their scale.

Do you check out subtrees from the monorepo like Google does?
I never particularly liked the (recent?) tendency of software projects to pick names that conflict with established things. This is just one good example of that. I prefer new words like grep or bash, or descriptive names like nushell. I doubt there's a shortage of short words like grep or bash if one doesn't want to make them acronyms like grep and bash are. Xfce doesn't meany anything at this point and sounds good to me.

As a fluid dynamicist, I might expect TensorFlow to have something to do with fluid dynamics given that I use tensors and flows, but nope...
"plata" is exactly "money" in Argentinian Spanish, no need for "silver[money]", no allegory here.
> the example chosen is wrong

He didn't need an ftp server, he just needed to manually copy some files. Is it really wrong to do that without setting up an FTP server with authentication, disk quotas, logging etc?
When I was at the earliest stages of my first startup, I learned how dangerously unproductive a specialist can be as a first hire.

Now, with my second startup, I see how important and impactful specialists are as the complexity and size of our tasks have grown.
Thanks .. saw this video. The video gives a good understanding but again has alot of high level information. Are there sources which provide low level info as well?
So it would be better to have a bunch of smaller trucks moving cargo. And that means a lot more work for truck drivers.
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A quick app I made to analyze your emails. Tells you who your super connectors are, who you haven't reached out to in a while, and more. To get started create an account, connect an email, wait a few minutes, and start exploring! Google will throw you a scary as my app is not "verified".

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You can always out source it and work the interesting part of the idea in the time available.
That's arguable, because 10 lines of code almost never just stays 10 lines of code, and my point in the first place was more contesting that the dependency is hard to choose, or that there aren't solid proven libraries for this.
I think it has to do with leadership.

Corporate leaders get sacked by the board rather quickly if they completely screw up. Most of them also don't blatantly steal from their firm.

Regime change in governments happens much slowly.
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