skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I gave it a shot. Paints a pretty bleak picture :). I didn't think I gave particularly extreme answers.

I'm not sure how much this would help with a career decision .

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You are less agreeable than 90 of 100 people

You are less compassionate than 78 of 100 people

You are less polite than 92 of 100 people

You are less conscientious than 95 of 100 people

You are less industrious than 88 of 100 people

You are less orderly than 95 of 100 people

You are more extraverted than 40 of 100 people

You are more enthusiastic than 53 of 100 people

You are less assertive than 68 of 100 people

You are higher in neuroticism than 78 of 100 people

You are higher in withdrawal than 76 of 100 people

You are more volatile than 77 of 100 people

You are higher in openness to experience than 49 of 100 people

You are higher in intellect than 41 of 100 people

You are higher in openness than 57 of 100 people
I’d take a few days off if you have any, and take a long weekend to ponder a few facts (some other comments have raised these):

1. Maybe I’m a bit burned out and need a break.

2. Or maybe I’ve got a health condition that I should check out. Talking this over with a doctor or therapist could help.

3. Everyone is stressed and fatigued now. It’s the only new normal.

4. Covid-19 will likely flare up again this winter. And a vaccine, if one is developed next year, will take most of the rest of 2021 to roll out. Or longer.

5. More companies will go out of business and more employees will be shed during that period. Some of both may be potential customers of your “project.”

6. Try to search for another job before you bail. Thinking about how you can sell yourself is a good exercise.

7. Interview for a few positions, carefully.

8. If you can’t find any good jobs, stay where you are.

9. Start working on your project now and see if it’s got real business potential or is just a pipe dream.

10. If you really have no project, and it’s a pipe dream, stay where you are.

11. Talk your situation over with a mentor or an older friend. If you have neither, stay where you are and find a mentor.

12. Face the reality that two years out of uni is nothing. In the sense of a career.

13. Face the reality that soon you will appreciate your job more when you see how many people don’t have what you have. Don’t feel guilty about not feeling that way now.

14. Your runway metrics are insufficient in the Covid-19 era. I’m not sure you’re paying enough attention to the economic consequences of the pandemic.

15. Be more discreet on public forums; you are over-sharing at least 3 key facts.

16. Be wary of taking advice from strangers, including me.

17. “Do it” Is not advice, it’s a remark.

Good luck, take care, and remember your country voted years ago to leave the EU, and your PM who is supposed to lead your county through that maze was hours away from being put on a ventilator a week ago.

It never hurts to take advice from Ferris Bueller, though.[1]

[1]https://youtu.be/HbR7axof1wk
Predicting what users will do with your software.
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South African data center providers seem to have nailed reliable generator power - "...their systems are designed to operate continuously and effectively, regardless of whether they receive power from the national grid." [0] I don't want to imagine the cost.

On another note, load shedding (i.e. scheduled blackouts) have been implemented pretty uniformly fortunately, with areas following different published schedules - there's even an app for that! [1]

[0] https://mybroadband.co.za/news/cloud-hosting/336800-how-sout...

[1] https://sepush.co.za/
I found piano trio's to be quite nice compared to other forms of classical music. In part, I realized, it's because it sounds a bit more like a band compared to complete orchestra's.

My favorite piano trio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52IMaE-3As
It absolutely will. They’ve already started experimenting with that.
I switched to Dvorak in 2013 and never looked back. Now type ~120 WPM. Learning how to touch type properly for the first time was a major improvement to me and something I documented on my blog six years ago at https://rietta.com/blog/my-touch-typing-journey-continues. I now work on a customized ErgoDox EZ with keys set up for my preferred programming workflow.

I've found I can still type well in ISO Dvorak on laptops and in a pinch can hunt and peck QWERTY.

At the time of my switch, I went to Dvorak because that is what I had know as an alternative layout in college in the 2001. I knew several of the coolest computer scientists were Dvorak typists and it was supported on FreeBSD.

I do not use the hybrid layouts that use QWERTY positions for control characters because my brain is completely rewired to use the proper Dvorak positions.
Vietnam-linked hackers targeted Chinese government over coronavirus response
so TF is catching up to PT?
Logins allegedly from NIH, WHO, Gates Foundation and others are dumped online
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It's probably variable framerate and localised frame updates.
Maybe I'm blinded by medical jargon, but where in that sentence are they proposing administering nicotine through smoking tobacco?
From Hodl to HFT: Crypto Traders Mimicking Flash Boys of Wall Street-Bitfinex
Of course this works, but most people who want to prepare their teenagers for the consequences of a sex life will push for condoms and possibly additional birth control.

Pregnancy is just one consequence, obviously.

Culturally, a lot of people still would rather use tactics intended (with whatever level of efficacy) to prevent teenagers from being sexually active altogether.
Predictive Early Stopping – A Meta Learning Approach
> Because I still want to pursue a career in research even if traditional opportunities dry up, I am interested in alternative funding models that will ensure that researchers could still make a living in a world that demands instant results.

I too am interested in alternative funding models for research. I've looked at the teaching faculty jobs you mentioned, but there aren't too many of them in my field as-is, so I don't consider those to be a good option for most.

The model I'm currently looking at uses ideas from the financial independence/early retirement community. Basically, I'll do research independently and live as cheaply as possible so that what money I do get goes farther. (It helps that grad school has made me live very cheaply already...) I don't require expensive equipment to do my research, so I think this is doable. As for how to make money, I'm looking at multiple options including working a full time job for a while to build capital, starting a small business, grants, getting money from patrons, etc. While adjunct pay isn't good, working as an adjunct every once in a while might not be a bad idea to find new collaborators and get library access. I'm also told that the UT Austin engineering schools pays about $10K per class for an adjunct, which again, isn't fantastic, but would actually cover about half of my estimated yearly costs.

Ultimately I think I can spend much less time raising funds than tenured professors do, which I've seen estimated at around 40% of their time!

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/04/25/chasing-grants/

For starting a small business, I'd expect many to require a lot of time up front, but I'm willing to do that if it means that longer-term I can make reliable income with minimal investment on my part. I'm starting with consulting, which I don't expect will be a huge source of income for me, but I'll take what I can get. Ultimately I'll probably have to have multiple income sources, which isn't entirely bad. If any one source dries up then I shouldn't be much worse off.

This seems to be the largest online meeting place for independent researchers: https://forum.igdore.org/
Ask HN: Which single product would you sell online if you could sell only one?
> a YouTube video

CGP Grey: The Trouble with Transporters https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQHBAdShgYI

Steve Shives: Is Star Trek's Transporter Actually a Murder Machine? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-8zEkIaB0c

> why wouldn’t they just

https://allthetropes.fandom.com/wiki/Story-Breaker_Power

For purpose of storytelling, these powerful side effects of transporters need to be restricted. Hence, as an in-universe explanation, a pattern buffer

∙ is a physical phenomenon that cannot be (fully) expressed as information

∙ deteriorates over time, so needs to be rematerialised soon.

For the exception, see https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Relics_(episode)
> Stripe would still keep $40

So you have to charge $1000 + ($40 * % of users who return + cushion) for the product. That means non-Stripe businesses can start to out-compete you on cost.

What makes it so that Stripe has such a unique position and can impact your costs and competitiveness to such a large degree?

> A small flat fee to cover network expenses would be more appropriate

That sure seems like the solution a free market in processing would settle on. Something is up.
It’s not lossless. It’s lossless after quantization of the color palette, and pretty much every encoder out there does a crap job of not losing too much perceptual or actual data in that step.
Ask HN: Can you recommend Sci-Fi books/stories?
I'm looking to read Sci-Fi books/stories with a specific property:

That at some point, a character uses a device or machine to write (as in, technology for writing that exists in the story's world).

It doesn't have to be at all central to the plot, even is it just happens as an aside.

It interests me to see what people (who spend most of their time both writing and imagining the future) were thinking of when they imagined how people would write if they had the right technology.

Places where I've already seen such stuff are
Asimov's Foundation and Empire, Philip K. Dick's The Penultimate Truth, Roald Dahl's The Great Automatic Grammatizator.
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It has been known and well understood for many years now that you should use video (like mp4 or webm) in place of gifs if you want to save bandwidth.
Ask HN: What to Learn in 2020: Redux vs. RxJS vs. Context-API
Starting a greenfield React app, is it still state-of-the art to use Redux as state manager.
Will Redux still be around in 2 years or will it be replaced by simpler options? Any thoughts on that?
I wouldn't put as much faith in current antibody tests, especially where "In a low prevalence area for previous Covid-19 infection, which is most of the country, a positive antibody result could be a true positive or a false negative."[1]

[1] - Michael Osterholm https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/21/opinions/bergen-osterholm-int...
One part of this doesn't make sense to me. Can only talk about German universities, and I started in 2003, but...

They will start with math you already know, but only in the first semester, so from October until Christmas, from then on everything is mostly new. But... to be eligible to study you kind of have to have had math on that level at school. with no exceptions.

But for anything programming related? In the late 90s/early 00s there was ZERO mandatory programming in school, and if you were really, really lucky if there was any graded course. We had some elective courses but they were not really awesome and only there because one teacher wanted to do them.

So, I'm also against rehashing stuff you should know, but if you can't know it from school, why wouldn't they start at the beginning?
Yes, it's a shame to see this kind of thing on HN. But perhaps I shouldn't be so surprised.
Oh man, Chicago95 is almost enough to make me try out Desktop Linux again.
This is all true but unfortunately in our society we seem to have decided that no one could possibly be responsible enough to follow such a self-monitored schedule and instead the responsible thing to do is just tell people it doesn't work.

Like our gov and the WHO telling us not to wear masks recently.

Most women in my experience are pretty regular and you can trivially avoid having sex for an exta few days out of the month. Coupled with "external finishes" i have a feeling this is actually a valid method of birth control for responsible couples.
Yes, it was asked in good faith. With that follows some good faith follow-up questions:

> It is not overstated how unique the approach is, primarily because it is totally and completely unique and quite wildly so compared to not only Swedens nordic neighbours but the entire world.

AFAIU Tegnell is meaning that the swedish approach is the same in that the measures will have the same effect as complete and total lockdown, just not forced by the government? So the difference is actually quite subtle (enforced by law vs enforced by the people) or am I misunderstanding here?

> this is an argument for creation of those kinds of laws, that's the job of parliament and generally has happened in most other countries in Europe.

I see what you mean, but given that the experts are also saying that it is not necessary, should it be pushed through anyway?

> Twice per week is nothing, given that the virus has a 4-7day lag in even presenting symptoms and the exponential rate of growth, the lack of testing (it is advised _not_ to seek testing) it's not even possible to have real numbers.

If I understand your point here correctly, is that you feel that having uptodate numbers is more important than the government agencies currently do?

> Twice per week is nothing, given that the virus has a 4-7day lag in even presenting symptoms and the exponential rate of growth,

WHy is the 4-7 dag lag important with the twice-per-week meetings with regional authorities?

> 4) Gyms are open, my PT had COVID-19 symptoms and continued to go to the gym, she was not tested because seeking testing is discouraged.

Going out with symptoms is an offence so I assume your PT was told to go home? https://www.expressen.se/nyheter/expert-att-sprida-corona-ka...

> I wear a mask when walking around and I get scoffed at.
What are your thoughts on the Swedish Public Health Agency's information that masks are not needed?

https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/smittskydd-beredskap/utb...
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/experten-forklarar-sa-anv...

Just fyi, I'm also Swedish and live in Stockholm so also seeing all this first-hand. And I put a lot of faith into what the government and their agencies are saying so it's interesting to hear from someone who doesn't!
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Still haven't found anything better than gitk
Sometimes I think we can understand things. Then I read a (very astute) comment like yours and I feel like we might as well give up trying to understand anything at all. Everything is confounded.
In a soviet system, schools go by numbers first, and only sometimes have their own names.
I don't have solid advice on that, but if you are leaning towards a higher-risk approach you can do what I am doing: Work as a freelancer about 50% of your time, do research in the spare 50%. The problem with that approach is that as a freelancer you usually need to constantly look for work, which I currently don't have to do, but that may change. The advantage of that approach is that your research is as free at it can possibly be: you are only accountable to yourself and your own goals. And you own your IP.
Habits of Efficient Developers
Totally agree- I also think that the Beatles did a great job of changing and staying the same. They would change their styles but still have the familiar great harmonies/melodies. To add to your point, each of them had at least somewhat of a producers ear and probably one of the best producers/engineers ever to help them realize their vision.

George Martin was a great composer in his own right, and Geoff Emerick/Alan Parsons could bend the antiquated technology to their will. Then you have Paul who is a really good producer and John who is a great abstract thinker. So there is no single voice coming from a Beatles record.
I probably do not want this feature the case of a script, as this post talks about. Which is why I was suggesting if isatty(stdout). Most people do not want their shell scripts functionality to depend on whether there is a "high character" somewhere in it.
My AP history teacher read us historical documents and wanted us to "take notes" by writing them down and then tested us on random parts of the document. I wish I took a lower-level history class. Such a waste of time.
Vaping at home during work hours has improved my performance and now it's protecting me from the virus?!?!?

WINNING!
"I hate to lose reputation with downvotes for sounding negative, but I find my credulity challenged with this story."

My opinion about downvotes is that they reflect way more on reputation of those who actually does the thing (unfortunately they stay anonymous). Well HN rates you using down/up votes but personally since I do not agree with this whole anonymous anti-feature I do not really care.

Alternatively (lets add some conspiracy to spice it up) they might be doing hidden user profiling on whole range of social patterns and sending data to interested parties.
"hence domestically popular tv shows like Big Bang Theory which have 0 audience in countries that value intellect"

It's shown in 180 countries worldwide and very popular internationally (Including Russia):

https://bigbangtheory.fandom.com/wiki/International_broadcas...

While I don't necessarily love the show, I've known many PHD students from China, Taiwan, and Korea that absolutely love the show. Hardly from countries that "don't value intellect".

"This permeates western culture across the board,"

I can't speak for Australia, but I went to high school in the US during the 90s. The 'cool' kids weren't necessarily anti-intellectual, they were just more social and were well versed in the ability to make friends. Most were in the top 10 in terms of grades at our school and I didn't go to a specialized or private school.

The 'nerds' and unpopular kids weren't necessarily smart either. Many had Aspergers or were on the autism spectrum, which means they most likely won't do well in social situations and most likely won't ever be popular.

Others were just anti-social or were just never taught how to make friends or be a friend.

Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory is supposed to depict someone like this.

It's easy to say we aren't popular because we are smarter than everyone else, but the actual reasons are much more nuanced.

"The other factor is that westerners really love to coddle and infantalise their children. A 12 year old in Russia is basically treated as a small adult with the associated respect and responsibilities. A 12 year old here is treated (and behaves) like a large baby."

I suppose this is just the result of living in a stable and safe country. 12 year olds aren't adults and shouldn't take on adult responsibilities. It's sad to me that there are children out there that can't actually be kids for awhile, which is something you can never get back as an adult.
You're right, I should have said "at least three data centers"

It was in response to parent comment saying "the datacenter", which seems to be assuming that there was only one. But there will be multiple.
The key bit is "not inconsiderable portion of the population".

That is a very human perception failure and one that all politics and tribal psychology use. "Others are more dangerous than they are because they are other.and we say they are" not because they have an actual threat.

The reality is that these are incredibly small numbers but the hype about them is real.
What, you're not a full-stack rockstar ninja?
Nfectious disease expert: We're only in the second inning of the pandemic
There are external costs when someone doesn't wear their seatbelt. First responders are kept busy tending to their needs when they are injured. Ambulances and hospital resources are kept busy when they otherwise wouldn't need to be.

Rear seat passengers not wearing seatbelts can directly injure front seat passengers who did not consent to the risk.

To argue that the seatbelt law impacts on personal freedom seems shortsighted to me.
We take reasonable, targeted measures to mitigate the risks. What we don't do is embark on a grand social program to eradicate freeway crashes, because such a program would involve banning or heavily restricting cars and we feel cars are too important for that.
I never realized this before but many excellent developers struggle with SQL beyond simple SELECT statements. I have a colleague who is by all accounts a deeply technical person but one day he confessed to me that he didn't really grok SQL and that he'd rather work with a "real" procedural programming language to just store and retrieve data.

Part of it may be due to the fact SQL isn't really a programming language but a declarative DSL for manipulating sets and tables. Things like GROUP BYs and PARTITION BYs (window functions) that come naturally to mathematical types/functional programmers are less intuitive to procedural programmers.

I suspect this was what attracted developers to noSQL databases like Mongo in the first place -- it's more attuned to a programmatic mindset.

(this is not universally true of course -- many programmers have no issues with SQL at all.)
well it also talks about him getting his comeuppance which is a vernacular expression for getting the righteous justice of the world for ones misdeeds (often misdeeds occasioned by stupidity) so I find it difficult to accept an agenda there.
aur/guitar-git. Just used it to grab its own source from Github. Love it. This stays.
Observeability, reliability, scalability - really easy to bolt on once you are successful.

There's a middle ground, and a DBA turned SRE turned Architect is probably ok with compromises, those are all roles where "it depends" is a bylaw.
> Kids love meta stuff

Agreed!

> doesn't mean the kid wasn't astonished when they realized you could put a function in a function

This is where my credulity was stretched. It's interesting and exciting when you first learn about it only if it breaks a rule you've long had in your mind and enables you to do more interesting things.

A 6-year-old child hadn't spent years assuming you can't put a function in a function, and they'd have not the slightest idea what you could now do with it.

Generally, very small children have very flexible ideas about the structure and rules of the physical world, so showing them "math tricks" often earns you a, "Duh, of course you can do that!" reaction when you instead expect astonishment. The exception is when they've been doing painful work the slow way and you've given them a shortcut.
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Post-Pandemic: The “New Normal”
I correct myself. The function in the first example should be

function add(x, y) {
x = x + y
return x
}
cuDNN converts to NHWC for 'tensor core' operations, so if the tensors are already in NHWC you can avoid the conversion.

See https://docs.nvidia.com/deeplearning/sdk/cudnn-developer-gui...

EDIT: I think https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/19092 is the RFC for this feature, and it has some more discussion.
>They have very many active cases and no recovered cases yet so this makes me think like all these people that have it right have just barely gotten it. So it is a little bit early to talk about how successful it is (otherwise it is time to talk about why is it taking so long to recover in Sweden if they have had it a long time)

I'm struggling to find a good source on this, ([1] is the best I could find, though it's in Swedish) but Sweden doesn't track recovered cases so that number is meaningless.

[1] https://www.mabra.com/halsa/friskforklarad-fran-coronavirus/