skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think mothers, and fathers, loved children as much or little back then as they do now. That being said, I do belivethat if something like loosing a child is bsaically a daily occurance, shared with family and friends, makes it easier to cope with it. Even if it is just by maybe getting a little numb.

As far as PTSD is concerned, I remember a commentary / documentation (I suck at keeping my sources, so...) that went a long these lines:

- War was more common, when everybody is kind of traumatized, society copes with it better
- soldiers were traumatized, but it seems less so when compared to modern war, which brings me to the last point:
- the most horrible war experience back then was battles (sieges, field battles,...), off battle, life for the soldier was as dangerous as a civilian's one. In modern war, the soldiers stress was constant, everywhere and the enemy (artillery, snipers, air craft,...) often invisible, increasing the stress levels a lot

I am no expert in psychology, but it does sound logical.
You are honestly better off renting a cheap spot priced GPU instance than trying to do anything on a laptop, doubly so if said laptop GPU is not even supported by CUDA.

Otherwise your whole learning experience is going to be an exercise in frustration with almost zero tangible output.
That body of water also needs to be placed high enough for it to release a waterfall. I can’t think of something. Some large geological structures, perhaps? I dunno.

Maybe Elon Musk has a wacky idea to inverse this problem and build tunnels below lakes to make this work.
And I claim, or rather parrot, that it's wrong to think that because words were not spoken or did not exist, the thing they would eventually come to designate ("PTSD") did not exist.

Romantic love is another good example. It never was spoken in modern terms before the 16th century give or take. Which is far from being equivalent to say "nope, they didn't speak of it like that, so people never experienced romantic love before the 16th century!"

The author's view is just as flawed, afaik. PTSD and every other psychological trait known in modern times did exist for much longer than recorded history, that's what most historical psychologists have concluded (it's not open to debate...), just in different terms (words), perceptions, value (in a larger hierarchy).

Edit: think of it this way. Were feelings "important" in the past? Certainly nowhere near as much as they are today, in our perception. Most were not even spoken, there simply were no words most of the time (or unknown to layman people). Did feelings exist forever, however? Absolutely, yes.
The performance and stability improvements in rust-analyzer over the last six months have been remarkable. Kudos to matklad and the whole team behind this. I'm using it full time now.
Still proprietary, but compiles to AMD and x86 now as well as nvidia.
Prefixing your commands or scripts with a timestamp
but your point is just not correct - i know go, Java and C++ very well and i don't understand why the C++ code isn't just like the Java code - there is absolutely no need for this deep nested, ugly, container parties that are not in the Java code at all
I always wondered if Achilles was struggling with PTSD during The Iliad. He had seen so much fighting and bloodshed that he became depressed and sat in his tent, refusing to budge. Maybe the anger at Paris was just a front.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22989368
It fixes a power imbalance that allows for the platforms to take advantage of their customers. A platform becoming dominant is insidious because it takes away the "choice" ... if you want to do business, you will probably have to engage with them, but as we see here, Amazon is taking advantage of the fact that they own the platform by taking their customers' (the sellers) data, and using it for themselves to put their customers out of business.
I see $3.99, not $5.
Yeah I had used django in the past and had run-ins with `django-configurations` and while it is an extremely powerful configuration library, I set out to make Gila a much more portable and simpler API for more generalized use - with the goal that this library can be nearly drop in with 0 configuration in most projects.

I would love to hear any feedback should you decide to use Gila in one of your projects!
Reminds me of MadChat which was popular in France in the 90's.

Closed in 2006 but looks like it was archived it here :
http://ivanlef0u.fr/repo/madchat/
Want to second this. There's been a lot of criticism of the Irish commissioner's approach, both from Data Privacy advocates here in Ireland (e.g.: Digital Rights Ireland), and at the EU level.
Boeing Terminates Embraer Deal, Bitter Fight Begins
If I write your birthday on a piece of paper is it "your" birthday?
I'd just chime in to say that Rust-Analyzer is an awesome tool that really helped me as a Rust beginner. Having your text editor show the types of everything, highlighting the mistakes you made or suggesting functions right after you keypressed a dot is awesome to discover all the features Rust offers you as a developer.

Can’t wait for rust-analyzer to graduate as an even more fully featured LSP – it has the potential to really changes the daily life of thousands!
you are just wrong - someone without any good C++ knowlegde except porting the Java port plain to C++, ported it by using every crude feature and wild combination of shared-ptr, container nesting in a way you will nearly not find in any open source or tutorial project - its not about the ease of go, the the benchmark results are just wrong in so many ways
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Brainfuck: Code that was designed to hurt
>It's so absurdly complicated.

Security. Dynamically linking stuff is always going to be better than statically linking. Do you trust upstream to keep track of security issues and rebuild in the absurd dependency tree that is Golang software? Or the multi-year old effort which is the current Debian security team?

The reason why it's absurdly complicated is solely on the Golang team, not Debian.
Electricity.
What is it? Is it related to electrons? I thought it was?
If the plug in my house is AC then why is one wire "hot" and one "neutral?" (on plugs in North America at least) if there is a ground wire then why are plugs polarized? Why do some things come with a three prong plug and others don't?
Perhaps I should have linked to both essays. People should read them both :) The reason I linked to the other one was that encrypted mails is the first use case listed on the Sequoia site.
I wonder if PTSD is particularly likely when the terrible events occur spontaneously without obvious warning. Modern weaponry that allows one to die without an enemy visible probably exacerbates things. In the olden days you'd be charging towards the enemy for at least a while before you witnessed your comrades getting killed.
Spring had made "Understanding Cryptography" available for free https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-04101-3
Check out this podcast between Jocko and Jonny Kim: https://jockopodcast.com/2020/03/18/221-the-unimaginable-pat...

Do you think that Jonny worried about what his faux peers thought about him in high school? They were equal in age but that was about it. Their opinions could hurt only those who valued them.
>With such a tight margins we have a lot of valid attack vectors

In person voter fraud--the kind stopped by requiring poll workers to check ID--isn't one of them. You would need thousands of coordinated attackers to change 80k votes. It's just not a feasible attack.
I would have thought the references to category theory and Robert Harper Thought (he's a homotopy type theory researcher) would have made the humor clear.
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I like the footer on one of the docs that apparently came from a BBS:

Full access for first-time callers. We don't want to know who you are,
where you live, or what your phone number is. We are not Big Brother.
I guess I don't understand what I'm supposed to find in Evelyn Waugh. Previously I've only ever heard the name in "Lost in Translation": "Evelyn Waugh was a man." Skimming the article, I see a bunch of "blah blah" about a rich Brit partying in America last century. The wikipedia page claims "He is recognised as one of the great prose stylists of the English language in the 20th century". If you say so. What am I missing?
I'm really skeptical about the claim that a monkey could generate 100W with a hand-crank. Serious human cyclists only produce 250-350W with their legs, and a monkey is tiny compared to that - and with only one or two hands?
http://www.textfiles.com/internet/acronyms.txt

Interesting which early internet acronyms survived and which dropped out of use.

e.g. I haven't seen PMJI (Pardon My Jumping In) (at least not in a decade, if ever).

Notable absences from the early days: IANAL / IANAD
GDPR has caused significant behavioral change for many companies. There hasn't been much high-profile enforcement yet, granted, but I'm not sure that that's actually that unusual for an (in EU terms) shiny new regulation.
Just lightly skimmed the docs, so I am probably missing something. Do all the consumers of gila config use the singleton class instance and just call gila.get() everywhere?

If I'm just focusing on how to make my code easier to read by my fellow developers, I would want to see something like this be based off of a dictionary-style API, that could be imported and used like so:

import gila as config
bucket_name = config["bucket_name"]

Since .get() is already so close to this API, I wonder if you considered this and rejected it for a specific reason?
Funny. I have been working on a blogpost detailing the silly things I encountered while packaging LXD properly for Arch Linux. Should probably finish it up one of these days.
What was he expecting to have taken?
What hasn't worked: Expensive bureaucracy that big incumbents can easily afford to navigate but new entrants would be easily crippled by?

Shocked. /s
I believe you misunderstood my comment. I am not disagreeing with you. There are organizations that properly value people's time and make sure that overwork is both rare and rewarded. I'm lucky enough to work in one. But, even in those organizations, it doesn't just happen by itself. The management in your company is working hard to keep leadership in check and communicate your value. Because if they don't, organizational inertia will result in your team getting more and more work (or losing resources to do your existing work), no matter how great your company is.

It's not magic, it's good leadership and management.
Even at the speed of light, taking into account acceleration and deceleration you could cover ~50 light years in a lifetime. The Milky Way is ~150000 light years across. In day to day terms it's like walking 10km relative to exploring the whole Earth.
>But actually, if none of the companies advertise, consumers still find what they need through retailers

I don't know how it works in the UK but in USA, advertising also happens inside the retailers' locations:

- endcaps displays of products via promotional payments are a form of advertising [0][1]. A related concept is "slotting fees"

- instant tear off coupons on the aisle shelves is a form of advertising

- workers giving out free food samples (e.g. blue uniform contractors at Costco) is advertising

- informational videos mounted on displays in the aisles is advertising

>, word of mouth,

The first person in the word of mouth chain was often a recipient of advertising.

> or simply continuing to buy what they already buy.

But a lot of consumers don't want to always buy what they already buy. They want to buy new and improved products. In my case, I saw an advertisement for Oatly in a magazine which is a new brand of non-dairy milk. I used to use soy milk which didn't taste great but it was better than drinking black coffee. The new oatmeal-based milk tastes much better and I would have never found it by going to the same regular retail grocery store I normally shopped at. I had to go out of my way to find a different retailer that carried it.

Although 99% of advertising is terrible and irrelevant, it sometimes exposes me to new products that make me happier.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endcap

[1] http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/retail/raleys.php
Surely, you don't think punishment is an end in itself?
Yes, you can. That is a large part of the point of the GDPR; personal information on third parties is no longer merely a corporate asset.
I tried it recently and I know it's just alpha right now but something feels a little fundamentally annoying about the way it changes things in the editor while you're typing. One example is that it seems too eager to claim something is a syntax error before you've really finished really typing it.
Without too much details. But I personally got into LXD while bootstrapping kubeadm clusters with salt. LXD profiles made it very easy to work with compared to alternatives.

It's clearly not production stuff, but it works very well for a quick test bed before production deployments.
The parent comment mentioned iGPUs, which are commonly found on laptops or small computers like NUCs. If you're a student with a laptop or a NUC, "buy a new GPU" is not an option; you'd have to buy a whole new computer (and monitor if what you had was a laptop). That's a high barrier to entry.
Honestly these things are all variations on a theme in JavaScript. The language is flexible enough that you can write code in many different ways and they all end up being equivalently powerful.

In JavaScript you have precise control over inheritance, you can specify your own algorithm for how class A inherits from classes B and C. It's a totally different beast to classical inheritance in Java that has such a bad reputation because it's such a straightjacket
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Given that the likely average age difference between species is measured in the hundreds of millions of years, I doubt that anything we do would shock them at all.

We are likely too inconsequential to even bother with examination.
Punishment is always the desired outcome in the journalist world. If something dramatic does not happen, then from the perspective of NY Times nothing has happened at all. There is no story, no people to smear that were the villains, no heroes to glorify that fought for GDPR. The reality is, that the mundane often impacts our lives much more than the exciting. Small incremental changes that we do not notice shape our reality. The same way that NY Times slowly became a parody of itself, the GDPR slowly changes the web. I still think that we need more time to put this into perspecive and we need more initiatives that build on top of GDPR really stands for.
Unless your business is entirely anonymous, it's way more involved than that
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If you build a tool, I will buy it. If you keep improving it, then sell the update. Sometimes I like the product and do not have the cashflow to upgrade, so I will do it later.

But with subscriptions, it's just a trap.
I think that's more perception then reality. I live in a 30 year old house and it could easily last 100 years if properly maintained, but there is little incentive to improve the building because it will not improve the resale value.
Thanks to GDPR, if the data personally identifies you then you sure can.
How to Perform an IT Security Risk Assessment
Is it possible to buy baby chicks for delivery by mail? Serious question.
Frankly, I think advocates are just wrong about what GDPR means. A lot of people expected every tech company to face huge fines, because they got it in their heads that the regulation grants you a right to opt out of targeted ads, and as far as I can tell that's just not true.

The obvious explanation for why "no major fines or penalties have been announced against Facebook, Amazon or Twitter" is that those companies don't have any major violations.
I would like to raise a frame challenge: what if instead trauma was ubiquitous?

It's not fatal and rarely debilitating. It does affect people's happiness and behaviour throughout their lives. It does not leave traces in the bones or DNA. How would we find an un-traumatized person in a world where injury, sickness and death were far more prevalent at all ages?

Much traditional childrearing practice that's supposed to be "character building" (e.g. corporal punishment; Roald Dahl's description of the process is worth reading) looks instead like a form of trauma inoculation. Get the trauma over with early. Bully anyone who shows signs of being negatively affected by the trauma. People would refuse to show PTSD symptoms under the threat of violence.

WW1 was in some ways unique in that the West had experienced a long period of peace. There were colonial occupations and thousands of troops dying overseas, mostly of disease, but not in Europe itself.

Edit: see also the comment upthread about "being haunted"; the pre-modern world was what Carl Sagan called the "demon haunted world". If you look at a some religious and spiritual practices as trauma-processing, a connection emerges. Parts of the 60s spiritual revival and Jungianism were trying to do this explicitly.
What I see at the beginning of that video is somebody who doesn’t want to spend the energy answering a complex question. Then, in the process of dismissing the question he gets drawn in and can’t help himself from really getting into it.

I don’t know anything about Feynman beyond vaguely associating his name with science, but watching this makes me want to seek out more from him.
> They'd end up ripped apart by wild animals

...so exactly like the fate of literally every other wild animal on Earth.
The first 'meetup' I went to some 20 years ago was on this module!
So in this case the business did not create as much wealth as intended (it produced apples which turned out not to be needed as much they had originally planned).

The default is a side effect of that outcome, not its cause.
The first modern pandemic
I'm beginning to think this kind of memory is hugely important for programming. It sounds counter-intuitive because devs work with text, but maintaining a visual representation of any project, current and future state, as well as the various machine states is a consistent way to be productive.
The periodic table.

Can the properties of the elements be computed from the first principles of particle physics, or do you need to observe the atoms in real life to figure them out? For example, some isotopes are stable and others have a finite half-life. Can you know beforehand or you have to observe the decay? Can you compute exactly the mass of each atom without measuring it? Can you know compute its electronegativity? Etc.
Requiring everyone to post those stupid cookie popups is not going to win you any advocates.
I don't understand how some hypothetical life in some hypothetical other universe is at all a sensible barometer to measure the quality of a life against?

It seems much more sane to benchmark against the life we have and know here.
So it might be a fair statement to say that when I eat fresh bread there's already a molecular amount of mold already on it?
"ego death" is a common aspect of acid trips and the experience seems to come down to your willingness to relinquish control. this reads like what was described. if you were to look up that term you'll see others that will feature similar features - with or without pain, with or without worry.

not having a reliable way to know exactly what you took can amplify the anxiety, when your brain starts filling up with seratonin and whites everything out just like people on their deathbeds report, are you supposed to let go? when your sense of self has been obliterated and the next moment you are in the body of another mammal lost and confused in the forest for an entire lifetime before being transported back into your body and only a minute has gone by - but your trip is to last another 9 hours, should you fight it? Distinct neural networks in your mind that never communicate are now connected, vestigial components of the mind are now being expressed, are you being replaced in a firmware dump and flash?

a lot of people have a friend with them to guide them through an acid trip because trips can be steered with sounds and words, simple chimes, melodies.

would it have helped? very hard to say. but as the author wrote, the bad day and uncomfortable setting did not help. It is similar to a dream state (just radically more intense), where the things on your mind and also happening around you can affect the direction of your dreams.
Repo[1] is another tool for this, which is pretty well-tested and widely used.

[1] https://gerrit.googlesource.com/git-repo/
When I worked on supercomputer simulations, I always landed on just dumping intermediate results and looking at them over figuring out how to compile something TotalView could look at.

When the latter was possible it saved time but it was always breaking under me and I eventually said fuck it
It sounds like they’re suggesting they bumps it their way and wait until people figure it out.
There's a YouTube channel called "English with Lucy"

She suggested listening to The Archers daily for 12 min can improve listening skills
I eat hamburgers because they are delicious.

I assume that the ethical, ecological, and societal impacts of that decision is somehow internalize in the price.

I know I am wrong - but I hope that becomes true one day.
The point made is that it is on a kind of "meta" article. In book terms, imagine it being in some kind of "Extras" volume of the Encyclopaedia Wikipedia, not under "L" for "Lame Edit Wars".
I am not so sure about that. When you imagine a "particle", what do you see? Do you see a collection of balls?
A fair amount of my old stuff if there on the site. I was surprised to see it all again. Anyway, it shouldn't be a surprise that since then, my life has been in and around InfoSec pretty much exclusively.
Our poorest workers wouldn't be our poorest workers if they didn't lack "access to the most basic forms of fintech". They are poor because they are exploited: by "businesspeople" who can't pay the daily maintenance costs of their own workers and rely on public subsidies to make up the difference, by banks and payday lenders who scrape fees and interest off meager paychecks, by politicians who misdirect their outrage at college graduates.
Ask HN: How important is $language to Hiring Managers?
Hello fellow hackers and thank you in advanced for your time. I need some insight about how hiring managers view the programming langues and experience on your resume. Recently I had a company recruiter reach out to me to apply for a specific role managing/developing a product where $language was at the forefront and $library was in use. I'm very comfortable with the $language as well as using similar $library[3] that accomplish the same tasks API/Routing just in other stacks. In my honest estimation it would probably take less then one quarter to be up to speed and rolling but this was grounds for disqualification. This is in a market where there is zero demand for $language and $library and this particular recruiter disclosed they have been searching for two months.

So, how important is $language to Hiring Managers?
I think we're in agreement.
> "speak truth to power" (the point of journalism)

I think that might be a bit of wishful thinking. An "investigative journalist" might take that on as a motto, but it certainly isn't true of all journalism as a general goal.
None. Chicks eat very little and grain is already plentiful in the US.