skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Just want to make sure I understand what you're asking here;"

You really don't.

The main thrust (sorry) of teledildonics as commonly pursued is that subject A presses remote buttons or whatever, and subject B experiences some vibration from the sex toy they are using. A has remotely caused the vibration.

A reverse is also conceivable: subject A is using a teledildonic sex toy, and subject B gets some signal (like a ring-tone or whatever) whenever subject A's erogenous zone muscles contract.

In other words, reversing the direction of the signal. Instead of remotely "doing something" to the sex toy user, one would get some information about what the sex toy user is doing on their own. This is what I asked about. You projected something really strange onto it.

> "That's an odd lens to look at the tech industry through... What exactly about the art of crafting, building, manipulating, and operating some of the most complex, sprawling in their capacity to influence people's lives/behaviors, and difficult to understand machines on the planet strikes you as submissive?"

You do it because some jackass told you to do it and gives you some cash to go be rude in bars and restaurants, and to overbid for apartments. Total bdsm degeneracy. Totally undignified. Totally degrading. You're a slave who takes solace in being slightly above the worst off slaves. Nobody in a cooperative society would do what tech workers do and if they tried, they'd be treated as people suffering some kind of cognitive illness.
I have been witness to such business partnerships to embed SDKs to siphon telemetry/other data. The world is not as simple as you think...
I use DO now because I like their interface and that they keep adding new features. Plus in my case I can easily spin-up new servers with their prebuilt images marketplace and cloud-init support. I tried using AWS before, but last time I did their interface was awful and pricing hard to understand/predict.
What put me off PHP for life was the assumption by employers and recruiters that PHP rates are at least 20% lower than for JS, Rails or Django. PHP just isn't respected professionally.
Just because others are doing it doesn't make it okay.
Are you really super confused, or just pretending?
What's wrong with being weird?

https://faq.dhol.es/@Soatok/furry-fandom/being-weird-is-bad-...
Sure, these are simply heuristics..."rules of thumb" approximations, there are brazillions of them. I doubt there are many people here who aren't fairly familiar with the abstract concept.

What I mean by the "protected" part is that even when talking to someone who is familiar with the abstract concept, who will readily acknowledge the existence of heuristics and inherent fallibility, even within themselves (while discussing the topic in the abstract that is), but when the topic is something else (a concrete topic like politics for example), and heuristics clearly assert themselves in the conversation, people will get "agitated" if the topic of heuristics is brought up.
I'm curious why you moved to LLNL from HFT?
Ah. I'm thankful for the opportunity, err... requirement to trade my privacy for others to have one fewer password to deal with. And of course for Facebook to have more personal data to munch on.
"The difference between over-engineering and under-engineering is that you can fix under-engineering."
well, this would be extremely believable
Are they just mantras or do they carry some explicable deeper meaning for you? I'm still unaware of what makes poetry so fascinating to people.
> I wanted basically Sequel Pro, on Linux, for PSQL

Have you seen http://sequeljoe.ohwg.net/ ?

I'm also following https://github.com/ragnar-lodbrok/meow-sql closely, a C++/Qt port of the FOSS-but-Windows-only https://www.heidisql.com/ .

But neither of these are really "fully baked" options.

EDIT: This may have come across as the typical HN "middlebrow dismissal" so I just want to say, phenomenal work and a heartfelt thanks for being fully FOSS. Tools like this are a really important part of the SWE landscape that could use some more good entrants.
So far, it's not obvious that the global null hypothesis, which is that nothing we are doing is making a difference, has been disproven.
Some people have innate creativity that just needs to be tuned through hard work. Many (most) don't have it in them to begin with.

We should all be OK with the idea that we're not all geniuses (creative genius, business, mathematical, whatever) waiting to be unlocked.

This says it best:
https://mashable.com/video/jj-watt-robbie-rudy-snl-sketch/
Ok, I'm sure you've written perfect code your entire career and have never made a single mistake, however simple, and however early in your career. Right?

If you want to criticize something, criticize the testing that let this change through, not the developer who made it. We were all young and inexperienced once, we've all had bad days, and we've all written crap code. This is only unique because it affected a lot of people.
There absolutely could, if the new legislation were easy enough to circumvent for large companies but expensive to implement for everyone else, giving big players an even bigger advantage as far as data goes.
100% ad tech or some Mulesoft style middleware app.
I down voted it because you are arguing about down votes (meta rating) which is against the etiquette / rules.
Doubtful there is enough demand for such hand crafted work. Else we wouldn't have starving artists
Former user, definitely returning to it again now. Despite loving the tools, not having the complete code stifled me too much and not being able to host where I needed to pushed me away about a year ago. Looking forward to seeing the improvements they have made.
I love GitLab's transparency and the decentralized concept; But I can't comprehend how some basic features take as long as they do to get done. It took GitLab _3 YEARS_ to add a "What's new" link to the header: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/16653 ... and it still isn't closed.

Issues fall through the cracks because there's no internal health oversight, take this issue for example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/21907 It simply ceased to exist because the original staff member left GitLab.

I've also seen community MRs with weeks of work go to waste because GL staff couldn't take proper ownership/responsibility to see them through.

I think having a "all hands" week where all work stops except for going through current GitLab.org issues, fixing labeling/priorities, adding related issues and pinging the correct leads would do WONDERS.

Sadly, if GitHub adds scoped labels and descriptions we'll be making a move over as it's the final piece of the puzzle.
This is accurate in my experience. Also keeping things up and being there in case shit hits the fan is a full-time job. You can't write features and also manage servers equally well. Unless you have no life I guess.
@pembrook wrote this elsewhere in the thread [0]:

> If your answer is "the entire world is stupid," then I'd argue you don't understand how the field of design is supposed to work.

And I think it really sums the argument up. Good design and engineering is about building something that performs its function efficiently, reliably, and unobtrusively. If something is widely misunderstood or misused, it's a design flaw.

"Blame the [law-abiding] citizens" is just as much of a cop-out as "blame the user".

In this case, however, it's not a case of general misinterpretation or misunderstanding. It's a case of the law creating very strong -- like significant-millions-of-dollars-on-the-line strong -- incentives for every significantly-sized company to harass every visitor. That's a pretty huge flaw.

It sounds like your response is basically "well if they aren't doing anything wrong, they have nothing to fear! just go to the tribunal and prove that every cookie is innocent." And in that case, please refer back to pembrook's quote above.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23095303
The framing suggests that the asker did like the movie. It makes it harder to answer in the negative because some (most) folks have an instinct to achieve social consensus. I think it's a society-wide learned defense mechanism against tribalism in the presence of allies. Maybe a good test for these sorts of questions is to add the word "also" at the end.
What if there was an actual decrease in heart attacks and strokes because of the change in lifestyle during lockdown?
I am so excited about this. I've been using code-server [0] for a while now, because Visual Studio Online was not fast enough in Australia for me to use.

I have a VPS that runs code-server and I use 'save as app' in Edge so that it captures control keys properly. It feels like it's native and using ssh tunnels it feels 99% native, and I can pick back up working on any computer.

I ended up with this set up because I have a Galaxy Book S and VS Code doesn't have an ARM build. Very excited!

[0] https://github.com/cdr/code-server
Law enforcement is not a death threat. Conspiracy to commit crimes should also not be allowed on HN but here we are with these grasshopper accounts.
Having multiple personalities or identities is not, per se, a disorder in itself. It requires dissociation and a lack of control of your personality to be a disorder.
This is also not GDPR compliant, not that anyone actually bothers to enforce the law.

If we respect the GDPR then data sharing for Facebook Login should only happen once the user presses the Facebook login button (as at that point the data sharing becomes essential to provide the functionality).

As far as ad/marketing attribution it should be opt-in as that is not an essential requirement to provide the service (and even less so for paid apps).

In both cases the SDK breaches the GDPR as it calls out every time it's loaded and upon first launch it will "register" itself with Facebook by submitting device information (make/model, carrier name, locale, timezone, etc) and obtain a unique ID which is then used in subsequent requests, providing Facebook with a trail of your whereabouts and usage patterns based on IP addresses you connect from (which they can then correlate with any other information they have).
Those criticisms aren't about mere bugs, but a bloated over-engineered iOS apps with far too many classes (18k back in 2015) [0]. The Android app was also previously notorious for patching Dalvik at runtime to deal with the huge number of Java methods [1].

Granted, perhaps things have gotten better in the last five years.

It's certainly possible for an enormous engineering company to have poor code quality or poor engineering practices, despite having a high interviewing standard. And a criticism of Facebook need not be a criticism of all companies that interview by Leetcode, for instance no one here is criticizing Google, Amazon, or Apple, and all have better reputations for code quality.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/6upeu6/how_...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/under-th...
Just want to say I love threads like these. I hope one day where I work we can have two or three obscenely beefy servers and be done with it. I'm planning for something similar probably Q2 2021 as our expenses grow too large on a manged hosting platform like Heroku/Render/Aptible.
I watch in awe as vim experts fly with amazing speed. They have undeniable powers, built on top of highly personalized .vimrcs. And I try to learn, but get stranded in the very basics.

Example is searching for text on my system clipboard. There's no way to do this in vim: it insists on interpreting special regex chars. If you google it, you will find line noise that you can paste into your vimrc; these solutions inevitably have caveats and are now personalized to you.

(I asked our resident vim expert how he accomplishes this, and he seemed confused why you would ever need to do that. vim is its own universe, huh.)

Anyways looking for practical suggestions for getting into vim - a "cheat sheet" that has actually worked for someone!
Then that's the fault of companies who fucked up self-regulation so badly that the government has to step in. If they had behaved, this wouldn't be necessary.
Too late. My CAPTCHA now reads "What colour is vortico's logo". It's pretty effective. Not one bot signup.
riiiiiiiiiight, it totally stands for Anguilla.
Facebook Login can be implemented with plain oAuth without sending any data to Facebook until the user actually uses the FB Login feature.

Regardless of which SDK features they use the SDK calls out to Facebook with the device's fingerprint and a persistent UUID every time the app is launched or brought back into foreground.
There doesn't have to be a loser. Win-win is an option.
I agree, I remember when I learned to use Google Cloud for ML training, it took so much time to learn how to setup everything and to go around all their gotchas. I then tried getting started with AWS, but their poor interface and unfamiliar grounds made me stick to using plain VPSs.
I heard similar phrasing used by one psychotherapist that I admire, "I am different from my wishes" and "I am different from my (past) behavior". He once said jokingly that if someone realizes that, he can give them a "60 year warranty on their mental health".

What I also find interesting is that this idea is rather old, it can be found in Christianity, for example, where "devil is tempting you", that is thoughts and wishes you have might not be your own (but from some demon tempting you). It may sound a bit silly in modern times, but it boils down to the same idea.
Outside of work, to create at least as much as I consume. I'm trying to pick up writing as a hobby to shift my creation:consumption balance.

Edit: Related to that, I've been writing brief notes on interesting articles I read for the past few years. This has two advantages:
1) It helps me to read critically, and
2) It forces me to be more intentional about the articles I read - one way to combat the deluge of information
Breaking changes in Vue 3, if you migrate from Vue 2
Thank you for sharing this! We are working on the genomics of AD
Hugely influential. I love Kraftwerk and about 50 bands who wouldn't exist without them.
I actually think this is a decent idea, so made a quick little landing page to gauge if people are interested. http://unsolicit.me
What does "well on the way to containment" mean?

The new cases/deaths stats in California, for example, are not showing any long-term decreasing trend: https://www.latimes.com/projects/california-coronavirus-case...
It’s extremely common for academic research groups to have their own hardware. Often, it doesn’t make sense from an overhead/maintenance point of view. If you’re a single lab large enough to need dedicated compute, you often don’t have the budget for a good admin. If you’re part of a larger group (like it sounds like you are) it is easier and you can afford some of the extra overhead.

But, I’ve found that there are two reasons why there is still a lot of on-premise academic compute: 1) legal, 2) cap-ex.

For the first, there are still many agreements for data sharing that require strict security compliance. It is certainly possible for this to work on the cloud, but it is more difficult than setting up a hardened cluster that’s not exposed to the internet. IT is normally better setup to audit and approve these on-premises systems than cloud systems.

For the second, it is difficult to estimate and write in all of the cloud costs for a grant budget. Trying to manage op-ex can be more of a hassle than just budgeting X amount for “servers” (as a cap-ex). Often, you just care about getting the job done, but less about how long it takes. So, a set capital expense has lower risk than underestimating your cloud needs and not being able to finish your project. (Also, as a bonus, once the equipment is paid for, you get to keep it to use on the next project, or unfunded research).
That sounds interesting. By "moving in the right direction" do you mean that it's still in beta or not released yet? Or that it's just the first step of many to come?
What a shameless plug
“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Astronomers Just Found a Black Hole Near Earth
wasnt this shared a few days ago?
https://eaj.no/a-guide-to-big-o-notation
That’s great! Is any of that stuff Mac specific, or would all of it apply on Linux also?

PS: These are about using the Nix package manager, rather than the Nix OS, right?
Friends at Uber have many positive things to say about the company, but all of them have been very clear that a lot of the management layers are populated by people with limited experience. Most likely the engineering lay-off couldn’t get done in time for earnings.
> For most every workload I can think of, as their load increases it's always one resource in particular that's the limiting factor.

So this is a rediscovery, at least an example, of what could be called the bottleneck principle of system performance analysis and optimization! Sooo, just look for the bottleneck(s), work on those, and f'get about everything else until, say, everything is equally a bottleneck at which time have a well balanced, call it optimized, which can be appropriate, configuration!

At times, e.g., at IBM's Watson lab, there has been a lot of work on applying queueing theory, analysis, and simulation to analyzing and then optimizing such systems, but, more closely to fully true than one might guess, all that really mattered were the bottlenecks(s)!
Yeah, I stumbled upon that as well, but it just looked like the connections to furry merely involved political issues that coincided with the causes that furries tend to care about. Even furries, still being human at the end of the day, contribute to the mainstream political discourse.

My definition of "infiltrating furry Tumblr" is perhaps a fair bit stricter: Infiltration implies being accepted as a member of the community, which also implies some level of gossip around someone new or cool whom folks are excited to introduce or meet.

The problem is that Tumblr killed these accounts, so there isn't any good record today of what their profiles looked like, what avatars they had, etc. I also can't seem to find anything particularly furry-centric beyond the fact that a malicious actor saw fit to target a subculture for some political trolling.

I'm chalking this up to the interface of a subculture with mainstream society being compromised and not necessarily the subculture itself.
Your story brought to mind this bit of Apple folklore[0], wherein Bill Atkinson, the author of QuickDraw, reported his weekly LOC as -2,000 after implementing optimizations.

[0] https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Negative_2000_Li...
Netflix runs on the cloud and does 30% of all internet traffic.

That being said, 99% of that traffic is served from servers in colos now, but 10 years ago it was all served from CDN providers like Akamai, which is just a specialized cloud.
Data analytics and AI trends in 2020
Except as the quote actually says, it is advice to beginners.
Everyone read this!

This Nix/Guix level of package management is what every distribution should aim for.
Apps that are based on a subscription model also advertise for their apps, the two issues are orthogonal.
TensorFlow 2.2.0 Released
Good advice. I’ve memorized a lot of poems by reading them out loud three times a day. A sonnet or a few stanzas took me a few weeks. Some were pages long and took months. This method is slower than some others, but it’s foolproof, and since I only chose poems I loved, I didn’t mind spending the time with them.

The method also works for prose.
Thank you, both of those are helpful. I'm happy to see the market has matured a lot since I last looked.
Manifesto for Lightweight Web Pages
I think those would burn, since these engines are meant to breath air (with oxygen in it.) Tungsten filaments work in lightbulbs because those are filled with an inert gas, or vacuum. The filaments burn quick when the bulb is broken.
Not many services are available in gov cloud regions, so we're stuck with on-prem nearly everything.
You "married an HSV-negative"? Quite the romantic.
>> Collecting rents from people without the capital to own housing, in addition to increases in land value, is about as textbook an example of parasitism as one could imagine. Let [the landlords] take a bath and keep people housed.

> Who would you suggest should own the property instead of landlords? Should all housing be state owned instead?

Why would state ownership be their first choice? There are obviously other, more moderate options that solve the landlord issue, such as having housing units owned by their occupants.
Like many others have pointed out: Cost.

I'm the CTO of a moderately sized gaming community, Hypixel Minecraft, who operates about 700 rented dedicated machines to service 70k-100k concurrent players. We push about 4PB/mo in egress bandwidth, something along the lines of 32gbps 95th-percentile. The big cloud providers have repeatedly quoted us an order of magnitude more than our entire fleet's cost....JUST in bandwidth costs. Even if we bring our own ISPs and cross-connect to just use cloud's compute capacity, they still charge stupid high costs to egress to our carriers.

Even if bandwidth were completely free, at any timescale above 1-2 years purchasing your own hardware, LTO-ing, or even just renting will be cheaper.

Cloud is great if your workload is variable and erratic and you're unable to reasonably commit to year+ terms, or if your team is so small that you don't have the resources to manage infrastructure yourself, but at a team size of >10 your sysadmins running on bare metal will pay their own salaries in cloud savings.
That makes sense if you're talking about ads in the app, but that wasn't the discussion. The discussion is about the marketing folks running ads on Facebook for the app and wanting to know how effective those ads were.
Cough... y combinator... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point_combinator#Fixed_p...
Yes, Stanford Hospitals actually sent about 20% of their staff home.[1]

Stanford was prepared for a huge influx of coronavirus patients, but they only have 20-30 in the hospital. This despite a steadily climbing death toll. My own GP says, if you get it, go to Stanford; they have the investigational drugs, and they're not overloaded.

Nationally, the US death toll continues to climb. Currently somewhere between 69,000 and 74,000, depending on the source. The SF Bay Area's shelter-in-place thing seems to have helped. We need to get more people wearing masks, though. Seeing too many people without masks. More of the good masks, too. You really need N95 or ASTM Level 3 masks to protect yourself; the cheapies only protect other people. That only works if almost everybody wears the things.

What's happening outside the US? The Financial Times tracker, which has been updated every day for months, shows the US death rate flat. Most other countries have peaked and decreased substantially.[2]

[1] https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/04/27/coronavirus-14000-sta...

[2] https://ig.ft.com/coronavirus-chart/?areas=usa&areas=gbr&cum...
HeidiSQL works really well under Wine. I would still be using it
I’ve got tons of apps in my App Store’s update queue, some that I haven’t updated for a couple months and they still work perfectly. Uber is one that comes to mind. They keep changing the UI while I keep using the same version from ages ago. I don’t bother updating anymore, it’s just noise.
I'm not really sure what the problem is here. You are perfectly free to not use Spotify, or any other app that chooses to utilize Facebook login or other components of the Facebook SDK. Spotify made their choice to use the SDK for whatever gains they get out of it, and as a customer you can choose to not use their service or app if you disagree with that.

There's even comments in this HN thread that point you on how to do it on Android if you're so inclined.
Lebanese bank losses to reach 200% of GDP