skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>any pleasurable experience releases dopamine

This is a distinction of degree then perhaps. But you're on the right track. Spending time with your family is a good thing. Pursuing more drug usage and porn usage is not, not least of which because they'd probably lead to less "spending time with family" or no family at all.

That drugs and porn occupy your time, and reward you for it, and again, in an extreme way (large reward.. not just "reward") is the entire point.

>nor am I sure what effect I should be searching for

That you are even considering what you should be searching for is commendable. Most people here wouldn't even take the time to run the thought experiment or grant that self experiment is valid evidence. Nor would they go read no-fap discussions listing countless, endless examples of drastic improvements in individuals lives from before/after.

>keeping in mind that such topics are often difficult to study

Yep. And there are a lot of variables. See why waiting for a study is kinda silly? We don't need it. Though I'm sure there are or could be some good ones, those searching for the perfect one when self experience would show them all they would need, or 500 anecdotes. Again, it's self evident for anyone who puts in a bit of time willing to consider. Those that want to rationalize their unhealthy behavior will hold out, perpetually, for study.

Persuading those people is a lost cause. I think we can just take the heuristic of looking at how endless supply of novel, virtually "real" (to the brain) sexual stimulus is something never before existing in human history. We can point to delay and decline in marriage, birth rates, and family formation. Stories of teenagers and young children being exposed to hard core pornography early and finding themselves with a habit that leads to depression, anxiety, apathy, marriage problems for adults etc. They're out there. Nobody wants to do this study, but we can use our common sense and intuition anyways.
Wow, great work! I'm reading through the script's source right now to learn about how it works.
Reading past marketing blurbs and using products for the things they are designed is part of any engineer's job. I was irritated by MongoDB's claims and defaults, but that didn't stop us from putting it in production. We used it from 2012 to 2016 (their most infamous years?), and for our use cases, scale, size+expertise, and feature set, it was a perfect match. In our case, durability was a smaller concern by design (lots of write-only data, lots of ephemeral data), but we still configured it carefully and never ran into any data loss whatsoever; snapshots worked, migrations worked, etc.

If the service had lasted longer, scaled bigger, and the business it supported had been more successful, we might have ended up with a now-classic MongoDB to pg migration. That was always an acceptable outcome, and it would have not invalidated going with Mongo at the start.
What gets damaged?
It was years ago and I forgot what change they made. It was either ads or "sign up for a free account". Whatever it was, it pissed me off -- and enough others that Autodesk apparently walked it back.

It only stressed to me the need for an open-source solution -- which Krita on Android fills nicely.
Checkout `DevToolsSecurity` on the command line. Could help with d. :)
There are people inside Google that must have thought this review and communication process was a Good Idea. It wouldn't have gotten built otherwise.

Will these individuals continue to be putting Good Ideas into production indefinitely or is there some sort of immune response inside Google?

I have no interest in a scape goat or anything like that, I'm just curious if there's a way to incorporate the real-world consequences of choices like this into who is empowered to make choices going forward.
Uh, how is a personal document something that focus on the overall population?

Population level solutions of this type would universally grant rights to (at least) entire blocks of a city.
I did this and I found that as I increased the paralellism of my tests, the genserver got bottlenecked and the test suites started throwing heisenbugs, which is not what you want. You should really be using the Mox library, which I don't believe suffers from this problem.
That’s mean to SnapChat.
At n=109, and the multitude of reported observed side effects, I would still much prefer the virus over this supposed vaccine...
You can tell a lot about a developer by their preferred database.

* Mongo: I like things easy, even if easy is dangerous. I probably write Javascript exclusively

* MySQL: I don't like to rock the boat, and MySQL is available everywhere

* PostgreSQL: I'm not afraid of the command line

* H2: My company can't afford a database admin, so I embedded the database in our application (I have actually done this)

* SQLite: I'm either using SQLite as my app's file format, writing a smartphone app, or about to realize the difference between load-in-test and load-in-production

* RabbitMQ: I don't know what a database is

* Redis: I got tired of optimizing SQL queries

* Oracle: I'm being paid to sell you Oracle
No ACH was involved, just cards (once with a credit card, once with a debit card and the same thing happened both times).
I assume ‘people’ and ‘everyone’ are different groups, but you really ought to be able to measure outcomes of any ‘do the thing’.

Sometimes, you have to remind the timid that metrics are a feedback loop - and ensure that you can reverse course if your numbers don’t match the expected trend.
The last numbers I saw (2016-ish) put Advertising at 86% of Google's revenue (Or perhaps Alphabet's revenue? I'll admit that all that stuck in my head was this 86.)

If those numbers are still anywhere near close, Google is an advertising company with some interesting side hustles. Just because Harley Davidson sell t-shirts, doesn't mean you'd describe them as anything other than a motorcycle company.
> spread it to their family

Family, friends, grandparents, colleagues at work. And those will undoubtedly spread it further, until it eventually reaches people that it actually kills. There simply is no way to safely perform a deliberate "self-infection" in order to get antibodies other than by committing to a radical externally-enforced quarantine for the duration of the infection. And I personally wouldn't trust most of the prime candidates for such a self-infection (young adults fed up with the lack of parties and entertainment) to be responsible enough for that, which is why I confront any ideas that might incentivize such behavior, like immunity passports, with extreme doubt and caution.
Yeah, thanks for the response. I saw you mention this downthread after you made the comment. Thanks for the work you do moderating this place.
"as any React/Vue app" From my experience, and what I heard from others, a lot of devs prefer React over Vue even though Vue syntax is cleaner and allows for shorter code. React just feels more robust when the app grows large enough compared to Vue. Note that we're not talking only about the library itself and its syntax, but also the ecosystem and support around it.

That being said, I think Svelte -> Vue comparison might be even more imbalanced than Vue -> React.
In this case, it's not a huge difference.
> 7 Thou shalt study thy libraries and strive not to reinvent them without cause, that thy code may be short and readable and thy days pleasant and productive.

> Numberless are the unwashed heathen who scorn their libraries on various silly and spurious grounds, such as blind worship of the Little Tin God (also known as ``Efficiency''). While it is true that some features of the C libraries were ill-advised, by and large it is better and cheaper to use the works of others than to persist in re-inventing the square wheel. But thou should take the greatest of care to understand what thy libraries promise, and what they do not, lest thou rely on facilities that may vanish from under thy feet in future.

I'm not sure I follow. Why this would be difficult in any language with a usable package manager and a reasonable ecosystem?
That, and I have met a lot of interesting people who I would not have met otherwise.

I am a small fish in a small pond in my chosen career, but writing helps my own understanding. Explaining things helps understanding.
In order:

Browse news, research something I'm working on or buy stuff for a project, browse stocks/options, reddit stocks and wallstreetbets, this site, and a little bit of reading Facebook.
Voice was a really frustrating product for me because it was so clearly years ahead of its time and also ignored by Google for so long that everyone else caught up and passed them.

In 2010 I was able to have one number ring multiple phones, automatic transcription of voicemail, text people from a web browser (!), switch between network providers without having to deal with number porting, it was great.

What killed it for me was that MMS was silently dropped, no images, but worse group SMS was handled by MMS so if people added you to group chats you just wouldn't get any of the messages and they would have no indication that you weren't getting them.

This went unsolved for years.

Eventually iMessage, Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook - basically everyone else took this market. Then Google started some anemic work on it again, along the way making and killing a bunch of other chat products that all sucked in different ways.

Along with google plus and cloud, this is probably one of their biggest strategic failures.
Interesting thought. SciPy is obviously useful for modelling DSP stuff, but no idea how feasible it would be to use it for real-time processing, compared to something like Pyo (http://ajaxsoundstudio.com/pyodoc/).

I just tried searching "Jupyter audio live coding" for fun and it unearthed quite a few interesting results, but the real-time ones tend to involve SuperCollider or something similar. E.g. I discovered NSynth [0], which seemed like magic for a minute (they use Tensorflow to make a synthesizer, there's even an intrument for Ableton Live!) until I found out how they ‘cheat’ (pre-computing a wave-table for multisampling).

[0] https://magenta.tensorflow.org/nsynth-instrument
I think the parents comment's argument is that since it's based on chromium it also can eventually be forced to acquiesce, so any chromium-based browser is just a stop gap solution.
I don't think the parent comment was complaining about the nomenclature. I interpreted it as pointing out that in any hiring activity, the candidate/applicant/whatever is the product. A company pays a recruiting service in exchange for hiring a candidate.

(Of course, the candidate also receives value because presumably they are looking for a job and get one in this transaction. But the whole "you are the product" trope always ignores the fact that the "product" person is receiving value in the transaction).
The UC will no longer use SAT and ACT scores in admissions decisions
ooc, what is the distance you sit from it?
Surprisingly, it seems not to have made the front page: http://hnrankings.info/23191439/. There's clearly community appetite to discuss this, so we won't treat the current submission as a dupe.
Yes, indoor spaces are awful, but I don't have the feeling that the politicians and the specialists advising them are grasping this yet.
The bullshit 1.5m rule is alive and well in Germany and there were recently two outbreaks in closed spaces (restaurant + church).

"Evidence keeps piling up that outdoor transmission is very difficult and surface transmission is remarkably unlikely"

Where's the evidence and what does "unlikely" mean in percentages? AFAIK there's in fact zero evidence about anything regarding outdoor or surface transmission, because for some reason no one's testing relevant scenarios like "how long does the virus survive on fruit?" and instead they're making guesses worth exactly jack shit.
This has always been what kept me away from Erlang/Elixir (which I gave serious consideration as both a project technology and a career path in it's 2010 era revival).

I've gotten to the point I can adapt to missing libraries but what it does at runtime is very different from anything else.

I don't do a lot of server side node.js but I have a lot of confidence if someone called me at midnight saying their node service was down I could jump in and start making progress fast. I think it would take some time running Erlang in production to get there.
> Or people care more about speed and ease of use than durability

I think 90% of the Mongo installs I've been exposed to were set up by people that were tired of fighting with Hibernate configurations and schema migrations.

It's also popular among people whose definition of "legacy software" is "that app I stopped working on after three months because I have something shiny and new."
Make enough money to support my family.

Not dying / staying healthy would be a nice bonus. Although, if I die that would probably satisfy my primary goal via life insurance.
Agreed, I hate YouTube videos for instructional content. I can read much faster than the instructor can speak, I can ctrl+f, and webpages don't tend to pad their content to fill a 12-minute video for 10 seconds of actual content.

My only gripe is that the page's margins aren't a bit more narrow.
the license change was needed to keep MDB alive. Amazon's documentDB is just a fork of mdb before the new license.
"By all means do the comparison against the 3950x."

Just to be clear, here, your overclocking was so extreme, and so extremely atypical, that you're on the "world record" list-

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/geekbench4_-_multi_core/halloffa...

And you're seriously positing this as just a typical thing to do?

Your processor costs 33%+ more than the 3950X. Your cooler, even your "hardly expensive" cooler, costs another $200-$300+. No, you didn't hit anywhere close to a high in price/performance -- even if we assume that you aren't blasting through 300W to the processor alone, and suffering a cascade of faults if you tried to pretend this was normal operations, you still haven't come close to breaking even on that ratio.

And all of that is going by Geekbench which already has an oddly synthetic slant towards Intel. In actual benchmarks of real world activities -- compiling, running blender, most games, etc -- the 3950X absolutely shoots in the lead (despite having just two RAM channels, where in memory access it barely lags the 4 channel 10980XE)

I don't have any dog in this race. This laptop has an i7. My MBP has an i7. My "gaming" PC has an older Zen. But you have to seriously stretch and twist reality to try to make a case for Intel, much less a value proposition.
Ask HN: What is your experience managing Apple devices from Linux?
My main need is cloudless iPhone/iPad backup and access to photos. It seems that libimobiledevice is the most common approach. The libimobiledevice homepage news[1] hasn't been updated in 3 years, but the GitHub[2] seems reasonably active. Has anyone here had good or bad experiences with libimobiledevice or some other option that does not require jailbreaking?

[1] https://www.libimobiledevice.org/

[2] https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libimobiledevice
I would move to Arch or Debian.

That said, how can they lock it down? You need macOS open to develop apps for their other devices.

They can’t get rid of homebrew et al, as they’d lose their iOS developers! Don’t you agree?

The fact they explicitly have a “Dev tool” category you can use here says a lot about their approach being open for power users.
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I'm totally happy if Nuclear becomes the major source that gets us off fossil fuels. But I'm also realistic. The cost, timeline, and red tape holding it back isn't moving fast enough.
Yeah, they will, if you activated it. And if you made access to 0 address be caught explicitly ( you might have the MMU active but not have it configured in such a way)
Nice! Some of these also remind me of Rez, which after eighteen years is still my favorite video game.
Maybe there's some confusion in terms about what "focus on the overall population" means, but a mandatory license to go about your business is surely not libertarian as the article suggests.
A vscode extension that will sync your current workspace to your GitHub status
Agree with you completely.
One thing I've noticed working for a variety of companies is that highly profitable companies generally do not have consequences for even fairly dramatic failures, both in terms of how they treat customers and how they treat employees. They simply have too much money, so there's little need to do so.

In a tiny company, a large failure can easily be the end of the company, so they're far more motivated to care about things like customer happiness, etc.
Thanks for the feedback. Really glad to hear that your experience is going well with TimescaleDB! Feel free to ping me directly ajay (at) timescale.com if there's anything I can do to help.
I find it hilarious that so many people are so worked up on the rounding on the third significant figure of a number in the comments section of an article about "back of the envelope estimation hacks".
And you can tell a lot about a developer when they post comments like this.

Almost none of is remotely accurate e.g. RabbitMQ isn't even a database.
Can most people do these calculations in their head?

Personally I find that I am unable to do these calculations/estimations unless I write things down. I get lost between powers of 2/MB/TB/nanoseconds and other unit conversions. I understand that this is elementary math, but still, I am just curious, can most people do similar calculations in their head (for instance during a meeting) ?
I love that claim because it makes it clear how many people advocating for economic restrictions due to public health concerns with COVID are fundamentally advocates for statism and seem to relish the opportunity to wield gov't control over the economy.
Right, but the theory is that they have us beat when it comes to speed since they are directly sensing the colors whereas we are doing a bunch of post-processing.
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All companies should be doing internal penetration/security testing. If you don't do it, someone in China or Russia will do it for you, you just won't know. I hope GitHub is doing this too. Google, for example, has an entire team whose task it is to exploit such attack vectors and close the holes in all sorts of products and processes, often with stunning results. I'm not sure if the rest of FAANG does this, although I'd be surprised if Facebook doesn't do essentially the same. I would not be surprised if Amazon or Apple don't do it, at least not to the extent you'd see at Google (no holds barred, the red team gets to pwn everything). Netflix, I'm not sure, they probably have something. Microsoft probably doesn't do it, since it'd make people look bad, and in their back-stabbing corporate culture people can't afford to look bad.
Dedicating a third of my time to a language I had no previous intention of learning is going to be a hard sell, even if you label it as "broadening."

If I'm a python developer, I'm now spending less time on my core competency, giving other python developers an edge. Seems like you're actually narrowing my career, unless I wish to apply for jobs seeking mediocre Erlang programmers...
If google takes down an extension but it has loyal followers, they can still side load the extension, right?
The links page (remember those?) is a gold mine of high quality ancient internet archaeology. I definitely remember Sam's site from the altdot days. I do miss the sheer quantity of irresponsible electronics that was on the internet 20 years ago. It's been ages since I've seen a furby electrified with the wrong end of a utility pole transformer.

https://www.repairfaq.org/sam/sambook.htm
Using AI to suggest a reply or to use human approval seems like a low risk approach.

Would you feel dead inside if your tool helped developers keep their projects online? Sounds rewarding to fight the big guy and keep cool projects online.
(Keep in mind that due to how compounding works, averaging interest in this way will underestimate it slightly.)
Whether antibody tests are made official or not, their results will begin being requested before their efficacy has been proven. I’ve already started seeing it in New York, if only as a polite request.

Focus should be on improving test quality, understanding joe immunity works and increasing availability.

This article reads as a perfect is the enemy of the good piece. Limiting something potentially beneficial because not everyone can have it is a nice thought, but it backfires.
I have one and it works well, but AMD doesn't have good CPUs with their APUs yet.

They aren't Zen 2, more than 4 cores or 7nm, all of which would make a huge difference. Putting the APU on the same chip makes them more difficult to cool, especially since they don't have quite as high quality packaging as the better CPUs. Getting smooth 4k realistically means messing with bios settings to get them to throttle less and run hotter.
It’s not “internet speed” if you can’t route at that speed.
I didn’t know one way or the other, which is why I asked. Perhaps the unspoken bias I’m putting on display is the assumption that no independent observer could possibly think their actions were ethical.
What's the point? Western nations will never reach even 40% mask usage unless it's legally mandated or people start dying in droves.
Sounds like a good idea with an added benefit that there are BLAS interfaces for many programming languages.
Hi Azer! It's been a while.

I had the same problem with a Chrome extension for my side project Defero (school information system). It uses InboxSDK to integrate the Defero address book with GMail. Unfortunately, it got flagged for security review and it kept getting rejected no matter what I changed. I ended up concluding my authentication mechanism and/or my use of InboxSDK was causing problems so I'm going to try changing the authentication mechanism.

But working with the Google to try to get it fixed and finding the cryptic warnings they hide in various parts of the developer console has been extremely annoying. I don't blame you for your decision.
Not infecting the population?

If we can make the whole population immune - it is the best. If there are some people immune - it makes no sense restricting their traveling rights if they are not increasing risk of infecting others.