skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who said anything about the scientific studies proving anything? My point was that feelings prove just as little. If you're not going to trust other people, then especially don't trust yourself. The output of your feelings is even less evidence-based than the worst possible scientific study.

If you want to truly understand how you specifically react to something, then do science yourself. You don't need to be very rigorous with this, as the goal isn't to prove some huge effect size. The goal is to just get an objective answer to the question of whether you are more productive, rather than a subjective (and therefore very likely wrong) one. Find an objective measure of your own personal performance (anything you care about, doesn't have to be something a boss would care about); maybe find a way to blind yourself to which days you're using the treatment vs. a placebo; write down numbers; and then stick 'em in Excel and see what you get.

I would point at Gwern as a good example of someone who runs self-experiments to determine the objective n=1 effects of different "life hacks" on things they care about. (For Gwern, this is usually brain performance—measured by, among other things, the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-back task, data for which can be collected in the form of "playing" a quick round of a computer game.) For example, here's their look into magnesium supplementation: https://www.gwern.net/nootropics/Magnesium
>If Amazon hadn't happened, then another company would have.

It would have happened later, so everybody's standard of living would have been a little lower. The more you discourage people from starting businesses, the fewer people try to start businesses, so successful new business are created more slowly, and the economy grows slower. It's also more likely the company will appear first in another country more friendly to business, and then the original country will lose out on the revenue, jobs and soft power it might have gained from that country operating there.
One thing I know is pretty well-researched about light, is that our brains produce dopamine in response to optic-nerve signals hitting our https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprachiasmatic_nucleus. This response is what causes circadian entrainment, but it also just has the same effect as any other dopaminergic agonism in the brain: increasing motivational arousal. This is why light-therapy lamps warn you not to use them for more than 30 minutes at a time: the excess dopamine produced by your SCN will put you into a state of mania.

Up to a point, people work better with more dopamine in their brains. (Many people have subclinical/undiagnosed ADHD, and work especially better with more dopamine in their brains.) One way to make people's brains produce more dopamine is to make them stare directly into bright light sources. Therefore, light-mode is very likely to be observed as "more productive" for anyone who's not already saturating their dopamine receptors by other means (drugs et al.)

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Fun tangent that I like to bring up, because few people seem to have heard of it:

This dopamine agonism in the SCN also increases muscle tone in muscles with nerve connections afferent to the SCN, e.g. the orbital muscles of the eye (chemical "feedback" through the optic nerve, essentially.)

The current hypothesis for the development of myopia (nearsightedness) is that the eye's orbital muscles must receive a certain amount of dopamine during the development/growth of the skull to keep the eye pressed into the right shape relative to the ocular orbit. In people who don't get enough bright-light exposure to consistently trigger dopamine release from the SCN, their orbital muscles remain slack, allowing their eye to "relax" wider into the orbit, leading to the retina growing into position further away from the cornea, and thus leading to myopia.

This means that children don't get nearsighted from doing "close work" all day; but they do become nearsighted from staying inside all day, where they aren't getting enough SCN stimulation from the lower indoor light levels. The likely "fix" for the epidemic of nearsightedness is to get kids to do even sedentary activities outside. (And for people who live in places where it's cloudy/raining most of the year, to get indoor lighting equivalent in light output to a light-therapy lamp.)
Not only that, but those secessionist statues being turn down, are about people who lead a violent rebellion against the US in order to protect their ability to enslave people.

This protest is quite the opposite in nearly every possible way.
I only have one Pine device, a Pinebook. The build quality seems good to me, it isn't just a collection of components thrown together.
tl;dr

Suggested alternatives to the terminology master-slave:

Primary-secondary,
Leader-follower,
Active-standby,
Primary-replica,
Writer-reader,
Coordinator-worker,
Parent-helper

Suggested alternatives to the terminology whitelist-blacklist:

Blocklist-allowlist,
Block-permit
You know no-one is forcing you to play CS in your browser, right? Why is it so offensive to you that this exists and someone else is finding joy in playing it? Why does HN love to rag on web technologies so much?
You should add that you mean just databases. I've just looked at your profile and as I understand it's your focus.

I built a service that was making a lot of requests. Much enough that at some point we've run out of 65k connections limit for basic Linux polling (we needed to switch to kpoll). Some time after that we've ran out of other resources and switching from threads to threads+greenlets really solved our problem.
He may have played one of his hits but you didn't notice. When I saw him live last summer he played Like a Rolling stone but it was unrecognisable. He changed the vocals completely, different melody, different rhythm. The only consistent part was the lyrics themselves (which were hard to make out) and the chords. I only realised halfway through what song it was.

I personally enjoyed listening to his new stuff; his new voice is better suited to it.
They're doing Apple a huge favor by discovering these bugs. They're doing the security community a huge favor by publishing blog posts about them for others to learn from. They also do plenty of Android research, although iOS is a higher priority since most security-conscious people use iOS (including the researchers themselves). This is not a hit piece on Apple.
I find it interesting that (as of this point) comments that speculate on health are downvoted, but comments that speculate on his relationship with management are not...
There's a reason "slippery slope" is often followed by "fallacy"...
I'm likely missing something, but could someone explain why is this page interesting?
Android TV App that fetches and displays latest data about coronavirus
If the banks aren't paying interest on deposits anymore, does it now make sense to withdraw some of the money and store it under a mattress somewhere?

Obviously there are theft, fire, and police confiscation risks that need to be overcome first.
Who broke the build scripts?
>Cops respond to a variety of calls, all the time ... because there simply are not enough of them to have this "specialized" force you think would solve all of these problems.

This makes no sense.
Here is an update: https://www.reddit.com/r/Seattle/comments/h7f01r/i_was_wrong...

My friends that have walked through the area can confirm.

Why predict defeat?

Why not appreciate the experiment as an alternative to our broken system?

Yeah, it'll eventually go away.

But maybe change will be secured, and there are some ideas that do make sense and will spread or stick around.

Is the worst that could happen worse than the status quo?

You sound like one of the commenters on Drew Houston's Ask HN telling him no-one will pay for rsync.
Maybe there's a valuable lesson in that too: foster a sense of community, instead of trying to control people by force.

My impression is also that many cases of police abuse in the US happen in situations where most of the police officers policing a community are not themselves members of that community, but outsiders looking down on that community.
> secessionist monuments

You misspelled white supremacist. All of the confederate monuments I know of were built during _CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENTS_ as an expression of power by white supremacist governments and political traditions.
> Nodejs blew everything out of the water

Node's JIT comes from a web browser's javascript implementation used by billions of people. It's also had async baked in from day one.

Python started single process, added threading, and then bolted async on top of that. And CPython is a pretty straight interpreter.

A comparison between Node and PyPy would be more informative, but PyPy has a far less mature JIT and still has to deal with Python's dynamism.

> If we invent a label maybe they’ll start becoming self aware and start acting more down to earth.

You can't lecture people into self-awareness, any more than experts can lecture everyone into wearing masks.
I don't think it's an accident. Most officials in the US have been pretty clear about what the plan is: we're going to make sure hospitals aren't overloaded, we're going to invest a lot of money in treatments and vaccines and contact tracing, and we're going to open up as much as possible while waiting for a vaccine or effective treatment. You can argue that we should have committed to eliminating the virus before going back to normal, but American officials were never really considering that as an option.
> The problem is that both hardware and software are garbage.

I think it's incredible that, in my lifetime, computers went from giant mainframes with dedicated hard-line terminals to always-connected supercomputers in everyone's pocket, worldwide. Furthermore, anyone can use the internet to learn how to program.

Maybe that's garbage compared to some mythical ideal but in terms of impact on the world it's incredible.

> I know that most of the programmers did not work with systems where it's very, very easy to debug the whole stack and you can learn it in a short period but it's amazing when you have knowledge about EVERY part of the system in your head.

Well, you can tell from the above that I was around then. I started programming with a single manual and the Beagle Brothers "Peeks, Pokes and Pointers" cheatsheet[1].

People forget that the software itself had to do much less than it does today. Here's just one angle to judge: security. We did not have a worldwide interconnected network with so many people trying to steal data from it. We all used rsh and packets were flying around in cleartext, no problem. But today, all software will have to incorporate TLS.

And far fewer people built that simpler software. EA's first titles were written by one or two people. Now a typical EA title has hundreds of people working on it.

Things will get better than where they are today. In the future, the industry will have invest more money in "10X" productivity and reliability improvements. Eventually, I think that will happen as productivity continues to slow on large codebases.

[1] - https://downloads.reactivemicro.com/Apple%20II%20Items/Docum...
How does this compare with Metabase?
D tried to be a bit like Java, because in the early 2000 Java was the popular language dethroning C++ and sadly, it succeeded.

The worst thing about all this legacy is Android.

I would love a phone OS in D, Rust, or other well-designed language.
Yes.. we did get a number of early feedback about this exact topic of data quality. But we eventually decided to cover it in another separate sidebar to the book. It’s also not a simple topic to cover. And the book is supposed to “give you enough to be dangerous”.
Guess you're on an iPhone? Seems to work fine in Brave on Android.
This is one of those scenarios where splitting the difference between two different systems is markedly worse than having picked one and gone with it. In our case, we've managed to both melt down the economy and fail to contain the virus, which isn't good at all.
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I thought dota had one but it has been a while and can't remember if that was really the case.

Assuming it is not, I wonder why? Lots of russian players, why wouldn't Valve put servers in Russia?
was it worth the experiences that you had in your 20s while you weren't really focused on your career?
I've seen him twice – once in Stockholm and once in Gothenburg. I had heard before that he basically just gets on stage, plays his set and then leaves, barely saying a word.

Being prepared for that I expected zero interaction and given that frame of mind it actually kind of worked. It'd probably work better in a smaller, more intimate setting, but it did work – I enjoyed both concerts. I'd probably not pay to go see a third though, I'll be happy playing the records instead.
If you’re UPDATEing a balance on some account table - yes. If you’re using a ledger and calculating balances (which you SHOULD) then SERIALIZABLE is needed.
What makes these people dangerous and scary is that they're carrying dangerous and scary weapons. The flak jackets and face masks aren't making it any less scary either.

Personally, I'm not afraid of the police, of protesters, of armed militias, etc. I'm afraid of people with guns. Why does anyone carry a gun, unless they intend to use it, once some set of conditions obtain? I don't want to be around people like that, and I really don't want to live in places where they go around on public streets like this.
The publisher's believe the CDL is illegal too, and are suing on this basis too. From the article:

> The lawsuit, filed June 1, does not just object to the National Emergency Library but to the way Internet Archive has long operated. Traditional libraries pay publishers licensing fees, and agree to terms that restrict how many times they can lend an e-book. Internet Archive, by contrast, takes books that have been donated or purchased, scans them and posts them online.
Modular Framework for vision and language multimodal research from Facebook AI
> I live on the dark side of a mountain. I work in a room with no external windows.

You don't have lamps? I think most people prefer to have properly lit rooms, and then you also want a light theme on the computer. If you like sitting in the darkness this might not apply to you.
No way this is his actual portfolio.
Soviet Russia did that by making being unemployed illegal.

The Soviet economy tended to have supply side issues - everyone had enough money but getting things to buy was difficult.

I'm not sure how the two are really related and it's a deep and interesting thing to study which I haven't really done. So I don't know all the nuances but that would be an actual example of it.
An account that is closed feels different than an account you don't use. At least to me.
The only language that one can honestly say that is dying (if not already dead) is VisualBasic.
Perl and Delphi are probably going to continue to decline.
Objective-C will be obsoleted by Swift some day, but is still relevant.
Ruby's not too hot now, but far from dead AFAIK.

Other than that it's nonsense to say that X is dying.
Is "steel horse" an example of kenning? It's not mentioned, but it does seem to follow the formula.
Github : https://github.com/facebookresearch/mmf
Why is that interesting? Seems like normal, on topic behavior.
I agree it's shitty culture to color code employee badges and subject a set of people to humiliation. I've worked as an employee and a contractor. We all will at some point in our career. You can't judge someone's integrity to work or competence by the color of the badge they are wearing. H1B employees do compete for IT jobs and win them over Americans. But that's because of interview performance and skills. There's enough data for anyone who wants to find out on how H1B employees are paid.
Along with burnout, I would imagine there's a lot of "looking busy" if you have to stay at work for 12 hours each day.

The culture of "face" and personal image is quite strong in China, and my hypothesis is that the 996 system provides signaling of "dedication" and "hard work" from leadership and employees, but the system doesn't do much in terms of achieving business outcomes. (in the sense that output is not the same as outcomes).

I may be wrong though. After all, maybe your desired outcome is to signal "dedication".
IMO it's underappreciated how these mistakes are not a bug of human intelligence, but a feature. They reveal a default non-literal interpretation of the world, which can be made less abstract when needed. However, it's the default abstractness that prevents us from making gross contextual errors based upon a literal interpretation.
The NEL was still operating under the model of Controlled Digital Lending. The only restriction that was removed was multiple users accessing the same book; each user was still limited to a DRM-enforced lending period, and could only be borrowing a few books from the Archive at any given time.
As I understand it, Trump’s net worth has taken a big drop during his presidency https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/trump-has-los...

While this doesn’t mean there hasn’t been any wrongdoing, I think it does weaken the narrative that he’s exploiting his position for personal gain.
So this does not affect SSI guarantees if the transactions involved all operate on the same row? Is my understanding correct?
For instance can I update a counter with serializable isolation and not run into this bug?
I used dark mode for about 8 years and I've gone back to light mode recently. It looks less cool, but my eye strain is gone and I've been able to go back to my older glasses.

I'm now almost certain 8-10 daily hours of reading code in dark mode contributed negatively to my vision.
Please don't, it would 100% swallow me after all these years of not playing computer games :) I loved Heroes 3.
The issue doesn’t seem to be ObjC per se. It’s the use of a facility that tries to transparently serialize an object in any rich language. Python pickle has the same issue, although it’s arguably worse in Python.

The solution is to abandon the whole approach — these systems should not be used across trust boundaries. Apple should create iMessage v2 using a real serialization system (protobuf, JSON, XML, ASN.1, etc) and deprecate
the old scheme. It’s surely possibly to write a safe but non-extensible deserializer for the old protocol if compatibility is needed.
I feel this is going to be a lag monster.
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I think you have multiple misunderstandings about how science provides valuable results. The first thing I want to say is that I don't devalue your personal experience.

I am unaware of any fighter jet seat problem. If you use the average, you're actually pretty likely (depending on the shape of the distribution, which in the case of phenotypes like body size, are normally distributed when broken down by gender) to find the size that accomodates the most people (you could also consider using the median, or the most populated class, or add a few adjustable parts).

Science hasn't reached the point where it can create truly personalized models that account for your genetics, personal feelings, and other details about your setup. It would be nice if we had that kind of ability, but the data isn't there (either the quality or quantity of the data). however, it's generally understood that these sorts of studies provide useful evidence for people who are making policy for large numbers of people.

Also, what you did at home wasn't an experiment (did you use positive and negative controls and blinding), it was just a measurement of your personal preferences. Again, not trying to deny your personal experience, but a good scientific study does trump your actual experience, when applied to the population at large.
This is just so damn pointless. It will cause some "great" controversy, people will be called white supremacists for refusing to stop saying master.

Now even if this catches on, then yeah OK I'll start naming my branches as main unless I want to make a political statement, which would just add to confusion when developing.

Meanwhile these people will pat each other on the back, yell "yeah! We sure made a difference." while black people keep getting fucked by the system and their lives don't get improved one iota.

just... why?
I'm not really sure what this would look like in practice. Perhaps this would only apply to new repositories, or maybe it will only be the default default. It has never been mandatory for the default branch to be called "master" -- it's just the default value from git and GitHub.

I suppose we will just need to wait and see what happens.
Unless he's been lying on his legally mandated personal finance disclosure docs for the past three years, it is: https://extapps2.oge.gov/201/Presiden.nsf/President%20and%20...
Why do you use less than half the workers for the async libraries?

uwsggi+flask - 16 workers
unicorn+starlette - 5 workers

The highest throughout examples in your benchmark all have 16 workers. I also don’t see any hardware data... Does your machine have 16 cores?
In my early 20s, I was making minimum wage. I only stayed at this job because it was comfortable and I didn't want to actually take a risk and go somewhere new.

When I reached my mid 20s, the business folded and I was forced to find work elsewhere.

I worked hard from 25-30.

At 30, I lived in Asia for a year (my dream that I couldn't actually realize in my 20s) and worked remotely (low pay and hard work, but was very good pay for where I lived).

Now that I'm almost 40, I have a house and make more money that any of my previous jobs. My job is actually the easiest it's been in decades, mostly because I overworked in my earlier years and working a regular job is rather boring and slow compared to my usual pace.

I think working hard in your 20s is required if you want to have a good life in your 30s+.
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> a lack of community spirit that is relatively widespread.

How did this happen?
Indeed — it's great to see a vendor (team, in this case) that doesn't try to downplay a Jepsen result, and instead fixes the issues.

However, there is one more takeaway here. I've heard too many times "just use Postgres", repeated as an unthinking mantra. But there are no obvious solutions in the complex world of databases. And this isn't even a multi-node scenario!
As a die-hard libertarian, I'm amused by a group that's been telling libertarians for decades that we should move to Somalia if we like living without government so much and then creating a purely libertarian social experiment the first chance they get. If this doesn't dissolve into complete chaos it's a vindication of libertarian principles.
Fair point, although the losses seem to be from the huge repetitional harm he's taken. He still may be trying to leverage the presidency to do what he can to improve his finances.
If I told you that I once worked in a shop that didn’t use source control, didn’t have any formal testing, and builds came from dev desktop machines, would you:

1. Vow never to work in the software industry.

2. Allow that perhaps mine is a bad example, that there might be good software shops to work in, and wait for more data.

Though I would not fault anyone for choosing #1.
"main" does seem like an objectively better word to use. The definition fits better in almost every use case.

May seem like a silly gesture to some, but imagine feeling an emotional trigger every time you had to use a basic tool for your job. That'd piss me off.
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I kind of get it, there's no real reason the default branch should be named master, but where do we stop? Will everyone with a master's degree have to update their resumes?
Ray LaMontagne was the same way when I saw him a decade ago. In interviews he said that people came to hear him sing, not to hear him talk.