skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve gotten a lot of mileage out of using cloud-init to bootstrap VMs. The configuration is in YAML, but doesn’t require any other client side tooling. Most major distributions (incl. the public clouds) all support it and make it available in their machine images. It integrates nicely into Terraform too.

https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io
This growth mindset is at the core of HN/startup culture. But at some point other stuff starts to matter more than money. Autonomy, growth, and mastery come to mind.
Clojure Transit (2014)
Could you show some examples?

I did try to use Julia quite a few times (including, I don't know 8 years ago), as I loved the philosophy (brief yet fast, types). Sadly, I never considered it readable - a mix of new concepts, legacy MATLAB syntax, and in general disregard for this part (even function names didn't have consistent naming).

If it moved a lot with that respect, I would be happy some nice examples.
Life is amazing but it has no inherent meaning.

The universe doesn't care if you contemplate it or not, it doesn't care if a couple of 50 year olds make their money selling pieces of dirt with some bricks on for more than they paid.

Enjoy your life, do the things that make you content (and I say content not happy carefully here, happiness is fleeting, contentedness lasts).

In the end it's all the same anyway.
The compare between Django against no-ORM is a bit weird given that rewriting your endpoint in python without Django or ORM would also have produced better results I suppose.
Modular implicits are being worked on actively, it is just a hard feature to get right in a scalable and future-compatible way.
2012 ... they are very strict now. Not saying it cannot happen but at least for normal people it's hard. They check far more than any other bank i'm with and compared to challenger it's almost a black comedy how much you need to fill out, prove, sign etc to open an account. At least in HK hometown. Disclaimer: I have an account there.
> Banks have extremely strict rules when it comes to system "access".

Isn't that's because of SOX compliance requirements?

So, the point above is that "a new set of requirements" could be added regarding "data store software integrity" (though probably named better) if it turns out to be needed. :)
Exactly. Ageism is as negative as any other stereotype. I completely believe that if you hit a certain age and start to believe you're old your body and mind will respond to create that experience, and vice versa.
FWIW hermès has been pretty trigger happy with their lawyers in the past. They sent E3D C&D notices until they renamed their hotend/extruder combo (read: nothing at all to do with bags) to “hermera”.
PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits
The carnivore diet is definitely at the nearly pure anecdote stage right now haha

Let's not forget most diet trends start at that point until someone decides to the take the anecdotes seriously and start researching it more.

I agree with your conclusions about interpreting research and find that weighing the evidence combined with some well defined n=1 trials on yourself can do wonders.
Fantastic. Knowing that my data was validated before being lost makes it so much better.
1) Have you ever worked on the business side? And no, business =/= sales.

2) Except I have seen multiple times when customers paid for customization, then jumped ship (and demanded a refund) because that same customization took too long.
Interesting.

@dongyx
Problems I've stumbled upon: 1) the website dongyuxuan.me has a bad SSL cert. 2) The sub-site https://dongyuxuan.me/posts/c2w.html where GitHub points to doesn't work.
Here in the Netherlands I see a tracking device for cars becoming popular. It is being marketed as a device to get early insights in car breakdown oh and btw you get a 10-20% discount on the insurance fee. That could amount to €40 a month which is a big incentive for people. Sometimes there are even additional insurance discounts when the accelerator has detected a gentle driving style.
> History has shown us over and over and over that an unarmed populace will either A) be subject to unchecked violence by its overlords, or B) be successfully invaded by new and less desirable overlords.

Which is why the UK gets invaded every other week?

Seems an overly reductive viewpoint.
> ... the simple act of rewriting and consolidating huge amounts of data/infra (and stacks) can yield enormous gains.

What's a good example of this working out well?
Of course, but the government doesn't really have such a bottom line, so it doesn't exactly need to care.
The New Old Home
I'd love rowing machines plugged into an alternator so my health powers my laptop ~_~
As usual, Matt Taibbi nails it.

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/the-news-media-is-destroying-i...
if he really was a spy, don't you think he would have remembered his cover story a lot better.

What he told the CBP isn't even in contradiction with his application: "Associate Professor in Medicine in the PLA" vs "Wang provided information that he was, in fact, still currently a “Level 9” technician in the PLA, employed by a military university lab".
That's nice in theory only. In the real world, dependent projects often have long lead times, which often means foregone revenue for the business because of holdups.
Looks interesting. My use case for systems like this is a little different. I am often on a work machine with a 10+-year-old Linux distribution and I have to rebuild a totally separate userland in order to be able to use modern tools. This works but it is tedious.

But several of the attempt to use things like NIX for this failed because they require modern kernel APIs for things like namespaces.
Multi Window Apps: Persistent DomEvents
To some extent, it is a matter of taste. Personally, I love functional notation (technically, in PyTorch its chaining) e.g.:

x.matmul(y).pow(2).sum()

This way we can rite a lot of things, and we don't need to make up a new combination of punctuation marks and special characters for an operation.

For example, while one can write in Python:

torch.sum((x @ y) 2)

I consider it less readable. I mean, here maybe it is fine, but once it gets longer, more complicated, or we want to add new operations, it turns into a mess.

Vide "style" section in: https://github.com/stared/thinking-in-tensors-writing-in-pyt...
It really should be both: (almost) no health data with private entities, as little data as possible with authorities.
Loading a framework just once for multiple Browser Windows.

Moving entire Component Trees around Windows (just the vdom, no new JS instances).

DomEvents still work out of the box (no need to add new listeners or modify existing ones).

https://github.com/neomjs/neo
This difference must not be exaggerated. Mathematical notation is declarative/functional, and programming languages designed in a similar vein are not unheard of.
Huh, so I tried intermittent fasting for probably six months and honestly it didn't make much difference for me personally. I'm 185cm and ~66-68kg so I was more trying to keep a consistent weight rather than lose weight though.

For me, snacking was fixed by not buying snacks that I would consider too unhealthy. Generally the only snack foods I have in my house now are biscuits to dip in my tea in the evening (British..). Also I've never really liked fizzy drinks and pretty much drink water and black coffee (soya milk once a day for the B12 and protein).

I do agree with the biggest thing for me being portion size, I'm one of those people that if there's food on the table I will finish it, and I'll finish my wife's food as well if she doesn't want it. My wife also doesn't help as if I mention I'm hungry to her, she'll assume that I want more than usual and have to try and remind her that the usual amount will be more than enough :)
I don't exist.

Or the Philosophical cliche... I freely believe in the absence of free will.

Scott Aaronson has discussed this in more detail: https://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html
Show HN: An open source music grid you can play around and create short music
Few days back, I was trying out an AntiStress app in play store which had many small widgets to play around. It had a similar music box which I loved. I wanted to make it configurable and longer, so I made one. The code might be messy since it's my first svelte project, PRs are always welcome :)
Correct. And they definitely do not. The Democrats are not “left”. They’d barely pass for center across the pond. They are just another flavor of The Party of oligarchy and cronyism in control of this country. There are some significant differences in the platforms, but it’s mostly around wedge issues by design.
Ever came up with your own snippet when Google/DDG search failed to deliver?
> and in countries with bad laws

If EARN IT passes, the U.S. would be one of these countries.
I remember watching a video of this guy from maybe 10-12 years ago who used IBM Dragon natural speak into some kind of vim commands and shorthand language which enabled him to write code faster than he could using the keyboard. It was a fascinating demo, but the efficiency seemed to come from his short language that he developed for his workflow like "bop chop hop" etc.
I recently came to this article[1] where Guardian switched to PG from MongoDB

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/nov/30/bye-bye-mongo-h...
But pi has lots of meanings. Sure, it represents a half-turn in geometry, but that is in no way its only meaning (for example, it is also a transcendental real number). The same is true for S. And the fact that that exponentiation with complex exponents is isomorphic with geometric operations is a non-trivial result that your notation losses. For example, log(e^i x pi) = i x pi. Would that be as self-evident as log(self_diff(rotate x half_turn)) = rotate x half_turn?
This is the same sort of argument/discussion I used to hear when ant came around and they made the horrible choice of using XML for the configuration language.

And you ended up with some sort of half baked thing that was like a language but not. I get the same spidey sense when you look at how ansible uses YAML.

Ultimately I really do not care but it was a bad choice. I make bad choices all the time. I would expect the people who wrote Ansible do also.
You don't always have that luxury.

Let's say you're developing a product and it will need to go though physical testing. You need to book a test facility fairly in advance.

Or sometimes you might have to guarantee a fix date to a customer for example.
As a note, at least in the UK, if someone talks about a Personal Trainer they'll say PT (although I rarely here that, most people just say personal trainer) but if you want to talk about a physiotherapist people will usual shorten it to 'physio'.
In general: listen to everyone than follow your way (C) nav.al

In practice: being research assistant is a good start. Do it as long as you can afford - I mean no family, no obligations whatsoever. (3-8 years)

Find a small company - this will teach you applying theory in practice. (3-8 years)

After that you will have the potential to start up your business. (3-8 years)

If you really enjoy, continue what you are doing.
If not -but only if you have tried all above-, look for employment in a big company. No matter if it is tech, automotive, beverages or anything else. It will provide stable living for the remaining time.

If you've done everything fine up to this point you can't be sorry missing anything in your profession.

During the whole time listen to the sounds! :)
Contemplate, analyze what fits you most? Which topics you are interested most? What you enjoy most? What are you the best in?

Share your thoughts with the younger.
It's worse than that: The constant π is the wrong one! Never mind that it's a Greek letter, because we all studied that in our Ancient Greek classes, right alongside Latin and philosophy, where we read Plato.

No, the real issue is that the circle constant is 6.28319, not 3.14159. That's why a "full turn" is 2π instead of 1.

That's why every time I read an equation involving circles, or spheres, or any similar notion I have to take the constant that is in front of π and mentally divide by two.

And nobody should dare pipe up and claim that these are isomorphic and it "doesn't matter", because it does.

There's a tendency in modern theoretical physics to just ignore random small constant factors in equations, even when using natural units. In that case there ought not to be any unexplained constants! Any numbers in those equations ought to have an essential physical meaning, a real interpretation. Numbers ought to count things. But they don't, because of stupid extra constants like the ones needed next to π. This "2" gets blended into everything else, so you get stupid shit like the "8" in the Einstein field equations. Eight of what is being counted here exactly? Oops.. no wait.. 4 circle constants are actually 8 half-circle-constants.
Agreed that people tend to overcomplicate their Ansible configs. It is also OK to write a script and run it from Ansible as part of your playbook if you have a complex use case.
What alternative do you propose for situations where Company A does some shady stuff? Are all the posts about Google/Facebook/Amazon doing illegal things also ads?
I am a Python programmer first and foremost (data science-y stuff), but lately I've started reading the Rust documentation. First and foremost its really an enjoyable read. I also learn alot from it, and become a better programmer in general. I will try to write a library that I will use for my PhD, in Rust. I think it will teach me a lot about programming, be enjoyable and also give me a great library for string parsing and decryption.
There is a lot more to work with there than with traditional notation. Traditional notation is literally one letter.

I'd be surprised, on a tech forum, if people didn't see at least the smallest hint of a problem at single-letter naming. The tech industry moved away from that approach with a certain implicit urgency.
It's probably not additive. If you bought and installed the game fresh only after the release of the patch, I'd guess the total download size would be well under 95GB. Game patches aren't known for being well optimised binary diffs with minimal download size.
China's the second largest economy and growing which will make them the largest in the foreseeable future.

Wall street is pretty indifferent when it comes to people being locked up/killed in a foreign country (heck probably in their own country).

Where as Zoom CEO, your stock price determines your bonus, your continued employment, but probably most importantly your employees employment and well being. Given a lot of Zoom staff are in China, there is a non-zero risk of their well being at play.

Obviously, they care about their public image too in the US. But China's market is very enticing. :(
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Miryoku: An ergonomic, minimal, orthogonal layout for ergo or ortho keyboards
You can do a Leonardo and write from right to left [1].

How do Arabic writers use fountain pens? Do they write with their left hand?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci#Journals_and...
There's also only one chapter order, which the great man used in every single book: 2 follows 1, 3 follows 2, etc. I can't remember even a flashback? I don't think his interests extended to that. He wrote sentences, paragraphs, not much more.

I have 15-20, my favourite is an unusual one, I think: French Leave.
All food are carcinogen and time is an illusion
I'd like to provide a counter point. As a person coming from Quake 2, I find CS shooting mechanics at the very least annoying. I can't find anything pleasurable in them.

I still played CS but mainly because of the team play it added. Simple, flexible, and enjoyable.
The facial recognition PR glosses over tech’s addiction to policing
This is very interesting. Does it run as non-root? And out of curiosity, why Janet specifically?
Both of your examples are equally ugly and equally unreadable to me. Why cannot it be something like Σ(x*y)^2 ? Why the extraneous words "torch", "matmul" and the ridiculous operator @ ?
I'm a junior dev, so I try to stick with things that have been proven to work without problems. This is why I think you can almost never go wrong with SQL. Some say that PostgreSQL is one of the most advanced ones and it's free. Others say and I can confirm, if your projects isn't huge give a try to SQLite. On the other hand there's this "new" trend with no-SQL approach, but the only proven thing I know about it is that there are people out there who made their career from saving other companies from troubles generated by young devs / CTOs / architects wanting let's say MongoDB very much, which occurred to be often a terrible choice. That makes me cautious. Don't ask me about details regarding that - I don't know.

I have personal experience with MariaDB / MySQL and SQLite. A pleasant thing about both is that they are reliable and you are going to find a lot of resources (also help) online, which saved me some headache a couple of times. In more complicated projects I'll be using Postgres. I'll try to keep Mongo-ish stuff away until I'm going to have a very specific reason to use its advantages, which I don't fully understand at this point.

Again, I like things I can rely on. SQL is one of them.

PS: I'd be willing to know more what are you going to simulate @curiousgal. MC simulators are cool!
You moved the goalpost from censorship to prison.

We were talking about people being banned/censored/"de-platformed" from social media companies, in China and in the west. I'm aware that, otherwise, human rights abuse are way worse in China.

As for the idea that abuse only matters when done by a government, it's absurd. We're seeing now private companies talking about censoring the US President, so it's pretty clear who has most power. You can hide behind technicalities like them being private companies or whatever (I note that this argument does not hold when a small mom and pop company refuses to bake a cake, but apparently much larger companies can do whatever they want), but it just means that those companies have the power to censor speech _in practice_ (which is what actually matters in the end), and at the moment they're following angry mobs and not elected officials to define those censorship policies.
> But, at the same time, it's impossible to imagine our government creating such a thing :(

Government institutions created the internet ...
Probably this clip of Tavis - https://youtu.be/8SkdfdXWYaI?t=530?
I don’t see how one global mongo is going to help solve any of their issues. Maybe they just want to bury their issues under the carpet a little longer.

I also hope they’ve configured their mongo correctly since out of the box Config is not appropriate for many use cases
Shorting a banking company because they chose to use MongoDB... you can tell that an engineer wrote this comment. You're missing the forest for one particular tree.
Intuitive Lagrangian Mechanics
I would pay a fairly large chunk of my income to someone working on this kind of alternate representation of mathematics full-time. Email me at soham [at] soh.am if you're interested.
In terms of jobs I guess Rust has the edge, including all major ones in desktop, server and mobile OSes, there are still some companies using D though.

https://dlang.org/orgs-using-d.html

So if getting a job is your major learning motivation, then I guess Rust has definitely the edge there.
Surf's Up (Amazon.toast, 1998)
What exactly happened on the day the dinosaurs died out? [BBC,2016]
Modern take on shredding papers
For your second bike, yes. ;-)

Granted, different people are enthusiasts for different reasons, for instance I rely on my bike for getting around town, but will never be a competitive rider. So, the interest in geometry ranges from just being safe and comfortable to ride, up to performance aspects of activities such as mountain biking, racing, or touring.

One hassle is that different makers sometimes supply a different set of measurements, especially inexpensive or older bikes, so you have to figure things out a bit. Also, a short test ride might not tell you how happy you will be after 100 miles. If there are things that you are happy or unhappy about on your existing bike, I suggest measuring it and try to figure some things out that way. When shopping for a bike (or hunting through piles of used bikes, as I've done), bring a tape measure.
Moreover, mathematical notation is very universally agreed upon. You can read a math paper in a language that you do not understand and just by looking at the formulas you can get quite a good idea of its contents, methods and proofs. For code, the situation is dire: each programming language has a particular, different, and often limited way to express math.
My iPhone doesn't attempt to censor tiananmen square. Typing "tian" into the home screen search bar yields "tiananmen square", "tiana", "tiananmen square massacre", and "tiana musarra".
Dark Web: how to access, risks and contents
Spies can eavesdrop by watching a light bulb’s variations
> things get done within 10% of estimates

You can easily do that by estimating very wide and delaying the deliverables until the planned date.
This is not even true across subfields in mathematics -- there's a lot of context-specific notational overloading, and there is often inconsistent notation even within a single long paper.
Blockchain Real Estate Companies to Know – Built In
The problem we have with ansible is not yaml related but the push based approach, even with awx/tower as soon as you’re running hundreds of machines of a given group it gets painful.

We are actually seriously considering a shift to salt atm...
Yes, that would be an excellent entry point!
Yeah...

@bilater The search can't distinguish C from C# [I corrected myself in a comment below]. If you'd be willing to make it work, I'd be happy to use it.
Other than that, good job!
I’m conflicted as we are having this exact debate with contract tracing: Apple And Google came with a solution and the french gov chose a completely different one.

TBH can we trust the current gov. to do the right thing:

- In terms of competency: it took how many weeks to come up with an online form to generate a PDF ?. Then their contact tracing app hits all the limitations that motivated Apple and Google to work on an integrated solution, which then again means its effect will be super limited and people just don’t bother installing it.

- in terms of legitimacy: a lot of messaging and decisions caused litteraly hundreds of death for stupid or corrupted reasons. Like delaying lockdown because there wasn’t enough contaminated people. I mean, even at this point wearing a mask in public is still officially touted as some “perhaps you do perhaps you don’t” kind of behavior.

I really wonder if at this point the gov. is as motivated to keep people alive as some of the global companies.
I've never heard the term "NewSQL" before.

Google Trends comparing "NewSQL" with "NoSQL"
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=N...
(Peaking with its introduction in 2011).

It doesn't seem like a more fashionable term than NoSQL.
That's a good point. What about an older Win * laptop that support a popular distro? Where can I find a list of such machines? My work provides a MBP but for myself I want to go further.

Note: I've traditionally been a Windows person. Mind you Win 10 has distro support, I might as well keep going :)
The desired goal of the client, which is then broken down into features and tasks.

e.g.
Epic -> "We want to georeference imagery in ${app}"
Feature1 -> Upload Imagery to app
Feature2 -> Manipulate imagery that is visible on the map with the mouse cursor
FeatureX -> ...
TaskY -> Warp an image via canvas
TaskZ -> ...
I'm reminded of the PC version of Mass Effect 2, where the loading time was significantly shorter than the video played during loading, but the video always played until the end.
"critically acclaimed exclusives."

Marketing

BOTW wasn't even an 8/10