skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Methinks our body just reacts very well to physical exhaustion, trigger molecule cascades that make us very content.

Physical exercise pushed too far is as nasty as mental efforts in a bad context (too difficult, too quick, etc).

That said I've been aiming for simple physical jobs as a free therapy kind of way.

Another point is that being physically fit has a very positive effect on your mind, it's like one big concern removed and you get more motivation for other ventures.

Lastly, who thinks having physical breaks during the day is good for pacing your mental flow ? even better with group sports ..

ps: many people feel like swimming is a particularly good form of exhaustion. I had a similar experience doing soft kungfu/taichi. But I wonder what else causes deep drain and fatigue that just resets all your system.
A plasma shot could prevent coronavirus. But feds and makers won’t act
TL;DR advice is to use email as your account ID method on various sites, and author's new service to 'verify' the accounts in a central place so people will know they are the same user between sites.

This isn't really decentralization is it?, it's a new kind of account linking which requires one to trust the central verification authority.

Maybe I'm missing something.
Pushing this language and Go as required, responsible, NG languages is another one of the foibles of the cloud/web and it's owners. For those of us in HPC and scientific compute where is the practical reason to switch from C/Python and the unix toolset?
Make the best choice given the information you have you never have to regret a decision.
I wrote a post here to explain why I felt the need to create Notado and how it fits into my own workflow: https://notado.app/about
> "So, social norms?"

Why do people still use this line of argument? Universal social norms used to treat POC, genders, and other protected classes as second class citizens or worse for centuries. That should make it pretty clear why "social norms" can't be used as a justification or logical reason for anything.

If anything, "social norms" is a stance from political conservatism; it's arguing that things should forever stay just as they are now.
> Misleading how?

I pretty much explained everything after the first three words of my comment.

> You have one platform that already allows crazy privacy violations natively,

Give me a single example of an OS for a personal computing device where you don't have to trust what you install.

> and you have another platform that you suspect might some day allow similar levels of privacy violation

No, this isn't speculation, this is the inevitable future of going the PWA route. If browsers expand access to a platform that, as you put it, "allows crazy privacy violations," then it's bound to allow similar levels of privacy violations, plain and simple.

One of the best things about the browser runtime is that it has (or perhaps, had) pretty good isolation from the host platform [1]. This is great for browsing because you can click on a link without thinking twice about it. When that isolation is rendered meaningless, you really have to stop and think about whether you trust the website you're going to visit, just like you would when you install native apps on your device. So get ready to kiss bye-bye to visiting a random blog you saw on HN.

> yet you champion the privacy stance of the first platform

You've made that one up. I explicitly mentioned that you have to trust the apps that you install.

Please note that I'm not hating on PWAs for the sake of it. I just don't want to sacrifice the privilege of being able to browse the web freely because of it.

[1]: I know, there are bugs in the implementation, but they're relatively costly to exploit in a meaningful way, especially at scale
But we could use machine learning and put the results on a blockchain and...

I do think some people dismiss systems that work well enough and which just aren't worth getting another tenth of a percent out of. Airline baggage tracking has actually gotten a lot better over the past few decades. The only time I've had luggage significantly delayed in decades was the result of a canceled international connection which involved being transferred to a different airline. That cost me a fair bit of money and was almost much worse than it was but it was one time.
Can you articulate that?
downvoting is dimensionally-collapsed feedback and requires nuanced examination to internalize well. so it makes sense to self-examine a bit, then dampen the internalization to account for ambiguity (rather than quitting). that builds both flexibility and resiliency.

sometimes you get no feedback at all, which is even more ambiguous. feedback always exhibits degrees of ambiguity, so we gotta figure these things out at some point in life (well, we don't, but that's worse), and this is a great place to practice.
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> When building apis that are given PartialFunctions, its your responsibility to make sure the given input is proper for the function.

That's not exactly the first 'feature' I'd want Rust to get.
Happiness is a choice
> I started reading it largely to consider how I was keeping myself from entering into meditative jhana.

Can you elaborate on this please? I've read The Inner Game of Tennis and I'm familiar with the (samatha) jhanas (and somewhat experienced as well). Do you mean something like convincing Self 1 to relax enough and trusting Self 2 to take you into the first jhana, etc?
I cancelled cable and paid for YouTube Premium when it became evident that my kids were spending more time there than watching the TV.

I try to do my bit to pay for stuff I like if I can get it without ads. What really annoys me is stuff I pay for that still has ads.
Issue is /proc/$pid/environ if enabled. Envvars are visible just like args. I think there are other ways to recover if on same uid.
Which company in tech requests cover letters?

My resume is two pages - nothing before 2008 on it.

I only started taking my career seriously in 2008. Since then, I’ve been very focused about which jobs I will target and which technologies I will work on. Both my resume and my job search focus on that. Anything mentioning my C bit twiddling days got removed by 2012. Of course I didn’t mention my stint writing FORTRAN on Stratus VOS mainframes.

2008 - I was an “expert beginner” and I did have to massage my resume to get a mid level C# enterprise Dev job. The next two jobs after that were focused on staying in the “full stack developer role”

2015 - My focus was getting a job where I could lead a project so I focused on the projects that I had led. My resume focused on that for the next two jobs.

2020 - I was focused on getting a job as a “digital transformation consultant”, “enterprise architect”, or a “cloud consultant”. My resume was very targeted toward that. I only applied for one job - Amazon/AWS. By the time I was looking post Covid, every other decently paying consulting job had disappeared. I didn’t have to tailor my resume to AWS - that’s where all of my experience was on that side.
I don’t know how much self help it might be considered, but reading about reinforcement learning was quite a valuable perspective. Now I reflect a bit more on my own value functions and how I can possibly communicate them effectively.
I really like the visual way this article is presented.

I also largely disagree with this "carless world" argument that seems so popular with young journalists living in dense, poorly-designed, and poorly-managed metropoli.

Every time these urban development subjects comes up on HN, I point at the Japanese examples of Tokyo and Osaka. Clean streets and sidewalks, pedestrians and bikes are everywhere, low rate of fatalities....and yet cars are everywhere too, and Tokyo has one of the most vibrant "car cultures" on the planet. So obviously we don't HAVE to get rid of cars to make a city of 10 million people function correctly.

The Japanese accomplish it via: 1) almost no curbside parking for POVs 2) commonly available yet expensive parking lots, with extremely narrow parking spaces 3) exorbitant vehicular taxes & registration 4) world-class public transit so the "plebs" are discouraged from needing a POV in the first place. Not having half of their population overweight or obese is probably also a factor (smaller vehicles which can take advantage of smaller parking spots, and fit people are probably more willing to walk/bike/etc.)

I DO like that the author covered how reducing road traffic is good for car enthusiasts too, and I very much agree: please give inattentive commuters who are hating life driving from Point A to Point B superior transit options.

As an aside, I visited NYC about a year ago with my Japanese significant other....the subway infrastructure is so archaic I felt embarrassed for our nation.
Make it:

IRB.send(:easter_egg, :dancing)

And you should always get the animated one.
Nice idea. Love that it works without passwords.
Presumably running their own website costs less than the 10% cut ebay would take. Given some of the numbers in the article this seems about right: if you've got enough cash flowing through the business to maintain a 40k sq. ft. warehouse then running a website probably isn't too much hassle.
I suspect doing it too well marks you as a valuable contributor and tries to get the most out of you.
Abuse.
Unraveled: Where Indians Come From
I agree with a lot of this post. A lot of the left-leaning intellectuals that are now criticizing the harder-left stances in academia; people like Brent Weinstine, Jonathan Haidt, Sam Harris, et. al. ... I've heard all of them say they want less anonymity and more accounts tied to real identities.

Whenever I hear this I think, "What? No! That's the opposite direction we should be going." Identities that are hard locked to real people makes it so easy to harass, mob, cancel and abuse people. At least in the US, most employers are at-will, allowing for Viewpoint Discrimination.

Anonymity does have its issues. It also does allow people to harass with more impunity. But in many ways, it also exposes more of the deep self and the controversial ideas people have that they are less and less likely to discuss outside of anonymity.

Even semi-anonymous platforms like Reddit are going back on previous commitments to free expression of ideas; and the effect is that Reddit is becoming more one-sided/one-direction, just like the platforms everyone is fleeing into.

Always use your e-mail to sign up for things. I rarely ever allow applications to connect via social media/OAuth. There was a time on the Internet where we thought all identity providers could be interchangeable. I ran an OpenID IDP for years, but fewer and fewer sites allow OpenID logins:

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-decline-of-openid/
Ah. There is that.

They really need to create a workaround for that, because sooner or later you will need to migrate your data and right now it's simply impossible.

Edit: Particularly as, reading further, you cannot ALTER a temporal table. Which does make sense, but the problem remains.
Schools do not have to reopen eventually. There are no physical laws that state so.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm all for schools reopening and getting kids back to learning in such an environment.

But this virus is a Big Deal. Assumptions we'd have before covid-19 are not the ones we can have now.

Assuming that schools reopen for the 2020-21 school year is, I'm afraid, one of those assumptions.
I haven't tried this, but I could absolutely see this working for me as well. I've noticed that my visual imagination gets much more vivid just as I'm drifting off to sleep, so I have in the past tried to gently nudge that along by jumping between visual thoughts. It did work fairly well, but I also never had enough trouble sleeping to hone the technique or quantify its effectiveness.
no, of course not, i'm saying that the political will to fix this isn't there, and to a point was never there, and we are now past the point of no return, thus this doomsaying like in the original post is bluntly and sadly correct.
Couldn't the UX just be improved and deliver the benefit while hiding the complexity?
It seems the problem isn't the tracking, but the secrecy.
This is about pushing Google too live up to its commitments, and to its reputation as one of the biggest supporters of open source.

Comparing it to Oracle (or AWS etc) is a bit of a red herring as they are no friends to open source and make no bones about being ruthlessly out for themselves.
Neighbors are extremely rarely friends, if they have the same clout.
Though I suspect there's quite a bit of adverse selection going on there. I know that on the rare occasions I buy travel insurance it's because I have expensive non-refundable reservations of some sort, typically requiring physical activity that I can't do if I sprain my ankle the week before.
I'm writing from NYC. My wife is the Principal of a school here. Schools are being given almost no support or guidance at any level from local to federal. Educational administrators are being told to open schools ensuring student and staff safety without a shred of fiscal support or health science guidance. The physical infrastructure of the schools can't possibly handle the distancing requirements being imposed. My wife is being presented with a Kobayashi Maru here but with the real lives of children, staff, and extended families on the line. I am 110% sympathetic to the importance of getting kids back in school. My kids are suffering from social and educational withdrawal. When schools even partially reopen I'll be solo with the kids on their home days as my wife is back running her school. Not exactly an environment conducive to productive work or my kids' mental health. But the idea that we can just ram through re-openings prematurely is insane. It is double insane that at this time the Federal government is bailing out every private sector millionaire in creation via PPP while schools are being forced to cut budgets by catastrophic amounts.
Accommodating Dysfunction
Leicester is good but my my favourite is 'Southwark': https://pronunciationstudio.com/how-to-pronounce-southwark-b...
I worked on a farm for a summer when I was younger. It was so physically demanding that I remember just dropping dead asleep at nights.
No one notices people with only basic knowledge. Everyone has to spend time learning and producing good work to be noticed.

As Naruto said, no shortcut to being Hokage.
Interesting, this is essentially a record/reply framework at the db driver level.

Usually I think record/reply testing is an anti-pattern b/c it's typically used against external systems (i.e. REST/RPC API calls) where the current state of the external system is not captured in the recording itself.

(I.e. someone clicked around in the vendor's UI to make it "look like this", then ran record. However 6 months later when you need to re-record your test, the state in vendor system no longer "looks like this" so it's a nightmare to know if the test is failing due to a real regression or just changed data.)

That said, copyist records the test data being inserted/setup into the db as well...so...huh, it might actually be a good idea.
Lol. Spot on. With both comments.
It does work offline and it does need a server to link to. It has a cached copy of your stuff, all still protected by your master password.
What does federation bring here? Aren't OpenID identities already collision free?

I'd love to have SSO under my own control, and while it was theoretically possible with OpenID 2 things have gone backwards with OIDC with everyone supporting it but restricting login to just the big names (Google, Facebook, Apple).

I put together a simple stateless OID2/OIDC identity provider: https://gitlab.com/rendaw/oidle but I have yet to find a website I can actually use it on. I still have hope though.
I looked through the electronics category on their site, and many of the prices were outrageous—sometimes nearly twice as much as buying an item new.[0] You can’t really pull that off on eBay.

Most of their inventory appears to be comprised of clothing and accessories. I can’t really assess pricing there, but if it’s anything like the pricing for electronics, they’re preying on impulse buyers.

[0]: https://www.unclaimedbaggage.com/products/geforce-gtx-1050-t...
very cool! i live close to a forest and it found a trail i had to manually tune on komoot.

feature request: an option to not cross country borders would be nice.
Best Benchmarks

MBPs with i9s:

Single Core: 1,119

8 Core: 6,900

A12Z (iPad 12.9 inch)

Single Core: 1,118

8 Core: 4,626

A13 Bionic (iPhone 11)

Single Core: 1,327

6 Core: 3,384

Neither of these ARM CPUs will be used in Apple Silicon. It will be an A14 class chip. It will be significantly faster due to

1) New 5 nm process vs. the older 7 nm process.

2) Greater thermal headroom
ie they will be able to use more power in laptops and desktops than in tablets/phones.

3) More cores

It is expected that Apple Silicon will have at least 12 to 20 cores, and more for high end desktop versions.

4) GPU integration

The current A13 has an Apple integrated GPU that’s reputedly much faster than the Intel integrated GPUs. The 5 nm process will provide many more transistors for even faster GPU performance.

My expectation is Apple will have a family of Apple Silicon SOCs next year that start around 1,400 single core, and with multi-core starting at 7,000 and going over 20,000 for 30 or 40 core desktop versions.

They will probably include T2 functionality and more, further reducing power draw.

Also remember that i9s are $200-$300 each. A13s are around $100 each.

MacBooks will get the benefits of longer battery life, faster CPUs & GPUs while also being as much as $200 cheaper.
New Zealand had a program called Real Me. It's based on a completely and totally broken SAML2 implementation, that only gives you back a single token, and then you have to query another web service to get more information. Oh and years ago when we had to implement a product using it, their Identity Providers would give us different responses randomly ... and it once went down for two weeks straight.
What I mean is COVID-19 is affecting all countries. It’s not only US. The title of the article is confusing. And I think it is temporary, hopefully we will get out of this black hole soon.
> "It makes people doing it feel better and requires little effort."

Security theater often makes people feel better and requires little effort. Should we embrace security theater instead of improving security?
Wow. I had NO idea.
Sign me,
"born and raised in Milwaukee"
This is why I don’t use DEs anymore. If you go to the trouble of automating a base install with a preferred wm, you don’t have much to configure but you have a stable and usable system straight away. Still doesn’t change the fact that Unix computing is changing a ton and can’t be fixed, but you can still get some consistency with it
That's because you've redefined "profit" to "usable profit," showing that profit is not the goal in and of itself.

My point, and the point of the author of this blog post, is that nobody is motivated by "haha numbers go up." We're motivated by wanting to do things with our profit - our goal is not to accumulate money but to spend it (either now or in the future).

Maybe a better example is, if someone were making $100,000 now, and they had the opportunity to move to a country where they'd make $199,000 but the cost of living were twice as expensive, would they take it?
This equation will change how you see the world (the logistic map)
Thank you for doing this.

For years I've contributed trail data to OpenStreetMap, mostly to support mountain biking, but this is the exact kind of other project it benefits. It was really neat being able to try this on local trails and see just what happens.

One question: What tags does it give priority to?

I ask because I tried it on a local trail system, and it seemed to prefer the wide paved and dirt path as opposed to the mountain bike trail. It was weird in that sometimes it'd use the single track, but in others it'd do sort of an awkward thing through the parking lot / service road (highway=service, service=parking_aisle) then use some of the single track (eg markers 1-2) before jumping on the paved path and pretty much ignoring the single track. The single track is really popular with trail runners in this park, so it got me wondering.

An example of that is here:

https://trailrouter.com/#wps=42.65195,-83.05484%7C42.65088,-...
I had a classic OpenID server and every website I use to authentication against using it has gotten rid of OpenID support. Stackoverflow was the big one. I haven't tried OpenID Connect yet.

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-decline-of-openid/
Silly and in the UK, quite possibly illegal. It can be discriminatory against younger applicants, so you need a really good reason to be asking for x years of experience.
But it's not operational. The root CA ("VeriSign Class 3 Public Primary CA") was revoked, and the certificate itself expired in 2011. It's just that windows doesn't bother checking the signatures, as another commenter in this thread mentioned.
Show HN: Library to Automatically Create UI for your ML Models
Every time I try to learn more about Rust, I keep hitting a wall around OOP. I know Rust takes the stance that composition is better then inheritance, but I've never found the examples to be very convincing. How do rust developers deal with complex structs that contain lots of properties and features. For instance, if I need to create "CustomButton" that means I have to implement all the Traits from Button, which maybe requires Traits from LayoutView, which requires Traits from View, etc.... Additionally I need to maintain duplicate properties of those objects in my Custom Button rather then inheriting from a Button struct. It sounds like a headache to maintain.
> You could have a notary vouch that you're a licensed driver, or have a college degree, visited a certain country, etc.

Humans, generally, are very bad at caching document fraud. It wouldn't be a vouch for a licensed driver but instead it would be a vouch for "a bit of plastic that looked like a driving license to me".

There is lots of sophisticated fraud and often automated solutions have a much higher rate of detection than your average person, even with some training against common attacks.
I always found that esr post quite bizarre. He's the self-proclaimed best known software developer in the world, having written quite a bit of C over the years and yet doesn't see the need or benefit of differentiating between heap allocated strings (String) and string slices into them (&str)?

Complaining about Rust's documentation is a bit weird because even back in 2015 there was quite a bit of good documentation, let alone 2017 and the language encourages good crate API documentation.

I also find it ironic that the author of The Cathedral and The Bazaar would say:

> The Rust community appears to have elected to use the decentralized nature of their crate system (which undeniably has some very nice technical properties) to execute a swarm attack on the design space around the language. Which is wonderful in theory but seems to be failing in practice.

There are certainly deficiencies in the language and the ecosystem, but to me they stem from immaturity, only 5 years out from 1.0, and not from any fundamental major mistake.

It always seemed to me that what happened here is what happens often with a lot of experienced people that try Rust and bounce, where they approach the endeavour as "I know how to program, this will be easy, I just have to map my already existing mental framework to the new language" and hit walls early on because Rust is different enough but they didn't anticipate it. Functional languages have similar issues, but the more "esoteric" syntax helps flip a switch in people's minds to learning mode. This happened to me back in May of 2015 and it wasn't until I picked it up a few months later that it clicked.