skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> These things are kind of a like a "life plan starter pack", to give you a framework for what many people view as a set of good missions for your life.

For a lot of people this is the Standard Life Script, and they never even realise it's only one of many options. Then they get older and suddenly it hits them they've been living their life on autopilot with the sat-nav set to the factory default destination, and that's not where they want to be at all.
According to this study, you're correct. The funny thing is that when it was discussed in HN at the time is that the thread had many comments from students who went to MIT, Stanford, etc. trying to deny it.

http://blog.interviewing.io/we-looked-at-how-a-thousand-coll...
Totally agree as another Duke grad. Duke gets painted as some rich white college by people who have never set foot on campus.
https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin

If you squint it’s reminiscent of zeromq for IPC :)

You can contrast that with
https://golang.org/pkg/plugin/
Where I work, we have Architects but they often play a supporting/consulting role and the teams are expected to learn and implement most of the things listed in this article. They will push you to make good decisions, and will want to vet your designs, but they aren't dictating this stuff from on high (unless of course you're making really poor choices). It's been great because no matter who you are or what role you play on the team (I'm primarily a FE dev) you can learn as much of this stuff as you want. I have to imagine its the same at other companies, so anyway, what I'm saying is you can get a ton of experience in all of this kind of stuff without being an actual Architect at some places (we're a large company). The flip side of that coin here is that it's VERY difficult to get the actual title of Architect; it's a very limited role and it takes a lot more than just systems knowledge to get there (i.e. politics). A lot of the people I've worked with who are Senior level could probably easily transition into a systems architect position at other companies. I'm not sure if this is the best way to get there if that's what you're interested in though, just giving you some food for thought. I don't know how you identify companies where you can get this kind of experience, but if you're interviewing you should ask about "you build it you run it" or stuff like that to see how they manage their infrastructure, that might give you a hint.
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You left out a ton of metrics they use for school rankings, I’m guessing because those would have hurt your argument tremendously.
I recently finished playing Watch Dogs 2, and the missions go over this very problem. Social media’s impact on politics and how data is used to influence the masses.

Quite scary actually, that the real thing is happening.
Maarten van Steen has got you covered. He worked with Andrew Tanenbaum on all kinds of things back in the day :)

https://www.distributed-systems.net/index.php/books/ds3/
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In one of his previous essays (can't find the specific one, but it talks about Cambridge) pg talks about how he thinks in the future startups might come more and more directly out of university towns because people with ideas already tend to congregate there, and mostly get drawn to hubs like Silicon Valley because of funding. As it gets cheaper to start a startup and need for funding decreases, this might not be so necessary any more.

Towards the end of this essay he talks about the possibility that people with ideas might start to congregate around other institutions than universities in the future. He does explicitly say that he can't predict how this will play out, but it would be really interesting to read his thoughts on what he thinks those institutions could look like, or just what features they might have in broad terms.

pg, if you're reading this, that would be a great future essay I'd love to read!
Any books you’d recommend?
> In particular, I think a lot of people switch from the "sheep" quadrant and the "naughty ones" pretty freely. They'll want to obey rules until they hit one that they feel doesnt' make sense and/or needs to be broken, and ideally will get back to being "Sheep" once it doesn't make sense to be a "naughty one" anymore (i.e. rules have changed, or better, they changed the rule)

Unethical life pro tip: If you are breaking the rules, at least make a case for why they don't apply to you.

"I'm only stealing to feed my family."

"This isn't an invasion, we're just annexing our own population on the other side of this border."
5 floors is also about the limit for wood frame construction, you need a more expensive building style to go higher. Obviously consult a civil engineer for details.

What this means in practice is you don't build between 6 and 10 floor buildings because the numbers won't work out. (obviously there are exceptions)
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When I do this rant, I like to note that "the 1800s" and "the 19th century", while very similar, are not the same 100 year interval.
My favourite part is how they:

(a) built their own transaction/caching/replication layer using Blockchain no less.

(b) paid SQLite team to add a number of custom modifications.

(c) used expensive, custom, non-ephemeral hardware.

Now you could do all of this or just use an off the shelf database that you aren't having to write custom code to use and if you choose a distributed one e.g. Cassandra will be able to run on cheap, ephemeral hardware.
They’re just equal opportunity conformists... if you conform to both sides you never have to risk independent thinking!
What I had in mind was places like Dubrovnik as an extreme example, or York as a less extreme - walled cities in which all the old residential/commercial activity happened. Necessarily dense and walkable. Smaller versions can be seen in "market towns" e.g. Cambridge: central square with occasional street market, surrounded by 2-4 storey buildings with shops on the ground floor and apartments above. Some of which have been converted into offices.

There's a big split between European cities which decided to rebuild exactly as it was after they were bombed flat (or the few that largely escaped), versus those which decided to modernise and become car-oriented. Cambridge vs. Coventry.
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So thank you for your many thoughtful responses to the post. My battery is about to die which means I am over and out (until I drive somewhere tomorrow and re-juice the phone). But to be honest, you've all done a pretty good job of answering why HN sits high in the list of nervous tics. I genuinely look forward to returning to read everything posted in the interim. In the meantime here's a picture of the sky from where I'm sat ~ https://ibb.co/cwDD7GG
Unless it also has a DVD copying or vacuum repair shop, in which case it's a front for money laundering, and the other businesses are window dressing.
https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/karen/
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Karen

Maybe you're seen this. I haven't, and many people seem to have the specific definitions listed above.
You don’t have a clue about Duke and the students there, please stop speculating. Many of the kids work while there, most never had a tutor, and all of them are normal average Americans (and foreigners) in every way.
Sure!!
This presumes there's free will, for which there's little evidence. Different bioelectric robots tend to either perseverance or depression, which is no surprise.
> It would be hard to pick a more "conventionally-minded" opinion than "I think free speech is good"

It's important to make the distinction between people who feel like they're in favour of freedom of speech, and people who are actually in favour of freedom of speech. It often seems to me that Americans belong to the former group but not the latter. I'll link a funny poll (from a long time ago, but I'd love to see a new one) where 96% of respondents said they were in favour of freedom of speech, but only 40% said they were in favour of radicals being allowed to hold meetings and express their views.

https://news.gallup.com/vault/206465/gallup-vault-tolerance-...
> I work at my dining table.

I assume you don't behave a family. Right?

Also: There are clear health benefits when having a "proper" chair and a table in right height (maybe even changeable, someone can stand for a while) for a place where you're spending large parts of the day.

Also in my personal experience from working from home for 10 years, having a clear separation between "work" and "private" is essential for a good work-life-balance. Otherwise it's too easy to do that one more thing and check that one idea all the time instead of calling it a day and doing something else.

For a while - especially while young - a dining table works. But for a permanent setup it's not the right way.
Is there a good lat/lon to timezone database that lets you leverage this into a presumptive timezone offset from UTC and thus local time?
The big data one is outstanding.

If you don't have more data than can fit on a reasonably large hard drive, you do not have big data and you are likely able to process it faster and cheaper on one system.

Today that threshold would be around 10TiB.
Education should not be uniform because students are not uniform. Some people are just better students than others.
Hey HN,

This is Tanish. Today I’m launching a new type of Project Management Tool on HN that works like a simple todo list but at the same time is also an efficient Project Management Tool or we can call it a “Progress” Management Tool.

We makers get many ideas and we even start working on them but to take it from that stage to finally launching it is one hell of a task.

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ProgressBoard is a Project Management Tool for those who are not actually project managers but makers. There are many Project Management tools available but they are too heavy or complex and we makers need a simple and minimalistic tool that is simple to use yet fulfils all requirements of a Project Management tool.
These semantic debates represent the economic freedom to spend countless hours having useless online semantic debates.
Replication logs (WAL logs in postgres) contain a complete list of changes to every field. Most big companies keep them as part of a backup strategy. But most wouldn't have the tooling to inspect the logs and see exactly which change was made when during an incident.
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GPS (obviously) and what else? Weather? Fish finders? I know next to nothing about sailing.
They wouldn't even have to do that. Just have one guy who does this, and give him a room he can prepare for shooting -- to set up the camera and the microphone, the light, a blackboard, a flipchart, whatever.

The professor would just have to prepare the lesson, and to talk to the empty room. Actually, you could even arrange a few people for the audience; in the back side of the room, with masks. There would be almost no difference compared to the usual lesson.

And then -- optionally -- the professor could also give some pictures to the camera guy (the pictures could be made on paper, let the camera guy scan them), and say "when I say this and this at 0:25:00, please show this picture instead of my face". And let the guy do this, too. And then let him upload it to YouTube or Vimeo or wherever.

This is really not about having the professors learn something new. It's just about the professors, or administration, or whoever can make the decision, willing to try something new. And find a budget to hire one guy outside of academia. (If you are lucky, you could find one among your students, but it would be easier to not rely on that.) Heck, I would even volunteer to do that, but I don't have solid camera skills.

I don't really see any plausible excuse here. This could be accomplished even with professors who have literally zero computer skills and are unable to learn any. (Frankly, I wouldn't even want to waste their time learning how to use a camera. I'd prefer them to focus on providing a great lecture, rather than mediocre video editing.) There are even universities that did this long before Covid, and often the professor wasn't the one who handled the camera.

I suppose this is just a perspective of someone who does not work in academia. I work for a private company that has branches in multiple cities. We regularly had video meetings even before Covid. I didn't have to learn any camera skills; I just entered the e-meeting room, clicked a button, the camera and the projector turned on, the people in the other city did the same thing, and then we started talking. Everything else happened automatically. Is there a good reason why the same thing couldn't happen in education?
Also from an ex soviet state. Also feel alarm bells going off. I'm legitimately scared. I've seen this before, I know where it goes. It's really hard to convey my feeling of alarm to people here though. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it, I guess.

Doesn't help that the conformists have been allowed to frame the narrative as 'either you agree with us, or you're literally Hitler/Stalin' depending on political alignment, which is a very powerful weapon to shut down discourse.

This rising culture is freedom and diversity in all things except thought. This is how totalitarian regimes form. This is what my parents dumped their entire life savings into escaping, and here I am watching it rise again.
Regardless of the bike-shedding over the exact syntax, this would be really cool to see. I have no clue how C/C++ made it into 2020 without this language feature - and yes, I know about incbin and xxd, and Go having it ahead of those languages would be ironic given how new and conservative of a language it is.
The author's message was that they did this because of racism.

GC is saying it was more likely elitism, which is not the same thing.
> If I'm a marketing person at a SaaS company, I want to know where my customers physically are if possible for a variety of useful reasons.

What reasons? What makes you feel entitled to that information if not volunteered?
Both models have auxiliary heaters and later models have generators.

There's no warmer environment for thousands of kilometers there, doesn't mean you can't change a belt or oil in the field.
Looking at Paul's twitter it is clear he only really respects those who are as rich as him or present some viewpoint he agrees with. It almost makes me think that his writing on what type of person not to be is just projection.
When you ad hominem, you immediately tap out of the discussion.
I am curious. How does protein intake affect mental health?
People are intolerant of Peterson because of Peterson's intolerance though.
And while you are aghast at that, I’d have ask if you’d be aghast at the people who bully and gaslight and threaten individuals who are critical of some aspects of progressivism. I ask because if we ever had an “antifa” government I can be almost certain the abuses would escalate to heights we dare not imagine.
I think an important point is that news outlets have learned how to sell news as tabloid entertainment. ...and when you engineer the narrative into a story that people find compelling, then if become emotionally addictive.

...and entirely destructive to political discourse.
For any given population density how the suburbs looks varies WILDLY based on the specific area and the economic/demographic situation since 1950.

In some places you'll have continuous miles of nothing but housing. In others it's an organic "spread out and up" from a core area. It basically comes down to what the local economy can support and the level of development that happened between 1865 and 1945.

Having hard cutoffs from "most residences are apartments/duplexes/multi-family, businesses on every corner" to "residences and residences only, 99% single family" to "tractors commonly seen on the road" is pretty distinct to the areas surrounding major cities that were formerly sparsely populated until they were built out rapidly in the 1950s through 1970s.
I 100% second this sentiment. Granted, I live in the Mid-West, my workplace is not a startup, I'm skewed towards introvert, have ADHD, and my work is not necessarily collaborative.

Being in the Mid-West means car-centric living, WFH gives me at least 8 unpaid hours back to use as I please. I used to take a longer route on my way home, to decompress and avoid the stress of traffic. My carbon-footprint is also lowered significantly, which is personally important to me. As an introvert, I no longer feel the need to decompress from hours of maintaining false appearances and shallow office interpersonal relationships. The corporate world also loves meetings, and I estimate that the move to virtual over physical meetings saves literal hours per week (just by eliminating the need to physically move to a location, as well as the context switch and disruption of focus).

Additionally, as someone with attention issues, not being overstimulated by my surroundings helps my energy, focus, and productivity.

Again, I know everyone is different, but after living the wfh life, I am not sure if I can ever go back. I can see the argument against it, especially in the startup world. I still think it can be managed, with the right approaches and the right team.
I am mildly interested in history but never really looked into the French Revolution. Can you suggest a starting point?
Understanding Global Cities
Just because something would make sense to be true doesn’t mean it is, so I’m not sure if that counts as a valid argument
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Interesting.
It seems to me that a lot of effort if being put into figuring out how far "as if" can take us, rather than doing better than "as if".
How does one decide what information to consume? If I shun news altogether, then how will I come to know of some events that might have a direct effect on my life?

Even with what we consider useful knowledge, how much of it is really useful? Yes, it is fun learning new stuff, making connections between seemingly disjointed topics etc, but how much of it has direct influence on our daily lives? I've learned a lot from HN, but I often wonder if I should have spent all that time elsewhere, carefully picking up only those knowledge and skills that benefit me in my life and that I can use to help others.

This isn't an answer to your question, because I don't know the answer. I've the same question as you. My one guess is that everything that is made today is made with the explicit intention of getting users hooked - from fast food to social media, including news.
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I am an online media junkie but recently I've found so much of the news boring. Not because of what's going on, but because how it is reported is all the same. Hyperbole, listicles (never more than 10 items), predictions about the future that are simply opinions, etc.

Maybe there is hope that too much news just exhausts everyone.
I'm sorry, but I didn't get into Duke as a 17 year old. Does that mean my career prospects are shot for good, and that "Hooli-esque" companies shouldn't recruit me?
Coincidentally neuroscientist Andrew D. Huberman was on the JRE podcast yesterday and among the many topics/studies he discussed was one where electrodes were hooked up to brains and the subjects were given complete control over the areas they stimulated.

Contrary to what one might think (or at least the scientists) that the subjects would stimulate areas of sexual response or pleasure, it turns out they elected to stimulate areas of anger and frustration.

Without knowing exactly what "news" you found yourself reading, I think its a fair guess the majority of news now-a-days (or maybe always) triggers this area of the brain and so you are probably just elected to trigger anger and frustration over stimulating your brain with the natural beauty of the world around you (so don't feel bad apparently this is the norm).
Yes, and I apologise if I veer off topic a bit, but I find all of these things below inter-related.

I've found that creating more space in my brain (I am prone to suffering anxiety) removes the friction I have in starting tasks and increases the enjoyment I get out of them.

Not only have goals become easier to progress on, but I've found that I can take on more.

All of this is a work in progress though, some days/weeks/months are easier than others - but equally the more I learn the more tools I have to deal with setbacks.

For me the things that have had a huge positive impact besides just changing my mind set are:

Wim Hof Method - I felt this would be worth trying to improve my asthma, but I've found it taught me how to meditate too - using this as a spring board I'm exploring other and further meditation techniques.

CBD Oil - this absolutely slayed my baseline anxiety, even if it turns out just to be a placebo, I place high weight on this simple act changing a lot for me.

Exercise (also a goal) - towards the end of last year I was around ~90kg @ 182cm, I'm now around ~75kg with some decent muscle definition - I've focused mostly on bodybuilding, watching the change in the mirror and taking a few minutes to appreciate the changes and my own hard work have been hugely rewarding for me. Also the enordphine rush from some of the workouts is great too.

Closely related to exercise is diet - this is something I am constantly paying attention to now (before I just didn't have the capacity and would happily chow down on McD's multiple times a week despite knowing how bad it was) changes in this impact not just my waist line but also my mood.

Jewelry - I discovered that while it's unusual for most men to do so that wearing jewelery makes me happy, so I disregard what anyone else may think and now wear quite a bit on a daily basis. Might seem a bit off-beat, but it's been a recent personal discovery and I think borne out of focusing just a bit more on being "me" not some ideal projection of myself.

Music (also a goal!), I've started to play the guitar again, I've had abortive attempts at this in the past but simply being able to say to myself "hey, I suck at this and it's OK because I enjoy it" has made it so much easier!

Now, of course there are goals that I am still failing at - learning Mandarin for instance - but seeing the progress on the others and by applying strategies I've learned from one goal or area of self improvement I am hopeful that I will eventually crack it.

Sorry if this diverted and went off topic, but I hope my experiences and rambling helps some people!
You don't typically see soot dispersed from under the hood of diesel trucks, that would mean leaky exhaust (a big no-no even with external engines). Sure they had their reasons.
I'm not really sure how this is going to be enforced if the federal agents cannot be identified?
Anything to do with mapping or local searches, geoip is very handy, save your users a few clicks and seconds when they first visit your site. One less dialog window to deal with.
A lot of things going on. My amateur take on _just one_ of the factors is that we are evolutionarily inclined to be aware of events, especially negative events.

Bad news is so addictive because knowing about the bad things in our tribe’s region helps us survive.
Can I subscribe to your newsletter? How about Twitter?
And tens of thousands of engineers from other countries around the world rejoice at what's about to happen to the job market to the remote senior developers with fluent English.

What I don't understand is how HN audience, mostly from a couple of tech hubs in US, is enjoying this. Don't you guys see that we're finally coming after your FAANG salaries?