skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Totally! It looked like the chairs were grown upside-down though, can kinda see why given the topology of most chairs vs tree topology, but hopefully just a bit more and/or stronger training and coppicing, seems like it should be possible to do a right-way-up one.
I liked One Man's Wilderness.
If serving static files to thousands and millions of users is not cloudfront is for then I am not sure what else would a CDN be used for .

You don't need to manage any storage to get your bill to drop, S3 can be fronted by your cached proxy (minio or just plain nginx works easily) it is trivial to setup on OVH or hetzner or any other VPS provider.

You get all the benefits of S3 without the egress bill of a major cloud
Back when I was a kid there was an episode of "The Woodwright's Shop", where he talked about creating a wood box with no seams containing a coin.

The trick was to drill several holes in a tree that you'll eventually cut down, and fill them with coins. Wait five or ten years for the tree to grow wood around them, then cut the tree down and carve out the boxes from the outside, leaving a hole to view the coin.
I'd say it depends a lot on the company and team. We've been all-remote for 10 years now, and I'm certainly biased, but I don't think evidence suggests it's been less than good for young, ambitious members of the team. Our lead front-end developer had no previous paid experience as a developer, but stood out in our interview process (which is based on a series of short, real-work-like assignments done asynchronously), and has continually impressed since then. If leadership is competent, I don't think it's necessary to have fortuitous in-person run-ins and such to demonstrate one's drive and ability.
I have that "book". I have read it several times and it is a great read. There is also an expanded version and John Betancourt is working on a sequel to it.
> spend more money

We're talking about a companion app for one of the most expensive consumer headphones you can get ( $350 ).

I don't think this is about money, this is about using dark patterns and morally questionable behavior to get user data.

Yes, if you're older and wiser you can work around these, disable the app location data, etc. But a lot of people are oblivious to this, not because they don't care but because they are being purposefully deceived.
Answering in the present as a mid-20s person who is currently sowing the seeds of financial independence by saving/investing over half of my after-tax income. Having compound interest working in my favor early is key to my FIRE goals.

Want to set myself up to have the freedom to demand certain things at work, whether that’s taking a sabbatical or working only 4 days a week without being chained to my work for a living. And eventually I’d like to consider early retirement.
Phone barometers can be used to get a pretty good idea which floor of a building you're on.

https://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2011-10/so-um-why-doe...

https://www.engadget.com/2012-09-06-stmicroelectronics-detai...
The first story I read by Le Guin was "Semley's Necklace" - I had to read it multiple times to complete the mental imagery (I was quite young) - see if you like it.
Starting to think it's time to close down the university system and start a new one...
JS is faster than scripting languages, but slow for a VM based language. The NPM way is to pull in thousands of dependencies, when running code only uses a small fraction.

I disagree that the code written is slower than in the past. There's simply much more of it. People build on top of existing stuff N layers deep. Just look at how far removed Electron is from the OS. It's crazy that it even works.JS also has some unfixable limitations.

It needs to be parsed every time. Java comes packed in an very efficient bytecode format that's both several times smaller than minified JS and far faster to parse.

JS lack of typing also means it uses way more RAM than Java in practice. Java has a lot of Object overhead, but nothing anywhere close to JS.

For UI's, JS lack of threading is terrible. In every language that supports threading, the main way to design UI is to have a "UI thread" that you never assign to do slow things. In JS it's extremely easy to accidentally block during UI render. I'm assuming a major of slack glitches and freezes are from the single thread model.

Modern Java apps feel native (on desktop). You probably use some that you don't realize aren't native.

JS is several times slower and uses several times as much ram. And the VM warmup is slower than Java because the code is distributed in a very inefficient format. It's not a good language for UI's but it's becoming the only option for mobile unless you want to write multiple implementations
Not to be disrespectful it is there a more reputable source that doesn’t jackhammer ads down the users throat every other paragraph?
If you still control the account with which you made the comment, you might be able to find it by clicking the threads link above and scrolling through your old comments...
How would you split it without leaving tooling marks at the top though?
How terribly sad. Perhaps the speeds of the sled tracks could be reduced. A helmet designed to blunt the millisecond g force spikes could also be developed.
SAP announces intent to take Qualtrics public
Truly, is it possible for tech companies today to release even one fucking product, even something so simple as headphones, without piling on all the desperate, grubby, scummy tracking bloat and related shit possible in an effort to turn you into a product EVEN when you're paying for their creations. It's revolting and sincerely deserves to be harshly punished by the market (if enough consumers could be bothered to give enough of a shit about something so "irrelevant" as their basic privacy).
Depending on what data is being deleted, not deleting it could also have significantly worse consequences when it later falls into the wrong hands.

In the case of the spin studio, you can prove what you paid, the owner just lost his evidence of what he no longer owes you, and will hopefully in the future stop exposing your personal data on the Internet.
Lessons on how to be a better engineer from Michael Jordan
"Seeking advice from successful founders can be useful because some of what they did likely increased their odds of getting lucky,"

Apparently not. Look at a great incubator. They invest in new ideas all day. It's basically gambling.
Split it, then remove the tooling marks by slicing off a bit of all the slices, then insert into the bottle.
A Plague is an Apocalypse, but it can bring a new world
The effectiveness of eight interventions against Covid-19 in 41 countries
You mean like Beats or Apple AirPods? They don’t collect user data at all.
Oh God I hate the animations! Sometimes I wonder if "UI designers" are a net negative on many projects. Most software is functional machinery, not art.

It's important for sales pages and ads to be pretty. Web apps just need to work well, keep the UI guys away from me :)
Maybe you could have the person write an auto-format script to format it how they want. You might lose a day or two as they develop it, but maybe that would save time in the future.
This is precisely the kind of scarecrowing we are seeing with the ruling class today in America. I purposely worded the demands as vague and agreeable as possible, because that is what the majority of the population can agree on.

I personally want carbon tax and police abolition, but there is no consensus on either of these, and what I personally want doesn’t matter. I am not a dictator and the USA is not a dictatorship. It is the legislator’s job to gather what the people want, and find a way to deliver it in a way that will benefit the most. However the American ruling class is not even pretending to be interested in what policies the general population supports.
To followup, I believe there's a subtle problem with funding in general, which is that increasing the funding available means that more research positions will be created, which means that eventually grant proposals go back to the same dismal funding rates they were before.
Of course you don't need to waste time setting up security properly. And it's such a pain locking and unlocking your car and your house every time you go in and out too. Tell me, where do you live again?

I'm 58 and bald, so channeling yoda is easy: a valuable lesson you need to learn, and learn it the cheap way or the expensive way you can.

The cheap way is to invest in a cheap VPS for a month, fire up sshd and a webserver, and then check the logs when the month is up.

The expensive way is to carry on treating security as an afterthought. It'll cost you your pride, your reputation, and possibly your career.
I wonder what proportion of these are just PII that should never have been collected in the first place?
how... how did you come to that conclusion?
I think another approach would be a piece of paper and a crayon or such. I'd be reluctant to carry around a bunch of aluminum foil for this purpose, but paper and crayons feels a bit less wasteful to me. I imagine the environmental cost would be less (though I could be wrong about that)
Note that the study took place in Japan, where diet and alcohol consumption might not be the same as they are in western countries.

Also note that the article's definition of "wealthy" was having an income higher than 10 million Yen, which is only about $94,000. In 2016, the average annual salary for a Japanese man in his 50s was 7.4 million Yen.[1] 10 million Yen is only 35% higher than that.

[1] https://resources.realestate.co.jp/living/average-salary-jap...
There are too many people.
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Basically, all of them look like some form of disassembly, insertion, and reassembly inside the bottle. Much like ship-in-a-bottle. Still impressive, though.
I've seen a few workarounds, each worse than the last, including casting back to array, round-tripping through JSON with the array flag set, and reflection. Hence the public service announcement that this is perfectly doable with the correct syntax.
I'm surprised nobody has said quantum computing.
Setting up my MacBook from Scratch
I hate this post deep from my guts. I only felt disgust reading it. It contains so much half-truths and it is bending the truth so much while also putting words into the remote work advocates' mouth so blatantly that I can only abhor everything he writes.

He is entitled to his opinion, but picking such examples like Basecamp which is known for being one of the most empathic IT company out there and attacking them is hideous.

And the whole idea of NOT to be evaluated based on your results but based on some blurry, fuzzy I-am-your-manager-and-I-evaluate-you-based-on-some-non-measurable-soft-skills-which-you-will-never-find-out-or-understand thing seems like right out of an employee's nightmare and it's borderline Orwellian.

You cannot complain about the performance evaluation being difficult and then proposing to ignore metrics and outcomes. That's not how it works.

Also your boss as your mentor? Seriously? What's next? Your boss is your best friend and you should move in together with him? Might happen in some cases, but hard to take the post seriously after this.
What’s the point of using Neeva if it’s just going to serve me Bing results with fewer ads?
My experience matches this. You can move heaven and earth to teach everyone the exact right way to do things, or you can set some overarching guidelines and move people around or re-define their roles until it starts working. In an environment where the work is always changing the first method never ends and quickly descends into chaos if you ever let up.

Almost everyone loves to do work that other people value, but it's hard to predict how they internally calculate what is valued and what isn't.

See if you can learn why this person has this behavior. Perfectionism? Fear of looking bad in front of peers? Unclear goals?

With some creative thinking it may be that those internal motivations are compatible with tasks that need done. If not, a harder to implement solution would be to see if you can frame some higher level goals they can internalize. Particularly with people on the spectrum I've found that they have a hard time seeing the forest, but if you can explain things in a way they can process they will happily adopt those higher level goals into their value system.

Unless that person is driven to get straight A's on their report card, make it clear you value the right stuff is getting done, but try not to turn it into mechanical process.
> Folding Beijing by Hao Jingfang is great

The affect may be touching but the social and economic system it describes makes no sense on any level. If you’re going to make something so blithering your ridiculous at least make it magical realism so it’s obvious nothing is supposed to make sense, just happen.
So, this got me curious. I pulled up my now 5 year old Skylake dell laptop, and did some quick measurements.

The "pure idle" draw is around 2.47 watts drawn from the battery with the brightness set to half.

When watching a 1080p youtube video fullscreened, the power consumption levels out at around 5 watts, again at half brightness.

If your workload is very light, there won't be much of a difference. Running mostly terminal emulators and lightweight desktop software, your biggest power consumer will likely be the screen, and most LCDs will be similar.

But if you're running heavy software like Slack or Teams (which some don't have the option to avoid, sadly), then power-per-watt becomes relevant, as running your 30 watt system for 0.5 seconds uses fewer joules of energy than pushing your 5 watt system for 4 seconds.

The rub is that a lot of that heavy software will eat up as many system cycles as the OS will give it -- which annoyingly means that once you have a bunch of tabs open in a browser, that 30 watt processor will probably stay nailed at its TDP.

However, you can manually set limits on the CPU. If I limit this skylake's max clock to 900MHz, I can play Minecraft at slightly reduced settings pretty smoothly while only drawing 7-8 watts.

It's all in what you need. If your primary goal is to reduce electricity usage, "cpupower frequency-set --max <x>" your CPU down to its lowest clock, and you're set.

(none of this is meant to diss Pine64 or ARM -- only I think getting one to be eco friendly/power efficient may be misguided, depending on your use case)
No paywall: https://messaging-custom-newsletters.nytimes.com/template/oa...
I think the worry would be about how much a paper and crayon wears down the stone underneath (which the article alludes to with gravestone rubbings).

A damp sponge on top of aluminum foil still isn't contact-free, but I would guess it to be less of an impact than rubbing with a crayon. (It is also way more efficient to recycle aluminum compared to paper or wax).
He specifically mentions comments like yours are not helpful. This is the researcher fraud that is the problem in science that we are talking about, issues at hand are ignored or twisted so the paper mill can continue.

The concept is all mice in the USA come from one laboratory and have a common attribute that's different from wild mice and European suppliers.

And it's spelt out how in theory this different attribute could change medical results.

To come back with we don't care, without proof it's not a issue, is a deeply broken system, but is exactly how current universities work.

Here's the actual segment (18 mins) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve4q-1D_Ajo

Related (12 mins) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ygLNOt43So
Its nearly 75% depending on how you count. See May 2020 report: https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/ccrb/downloads/pdf/policy_pdf/mo...

Of the requests made, about 26% are resolved in 30 days or less. 46% requests still outstanding after 90 days.

So yes, its pretty clear NYPD delays or doesnt respond to requests for body camera footage.
I generally agree people understand mouse models are imperfect.

The issue here, is that you have to understand how they are imperfect if they have any value at all. In this case, doing drug research on a mouse model is fine. Unless the goal of that study is to see damage to organs or dna. Unfortunately, that’s what was not being controlled for or understood. Effectively, the DNA has more protection from damage in the lab micr used for models than normal mice or humans.

This implies most of our drug evaluations look better on paper than reality. Huge deal if true And there’s evidence (long term) to support this.

The reason it’s on the portal and Joe Rogan is no one in the scientific community is evaluating it (on the surface). What’s more baffling is working in and around this space, I can see the effects first hand (which I won’t dive into, for the same reason no one is saying anything about this in the scientific community).
Stumps me that William Shatner isn’t on the list. He’s been overweight for 40+ years and is 89!
Yes, I was thinking of azolla, and yes, I'm aware its previous mechanism was slow and over far longer timescales. The (faint) ray of hope is that in a world with rising seas there might well be more wetlands, offering a potential negative feedback for some of the very worst runaway carbon emissions scenarios.

Another concern is that wetland tend to be methane emitters (the first association of the which was as "swamp gas" or "marsh gas"), itself an exceedingly potent though shorter-lived greenhouse gas.

I need to re-read on global carbon sinks, but overall point was that wetlands are underappreciated for both extent and per-hectare fixing potential.
Hey, this is great. Sridhar was my VP for 3 years of my tenure at Google. Hell of a nice man. Great that he got out of the ad business and I absolutely think this a great thing to be working on!
I don't know of any video game where players can actually die if they hit a wall.
Pretty much very similar to the ship in a bottle hobby. But then you look at something like this and are just like, wait did this dude seriously just unsew a pair of loafers and resew them inside the bottle? Wow.

https://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/459/2465/320/bottle05.jp...
Fuck you, I hate cities. Now I can live near the people that are actually my friends and don't have to drive 5 hours every weekend for my hobbies.
Thanks for the Wolfe rec; sounds like we have some tastes in common. Along those lines, I heartily recommend basically everything by David Mitchell -- and reading his works in their published order. They stand on their own, but there are myriad narrative threads and subtle literary puzzles throughout. I look forward to re-reading them in sequence -- after I devour "Utopia Avenue", which I just now learned to my delight was published 12 days ago! :)
This is so true. Those "fortuitous in-person run-ins" are also highly correlated with looking the part and having the same hobbies and friends as well-connected people.

I think there's a chance we're going to see all-remote employees be subconsciously judged on things like the quality of their lighting, audio, background, mute etiquette, etc. IMO that's a lot better than the current approach of judging based on similar appearance, hobbies, lunch schedules, golf club memberships, etc.

Being all-remote is a wonderful equalizer.
If you see ads on that page you are interneting wrong. I'd really encourage you to install an adblocker.
I think your view’s totally reasonable. In my experience, the benefit of FP is To teach good program design: I’ve observed that functional programming languages encourage good practices that can be practiced in any language. For example: pushing I/O to the leaves of your program, dependency injection, eradicating global state, focus on functional interfaces.

These are patterns that you can do in any language, but functional languages kind of compel you to follow them. Many people first learned these patterns from FP, and carry them over to OOP, which they have to write at work.

I don’t know if there are many problems that are elegantly defined for FP, as you suggest. I think people just get comfortable in their cages. :)
Indeed. I grew up in the USSR so I am pretty good with the whole "don't talk about this over the phone/in earshot of somebody you don't trust/outside your kitchen" game. However, the rules in the later USSR were clear as the forbidden topics have not changed every week. In the modern USA anything can become political in an instant and there is no way this is sustainable. If J.K. Rowling can get cancelled then nobody is safe. It's more resembling the early USSR, where people purging public enemies last week became the public enemies themselves this week and their accusers were purged the next week.
I’m 14 and this is deep
Having actually built a different kind of search engine (see https://hnprofile.com)

I’m kinda miffed that all these posts use bing. I’m sorry, that’s not a new search engine, it’s a new UI.
At the very least it seems like it would be fraud not to include the original collector of the data as a co-author on the analysis paper.
How to build a good search engine:

1. Actually return the results matching the words that people typed in your search box. The more they match, the more they go up.

More and more, it has become extremely disappointing what you get back from Google (and others as well). Verbatim search (where you surround exact terms in quotes), seems to have vanished in the last year or so. More often than not I have clicked on a result, only to find out that my particular query is nowhere to be found on the site, but some "related stuff" does.
Is DuckDuckGo just a Bing UI? I thought they had their own index.
I'm sure work could become my life if I wanted it to, but I want to back off, not double down. I definitely understand the abstract idea of a "pushing force", though. Part of this may be about learning to do without it. I've always needed a pushing force, and I want to be able to make and achieve my own goals for no reason other than my own satisfaction.
Man I vaguely recall when you could use an .ini file as a driver in windows back in the day...
Well if the goal is to fund everyone, the pressures that ensure it “ requires years of post-secondary education, has long, shitty hours, and pays peanuts” will likely reduce.
Flu could never kill 2 million (or more) Americans in a single year like COVID can unchecked.

The current hysteria is not disproportionate.
> How are they supposed to predict how long the delivery will take or whether the mother will need a c-section?

In their case it was a scheduled c-section. In any case they can at the least give you a range: min-max.

Additionally, hospitals keep very accurate track of their c-section rates, so even if they are not able to predict yours in particular, they can definitely tell you what your odds are ahead of time.

And, there are other countries and healthcare systems in which they internally take care of the stats/metrics so that they make a decent amount while you pay a reasonable amount that they tell you before you choose to get the procedure.

The hospital doesn't tell you the estimate of anything because they are afraid of the liability (or maybe just accountability).

It's just lazy or maybe too convenient, to say it can't be done. I mean if already health insurance companies can give you a fixed monthly amount to pay, then they know very well how much it's going to cost them, why not tell us?
Article isn’t readable on mobile. Any link to just the text?
That sounds a bit like yacy or searx:

https://yacy.net/ https://searx.me/
That's interesting, the CDC lists 42.4% for the US. https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html
So you're okay being a hypocrite in life ?