skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s all well and good if you reach stability below a level that is sustainable. We aren’t going to be anywhere near that from an environmental point of view.
I'd like to file a bug report: running Photoshop and using my wacom tablet, the lines are somewhat twitchy. On the other hand, it's responsive as hell: how nice to upgrade to a Quadra running inside Electron inside Mojave inside a pretty gnarly iMac Pro :)

I wish my old Performa 575 booted that fast or ran Photoshop 3 that well. I am old enough that I started with Photoshop 3 on such a machine, so this really was a trip for me. How utterly cool.

Now if I could run Photoshop 3 natively on THIS box… hoo boy would that be responsive.
nuclear energy density is derived from e=mc2, so fusion/fission are in the same ballpark.

Current accepted way is to build solar/wind and redesign grid to deal with intermittency. Solar and wind are even more energy diluted than fossil fuel, they take 500 times more space, more land out of nature/alternative uses.

Nuclear has already demonstrated that it can decarbonise industrial economy up to 80%, see France. and they did it just in 10 years.

This is bascally the reason i think this is the way out of crisis
I used to agree heavily with this, but nowadays we have effective techniques of memory safety on the software level and I find myself ambivalent on which level of abstraction this occurs.

I do think it means C is probably eventually doomed as a system language, though. I’m curious if we’ll ever see e.g. rust in the *bsd codebases.
I got so tired of issues with snaps and switched entirely to Debian for both servers/desktops.
If the energy source is not providing energy when i need it, i dont care that its cheap at some other time when its of no use to me.

Safety is not a real problema in rebewavles, they are much safe than mining/ fossil fuels of any kind.
With Github I’m not so sure. The online mob usually gets what they want. Having said that, the overlap between those paying the most for Github and those demanding the most might be 100%.
Honestly I have been consumed by this kind of anxiety the last two years as a remote worker. Constant paranoia about what the team is doing and saying and what people are really motivated by.

The politics of my remote teams Have driven me to depression and constant fear.

What has genuinely helped me is to change my diet. I switched to a diet of nothing but meat and vegetables and began supplementing vitamin D.

I have noticed that my mood and emotional responses are significantly better when I fix my health. Like it or not, my crappy diet was causing me all kinds of problems and making my anxiety worse.

Another thing: I have a team member who literally sees everything positively. Whenever something happens, he automatically defaults to “this is a good thing because...” and tells a story to himself about why this is a positive thing.

I started trying to think that way.

When you have anxiety every miscommunication or misunderstanding gets rounded to a negative reaction. When your diet and health are bad, you have a much higher chance of being in an exhausted or poor mood and taking things the wrong way.

And yes - I understand some people suffer from more mental conditions. But even if you do have a mental condition of some sort, fixing your nutrition helps regardless.
Or perhaps it isn’t, when you actually account for everything:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qj4z9p/green-economic-gro...
If I’m not mistaken, I recall using your software to learn to read (rather my parents bought it for me). Many thanks! Now instead of reading just books I read code.
Base hard disk size of a 1991 Quadra 700: 80 MB

Size of this .app on my Mac: 866 MB

Yes, I know, it’s silly to snark on Electron app sizes by this point. You want to see some real bloat? Let’s compare the included Adobe Photoshop 3 and Adobe Photoshop 2020:

Photoshop 3.0.5: 8.9 MB

Photoshop 21.2.1: 2.76 GB

Now that is some bloat.
Wow, motte and bailey.

Hengist et al publish a toy paper where they fed 14 guys pizza and ran a blood panel. Sure, why not. Probably took an afternoon, and was real cheap to do, gave some of his grad students publication credits and LaTeX experience. We learn that eating a pizza will not instantly give you diabetes, or make you obese, which we already knew. This, by itself, is fine.

Separately, the University of Bath has a press office which is required to issue a certain number of press releases per year, even when the research isn't interesting. Again, no real problem. Plenty of press releases are issued with nobody ever reading them. If the University of Bath wants to employ people to do nothing useful, that's their own business.

This press release is submitted to HN and gets a bunch of upvotes. Problem. People in the comments try to generalize the study. Big problem!

The paper had no followup, no dose schedule, tiny experimental groups... because it wasn't trying to solve obesity!

Nobody knows what's causing the obesity epidemic. There are many hypotheses, all with holes and strange contradictions. There have been many gigantic studies, all with inconclusive results.

There is no reliable way to lose weight.1 There are many diets that work for some people, all with holes and strange contradictions. There have been many gigantic studies, all with inconclusive results.

This is a nice little toy study. I don't doubt the data or the results. I just don't think it's useful. And studying obesity certainly isn't like running a randomized clinical trial on if beheading will kill a person!

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1: Yes, if you lock someone in a cage and not give them food, they will lose weight. Obviously. Once you release them back into modern society, they will regain that weight.
If it makes you feel better, comp.lang.python is also blocked:

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.python/
We need to go deeper! Soon we'll have a machine learning algorithm conjure Mac OS by calculating the next frame to display, taking into account user input, based on watching thousands of hours of normal Mac OS usage
The database aside entirely, that story was a really fun read. Thanks for writing it up and sharing. Rooting for you!
Honest question: How do you feel e.g. "1.2.1 => 1.6.2" is more useful than for instance incorporating dates, like: "2020.05.04 => 2020.06.20"?

From my perspective both schemes provide useful information but for different purposes.
Are all these games abandonware? Even if not, I can’t imagine anyone pursuing a legal case, but it would be the kind of thing I worried about.
That really makes me miss my pandora......
Another tech interview thread. For the side that supports these types of interviews, I've never gotten a good answer to a simple question: in the year 2020, why are we expecting people to write compilable code on a whiteboard? It's just stupid at this point. Even a laptop that boots into some micro linux distro and has nothing but nano open would be better. Or just a fresh install windows laptop with nothing but notepad.exe open. Or a chromebook that is open to a HTML page that has nothing but a textarea element.

I'm not including a compiler or having build tools or an IDE. Just a basic simple text editing area that allows the basic functions of typing in text and editing it.

I'm against these leetcode interviews. But if you did nothing else but change this one thing, just stop expecting people to write code on a whiteboard or paper/pencil and allow them to write code the way it's actually done (a computing device with a keyboard and text edit area), that would be such a huge improvement. Writing code on a whiteboard or paper doesn't test anything. Think about how limited it is and how different it is (for example, you can't just press an up arrow and add a newline, have to find an eraser and start over).

It's yet another useless skill to learn just for interviews (writing compilable code on a whiteboard/paper) which also encourages rote memorization (because you have to get it right on the first try since editing the text is so painful and difficult).

I hope people start pushing back on this. The reaction should be, wow you care so little about your interview process that you can't get a $200 chromebook in here?
Generally agree with this: semver makes a lot of sense for code libraries, makes almost no sense for anything else. CSS, styles, and user-facing documents have no concept of compatibility without change, because they have no real implementation-hiding: they should probably just be incrementing integers.
Not directly related to S3 traffic bill, but overall cloud cost management.
Maybe some are unintentional, but still very painful. My experience with AWS & GCP.

- AWS CloudWatch: expensive service, virtually unusable, hard to turn it off.

- AWS overall: finding and cleaning up resources is messy. The order of creating & cleanup is not same. Closing an account is a painful process. GCP Project structure is way easier.

- AWS EKS: You create a cluster, then a node group. Deleting a cluster fails if there is a node group. You go ahead to delete a node group, it complains because of "dependencies". While you're randomly looking for a "dependency" the $ clock is still ticking. You should delete the network interface before you could delete the node group, and only then the cluster. This does not sense because if the network interface was created implicitly by the node group, i should not be responsible for deleting the network interface. There should be a symmetry in create/delete operations.

- GCP GKE: You create a cluster, then delete it. Cluster gets deleted - kudos, usability much better then with AWS EKS. But it turns out lots of LoadBalancers and Firewall rules are left over and still appear on the cloud bill. Those are implicitly created and should be cleaned up implicitly by GKE.
Running Custom Code on a Google Home Mini (Part 1)
Yeah, a few days of incredible water bloat from extra carbs = exploit schedule for extra cushion on squat days.

Otherwise, all things normalized like calorie + pedometer for NEAT + morning weigh in trend suggest thousands of indulgence calories just goes straight the colon. If I spread the extra calories over weekdays, I will gain weight. If I skip fiber, the food will stay around (=more absorption?) and I will gain weight. I've also done big weekly binges a few years ago to similar affect. 6000 calories over 3-4 meals just doesn't account get registered on the scale at the end of the month. Had to stop due to heartburn :-/.
You don't have to do this because there are often good recommendations for cheap tools.
Where did you get 1/3?
You dont need to cover even 0.001% of landmass to supply all of US!
Angular and React intermingled, yes. Elm in the same project, yes. I'm still unclear on the relationship between what was Elm's responsibility vs. mainstream JS framework's responsibility.
Classilla requires a PowerPC and CarbonLib, and this machine is an emulated 68040. The best browser you can get is probably iCab, but even then it won't display many modern pages. Think of how many sites require TLS 1.2 to do anything at all.
Different things work for different people, personally white boarding is my favorite. I think the best would be to offer the candidate options. Let them come in for the culture fit portion of the interview, at the end present them a problem and let them choose if they prefer white boarding, pair programming, or take home and submit by the end of the day.
A lot of our tech stack isn't in containers. We also have datacenters/onprems and do not want to manage k8s!
What if you get a 1099 from another state? Multiple states? Don't you need to file taxes with those states now? (Genuinely curious, I am not a CPA so I really don't know).

What if you don't have any other 1099s (so you have to pay self-employment tax just because of that one interview, at least I had once when my moving expenses were paid with a 1099).

Not even getting into possible illegal work for the candidates on work visas.
Maybe it makes sense to pay someone (perhaps a fellow HNer[1]?) to review your resume and suggest some changes?

Japanese is my third language, so when I was shipping around my Japanese resume in Japan, I had an experienced native speaker review and revise. As a non-native speaker, there's a lot of nuance in writing that you just don't understand.

Your resume is often your first impression, so you want it to glow as much as possible. Honest, but glowingly so. :)

Might help you in terms of landing better jobs.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=DoreenMichele
Military industrial complex? Billionaires? The things you mentioned are literally nothingburger.
Really? When was that last tested? I wouldn't expect google.com in 2020 to support SSL2.0, what with MITM downgrade attacks.
The problem is actually that people are forced off of their homes, personal property and way if life should there be a big accident. For an average householder it's their life savings, friendships, community and way of life wiped out through no fault of theirs. Sure there'll be compensation and resettlement but who trusts governments to do this fairly and painlessly?

It hasn't helped that no civilian nuclear operator has demonstrated the ability to sustain safe operations with zero incidents and consistently prioritize safety over the course of decades. Every operator has a string of nuclear incidents of varying severity and i think more than anything, the Fukushima thing shook people up because while you could excuse away Russian and American accidents with cultural factors nobody perceives Japanese to be careless or irresponsible (and this was expressly the reasoning that led Angela Merkel to reverse her stance)

So yeah in abstract at a nation level, it's not a major risk but for the families possibly affected, it's a catastrophe - as opposed to increased chance of a few people getting cancer over their lifetime from Coal.

Therefore given the asymmetric risk and demonstrated inability of the nuclear industry in ensuring zero incidents, there's naturally grassroots opposition which translates into political pressure that no amount of "risk is so low" data-flashing can wave away.
Weirdly I don't think there's a machine learning algorithm that can actually do this. pix2pix loses cohesiveness quickly, and GANs require mostly aligned input to make any sense of reality. BigGAN is the closest, yet even that doesn't seem to work very well for continuity.
That's impossible, unless you have an invention for extremely cheap superconductors that you've been hiding away.
I guess I care.

Yes it's beneficial if something works, but I want to know why it works too and not just believe in random pseudoscience. Also, determining if something really works is hard.

I want to understand the mechanism. If there's something true there then you may be able to use that directly, you can also avoid untrue things that are harmful (history is full of these harmful 'treatments'). [0]

Without this people just end up wearing energy crystals, while dismissing real medicine for homeopathic nonsense that can lead to death [1][2].

Humanity has used the scientific method to barely rise above the collection of hocus pocus explanations. It's worth the effort not to fall back into that. [3]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloodletting

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs#Health_problems

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23882029

[3]: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/RgkqLqkg8vLhsYpfh/fake-causa...
Wrong about what exactly? I'd say I'm mostly a breathing skeptic, but if it makes you feel better, then... it makes you feel better and you aren't wrong for feeling better.
This feels more like a "I don't like David Sedaris" article than a "Uninteresting Places" article.
As soon as you start to vary, accidentally or not, the heights of cells, you're in for a bad time.

Sorting large datasets with varying cell heights will bog down your system. Force uniform cell height and sorting can easily be twenty times quicker.
Stack Overflow raises $85M to accelerate development of its Teams software
>which will generally require a certain level of communication skills and presentation ability, is the right place for you.

It's really not about presentation ability. It's "oh shit I have x minutes to do this and I have to get it right or I won't get the job, oh shit 5 minutes passed already and I haven't done anything" type of anxiety.
In fact they have worked together on Dynamicland, where the building is the computer.

I always check into that again whenever Bret Victor comes up. It moves slowly, so I was excited to see this in their timeline:

> 2022: Dynamicland meets the world, in the form of new kinds of libraries, museums, classrooms, science labs, arts venues, and businesses. We will empower these communities to build what they need for themselves, to design their own futures.

https://dynamicland.org/
> you may need to create some kind of income account for that gain

Right; and that's exactly what I describe in the last paragraph.
Stumbled over this[1] paper while searching, says there's no correlation between forced-nostril breathing and performance in a verbal task.

However they mention their test subjects were not very uniform, and I'm not really in a position to evaluate their methods so...

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3144611/
Thanks for creating it! I have nearly 100gb of archives today and you have the simplest app to do it!
I occasionally get to see a friend's ~7year old son practicing reading by reading out load. He obviously uses semantic cue to "assume" what a word is based on previous words, and occasionally gets a few words further then realises what he just said doesn't make sense, and he goes back and sounds out the incorrect work phonetically.

In this plague and WFH era, I've watched as the GoogleMeet live transcription does exalted the same sort of thing - it'll make a wrong word choice, then a few words later go back and correct itself based on grammar/syntax/context from subsequent words.

I sometimes wonder if that's an algorithm told to do something like "pick the highest priority word possibility that makes grammatical sense with all the previous words, if subsequent highest probability words then make the previous sentence fragment non grammatically correct, go back to previous words and try the next highest probability words to maximise grammatical correctness if the entire sentence so far" - or if it's just blackbox machine learned "magic" that happens to make similar mistakes and corrections as a sample 7 year old?

(Knowing Google, it's almost as likely that their algorithm is "keep building n-grams from each of the top n best-guesses of the previous y transcribed words, then count the number of times this each possible n-gram appears across the entire Google corpus of web pages, usenet, email, and google books, and pick the one with the highest historical use count"...)
You can issue a patch for 1.2 even after releasing 1.6.2 using semver
Glider. And Shufflepuck for good measure.
Which is a very laudable response! With the caveat that pack-ratting everything is going to be an endless treadmill. I certainly favor preservation but at some point you do have to consider what you're saving and why.
Amazing story and congrats on all the progress!

Shameless plug: if you'd like to try it out in a production setting, we just created a one-click install for it:

https://github.com/render-examples/questdb
I know your really just trolling and it doesn’t really matter cause this whole thread was removed by the mods anyway for breaking the rules... but if you really think that the richest country in the world needs so much help I think you should get out of whatever bubble you are in and examine some material facts. Do they have issues absolutely yes but so does every country.

US, Europeans, nobody can travel everywhere right now. Furthermore the US is doing better on coronavirus than plenty of countries per capita (Belgium, Italy, France, Sweden, UK for starters). The world is particularly stressful right now but that doesn’t mean we should result to nationalistic flame bait. We’re stronger with the US, democratic nations should stick together not bicker endlessly.
The issue with LeetCode style interview is that almost EVERYONE can solve those questions after studying a couple weeks/months.

The only thing that LeetCode questions predict is if the candidate has been training for LeetCode questions.

The fact that Google, Facebook etc still use it as a gatekeeping mechanism makes me believe they want to find cogs that will specifically spend hours studying for it. Making sure that those engineers will be ready to execute their mindless coding tasks at the company.
What problems are you trying to solve...? Make a list of them, evaluate complexity of each solution and trade offs.

K8s is a tool, we have a lot of tools in software to solve problems.
At first I misread your sentence as "With the rise in the homeschooling pandemic, ..." :)

I'm finding that as I get older, I make more mistakes like that when I'm tired.
Perhaps this is an aside, but the questdb.io website claims "postgres wire support", but doesn't clarify whether that's _full_ wire support, or a subset of postgresql (which would be understandable) and if so, what the subset is.
You are discovering that most of the value in software... is not in software.

Nothing on your resume will ever cause anyone to say, “We simply have to hire this guy.” On the contrary, the slightest typo, grammatical error, or stray bit-flipping particle will mean that your resume is instantly discarded.

When they do this to your resume, they are doing this to a representation of you: they are metaphorically throwing you in the trash like worthless garbage.

Are you offended by this? You should be.

So don’t use a resume.

Figure out some other way to get on the phone with the people you need to talk to.

You are no longer a tech wiz. You are in sales now. Your job is “selling yourself”.

Congratulations.
Nope, especially seeing the current usage / data size I think it's perfectly fine to hang around forever. I may eventually implement something to clean up data with no reads for > 1 month, but again so far it looks fine to leave things around.
For another perspective on “semver is a lie,” see the “Live at Head” talk from Titus Winters of the Google core C++ team.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tISy7EJQPzI

TL;DW: By Hyrum’s law, at sufficient scale, there’s no such thing as a non-breaking change (including changing comments). Embrace that, and test sufficiently that you can always take the latest dependency but detect when it breaks.
And whybdo you believe that? We will never surpass 12 billion by most estimates. Where is the sustainability point?
+1 on finding a Therapist and exercise. HIIT per other comments is great OR do medium intensity cardio to the point where you are tired (45-60 min @ 60% of max heart rate)...this will lower your anxiety and help you calm down and sleep. I'd also recommend learning some breathing/meditation techniques - box breathing is good. Anxiety is something you can learn to control with the right training and attention. I'd focus on these before making a major life-change. Medications are useful in the short term while you learn skills/tools. I'd stay away from benzodiazepines unless you are having panic attacks, etc. (they are hard to wean off of and can cause rebound syndrome -> make anxiety worse). You may want to explore high-quality broad-spectrum CBD oil supplementation. There is a lot of info available on reddit, etc.
I once ended up intensely enjoying my breath through the night (Did not sleep). I don’t recommend it. I wonder if that’s a type of discouraged breathing.
The music is really stunning, could anyone tell me the background music of it?
I have not even purchased yet, I think I will purchase in a couple months I've just been holding out.

I am very excited to purchase, use and tinker with the Pinephone