skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't like it but I can see some of the tensions that create it. The UK in particular seems to be going down a road where all the political decisions are being made for my generation. This won't work out well in the long term.
Thanks. I hate it so much when people do not explain the acronyms they use, at least once.

It is like a map without a legend. It is so confusing.

And I am an expert on electronics, I can guess it, most people will read that as nonsense.
Open world games are too big and need to be smaller
That's not going to happen, Netflix need to push their ARPU up quite significantly in the next few years given how much cash they're burning (and they explicitly promised shareholders they would stop doing last year).
Right, but you're not running a data center or factory.

Individually, unless you're in very harsh climates, the safety margin for normal operations is huge. But that's not the case for complex systems. You can't simply shut down a data center for a week without turning it from a data center into some expensive building that currently provides zero value.

Society relies on reliability. By extension, so do you, because without reliability in factories, there won't be solar modules, batteries and all the fancy gadgets being produced. Individually, you can easily survive a few days without power, or without food for that matter. But on a society level, that's a very different story.
That's neat. I'll get it working with Delta (https://github.com/dandavison/delta), which makes diffs look much nicer.
Sore butts are a common theme in cycling :)
On longer rides people might prefer harder saddles. A softer seating clamps down on your soft tissue and prevents proper blood circulation. Having a harder seating will make you sit on your sit bones and have your blood flow free. The sit bones can start to feel a bit irritated after some time, but that is the time to get up for a walk. If your soft tissue (from lack of blood flow) starts hurting, it is because it is starting to get damaged. Even if you would walk for an hour and sit again, the pain would come back instantly.
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Would it be possible to add autoscaling RedisGraph and other modules in the affordable part of Redis enterprise? The RSAL license terms prevent anybody from really using the modules and the alternative is thousands of dollars, which is nuts to evaluate early stage software.

I’m not sure why Redis Enterprise needs so many different price levels. If Redis were priced like DynamoDB, there would be much less friction for folks like me to sign up. Right now it’s like all the other cloud database companies: want to use our database? Great! Calculate your storage needs in advance and convert that into our measure of choice (different for each provider)
Startups targeting Africa should start with a multi-country mindset
"worth paying for tax advice"

I knew someone who, through their employer, got tax advice from one of the big name accounting firms that turned out to be completely wrong - leaving them liable for tax both in the UK and in the country they had travelled to. It all got sorted out in the end but took a long time and was he was rather unhappy with the whole thing, as you can probably imagine.
> Crypto is hard because you don't get quick feedback on whether you are doing well. The feedback will only come if somebody hacks it.

Not necessarily (for the part marked in italics). See all the grief that Telegram gets here in every post about it or related to it.

Feedback on certain implementations does come from well known people in crypto.
I have the opposite experience. I can recall discussions I've read months or years ago. In aggregate, it added a bit of depth to my perception of the world. They gave me a lot more vocabulary to process the world around me, as do good books.
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I am not sure about this in particular. But in general for redundancy to work you need the remaining equipment to be able to support the craft fully. There needs to be enough spare power. And the remaining thrust must be central enough to avoid loss of control. This doesn't work well with even numbers like 2x or 4x.

Also, adding additional rotors/engines could increase the chance of a failure in a particular flight as you have more things that can go wrong. A 2 rotor helicopter is definately not safer than a single bladed one.
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>> only the US is brazen enough to charge non-resident citizens income tax

Don't forget Hungary, Myanmar, and Eritrea, too!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_taxation
I hope this is not the first sign of the clathrate gun going off.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis
Sorry, I'd been thinking bridge pillars.

For underwater cables I wouldn't say non-expert: the trade that has the expertise generally pays around USD 60k per annum.

Being around 2 kA discharges underwater is probably not a great idea, however. Automation would be one possibility, raising required expertise and lower required headcount. A little searching indicates that if one is willing to acquire a ROV, there are at least two other commercially available cutting technologies, both of which are normally used for much larger cuts than a 20 cm cable bundle.

Much modern infrastructure relies on people not being jerks, but then again, modern society also relies on people not running around shooting each other, which seems to work.

(except when it doesn't: this is why I am looking into Yugoslavia now. How does one get from socialist brotherhood to shooting each other? I have colleagues, yugo refugees, whose conspiracy theory is that the conflict was externally stoked, but I currently find people being stupid to be a more parsimonious explanation.)
I wouldn't consider yourself selfish by not having a child. Bringing in a child into this world is simply contributing to society, but then you can do that in many other selfless ways. But I feel there will be a personal sacrifice by not having a child. I consider myself a loner beside loving my wife, I have no reason to leave a legacy. However, there is something to be said to share your life, experiences and knowledge with someone who can benefit. Passing that to someone is rewarding for sure i.e. Big Brothers, bt there is something more, something special if it is your own flesh and blood. Something very innate.

Lastly, typically you and your spouse will most likely die separately. Even with families close by, there is nothing like knowing your own flesh and blood will be there. The inherent trust and bond is undeniable.

>>Lastly, you absolutely will LOSE your previous life. There isn't a part of it you can retain. It's gone....period.

Little overly stated since my son needs me 24/7 now. However, overtime, he'll need this space and my wife and I may be able to get back to where we were. Of course one factor to consider is age so this is where having your child at an earlier age has it's advantages. So truly get back to where we were will most likely be based on your age.
It probably is a dead end promotion wise. But my impression is that there isn't much of a chance for promotions in most jobs here anyway. If you are trained in some craft in the vocational education system you get a job and do that job basically forever. Most common way to get higher up in that situation seems to be getting more formal education, either by becoming Master craftsmen (Meister) or by getting a college degree. Germany is very finicky about formal degrees.
If you already have a college degree things might be different. Still it seems to me that in those cases your best chances to climb the ladder is to switch jobs from time to time.
So if you realize there are no promotion for you in stock, or that you have to switch jobs anyway to progress your career, working part time is very much sustainable in the long run.
Also if you are lacking the formal education to achieve your career goals you could start working part to have more time to get your degree while working.
> I don't think this generation had DRM on the batteries. The new ones did and they're not cracked.

TIL that there are DRM even on batteries. What a sad state of affairs.
Re: incorrectly communicated responsibilities, I'd look at helicopter and snowplow parents[1][2], and failing to enforce boundaries[3]. I'd also look at the characteristics listed for Gen Y in Tables 3&4, from[4]. For adequate training solutions, I'm mostly extrapolating from the parenting methods of my peers. They are all current or former military and with children aged 8-18. The guy with a "helicopter wife" is frustrated with his feckless, irresponsible 15yo daughter. The other guys seem to be getting far better results from their training and discipline methods, which are roughly:

1. Do a joint task (typically some household chore) with your child, and instruct them in how to perform it.

2. Assign them the task to execute independently.

3. Most importantly, hold them accountable when they fail. "No, I'm not going to break my neck to clean your clothes at the last minute. You were tasked with doing the laundry. You didn't. So now you can go to school and get teased by the other students for being nasty. Actions have consequences. Next time fulfill your responsibilities and successfully execute the task you were assigned. I'll provide remedial training if you don't understand the task, but I'm not going to do your work for you."

4. Help your children understand that the world is dangerous, no one owes you anything, and reckless actions have life-destroying consequences. Teach them how to do proper risk assessments. If you go backpacking in the hills of Morocco, with no security plan, you might get your head cut off. How are pairs of young white women not anticipating that?[5] If you verbally or physically assault law enforcement....you might end up in handcuffs or arrested. Yet we see people having total mental breakdowns when put in cuffs, as if it never occurred to them that a reaction was even a possible consequence of their belligerence. That complete failure to assess risk is how we end up with 31&32yo LAWYERS throwing firebombs at police cars....and subsequently facing 5-20 years in jail.[6] I think this point needs to build up #3 above, because your kids first need to learn their own role in their success/failure or happiness/suffering before you can work through courses of action/decision trees/risk assessments in various other real-life scenarios they might face as young adults.

5. "Train the trainer" mentality. As I am teaching you how to DO, I'm also teaching you how to TEACH. Be cognizant that our mentorship of our children should also give them mental models, anecdotes, and body language cues for how to train their own offspring. This is mostly applicable for the >22yo adult offspring, hopefully we haven't screwed up so bad that our kids are popping out babies much younger than that.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/snowplow-parents-calling-emp...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20200209211058/https://www.nytim...

[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8516929/Pare...

[4] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325163313_FACING_TH...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Louisa_Vesterager_J...

[6] https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/brooklyn-attorneys-grant...
That doesn't sound right. How would a trace-based JIT be easier to implement? There was a research project which made HotSpot into a trace-based JIT. It reported both faster compilation times, and superior quality of generated code.

(I don't know if the HotSpot folks ever considered adopting the changes.)

http://www.ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Haeubl11/
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The rear rotor of a helicopter will occasionally do that also. Although it could be better with a craft that can easily turn on and off in an instant. A helicopter is often accessed by humans when powered up
And you're still liable for social security.
I use them almost on a daily basis to control the lights in my apartment, it's surprisingly convenient and helps with multitasking when I'm in a hurry.
The same thing goes for weather and reminders. The best use case when you're in the middle of something, eg. cooking and just want to make a simple note or set a timer.
I had this situation where an employee insisted on tax advice from the company's lawyer. The law firm represents who is paying, same for liability. In the end we sponsored an expensive email basically saying as such.
> While Google Play might be seen as the only way, there is nothing to stop you from going to some other store (F-Droid e.g).

Over upcoming releases of AOSP, Google intends to disable sideloading in Android, except for that tiny tech audience who knows how to enable developer mode and install over the command line. So, both direct APK downloads and F-Droid will be accessible to fewer ordinary Android users than is already the case. Definitely not enough people to build an app business on.
I'd imagine the internet just has to be good enough to have video calls and transfer the occasional large file for 90% of people.

I think life on a Caribbean island would be enough reason to ditch our usual high bandwidth vices like gaming and streaming for just a year.
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Yet everyone walked in Indonesia just 100 years ago.
Eat well, live well, still die.

I agree with everything you’ve written there, apart from the idea that diet & exercise will extend your life by quite a lot, and the idea that you’ll have to gamble with interventions now if you’re in your 40s. There’s simply no behaviour or treatment today that will significantly extend the maximum human lifespan; unfortunately doing so will require years of scientific and technological innovation. Even caloric restriction looks monumentally feeble as an intervention, especially weighed against the effort involved.

As you say, one big question is how to do a wait calculation for your own personal timeline – at some point (we hope) the interventions will get more efficacious and have fewer adverse effects. The skill (luck?) will be judging when the benefits outweigh the risks for your personal circumstances, as your body ages and your risk profile increases. But at this point in history, there’s no evidence that we’re anywhere near a longevity escape velocity scenario, and your couple of years extra life from present day efforts should be enjoyed on its own terms, not as some sort of key to unlocking immortality.

I think that last part is leaned on heavily by this industry to oversell things to people; it amounts to little more than religious faith at this point in history. They are selling what they have to hand, but when we try to judge those interventions objectively, they’re just not that effective (including diet & exercise).

They are ahead of the beauty-led anti-aging industry in that they are at least doing science, so there is hope for the future.
I don’t know, I think one of the kindest things Poland could have done is to die off and let the Germans take the reigns.

Where is the difference?
I still don’t care. The herd immunity story only matters if for some reason a large amount of people has a valid reason why they can’t be vaccinated.

Any useful coronavirus vaccine has to work for the vulnerable people anyway, the old, the obese, the diabetics etcetera and these would be the people with a valid reason.

If these people can get vaccinated everyone can choose, get vaccinated or run the risk. I don’t care. And there is no herd immunity story.
A reused cloudformation template accidentally run on the wrong account could do an awful lot if it's set to tear down existing infra first so the env is clean
In the formative years of PCs the support life was really low because of the fast pace of hardware improvement. Now support times are much longer because hardware performance grows much slower.

The same is true for smartphones. The original iPhone didn't have a very long support life but the iPhone 6S from 2015 is supported in iOS 14 giving it at least a 6 year lifespan.
I'm not saying it wasn't heavily armed, I'm saying all things considered it was a very small warship — though a very fast one; and it was extremely expensive compared to the warships you'd expect at the end of the scale, so not really matching the missions those'd usually have: the advantage of patrol or missile boats is that they're cheap and they're relatively easy to crew, but a Lun would be neither of those.
Drawings can better show what the bones look like than photographs (https://thenode.biologists.com/illustrators-see-camera-cant/...)

I would think that is true for “drawing vs 3D model”, too, but of course, 3D models could be used to check the interpretation by the illustrator.
Not sure how old this post is, 2014 by the looks of it, but modern declarative automation makes this redundant. Ansible, as an example, would abstract away the CLI commands and be very readable in very few lines.

The setup described in this post looks fragile, regardless of whether it's literate. I mean, we used to do these things, but we've moved on.
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I use google assistant multiple times a day. play pandora or youtube playlists on various speakers throughout my house, set reminders, add things to my shopping list or todo list, check the weather, set alarms, navigation if I'm driving, random google queries
I should probably add this kind of thing to the article then. It is nearly impossible to state "Language X is compiled/interpreted/jitted".

I didn't explicitly say that JS doesn't come with JIT, because I'd be putting Node.JS and every browser engine in the same bag. I simply can't be sure about all of them.

I'll add very soon this caveat that the dialect (js, php, python) doesn't really matter and make it clear that I'm talking about engines, possibly directly point to them.

I hope you understand, though, that I wanted to make JIT as a concept understandable. The language comparisons are secondary.

Thanks a lot for your feedback!
Wait until you are 69.
There’s nothing to fear really. Why would there be no kids? Why would biologically “young” people have no new ideas?

I didn’t like extreme sports when I was young, but maybe if I was 10,000 years old, I’d think screw it and have a go at BASE jumping...
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I think you should drop everything else and run to the bookstore, buy the book and read it. Come to think of it, I'm going to do it myself right now.
> CVE database is full of questionable safety exploits regarding C practices.

I'm pretty sure josefx agrees with that given their second paragraph, they're mostly saying Annex K doesn't really make things better: it follows the usual (bad) C handling practices, and largely just adds more parameters to mess passing in.
I just use another monitor, while the laptop display act like a second display.
The thing to hope for is people figuring out how to get rich while doing things that are good for our planet. Economics and not idealism is the way out. People are way too much stuck assuming that saving our planet involves guilt tripping the masses into self sacrifice in a heroic last ditch effort to save our planet. IMHO this is fatalistic and not realistic.

You see economics driving progress in lots of sectors. There is good reason to be hopeful here because e.g. he most valuable car company is now a battery EV company (Tesla) and the fastest growing electricity companies are all over solar and wind. Farmers are going organic because they have better margins on selling good quality produce. High tech farming meanwhile includes using clean energy to intensive green house growing, vertical farming, and better resource management. Likewise the construction sector is figuring out cheaper and cleaner materials (e.g. wood instead of concrete seems to be becoming a thing). Profits are shifting from companies doing damage to companies undoing damage.

There are no silver bullets here but the effects can be quite rapid. E.g. the coal sector collapsing in the space of about 10-15 years is driven by economics not idealism. It certainly helps that people like the side effect of less pollution but the main driver there is $/kwh. Investors are voting with their feet at this point. Either way, some good old R&D and healthy profit has achieved more in recent years than decades of lobbying by environmentalists.

Places like China, India, etc. are all doing their thing and mostly it's just driven by economics. That's fine. China seems to be particularly good at figuring things out that are both profitable and helpful here. You see India copying a lot of that.
Despite his cut-throat approach to business, Bill Gates has a more net positive impact on the world that most people who have ever lived.
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Ah OK thanks for the clarification. I will definitely consult an accountant once I'm moved and settled.
A thought occurred to me today: could it be some kind of "sugar high"? If I'm getting my timeline right (this was 7 years ago), my hyper-productivity period happened about when I stopped being on a ketogenic (carb-minimizing) diet, and got back to eating high-carb food.

(During my time on keto, I didn't feel any significant energy loss below the baseline; but I wonder if reintroducing carbs after being deprived of them for a while could have created a temporary state of high energy?)
"Hey, we're doing the same things as Hungary, Myanmar, and Eritrea" is not usually a good argument for anything.

Anyway, the Hungary part surprised me since I'm a Hungarian citizen living abroad and have never been bothered about tax. The Wikipedia table says residents of countries with tax treaties are exempt, and that should be pretty much all of them? The PDF link from Wikipedia is broken, which is normal for how the Hungarian government operates.
Those numbers are way below what they really should be.
I might be wrong here, as I'm not so close to Java development. But a language implementing JIT, at least to me, is interpreted.

Could you please point an implementation detail where a JIT-capable engine doesn't include interpretation in its runtime?

In every case, thanks a lot for your feedback!
If the latency is good enough for video calls, it’s good enough for gaming.

If it’s broadband of any kind, it can be used for streaming. Even 3-5Mbps is workable for HD, with a bit of upfront buffering.
We could populate it equally well with people who live a healthy half-century. And think of the progress that would be possible with that sort of population turnaround!

Will you join me in making this dream come true?
Thanks a lot! I blindly fetched this from the reference mentioned there. I'll update this as soon as I have time (probably during this week) and also let the author of the referenced post know about it.
“I only want to do what I want to do,” is pretty self-limiting.

Not only does it cut off any way for you to grow, it makes it hard for companies to hire you over programmers willing to do anything. And I don’t mean that in a bad way but a realistic way - companies hire and want to keep you on but know you’re not going to be interested in any of their projects so the time investment has been wasted.
Agree with the article, it is annoying that some student discount only applies with .edu email address which means US-only accredited school. But a lot of .edu email address owner is actually wealthy so...
DRM on batteries of expensive electronics seems consumer-friendly to me. Most consumers' experience with battery replacement would be sending it for replacement by a technician. Battery DRM would make it difficult for the consumer to end up with an unsafe battery in their device and pockets.
Some examples:

https://discoverflow.co/barbados/broadband/overview

https://discoverflow.co/barbados/mobile/plans/prepaid

https://www.digicelgroup.com/bb/en/mobile/plans/postpaid-pla...