skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most home routers have functionality to do port forwarding and dyndns. Certbot for TLS/cert. Just get a free domain from the dyndns service. No VPS needed if you got your own hardware/Rasbery. Make sure you have backups. Just Dont expect a $30 PC to be without issues.
It gives voice to nut job fringe elements and brings them together in echo chambers. All bad stuff, someone has to shut this monstrosity down. It is out of control.
The regulation BS will not work because it's become way too big to monitor and control.
I don't think space cannot be blamed here: modern offices are crowded and noisy.

My scientific wild-ass guess would be that younger employees naturally require more coaching, while the older, more experienced folks know the stuff and just keep doing what they've been doing for the past ten years.
> Maybe there's value to be realized by letting individual teams have influence over their business processes while still using a centrally organized system

This is absolutely one of the core reasons cited by large orgs that purchase these solutions. And it's part of the sales motion from these vendors.

When Bob in Finance needs to simplify one of his monthly close processes, he's not likely to get any traction asking for a new greenfield internal business app. But if his company has an investment in of of these platforms (like ServiceNow, SalesForce, Mendix, etc), it's possible that his team can take it upon themselves to solve their problem without having to get "real" dev teams involved.

This brings issues along with it for sure: governance, quality, and as you mention: lock-in. But quite a few of these departmental apps become quite useful/popular, and enable teams to innovate on their own.

I do worry about the future (~5-10 years down the road) when the proliferation of these apps becomes a problem of its own, at which point I fully expect to see a slew of new startups claiming to solve this problem.

The better vendors in this space are already baking "governance, scalability, CICD..." into their products for this reason.
Have you looked into something like BPMN + DMN? BPMN provides workflow modeling and basic decisions, and DMN provides decision tables which can implement more complex rules. There are a couple frameworks which can work on top of that to provide a system implementation.
Ah you see I've interacted with some of their leadership which was enough for me, whether that is enough to be meaningful I suppose is a matter up for interpretation.

Fair point otherwise.
In 1996/1997, the Macintosh was still, for most end-users, the only viable alternative to an IBM PC derivative, and one with market share.

The old Mac OS didn't use Objective-C-based frameworks. Objective C was used on the NeXT workstations.

Objective C became popular because it was part of the tech stack brought back into Apple by Jobs.
Is this because of contracts including stock options? Harder to dial those back?
Lying? He's saying what he needs to say to print more money. He didn't say it was _only_ the younger employees, did he?

He's not a goal. He's got a narrative. Is anyone going to question him? And wreck their career?
When responding with an XY problem with the answer up front, it's always worth bearing in mind that there's a very good chance that whatever you say after that will be blathering into the void. The consequences of this, especially if on StackOverflow or similar, can be hard to foresee. This is perhaps something to be cautious of one-size-fits-all approaches to, especially if the answer could be dangerous in the wrong hands.

The universality of `chmod 777` among people with no understanding of UNIX file permissions as a tool to solve all their problems is a great example.
Can you sign off from slack when you finish working for the day? That should be step one for getting a balance.
Wow, I guess people really do random app installs on their phones. I've never installed an app after being redirected to the app store... never. I've always considered that the equivalent of .exe's in emails. Just don't do it!

The fact that just about every damn site (reddit, etc) all desperately try and force the issue makes me think that if apple/google had ones best interests at heart they would disable the functionality.
In the Bio and Genetics section there are some good ones and some answers already (kinda). I'll try to be brief:

> What’s the minimum viable human population (from the perspective of genetic diversity)?

~500 people. It's not a 'firm' answer, as the research is still ongoing (aka, its complicated) but it looks like the number is ~500 but likely a bit more : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_population

> What future possibilities are there for brain-computer interfacing and how does this interact with issues in AI safety?

It all come down to scarring. Current attempts typically end in scarring, at least in the Central Nervous System. We've not got a good way around it yet, at least for little tetrode like probes you have to insert.

The most exciting (to me) is to use Clarity and Optogenetics. Clarity to make the brain, well, clear-er. And Optogenetics to stimulate cells with light. Shine light, nerves fire.

Trouble is the Clarity makes the brain swell ~3x, and nerves are smaller than the diffraction limit of light, mostly. Maybe attach some iron atoms in the optogenetic pore and then pull on them in a magnetic gradient, thereby separating out the frequencies needed. Still it's a long ways off.

> What do we know from animals about how cognitive abilities scale with brain size, learning time, environmental complexity, etc.?

There's been some good work out of the Hercule lab (U. Chile I think?) about this. The trouble is in getting a reliable brain marker for 'learning ability'. You can use markers for the number of layers of the cortex, and their cross connectivity, but it's still tough to understand. Turns out, the 'wrinklage' of a mammalian brain is correlated with increasing 'learning-ness', but atmospheric/hydodynamic pressure plays a huge role in the 'wrinklage'. Sorry, my google-fu is not good today and I don't have the paper citation

> Why has Mohism almost died out in China, relative to other schools of thought?

Damn! Now that is a good question. For those just seeing Mozi for the first time, he was a defensive siege engineer during the early Warring states period (~470BC). Guy's ethos would really fit well in Silicon Valley, he was a kinda engineery-hippy dude, kinda Kevin Kelly-esque: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozi
I wouldn't hold my breath for this happening anytime soon on Linux. At the very least the GPU scheduler would probably need some significant enhancements, and it would need to be exposed to userspace, and work would need to be done to move all the existing drivers over to it. Windows 10 is far ahead of Linux in this regard.
> Sometimes I worry I might be the worst person in the world to do psychotherapy. My coping strategy is to not talk about or react to my emotions and wait for them to go away. This usually works. I know this is exactly the opposite of what psychotherapy is supposed to teach, and all I can say is that it works for me and I seem to be pretty psychologically healthy and maybe I am just a mutant.

Um, yes, burying your emotions is unhealthy! I'm surprised to see this coming from anyone in the realm of mental health. It is much more surprising coming from a supposed mental health professional who created a decently sized discussion forum via his blog. He continues,

> My relationship strategy is the same. Date really low-conflict, low-drama, agreeable people. If we have a conflict anyway, then agree to disagree and wait for the problem to go away. Apparently this is terrible

Yes... Yes it is. When you are motivated to be your best and you still fail, such as when people have kids, you realize you're better off dealing with your emotions rather than ignoring them. Some people realize this earlier than others. I hope the number of people practicing in mental health while maintaining this blogger's attitude is small.
Thank you.

The DFX apparatus all looks distressingly proprietary, not to say clumsy. It seems like it will be a long time before this capability leaks out to mainstream use.

After it becomes more accessible, one could hope to compile programmatically generated logic on the fly, and immediately configure some chip area to execute it, perhaps with on-demand / JIT swapping between software and hardware implementation. O Brave New World!
As someone who has that extra room, which I have made into an office, I say, if you can afford it, do it. Not only is it good for WFH, it makes a good hobby room/library for me.

I agree with you about WFH in the future, as well. When I can go back to an office, 1-2 WFH days a week is about what I want. That would be a bit of an uptick for me, since I normally would take 1-2 WFH days a month, but there's enough to like about it that I don't want to give up (getting the commute time back is nice sometimes), and I've gotten good enough at it to sustain it.
This approach doesn’t scale when business requirements change regularly such that you need to add or remove columns to an existing table.

Adding new columns by creating a new table is easy and cheap and doesn’t involve downtime. Adding 100+ columns to an existing table because the spec said a relationship went from 1:0-1 to 1:1 is a pain.

(This can be avoided with creative design with deferrable constraints, something certain major RDBMS are still lacking, gah!)
> The bank has noticed the productivity decline among “employees in general, not just younger employees,” JPMorgan spokesman Michael Fusco clarified in an emailed statement, adding that younger workers “could be disadvantaged by missed learning opportunities” by not being in offices.

From the article
This is such a weird take as someone who is on TikTok and really enjoys it. The app is a just mirror for your interests with an insanely good discovery system. Whatever you like and interact with it shows you more of and it tests the waters occasionally to try and find new things you might like.

My TikTok is cooking, home decor, gardening, fashion, makeup, pop punk music, longboarding, bullet journaling, and mental health.

Like you could be right that TikTok will change for the worse maliciously but such a change would kill what makes it worth using.
I'm wondering what you guys think about columnar databases and wide tables.

We use Vertica and from senior colleagues and even Vertica developers I got the impression that big wide tables are good because it eliminates the needs of join. Thus we don't use star schema and just wide tables.

However I think data modelling is also about embedding proper business logic and it would be a lot more confusing if two unrelated columns are stuffed in the same table.

For example let's say my event based game has a base for each player and he can do a lot of things in his base. If we use a wide table then we wilk see columns related to factory building side by side with pig feeding, and because each small feature has some unique columns, a lot of those columns are NULL simply because this event json doesn't even have th fields.

I'm wondering if we should use Vertica for a transactional type table and then use say sql server for dwh and build more traditional data modelling. But this could be awfully wrong maybe...
As a senior manager, he's a professional liar first.
^science^politics probably
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You seem to be operating under the assumption that all young employees want to work from home. I'm a young person who can't wait to go back to the office, and I know I'm not the only one. WFH is a much better setup for people who have two kids and a dog, not single people in small studio apartments.
We've put old rocks under the electronic microscope. That's how we identified billion year old cyanobacteria fossils. While there is no readily available comprehensive record of who searched for microfossils by looking at what old rocks, with or without a microscope, it's not like it's a new idea.

https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/bacteria/cyanofr.html
Robbie Martin has done a lot of research into this question. The interview he did with Matt DeHart in prison goes into more detail about what was contained in the documents than has been reported anywhere else.

https://twitter.com/FluorescentGrey/status/13056414401065738...
I mean that’s still a pretty good deal for Oracle since they could use a high-visibility customer that uses Oracle’s cloud.
If this type of data center is built and the location is kept secret, could it be protected in the event of nuclear war or some other catastrophe? So whatever happens, the internet will keep running
The issue is that Facebook is not simply a mirror, it’s one of those infinity mirrors. It doesn’t just let people spread their opinions it helps you find others with similar views. And then because those views align with your own you engage more so it reinforces the algorithm.

It’s a positive feedback loop. (Positive in the sense that the relationship between input and output is not inverted)
Slack literally has a Do Not Disturb schedule built in, its very useful. It silences all pings.
It sounds a little silly, but a uniform can help. Pick some clothes that are work clothes, put them on when you "go to work" and then switch back out when you're done.
Sort of like how changing into gym clothes helps (me anyway) motivate myself to go out and excercise.
There's a few black mirror episodes on this theme, search for the "cookies"episodes
I had the same experience with a pi 3 and didn't even try a pi 4. I set up a modest intel box and it was interactive.

The 4 might have a better change with gigabit internet and faster usb, but I was still using a fast samsung fit drive, but not fast enough.

To be honest though - the intel box was modest, but still 4x the price. Additionally it's hard to beat a pi for installation - just insert the sd card. (there is always configuration)
100% unrelated. HDMI is an output from your video interface.
So a PO Box address or a house address would be concatenated into a string value and then stored in either Addresses.POBoxAdress or Addresses.House? It’s still not structured. How can someone easily get the postal-code/zip-code?
There's no way to scale personal credibility.
The question -- if sincerely asked -- is not rude.

My goal for this blog, which I have written for 17 years, is to write about algorithms, programming techniques, language design, and other stuff I find interesting. If you find it interesting too, consider subscribing.

The goal of this particular series, which should top out at 36 episodes, is to make a survey of different techniques for computing the Conway's Life automaton. The specific point I want to make in doing so is: the standard advice for optimization is to make a relatively naive implementation, profile, and then attack the slowest part by micro-optimizing it. Though this can be done in a principled manner, there are some algorithms where we can take advantage of facts about the "business domain" to craft much more performant algorithms than we could by simply finding small efficiencies in the inner loop. Life is definitely such an algorithm; there are opportunities for compression of both time and space that can lead to surprising performance optimizations.

My advice would be to start the series from the first episode rather than trying to start in the middle.
You're restating the grandparents point: The only people doing real heavyweight real-time audio are music producers. Once Jacob Collier is done rendering his song, it's distributed as a YouTube video with single stereo audio track.

And, talking about learning lessons from other fields, there's no particular reason that Jacob has to to render his audio at full fidelity in real time. Video editors usually do their interactive work with a relatively low fi representation, and do the high fidelity rendering in a batch process that can take hours or days. As I'm sure you're aware.
You have to own the IP, and map the RPi to the standard ports (80/443, likely have to set that up from router). Alternatively just do x.com:yyyy if you don't mind (though you probably do for an external facing website).
I don't use Slack anymore but I think there is a feature to specify your working hours so it will not notify you outside of those hours.
There was also a CBC documentary two years ago that investigated similar complaints about Apple repair practices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XneTBhRPYk

Essentially, this blog post reinforces the findings from the CBC and indicates that little has changed over the past few years regarding Apple's repair practices.
Is "targeting" really a large requirement to add on to a device that needs to be able to fabricate spacecraft from raw materials wherever it lands?

>But if the goal is to proliferate and explore (or consume) as much of the universe as possible as efficiently as possible, then targeted probes seem less likely to succeed over the scale of time necessary.

Less likely than non targeted ones that you say wouldn't get past the first generation?
The advantage and disadvantage of Valve's VR is entirely that it is tethered to a PC (at least wirelessly if you have the wireless module) and the PC ecosystem. That means you can take advantage of your existing Steam investment, Steam sales, and interface.

The disadvantage is that maintaining a gaming PC seems daunting for some folks. Also, you have to figure out how to get cables from your PC to an empty space that is wired for VR. That can be a logistics problem if your gaming PC isn't near your living space.
The stems come from the antennae required for a solid connection, IIRC approximately 30mm long. The OnePlus buds are available in a number of colors. Metal tips on said stems is also a design decision to allow charging by slotting them into the container. The form factor of the container follows from the design of the stems.
At least at this point I don't think the craftsmen need to despair because I don't think the online IDE experience is even close to a good personal setup. It feels more like a solution for devices/locations where you quickly need to get an environment up, which has it's place obviously.
If there is no escape from this then I’m gutted from my sense of purpose. I envision a world where all concepts are accessible without genius or contrived complexity. I don’t agree with the bell curve intuitively. I feel that it’s a result of the overwhelming bad programming baked within humanity between institutionalized education and incentives within our economies. Environmentally it caters to averaging the average and incentivizing complexity with pseudo-genius. True genius is simplicity in my eyes. True genius can take a complex idea and give it the affordance where one can reason about it without intense training or remembering. Their skill may not be great in navigating, but it’s accessible to understand.

Perhaps I’m optimistically doomed. However that’s the world I want to build towards.
>The difference is huge.

Which way? My experience was that my (not quite top 20, but close) university professors were an extremely mixed bag. None of them were half as good as my best community college professors, and some of them were downright awful. I would be truly shocked if you told me that lower ranked universities were worse.
I've recently been reading over certain forums that happening to be basically the only community support option for a niche and honestly I'm not sure I'd care to waste my time posting there.

In one case a user wanted to do something a bit unorthodox, but not entirely crazy and was struggling to figure out a way to architect it. One of the first replies? A more experienced member making a sarcastic, snide paragraph on why the askers initial architecture was not viable. Thats it, no real info as to why (except that it was over complicated andcontrived), no guidance on a better option. There also tends to be a number of "RTFM" type comments when I know damn well the official documentation is bad. Its not uncommon to find broken links, links to obsolete, incompatible versions, poor discoverability etc. In other places, I've had people call my an idiot for wasting my time trying to do something because it was "too hard".

It's a different discussion, but I also get the feeling there a number of communities that don't really care for hobbyists or hackers in general.
A Few Notes on the Culture
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Walgreens, Safeway, and cleveland clinic partnered with Theranos. Cleveland Clinic is supposed to be one of the best hospitals in the world.
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No it is not an LCG. When you distribute the terms there is a -4x_n^2. Therefore it is non-linear.
But the second biggest problem is that we can't agree on anything, including what the biggest problem is; however this is likely a symptom of the biggest problem.
At this point I'm not sure I care whether I'm more productive at home or in the office. I'm simply not going to consider ever going into an office again unless someone wants to pay me at least double what I'd make working at home, and that's that.

FWIW my honest assessment is that I'm more productive at home on average, but with much higher variance.
And if USB, make sure to test the speed. Some controllers need quirks enabled[1] to get speed, including a lot of popular JMicron ones. Mine went from ~20MB/s to 300MB/s for a Samsung 850 SSD.

[1]: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=245931
I am glad they delete data when an account is closed. I wouldn't want 1Password to keep my account around after I deleted my account. Maybe they should have a more lenient length of time to keep the account active when the card on file is declined but that's another story.
Tangential but trying out Repl.it for the first time because of this post, is there any way to specify Node version or are you stuck on LTS?
Bring Back the Bison
It’s interesting because AWS squired cloud9 a while back and currently offers something very similar with very little fanfare.

Sometimes the path you take your users through is more important.

Cloud9 was trying to take already established developers and put them into a cloud ide. Repl.it is taking new developers without entrenched habits and hoping they’ll never leave for the traditional local dev environment.

It makes a lot of sense when you view it that way
Plug: I've been working on a new LaTeX-editing minor mode to use in conjunction with auctex:

https://github.com/dandavison/xenops

It's basically a replacement for preview-latex: it renders math/TikZ/table fragments automatically and asynchronously. If any emacs-lisp programmers who are interested in LaTeX editing would like to help out please get in touch!
Just close slack at 5 or 6 or whenever your day is over. That's what I do. Don't be dumb enough to install it on your phone. Unless your job explicitly says "on call 24/7" you're doing it for free.