skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Demonstrably untrue.

Monotony can make you drowsy, regardless of how healthy you are or how much sleep you've had. And when this happens, it can catch you unawares even if you're looking for it.
It's confusing to write it like -> because the actual operator is =>, which is close but not the same.
I’ll give it three hours before the emperor is found naked, like COM, DCOM, DNA, windows.net, Patterns and Practices, Enterprise Library, Remoting, AppFabric, WCF.
> If you have old clients that expect that field you are removing to be there in a meaningful way

Right, there's the rub. `required` means that anyone who deserializes your proto falls into this category. That's a much larger group than "anyone who reads a specific field". So the list of clients now is forced to include any and all middleware that may read your proto (imagine a routing layer or some kind of analytics system or whatnot).

(Note also that there's lots of ways to make reading a field that is empty fallback to doing some reasonable non-catastrophic behavior, required doesn't let you do those things).
Tell it to your kids. They'll be impressed.
What's also fascinating is that the shapes and biochemical properties of proteins and other molecules in the cell are so finely tuned that they can be flying into each other, and still have such a high degree of specificity (e.g. proteins interacting with certain other protein domains, substrates, etc) that life actually works.
>>>I've personally cleaned up after people like you,

Yep...

The critical question that always gets blank stares is "How is this data and calculations validated"

There is never an answer to that question from the ExcelMaster, it is always a variation of "it looks correct to me"

Wonderful....
There was an interesting post that touched on that topic a while ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24162703
The quotes referenced in this article “Whether something is complicated is in the mind of the beholder" and "The total complexity of a system is a constant" appear to me to be contradicting. How can the complexity be both relative and constant simultaneously? Personally, I favor the former. An operating system, for example, seems to me to dramatically lower total complexity since a few hundred (thousand?) people can maintain it. Meanwhile, without operating systems how many hundreds of thousands of people would it take to maintain our modern tech if we all had to work on bare metal?
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You're right. When I talk about complex systems I generally mean "this behavior emerged because of pressure to optimize for property X", but it's awkward to keep repeating that so I anthropomorphize them for simplicity. Should clarify that at some point.
Most medicine does seem to be about fixing what's broken in your body (which is what you described), but some medicine is about bring your body to a healthier state. (Or maybe that's just "fitness"?).

I suspect it's possible to have a society where doctors focus on improving the health of people rather than focusing on fixing things when they break; and I suspect there's a way to adopt that mindset with lawyers, as well. Police too, actually - if police are social workers first, and enforcers last.
is going to be very hard to directly compare public and private universities.

alumni average results and achievements will vary a lot, because of open access, and population size and economic stagnation would screw other metrics like employment rate, wages etc. other metrics like staff size are pointless as well, unless maybe proportioned by participation over population size, and then one would need to carefully define what each university catchment region it.
isn't it =>
> there are a lot more linux users out there than business users

maybe, but there are a LOT more linux servers out there than linux users, if by "linux users" you meant "people running linux on their computers".

those servers (and the people that run them) generally require stability.

would you care explaining what you mean? is it not fair to say that there are many orders of magnitude more instances of linux running on servers than there are instances of linux running on people's home or work computers? that is indisputable, no?
Found this, opinions?

https://time.com/25370/doctor-adhd-does-not-exist/

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/work-of-fiction/
Kinda reminds me of smoking weed in the 90's. It involved buying a bong/pipe that show's off your identity; the grinding and rolling, where you argue about technique and style; the pre-stone food shopping; the selection of the film/concert/activity. So much extra, unnecessary stuff to do before actually getting stoned.
Half the apps here are Chromium based though.
Its physics and astronomy are laughably bad.
That's what I want too!

It works on Dreamhost, but it takes some effort.

FastCGI provides that but the Python libraries are not that well documented, and sometimes unmaintained. For some reason this appears to be a "cultural" thing and not a technical issue.

I wrote a whole bunch of comments about my plans to work on that here (andyc):

https://lobste.rs/s/xl63ah/fastcgi_forgotten_treasure#c_65gp...

I'm probably going to share my .wwz Python WSGI/FastCGI script. And show the hacks I did to deploy it on Dreamhost.

Long term I want to build FastCGI support into https://www.oilshell.org/ so the same problem doesn't exist there! i.e. the fact that you CAN deploy Python on many shared hosts, but nobody does because the ecosystem doesn't support it. Whereas the PHP ecosystem does support it, but the language is hard to learn.
Veracity – The Next Step in DVCS
All of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#3D_file_managers look interesting, particularly https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_System_Visualizer reminds me of s3dfm and looks like it might be mildly useful, unlike tdfsb(6), which is a bit fun to use in a large directory of images (though that takes surprisingly long to load), but has little use beyond that.
I'd also guess that when a society is just establishing itself (i.e. in the process of moving from 3rd -> 1st world status, to put it crudely), they probably have a comparatively low number of lawyers to engineers/scientists. This also tends to be a very high growth phase. In other words, there's a correlation/causality problem here, where all societies tend to go through a high growth phase as they urbanize and industralize, and that phase also tends to be under-developed legally relative to the slower growth late phase.
I found the comment to be more thoughtful (=contributing to the topic) than how you present it here as "it's always the same".
Somewhat related; "The Viva Frey and Robert Barnes" livestream. Robert Barnes is a civil rights lawyer, and often talks about how corrupted, political and bipolar the current US judiciary has become.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CujsT3v9mpM
Some work done in the early 1990s suggests that, at that time, we had 40% too many lawyers: https://www.csmonitor.com/1994/0215/15081.html

> Beyond the optimal number of lawyers, however, the effects of their work are negative. In this graph, the optimal number of lawyers per 1,000 white-collar workers is said to be about 10; because the US has about 14, it has an excess.

Today we might have a slightly lower excess. The number of lawyers per 100,000 people has been stable since the 1980s. Meanwhile, the fraction of white collar workers has gone up a bit.

It’s also worth observing that the Anglosphere countries tend to be the most legalistic, but also are the most economically dynamic: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/rob-comme...
But it's true? American cultural imperialism is trying to sneak in to every corner of the world and people rightly refuse it.
> That other comment was posted after my reply, and your original comment said nothing about falling sleep after strenuous activity or large meals, so my comment still stands as a response to what you originally posted.

You made a bunch of assumptions based on a small comment. I didn't say I have narcolepsy or regularly fall asleep at the wheel.

> What you are describing still suggests an underlying medical condition or extreme indifference to the safety of others.

I find it fascinating that people feel they are capable of coming up with a medical diagnosis for a random person over the internet based on a few vague comments.
Almost no one should have children then, as very few of us have sufficient resources to guarantee we can support a child for 18+ years. Just having a child in the car is distracting and puts others at risk, but we accept that. And once the child is there, and it becomes a struggle to meet the schedule, then what? Give them up?

Obviously this line of thought has devolved pretty far from the original point as someone who can afford a car with driver drowsiness detection can probably afford to make different choices. It's just the idea that no one should ever drive when they have even a slight risk of falling asleep seems quite unrealistic, at least in the US.

Personally, I can find myself a bit tired by the end of the day. I've never felt at risk of falling asleep while driving, but I'm human, so can't say with certainty that it will never happen. Maybe a driver aid will lull some into driving when they know they shouldn't, but I still think it will be a net win (just like seat belts).
OK, that's a good question. I can't recall that there's a way to. But I can't reproduce it now to test it and answer definitively.
I'm not sure political sway has ever affected a persons motivation to hide taxes!
This is really beautifull
intimidating people into following the law and enforcing the law with violence are part of the social function of enforcement. You can't arrest people who don't want to be arrested without the threat of violence and you can't deter them from engaging in criminal acts that benefit them without giving them a credible threat of enforcement.

the social function of handling sensitive situations is also inseparable to a large degree, and we already have social workers who handle this function when it can be separated. frequently police are called to a domestic violence report that where there has been no dv, or a neighbor trouble report where the neighbor causing the alleged trouble is mentally ill. there isn't always a way to know, and dispatching social workers to these incidents in the past has resulted in the social worker being a victim of violence.

> Finally, joining the police force means willingly taking on the social function of violence and intimidation for the state

Indeed, and among the individuals who find this prospect attractive are some of the people who are also potential organized crime participants. Those people aren't going away, the best you can do is to channel their aggressive tendencies into a force for social good that is constrained by norms and incentivized by the prospect of a steady income.

> as well as forces you to engage in corrupt behaviour against the interests of society, the so called thin blue line.

I'm not convinced that this behavior would go away if you changed their uniforms. Organized crime has a long tradition and predates the beneficent social order we have fought to replace it with.

> As long as these social functions and social constructs permeate law enforcement it will be a problematic institution, and once they aren't anymore it will be a tremendously helpful and appreciated institution.

respectfully, I suggest you articulate a way to enforce the law in a way that doesn't involve violence or the threat of violence. I would be very interested in such a social order if it were possible.
In warfare one of the common aphorisms is "know thy enemy" and I think this is very much lost on many people these days. So often I see people fighting against some thing without any understanding of how that thing works or why its that way. So they end up fighting some badly drawn caricature, and many of their arguments end up being unsound as they reflect the caricature and not the opponent.

This is especially disappointing in politics, where at times in the past political dealing was centered around achieving a consensus, these days it seems to be based more around wielding power and whatever tricks are needed to get the thing to stick. Unsurprisingly since the opposite side has nothing to get them to stick to the plan, if they get into power they try to wipe it out.

So, I think understanding your enemy puts you in a position to make strategic choices to lock them into a path that achieves your goals and makes it hard for them to block them. So, with all the caveats about looking into abysses and fighting monsters, we should understand our enemies.
PASSENGER_UNDER_DRIVER is making me think a lot harder than I expected to.
Is there an ETF for corporate law firms?
Try rebrandly.com. I don't know what the pricing is like on the paid plans, but they have a free tier to try it out and I think it does all of the things you asked about.
They have magnet stickers you attach to the back of any keyboard (or mouse) and it'll work. My keyboard is kinda heavy so it needed like 10 magnets attached to it, but it's completely stable.

That said, for lying down, you really want a trackball mouse (the alternative is to dock the mouse when not in use, which is OK if you mostly use the keyboard for everything).
Driving = Privelege
Driving =/= Human right
Right on man, seems like you have a good sense of humour which puts you ahead of most of the pack to begin with :) good luck!
I wonder how much this has to do with clarity-of-law?

AFAIK, you don't really need (many) lawyers in CA to fight an employer's non-compete, since CA has ruled so clearly on it. (Although AFAIK you do need a lawyer just to navigate the courts-as-bureaucracy).

AKA, you need lots of lawyers to litigate on unclear laws, you need fewer to litigate on clear ones...?

In which case # of lawyers is a measure of the unclarity of the laws (and difficulty in engaging the courts); and it might be that lack of clarity that has a bigger impact on the economic growth...?
I can do 20% on $2.5MM easily with only $500K at risk trading options.

Edit: I'd love to hear input on why people are scared of options.
> I can't use a mouse anymore, as the mouse would fall down, I'm probably going to replace it by a trackball

Apple Magic Trackpad 2 with velcro on bottom. Even a vertical mouse could work too. Else something which ensures mouse doesn't drop (foam, cord not too long, a holster to store it, or something magnetic perhaps).

What is the effect of such a desk going to be on blood flow? Does this increase chance of hemorrhoids?

I'd just use a hangmat with a MBP for a simple lay down desk. More modular and less work. Or a bed + laptop; what I currently use for remote work. More out of necessity (noise and space constraints) though.
The article leads with a quote by Don Norman.

I read his book "The design of everyday things" after hearing a lot of people speak highly of it.

I found it quite underwhelming.

Anyone have insight of what people think is so noteworthy about that book?
Yeah i wanted to write pretty much the same.

If you know you can't drive in a safe manner, you shouldn't drive at all.
Yes, I learned gestalt theory too.

You happen to have good resources on 3D visualization research?
can you explain a bit more ?
I mean you can just tape up the camera.
Doctors are “only fixing things” only because people are presenting with broken bodies. There is already a huge shift towards preventative medicine. But no one goes to see their doctor when they’re asymptomatic with their unhealthy life choices. Doctors are already doing the best they can with what they’re given.
> This is news to me, is that really true for all Kindle models? Can you really load files onto it as a connected storage device?

Yes, all Kindles.

The remaining annoyance is that besides PDFs and a few other document file formats, the Kindles don't read standard EPUB format ebooks, only .mobi or .azw ebooks.

That was kinda sorta okay when the Kindle first came out (Amazon got .mobi through their acquisition of Mobipocket, and .azw is mostly the same format), as at the time practically every e-reader device had it's own proprietary format, but since then everyone has converged on the EPUB standard with Amazon the lone holdout.

Thankfully, Calibre can automatically convert ebooks of whatever format to .mobi when transferring from your library to a Kindle.
Were you on Windows? Octave really, truly shines as a command line tool on a Unix OS. The GUI is ok on Linux tho.
I didn't appreciate the difficulties, complexities, and inanities until I became a business owner. I would suggest you don't see it because you're not in it.
How can I force my Mac to boot a version of macOS that's too old to run?
From where to learn OOP in Python?
I want to learn OOP in python but most videos have very little oop explanation.
help?
In the U.S., it's my impression that the ratio of businessmen to lawyers in the cabinet is higher in Republican than Democratic administrations.
The growth into managerial roles happens kind of naturally, take more responsibility - become a team lead, take even more responsibility become some sort of manager. It has less to do with knowledge or diplomas more with the desire to take responsibility to be a leader and take responsibility for the others. The only limit here is the amount of responsibility you can handle.
This reads to me like a textbook case of a note (and the referenced paper) that should not have gotten published. In addition to the introduction you cite, the note also says:

> This measure is certainly not without its shortcomings.

and

> Indeed, we would be surprised if someone could not come up with a specification and/or sample which might even support the opposite conclusion.

WTF.
wasCC [1] goes in that direction.

It supports all languages that compile to wasm.

Very early stage project, though.

[1] https://wascc.dev/
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We don’t care if juries have domain expertise, why should we care if judges have it? The trade off of high efficiency risks corruption IMO favors lower efficiency.
Yes, and JS is considered a shit language by everyone who isn't a JS fanboy. What's your point?

Most other languages come with libraries for arbitrary precision arithmetic where people who know what they are doing^tm can get the right answers.

>A nice feature of Excel is that the caveats are visible, because unlike writing code, Excel is reactive and interactive.

Unlike any programming language I know I can change the results in excel by changing the presentation of the data.
The high end trim Forester already has this. I assume a lot of cars do. Is there anything particularly special Tesla offers other than also taking your data for themselves?
Check out /r/fatfire it's more appealing for this situation.
this is like something out of a Hunter S. Thompson book
Honestly, that Community episode was the only thing I could think of during this discussion.

Unless someone thinks of something to increase information density in the VR environment by an order of magnitude (or several,) it will be about this ridiculous.
the linked blog post for that gave me some serious raised eyebrows

> Within the first week, we had over 100 applicants for our content manager position. We easily passed on 90% of applications that:

>Opened with something like: “Dear Hiring Manager” or “Dear Sir/Madam”

am i taking crazy pills? why would you pass on someone just for that?
I don’t even want to read the article. I just want to nod in agreement about rent seekers.
what's the real difference, since editorials are opinion pieces anyway?
For context, he was vocal about not filing taxes and basically taunted the IRS to go after him: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-shill-john-mcafee-have...
The thesis is about growth, not nominal GDP.
If there is causation, we still don't know whether lawyers cause falling growth or whether something else that causes falling growth (like declining trust) also causes rising demand for lawyers.
Given that the barber has limited resources and time, perhaps he might think twice about constantly changing his partners for a couple of hundred dollars more per change,no? Remember, there are switching costs for these sort of things.

Personally ,I tend to weigh the (hard) benefits of cash and the (soft) costs of switching things before making a decision.
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> 3) There are a large number of all in one 3rd party backup systems for office 365 that backup everything, this would be outside that, and the backup options are exporting to html/pdf?

I'm going through this one at the moment. "Everything" has a billion caveats with every vendor, depending on the APIs that are made available by MS. Teams for example has a lot of holes even before you introduce third party apps. Then on top of that you can't 1:1 restore a lot of stuff.

I'm not certain you can rely on the non-SharePoint document based parts of 365. It seems like a fat finger away from destroying a lot of knowledge.
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The last release was in 2013. For all intents and purposes, this is abandonware.
> The moment you begin endangering other people's lives is the same moment that backgrounds, poorly-disadvantaged or not, become meaningless.

Spoken life someone who never had to decide between rolling the 0.000001% chance dice on driving to work tired, and their kids going hungry or potentially getting taken away if they lose their job. People do what they need to do to survive and take care of their loved ones. People will absolutely risk their lives and those of others in order to protect their kids at all cost, even when facing much worse odds. That's a constant in life. No amount of moral posturing will change that. I'm not saying their actions are 'right', just saying they're an inevitable outcome of the society we have built.

Efficiently demonstrating my point - some people on HN live in a bubble of privilege and have no idea what real life is like for the vast majority of the population.

I'm just curious, with all the moral posturing - realistically, what would you suggest that people do when after a long shift at a blue collar job they realize they might be too tired to safely drive home. Do they sleep at their workplace? How does that transition into them needing to be back at work, showered, dressed, etc. by 9am the next morning? What are the actual logistics of this concept here?

And how do you reconcile all this moral posturing and the impact of banning drivers who experience this (up to 50% of the entire population of developed nations by some polling) vs. the fact that we now have a pretty cheap car technology that turns that 0.000001% dice roll into a 1e-20 one.
Alastair Reynolds is just amazing to me.

As a side note, I absolutely love the intro The Expanse show because of the all the orbital mechanics.
Very few people get behind the wheel thinking "I'm so tired I might die on the ride home", they think "it's just down the street, I can't wait to get home and pass out". Many times people feel totally fine when they get behind the wheel but don't start to feel tired till part way through the ride. You're holding people to a standard that doesn't jive with reality.
it is about more intimate acts, like kissing, which you don't get with a "regular" escort (based on a cursory reading on their website)
There are plenty of car companies on that list that sold fewer cars than Tesla, and are still shrinking rather than growing.

Nobody is saying, "Tesla is more valuable/successful than Ford because they are growing in Germany while Ford isn't". They are saying, "Tesla is literally the only automaker growing in Germany this year". Which is true, according to the source provided.