skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a good summary, and also how HIIT (High Intensity Interval Training) works its magic when you're trying to lose weight.

You basically exercise at maximum safe heart rate (mostly determined by age) for a period of time (usually 2 minutes) and then slow down to recuperate. Of course, during recuperation you are still burning calories since you've merely slowed down to a more comfortable rate. It's basically only "relaxing" in comparison to the higher intensity. Psychologically you are putting in serious physical oomph, but not noticing it very much until you hit the scales a week later.

By switching back and forth, you get in the maximum calorie burn without passing out or harming yourself. After a few of days of getting used to it, you don't even get much muscle burn or achiness anymore.

You definitely sweat a lot more using HIIT. It's pretty ingenious.
Did this change recently? I remember my database professor in college was adamant that when they talk about databases, I am to assume some things as a given (going by memory, am probably not completely accurate):

that the data set is large enough that cannot fit in memory

that storage is orders of magnitude slower than memory and memory is orders of magnitude slower than processor cache

Oracle has the “best implementation” given these constraints.

Is that not the case?
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18556775
>The field is constantly changing, the 'best practices' are evolving

A lot of that is self-inflicted, though. How many javascript frameworks, all solving essentially the same problem, are there? It's just change for change's sake.
I'm surprised people disagree with anything I said in this comment. It all seems like common sense, bordering on the obvious.
I completely agree.

In fact, it's useful to consider that many, if not most people do the job that they do not because they enjoy it or find it fulfilling, but because if they don't, they and/or their family will starve in the street.

If you have a job/career that's intellectually stimulating and personally satisfying, you already have it much better than a whole lot of other people.

And if that's the case for you, celebrate that!

While it may seem like if you aren't spending every waking moment focused on being able to write the most beautiful or performant code, or trying to found the next unicorn, that you're wasting your life.

And depending on who you are, that may be enough.

But I guarantee you, that when you're lying on your deathbed, you won't be thinking about how many patches you submitted to open source projects, how optimized your code is, or how numerous and helpful your StackExchange posts were.

It might surprise you to know that a very large number of people's primary interests/focus have absolutely nothing to do with how they support themselves.

In fact, there's a whole big world out there that has absolutely nothing to do with technology.

I'm not trying to tell anyone what they should or shouldn't do, but as someone whose identity was strongly tied to my career for decades, while it was certainly worth it in many respects, my world could have been much richer and fuller if I'd taken the time to metaphorically stop and smell the roses.

So if you feel like you need to be "always on" and permanently focused on the next professional challenge/opportunity, maybe you could step back once in a while and consider not just what's good for you professionally, or will make you more competitive in the marketplace, but what gives you joy as a person.

For a lot of us, that's building technology. And that's a good thing.

But technology isn't the entire universe, and if you limit your focus and interests really narrowly, you're going to miss out on the beauty and the worthy challenges in the wider world.

Even more, having those non-work related interests/experiences can, give one a broader perspective on your professional life that makes you better and more useful/productive/engaged in your professional life.

I suggest taking Bill Shatner's advice[0] as a metaphor. Or don't. It's your life and that's (as it's always been) up to you.

[0] https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmagzq
Genki: TypeScript framework for building web applications influenced by SwiftUI
Yes. Just to clear things up this was a big surprise to me as a european the first times I visited the US.
On the extremely racist history of the standard tune (content warning): https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/05/11/310708342...

And an interview with RZA: https://www.npr.org/2020/08/15/902811996/wutang-clans-rza-on...
It's not that interesting. If you email hn@ycombinator.com we can send it to you. I probably shouldn't post it here.
There is no particular social benefit to such speed per se, but it does not hurt investors. The speed race is HFT market makers competing with each other to be the first to offer shares at a new price level. When one firm gets faster than others, it hurts other HFTs (because the fast firm can now get bigger market share) but not investors.

HFTs do on average make a small profit on each trade: they are in the business of charging investors for liquidity. But the fierce competition between HFTs means that their margins get competed down and they cannot charge very much for liquidity. Their average profit per trade is tiny.

The Taiwan stock exchange used to match orders every few seconds, like you suggest, instead of continuously. They switched to continuous trading earlier this year, and they say a little bit about why here: [0].

I might be wrong, but I think there is no rule preventing anyone from setting up a Taiwan-style batch-auction exchange in the US. Note that there are already over a dozen US stock exchanges, each with slightly different rules and order types, each competing for market share. If there's investor demand for a batch-auction exchange in the US, someone could create one and make a bunch of money running it.

[0] https://www.twse.com.tw/en/page/products/trading/information...
In the frontend space?

When I go looking for a dependency, I check the license and I have a quick read of the code.

Last time I did that was for autocomplete. I checked the most popular six options; in the space of 2 hours, I found obvious-from-reading-code bugs in all 6.

None of them had a CLA signed by contributors, so there's really no evidence their code is genuinely available under the license they claim to offer.

I wrote my own. It took about 3 hours initially plus 2-3 hours ironing out edge cases found over the following weeks. It only added 700 bytes to my bundle.

Total time spent: 1 days work. Smaller code, loads fast, free from license issues, does exactly what I want.
While I don’t think there’s anything wrong with not having side projects, I also understand how it can be a (somewhat sloppy) proxy for evaluating if somebody treats it as a profession vs a job.
Correct, before 2011ish, you were charged for SENT and RECEIVIED messages. They often had "plans" where you would get 100sms/month or 250 sms/month, or a-la-carte. If you got an SMS spam, that counted to your allotment. SMS was so expensive compared to GChat/YahooMessenger/ICQ/etc that I didnt use it. But then you were on the "a-la-carte" plan of 10 or 25cents per message depending on your provider. Godforbid you sent an international SMS, those were 50cents a message and MMS (SMS with image) was 5o to 75 cents per message. My provider had no apparent way to not have the service, so you were essentially bullied into paying a-la-carte or bullied into a plan.

Friends would get angry at each other for sending a message, or breaking a sentence into two messages.

Again, I think it is INSANE that half the US legislature is trying to fault WhatsApp (100% no dollar cost) for being a "monopoly" given the situation that was fixed. https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/competition_in_dig...
Not sure if this is a driver problem but there's a LOT of general usability issues on AMDGPU + Linux. The default thermal control being absolute catastrophe for one.
Is this group active? I'm aware of Cepheus (essentially a solution for perfect Limits Heads Up) and I see they did some further work in No Limit, but there isn't anything since a February 2018 publication. So either this work is dormant (seems plausible) or they are really under wraps on something, 'cos if you don't publish for over two years in academia you'd better have something amazing to show for it.
90210 is the most famous zip code in America because there was a really popular show in the 90s that referenced that zip code called "Beverly Hills, 90210" (commonly known as just "90210"). It had various spinoffs going into the 2010s.

Because that zip code was so famous an unrelated reality show was named "Dr. 90210" about plastic surgeons in the Beverly Hills area.
> because it's extremely difficult to evaluate technical talent.

Is it actually harder to evaluate a programmer's talent compared to, say, a lawyer or a doctor's talent?
I don’t think a totally binary “alternative” is a viable thing in these situations. In the short term, people should assume their face is capable of being identified and tracked in real time and act accordingly. For some people that would certainly amount to self-censorship of choosing to avoid certain places/events/activism. Other people would probably be drawn to create some sort of new generation of “CV Dazzle”-like fashions/cosmetics.

In the far long term maybe people will be able to generate or design a brand new face for themselves on demand. Facial recognition is only so scary when the thing it recognizes is effectively a permanent identification card that must be worn at all times (pandemic times notwithstanding lol)
Especially since the Unity docs encourage bad architecture! Like putting all of your game logic directly in untestable Monobehaviours and writing total spaghetti code. For me, the most useful thing that Unity docs or tutorials never taught me is that your complex logic shouldn’t necessarily be in the Monobehavior itself. If you instead put logic in plain C# classes that implement interfaces it becomes far easier to test and mock game logic. I’ve seen people having to manually test things like running out of ammo by clicking 30 times because they had the logic in the Monobehaviour and they couldn’t unit-test it.

If you use Microsoft’s DI Extension it gets even easier.
> My version was deliberately designed to hurt your eyes to show you that the pain is just psychological. There is no intrinsic difference between your naming versus mine other than mine takes a millisecond longer to read the longer names. My version is quite ugly as well, but ugly naming has no negative effect on your code. It's all about understandable naming.

..let's jump back a bit to something else you said:

> First off this "clutter" exists in the English language itself yet I hear no one complaining. I don't communicate with other people using shortcuts and context aware abbreviations like your suggesting.

This level of clutter doesn't exist in the English language, because we do use the contextual shorthand GP is leanings towards all over the place. I'm fairly sure you do the same, but possibly aren't aware of doing it because it comes so easily in natural language.

For example, using this paragraph from the Wikipedia page on Romeo and Juliet:

> Juliet visits Friar Laurence for help, and he offers her a potion that will put her into a deathlike coma or catalepsy for "two and forty hours". The Friar promises to send a messenger to inform Romeo of the plan so that he can rejoin her when she awakens. On the night before the wedding, she takes the drug and, when discovered apparently dead, she is laid in the family crypt.

And changing it to use your insistence on descriptive names with "cluttered English" instead of contextual shorthand, it becomes:

> Juliet Capulet visits Friar Laurence for help, and Friar Laurence offers Juliet Capulet a potion that will put Juliet Capulet into a deathlike coma or catalepsy for "two and forty hours". Friar Laurence promises to send a [independent] messenger to inform Romeo Montague of the plan so that Romeo Montague can rejoin Juliet Capulet when Juliet Capulet awakens. On the night before the wedding [between Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet], Juliet Capulet takes the coma drug and, when discovered and apparently dead, Juliet Capulet is laid in the Capulet family crypt.

(parts in [] I'm unsure about because it's been so long since I've read/seen the play)

Long identifiers are exhausting to read, even with native speakers, because of the heavy repetition that has to be read and discarded with every single use. It's why we don't speak or write like in that second example.
Is it really crap? I have it and it feels stable and the Crimson UI seems well made. It feels way better than the Catalyst days.
Yes that is how it used to work for sms. My first cell I had to convince people to not text me because I didn't pay the extra ~$35 a month for texting, which I think got you 500 monthly texts. Friends that didn't know or when it was "an emergency" would send a few texts and cost me extra couple bucks a month.

For calls you used to get a pleasure with a set amount of minutes, such as 200, 500, and 1000 per month. Most carriers let you "roll over" unused minutes and typically anything after 9pm didn't count. Though I remember cingular offering 7pm as the unlimited time if you paid an extra fee (don't remember the cost).

Slowly larger plans, then unlimited became more normal. I can of remember it becoming more cost effective the same time more people were getting internet through cable or dsl, instead of dial up. So 2002-2005ish?
We could have said this about XOM a couple years ago. Look where it is now.
> It's just change for change's sake.

Whenever we're tempted to reach that conclusion, we should consider that there might be something going on that we don't understand. In the case of JS frameworks, I think developers really are still figuring out the best way to implement a dynamic UI that's both efficient and maintainable.
What are some of the lessons that you learned while working there? Did you enjoy the work there? I know government work tends to be on the slow side. Do you also feel like the skills you learned while at the DCA carried over to your next job?
I'm not surprised, that really does boggle the mind.
3rded... wait maybe there's an idea here.
Kredoll
日本では、等身大のポルノスターや漫画のキャラクターがプリントされた膨らませて抱き枕を買うことができます。

ぬいぐるみを作るのと同じ技術を使って布ラブドールを作る会社もあります。 若い世代がインターネットを広く文化的に利用しているため、生地やその他の素材を使って自分のセックスラブドールを作ることができるアマチュア向けに、多くのフォーラムが用意されています。 MLD（Material Love Doll）の技術と経験について議論するためのメーリングリストもあります。

新素材と新技術

シリコーンラブドールは元々はスズ硬化シリコーンで作られていましたが、プラチナテクノロジーの方が寿命が長く、破れにくく、スクイズマークを作りにくいです。 したがって、「RealDoll」の製造元は2009年6月にスズからプラチナへの変換を報告し、他のすべての製造元がそれに続きました。

2012年頃からTPEと呼ばれる熱可塑性エラストマー代替品が広く使用されており、特に中国の製造業者によって使用されています。このメーカーのリアルなTPEロリラブドールは、高品質で高価なプラチナ硬化シリコーン製ラブドールよりも安価です。

CybOrgasMatrix dollsは、弾性ゲルを使用しています。弾性ゲルは、弾性、形状記憶、耐久性の点でシリコーンより優れていると主張しています。 この会社と「First Androids」会社の両方が、骨盤スラスタモーター、オーディオ機能、加熱オリフィスを提供していたが、これらのオプションは使用できなくなった。 いくつかの現代のラブドールメーカーは、内部加熱システムを追加して、シリコーンラブドールの最後のオプションを提供しています。

法律の制限と問題

2019年、イスラエルのメディアは、ヨーロッパのセックスラブドール会社がイスラエルのモデルヤエルYCコーエンに基づいてセックスラブドールを許可なく作成した事件を報告しました。 2020年、プレイボーイはさらに同じストーリーを調査して報告し、ディープフェイクについて言及しました。

ボツワナ刑法第178条によると、ボツワナは男性のダッチワイフの輸入を禁止しています。 法律はさらに、セックスラブドールを含む「ボツワナの道徳に有害なわいせつな素材または何かを所有、貸与、貿易、輸出、輸入、または表示する」権利を廃止します。

売春の合法化と標準化により、オーストリアにはセックスラブドールに関する法的制限がなく、多くの売春宿が顧客にセックスラブドールを提供しています。 セックスラブドールは1980年頃にオーストリアで最初に登場しましたが、売春宿がセックスラブドールサービスを顧客に提供し始めた2017年にのみ人気が出ました。 これは、これらのラブドールが近年よりリアルになったためかもしれません。

セックスラブドールとのセックスに加えて、いくつかの場所では、顧客が自分でセックスラブドールを購入することができます。 ウィーンで最大のコインランドリーの1つで、ランドリールームで実際の人とベッドを共有するラブドールを提供しています。

セックスラブドールを提供した売春宿の所有者によると、ラブドールは使用のたびに適切に掃除されました。 TPEラブドールとの無防備なセックスも許可されていますが、すべてのお客様が後でこれらのラブドールを掃除する保証はないため、お勧めできません。

2019年、韓国の最高裁判所は、セックスラブドールの販売が合法化されたことを判決しました。 この問題は国でまだ論争の的になっています。

中国では、セックスラブドールの販売は合法ですが、購入者の個人的な使用のみを目的としています。 1つを共有することは違法であり、起訴される可能性があります。

https://www.kredoll.com/
https://www.kredoll.com/high-elasticity-love-dolls.html
https://www.kredoll.com/sino-doll-brand-list.html
https://www.kredoll.com/tpe-sex-dolls-real.html
Island on the Edge of the World is a good read about it.
Golang is pretty well liked.

And Guava in Java land, and Abseil in C++.

It's not too surprising that the stuff big companies make for their needs isn't as useful for small indie devs as stuff small indie devs make.
Royal commission petition into Australian media corruption DDoS's Gov
Shredding Compilation Best Crushes with Shredder Machine
I wholeheartedly recommend masking your email and phone number with blur/abine. Every website I have an account with literally thinks I have a different email address. You can also mask your credit card number but you have to pay extra for it so I don't.

My only regret is that I do still get the spam texts and calls. I am thinking that I should somehow make my current number a google voice number or something so that there can be just an automated system that asks them to press any number to connect. Something that simple would stop 100% of my spam calls because they are all robocall recordings.

I think that, as long as you're okay with paying for a service, it can be fairly easy. It's when you want to do it all yourself that you have to be an OPSEC professional. There is plenty of middle ground of paying someone who knows what they're doing to provide the ability to better mask who you are and make it expensive for someone to spam you. Make them waste their time talking to your automated answering service for a change.

But yeah, it's frustratingly complicated. Some of this stuff just seems like it should be a built-in feature of modern telecommunications. My cell provider should give me the ability to present an automated message for free, and at least block numbers... mine doesn't even let me block numbers, I have to do it at the phone level so I still get voicemail messages. That kind of stuff seems like it should be considered basic service.
There are two issues here though. Firstly, what is the right thing to specify? (This is an ethical proposition, even for fairly simple agents.) Secondly, how can this specification be reliably encoded in the AI's world model? (This gets technically more more challenging the more complex the agent is.)
> The Internet perceives censorship as damage and routes around it

Gosh, it's genuinely shocking I haven't heard that phrase in a long time.
Lots of people like to get copies of IP worth many millions of dollars.
Ex PM Kevin Rudd calls for royal commission into Murdochs media empire[1], overwhelming response causes gov petition site to go down.

1: https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kevin-rudd-creates-p...
Pretty sure any ice cream trucks could use different music and no one would notice besides the parents, and if you use the right tone everyone is still gonna know exactly what is up. Such an easy fix.
Nostalgia. I still have one of these cool G4 iMacs tucked away, and yeah we used the modem for our dialup Internet connection.

It is amazingly heavy.
CitySDK – Convenient JavaScript Utilities for Working with Census APIs
Carnegie Mellon already did it quite a while ago to great results

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190711141343.h....
From my perspective (Japan), every news article in US news outlets paired the Takata defect with Honda. I'm aware that everyone uses Takata, so it struck me as a coordinated effort to smear a foreign maker. Detroit has shown its willingness to use media to scare buyers, e.g., with Suzuki in the 1980s and the fake Consumer Reports rollovers.

Some degree of protectionism is expected, of course. I mean, you won't find anyone driving a Ford or Chevy in Japan except as a novelty. But there is a line which, when crossed, gives the impression of desperate anti-competitive measures. Everyone has to decide where they draw that line, I guess.
Are you talking about specialty industrial monitors? I've seen 60-90hz normally. I heard there were 120hz...but 480hz? Which company made that?
and yet...
Yes, I'm well aware of what Satoshi used.

The thing is, the famous "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks" quote that's in the genesis block only proves that the genesis block hash was created after Jan 3rd, 2009.

The quote does not prove that the rest of the genesis block was created after that date. That distinction is why random beacons are tricky to use. Sometimes that distinction doesn't matter, sometimes it does. It depends on what exactly you are trying to accomplish.

With the Bitcoin genesis block this isn't a problem, as the purpose of the genesis block quote is to show that blocks after the genesis block weren't generated in advance. But in other use-cases - eg the "proof of life via newspaper" example - deep fakes make the security of a random beacon much more dubious.

> I was curious about your age since you seem to consider blockchain to be the more generally available than newspapers, whereas to (perhaps older) me, newspapers are the generally available method and blockchain novel

I'm wasn't trying to make that claim one way or another. Regardless of what exact type of random beacon you use, the problem I describe above still exists. Now, if you actually do have one of the rare use-cases where random beacons work, these days using Bitcoin as your random beacon is certainly better suited to automation. But whether or not that's relevant depends on what exactly you're trying to achieve.
Wait, are you suggesting accessibility is bad?
Can you expand on that / why not? It's certainly possible to use NFS in places where other tools would work better, but if the thing you actually want is filesystem semantics from multiple clients, NFS is definitely one of your better options, as far as I know / in my experience.
He wrote War and Peace several decades before he came out with his ideology, and before he accordingly altered his lifestyle.

But then again, his philosophy later evolved to significantly encompass his ideology. So can one separate Tolstoy's ideology from his early philosophy? Sure. But his later philosophy? Perhaps not. They're two distinct beasts.
An Arrest in Canada Casts a Shadow on a New York Times Star, and the Times
Some of us (in the US) were spared today, tomorrow Veterans' day is being observed (it was today actually) and the office is closed. But yes, that's how it usually goes, after the short respite it starts over and it goes like that the whole year with a 2-3 weeks break. But I should consider myself lucky even if I don't like this ballance, others either work 7/7 or 0/7.
Fun fact: browsers put scary warnings in their dev console (and some web sites log warnings or console) because some people love copy-pasting code they got from sketchy people trying to bypass all the browser security.
Wow, I had no idea that was available.

Unfortunately it doesn't reduce the dimmest level on my MBP. The bottom 4 subdivisions look identical. Like level 0.25, 0.50, 0.75 and 1.00 are all the same brightness, only 1.25+ starts to get brighter.

The lowest level is still too bright at night. That's unfortunate.

However it does reduce the dimmest level of the keyboard illumination!

That's great. I always found the keyboard too bright at its lowest level at night, but some illumination at night would be helpful for obvious reasons. Now I can enjoy 3 subdivisions lower - thank you :-)
Using a Distributed Database to Achieve Horizontal Scaling Without Downtime
Sanctions are way to starve the beast.

The beast is the country and the people in power are the ones who control that beast.

If the beast is powerful, the people in power can use the beast to harm other countries.

Is it unfair? Maybe. But what's the alternative? Usually killing the people in power results in power vaccum which destabilises the country and makes the beast go nuclear where there is always more potential for harm, an example of this is Libya.

Invading country isn't seen as good thing to do and installing your favourable party in power is also not seen favourably.

Are there other options? I'd like to know as well.