skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have much hope left in India. We deserve the people we vote for. India has chosen fundamentalism and fascism.

The worst thing is that despite all data and stats around their failures, the current regime enjoys immense popularity. The opposition is irrelevant, the media and news portals are completely subservient to the regime. And even the SC, once the champions of our democracy are pretty much a laughing stock for whom issuing contempt cases over twitter posts to comedians is too much important.

India finally has single issue voters. And this issue isn't poverty, corruption, progress or anything like that. It's just Hindutva. This religious fundamentalism is what will finally end the great Indian experiment.
> I think people would eat meat less regularly if they see the animals butchered.

I have been on a carnivore diet for some time now. I wanted to know if I was capable of butchering. With some training from a pro, I did it around 6 times(goat). Gave up on meat since.

For some reason I don't feel the same disgust with fishing, so my diet is mostly replaced with fish. Good thing about sea food is you get a lot more variety!
For working poor yes. Government handouts are extremely difficult to get in Japan though.
I'm similar in that I learned to hide my west Texas accent pretty well. I've started to embrace my accent more though in that it's always useful when people reveal their prejudices, and I'd rather people take me as I am. Otherwise they're probably not worth my time.

There are situations where it's actually useful though to lay it on thick. My father was an expert at that, particularly after people tried to take advantage of them and he called their bluff, usually playing it up with, "Ya know, I don't know much 'bout this, but I was talkin' with a lawyer friend the other day, and he mentioned something about..."
Isn't there a bigger Ponzi scheme in tech? The one where you sell a product at a screaming loss, double your revenue each year (without ever showing a profit), and then each year raise capital at double the previous year's valuation to fund the ever-growing loss-making sales. It's just the suckers in that scheme are the investors...
Scaling MAP-Elites to Deep Neuroevolution
The thirst mechanism becomes less reliable with age, so older people may find those products beneficial. But yes, for most healthy young to middle aged people, "drink when you're thirsty" is generally fine. Maybe with the added subpoint that if your urine is often colored, try to drink a little more.
Dropbox has "client-side" weasel encryption: they use TLS. It is obvious that they do not encrypt the files in any way that would prevent access to Dropbox itself, and probably not to any Dropbox employee.
They don't need to be available on Julia, calling Python libraries from Julia is incredibly painful. I'm not saying you should migrate your whole data analysis pipeline over, I'm saying you should write new services/analysis in Julia.

There are production trading systems that are written in Python. And everyday, the quants and devs fruitlessly try and squeeze out more performance from the system instead of just accepting that Python is inappropriate.
I don't own a VR headset, but I'm cautiously optimistic that it's on track to adoption this time. Just think about how rare video chat was, and now it's the norm.
TBH I knew when I bought BTC at ~$10 that tech people were the first adopters and if it broke out from the tech crowd it would be like being near the top of the pyramid. It's precisely why I bought.
Slightly tongue-in-cheek, but it's a ponzi scheme when they start selling courses on "how to become an entrepreneur".
> with public awareness campaigns and corporate trainings

Please, no. I'm sick of companies assuming I'm a racist and a sexist just because I breathe. We don't need to add another -ist to the already over-generalized list of collective sins.
Any idea why the journal approach failed?

Should he have done a hard poweroff instead of a read-only remount?
Thanks for the clarifications everyone!
Not snark at all. I don’t know the connotations because I’m not a Native Californian, but people would comment about how my speaking nasally and apologizing too much (both of which you can find in just about any parody of Midwestern culture).
I need to figure out how to drop mine. Interestingly, I didn't have as much a of a pronounced accent as a kid, but it's developed in adulthood.
From what I've seen, people in hyperfocus often seem to effectively lose their sense of hearing, too. Which is sort-of useful in a noisy office, but can be dangerous when going about your daily life.
> That is, the medicine did not contain chacruna (psychotria viririds) as it does today in order to bring about visions

Indeed, but harmal alkaloids - those contained in b. caapi - are not only selective, reversible MAOIs but also full on psychedelics by themselves, as anyone having taken a significant amount of them (usually either through b. caapi or a peganum harmala seeds tea) could tell you. You get "visions" with them too.
I recently went on a break from caffeine, and while the withdrawals weren't bad (I was only ever a one coffee in the morning person), I have since noticed how INCREDIBLY sensitive I am to caffeine. Now that I have no tolerance, having one coffee at any point during the day will completely ruin my sleep for that night (from ~7h down to ~4h with lots of awake time).

I'm at a point now where I don't think coffee is for me - I love the taste and the effect but not at the expense of a good night's sleep!
Couldn't agree more. I have approximately 10-15 tabs open on Firefox as well as on Brave and while reading through the content of one tab I come across some interesting stuff which in turn leads me to open another tab or two and the cycle continues.
How exactly would Cannon of tested this for them. It's a odd use case with a custom setup
Not so mild. The harmal alkaloids in question can induce full on psychedelic trips.
Many consoles already have optical drive emulation mod, e.g. GC Loader for GameCube.
> It's fascinating to me hearing about how Hong Kong and Tokyo have similar cost of living to even some of the most expensive metros in the US

It's truly fascinating because I've never seen a city in Japan that costs anywhere near as much as some podunk local economic hub in the US, yet I hear these "it's too expensive" stories all the time.

My combined monthly expenses in a city--rent, food, and everything--comes to maybe $1200. My mind is blown whenever I hear people say they're struggling to pay for things or life is too expensive. The main thing I've noticed is most of these people are going to bars/izakaya several times a week, and it's easy to spend $50+ for a small meal and some beers there. I know people in Tokyo making far less than Western wages but still living very comfortably.

But in-city rent in Japan doesn't even approach a typical 500k population city in the US , unless you're insisting on living in the middle of the most in demand parts of Shibuya or something.
Could you give an example of an unsolved riddle from linguistics?
The grandparent comment is advocating for sufficient levels of taxation to substantially change behavior, and I'm cautioning against unintended consequences of such a policy. I don't follow where the current cost of water is part of that discussion, but I welcome clarification.
Yes, you are. As the article says, you are actually making money and gaining followers.

It's not a ponzi scheme in the literal sense, but these businesses are built off the back of other people who believe they can do what you're doing supporting you (In the article this is by paying for your course).

Some of them will go on to create their own successful businesses (And perpetuate the cycle), but most will most likely fail.

There was a post on Indie Hackers not long ago about a guy who said he lost thousands of dollars trying to build a business. I'm sure there are many more people who got into similar situations.
Dunno, but one of their employee (Laurent Mazare) is actively making OCaml bindings for various data science libraries (such as https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-torch or https://github.com/LaurentMazare/ocaml-matplotlib)
I can too, but that’s already factored into my choices.
How are you measuring your sleep? I have an Oura ring and while it's not the most accurate thing in the world it does a pretty good job of total sleep and phases for me. The readiness scores are also really useful as a yardstick and comparison against how rested you feel. I got one because I have mild sleep apnea and wanted to be able to track the efficacy of the solutions I was trying out.
Nobody was going to develop for UWP anyway since (1) the community with knowledge of XAML and the app model was telling to fuck off with Windows Phone being shutted down (I was part of that community), despite its success in Europe, (2) Microsoft never sold any good amount of tablets to make the cross-device story believable and finally (3) UWP didn’t worked on the most deployed OS of the time... Windows 7. It never made any business sense to develop for UWP for a small market share when developing traditional app meant targeting almost every Windows machine out there.

I think Microsoft did the exact reverse of what they had done: they should have open a cross-platform (OS X + Windows) store delivering Silverlight out of browsers app. The Mac App store never had a lot of success, there was a golden opportunity for Microsoft to bank on a concurrent platform.
Thanks for explaining. I was confused by the "no system call on consumption" example in the blog post, but if it uses a system call after emptying the completion queue then that'll work just fine.
I am also curious. How does this person just decide to stop paying rent? I think we would all love to do same but paying for housing is really the only option if you want to remain in a city where you already have an established network of friends, family, etc. The only thing I can think of is a communal living situation in a rural area.

Edit: sibling comment posted as I was typing. Apparently its couch-surfing and religion.
I probably should’ve become a fisherman then.
I Am Not Fat
The US is a nightmare for at least half of its population. Americans find it very difficult to accept this fact, and simply cannot understand that other nations--like Japan--are governed in the interests of their citizens.

That's why newspapers make yarn out of the tiny difference between Japan's suicide rate (14.3/100k) and America's suicide rate (13.7/100k). They ignore non-suicide deaths of despair in America. Overdoses alone are (21.7/100k) and concentrated in regions where the US traded some industry or another for "geopolitical advantage."

Americans are the most heavily propagandized civilization in this history of humanity.
You are quick with an explanation that your comment was in good faith, maybe extend that generosity to others next time.

I don't have much to say to your arguments, except that it seems extremely possible not to tie your GitHub handle to AoC.
Read about our Scaler Edge learner, Govinda Agarwal's experience with us
New Zealand might not have regional accents but it does have sociolects with accompanying stereotypes which in the context of this article amounts to the same thing.
Reassuring until you realize that 0.1% of components of a complex system failing is likely to bring the overall system down.

In this case: Individual controllers needed to control a power plant or factory, as well as "individual cars on a highway" (once enough break down, the highway is blocked).
Don't you have accents based on race? In Australia every group of people seems to have a different accent, aboriginals, islanders, Arabs, south Europeans, whites, Chinese etc. There are some variations among whites but it seems to be based more on social class than on location
There's actually a system preference that shows/hides the scrollbar.

System Preferences > General > Show scroll bars

• Automatically based on mouse or trackpad

• When scrolling

• Always (because I remember when smart phones didn't exist)

I keep mine at option 3 because I'm a dinosaur
Your comment makes me think of the worst conspiracy theory possible: what if Israel and Iran were both involved in this killing? Or maybe some Iranians did it?

They have the motive and this is just as plausible as the absurd high tech idea being floated. Both Israel and Iran benefit from increased tension before the new administration is in office...
Also a good deal of fun: https://vimeo.com/36013914
A Merger of Salesforce and Slack Would Change the SaaS Landscape
The Broadcom part is huge IMO. I try to avoid Broadcom as possible on every (programmable) thing I own, but that is not possible with Apple devices.

I mean, I'm sure we can make brcm* not suck on Linux (or it already works well now), but I don't want to support such a hostile vendor.
GNU-Darwin
I've taken 3 MATLAB courses on Coursera this year and they've all included free student access to MATLAB online. Also, a home use license for MATLAB is available for $149.
I dunno, I lived in Africa and it was a pretty regular occurrence to either kill a goat/chicken or kill it yourself. Didn't seem to stop people from wanting to eat meat (including me).
It feels like there's some detail missing here.

You can't just "drop" something from a satellite that's in orbit: it will also stay in orbit. So you need something to slow it down enough that goes low enough to start re-entry.

Then there's the whole problem of re-entry. You can't just drop something and expect it to survive re-entry without burning up in the atmosphere unless it has things like a heat shield and a way of keeping the heat shield oriented so that it keeps acting like a heat shield.

The missing details may be in the referenced book, but either way there certainly are some.
The most obvious example I've seen of accentism is ABAs referring to people with accents as fobs. I first heard the term from other people my age when I was in grade school, and I've heard it constantly since then. I'm surprised the term hasn't been cancelled yet, given everything else that's going on. I guess it's technically not racist when used by people of the same race/nationality? But it's still gross.

I always found it really weird because it's supposed to denote inferiority due to being an immigrant, but then it's being used by people whose own parents are immigrants with the very accents they're demeaning. But no one will call you a fob if you were born in China, immigrated to the west when you were 10, and don't have an accent. "Dressing fobby" is no longer really a thing as you see plenty of ABAs crossing over fashion-wise, but it used to be something that would get called out.

But if you were born here, left early on in your childhood, and came back with an accent, you'll get labeled, just because of the way you talk.
Dropbox never claimed end-to-end client side encryption. That said, neither do any of the popular cloud drive options - for example Google drive or One drive.

End to end client side encryption is a tough problem from usability. Most people don’t like being told they can’t recover their “cloud backup” if they lose their laptop or phone or forget their password.

I think even iCloud only does end-to-end for specific sensitive data.

There are special providers like SpiderOak who do this, but it is non trivial to use safely.
I've been thinking about trying to find that method again. Thank you for sharing it so I don't have to search. :)

Another article I just read on that site was on "hypnagogic naps" basically napping for less than a second, by holding a heavy metal key or ball bearings between your thumb and forefinger, draped over an armrest, or hanging off your bed, and below it are plates or pans. When you fall asleep and your fingers let go of the object(s), they fall and clang against the plates/pans and wake you up.

According to the article, it has been used by many artists and scientists such as Poe, Edison, Dali, Poincare, and Robert Louis Stevenson to gain inspiration and insight into problems/find new ideas etc.

https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/hypnagogic-nap/
Integrative analysis of 10k epigenomic maps across 800 biosamples
Interesting presentation of genomics.
If you like the art of Burroughs, I'd recommend his reading of his poem "The Last Words of Hassan Sabbah"[1]. This one is good late at night full screen with all the lights off.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGJ7Z6AEzpY
> Get yourself a laptop with an nvidia card and Ubuntu. Even today it's a garbage experience that takes up hours/days of debugging to get right, and then it's still way worse than the mac/windows experience.

This. Writing this from a laptop running Ubuntu with an nvidia card and I can feel my body tense up just reading it.

I remember several nights in college just struggling to get the drivers to work and finding the right cuda spec from the repository, after combing through multiple sources.

It's still a nightmare and I always dread that the StackOverflow and Ask Ubuntu posts in the bookmarks folder that I've reserved for this arduous process will be obsolete when the GPU card crashes again for the umteenth time.
Consider getting an at-home sleep study, you may have sleep apnea. I did, and I did, and now I wear a device (not a CPAP machine!) that helps significantly. I don't sleep any longer but my sleep is less interrupted and I get more deep and REM sleep. I feel 1000 times better for it.
It might have something to do with incentives. In my country most people would complain that the doctor doesn’t do anything to them, and based on my experience living with doctors all my life (parents, sisters and now wife), I see they are actually bothered by people taking their time without reason and not being able to pay proper attention to the ones who do need it.
"don't reinvent the wheel" is specifically for projects which other people will be forced to maintain.

You can reinvent the wheel as many times you want. If you however do that at work, your colleagues and your replacement after you left the job likely won't think too kindly of you.
How do you do it though. Most of these niche’s want experts, particularly people with many years of professional experience. Every time I’ve tried to investigate a niche I’m interested in I’ve fallen flat. Others, such as scientific fields as you mention seem to fall back on heavy credentialism.
Most phone apps made little sense on desktop. And for a lot of them there are more compelling native or web offer. Finally for games, editors usually forbids running them on PC via emulators since it’s easier to cheat than on mobile.
National Brotherhood Week (Tom Lehrer)

Oh, the white folks hate the black folks,
And the black folks hate the white folks.
To hate all but the right folks
Is an old established rule.
But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
Lena Horne and Sheriff Clarke are dancing cheek to cheek.
It's fun to eulogize
The people you despise,
As long as you don't let 'em in your school.

Oh, the poor folks hate the rich folks,
And the rich folks hate the poor folks.
All of my folks hate all of your folks,
It's American as apple pie.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
New Yorkers love the Puerto Ricans 'cause it's very chic.
Step up and shake the hand
Of someone you can't stand.
You can tolerate him if you try.

Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Moslems,
And everybody hates the Jews.

But during National Brotherhood Week, National Brotherhood Week,
It's National Everyone-smile-at-one-another-hood Week.
Be nice to people who
Are inferior to you.
It's only for a week, so have no fear.
Be grateful that it doesn't last all year!
Yes, it is important to pay attention to urine, and poop too.
Question aside... Does anyone know if it is still possible to do 100% software rendering on today's hardware? I'm really interested in doing graphics but directly talking to the video card (e.g: draw a point, line, polygon, etc) in BSD or Linux and get something like the original Quake and Quake 2 software renderers did. I think those are masterpieces that pushed to the limit the capabilities of the PC at the time. I also think it could be a great way to learn graphics from scratch. Some time ago I played: https://jonathanwhiting.com/games/knossu/ which captures the way Quake engines used to render on DOS.
>should

by whose perspective?
That's just not true. Please don't spread this kind of misinformation. Many cities and states bus their homeless into California. Drug addiction, homelessness, and mental illness are all huge problems throughout the US (though also in Europe, et al.).

The downfall of the middle class is the downfall of everyone except the super-rich. Some kind of Portugal drug model / New Deal-type infrastructure plan would be necessary to fix this problem, which is present all across the US. Why do you think Donald Trump got elected? It wasn't bigots in the Midwest — it was impoverishment.

See:

— https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/14/us/homeless-busing-seattl...

— https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2017/dec/...

— https://www.mintpressnews.com/500-homeless-mental-patients-w...
One 1983 exercise nearly triggered WWIII
> Have you looked at all of the different services that AWS as well Azure and GCP offers above just hosting services?

I have checked their huge product offerings a few times when I needed something I know they must have, and used that, like AWS Batch and AWS SQS.

As for "all of the different services". No, I haven't, but I can, and I will do that, on demand. My point is exactly that I don't want to sink huge time into reading their documentations for something I may never use. And I don't believe it is correct to prefer candidates who did that.
I worked for a company that setup "blind" interviews, for the early stage. You'd apply for a position, make up your own alias and would have a "general chat" over IM.

If that went well then you'd have a "real" second/final interview. The system was designed to remove some of the bias from the process, and seemed to work well for that.
Because I witnessed their abilities.
Durable Functions vs. Apache Airflow
Back then when bitcoin is still in its infancy, there is not much to do with bitcoin in your wallet apart from gifting each other some coins (bitcoin faucet was pretty generous back then). So people on bitcointalk forum often openly running some ponzi scheme and a lot of people would join just for the heck of it. There was nothing shady about it as the organizer would openly admit its a ponzi scheme (something along "hey, I'm running a new ponzi scheme here. If you're interested here is the url").
As someone who knows absolutely nothing about Indian politics, I feel like I have become less knowledgeable about the state of India after attempting to read and then skim this article. The bias appearing to be with the author is insane enough to make me want to question everything that he is saying. While I understand that its an opinion piece and that he could very well be 100% correct about everthing he is saying, the fact that I am getting no context as to who these people are other than "this leader good, this leader bad" makes this article appear to me that this is just some partisan hack complaining about politics he doesn't like, just from his own county's perspective. This just seems like the same boilerplate article from Democrats in 2016 saying "Now that Trump is elected, America is doomed" and recently from Republicans saying "Now that Biden is elected, America is doomed", painting their party leaders as great heroes and the opposition as evil villains.

Maybe I should have the required knowledge of Indian culture and politics before reading this, but maybe since Bloomberg News is a global paper, not an Indian one, it should spend more time educating people about the facts of who certain politians actually are before resorting to calling them cult leaders.