skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>You will also encounter strange socio-economic effects that you would not see in other places, for example being an engineer and starting a startup here is viewed as a negative while being a business major is a positive.

Your experience might be a bit more localised to the part of the UK you're in than you think rather than being a UK thing. I've never found people care enough to provide negativity or positivity regarding where you've chosen to specialise your education in most cases.

>In terms of brexit, any sort of gains for a startup will be possible only if the British government allows them to be

Agreed. Lack of access to capital and the lack of tax planning for anyone but the rich holds the UK back compared to the states.
I don't agree with much the current government did, but one sentiment that Cummings expressed that was correct was that when novel tech gets bought over by US giants (eg Deepmind), is a failure on the UK's part. They're essentially allowing all the future upside to be exported.

Not that I blame anyone that accepts a buyout offer, if they didn't, then there'd probably be no upside to capture at all due to lack of risk-taking private funding.
I don't often experience anxiety.

One day I came across a silly writing prompt thread on Reddit along the lines "What would your mind was transported back to you as a 14-year old?"... Presumably anticipating lots of comments about buying Apple shares and Bitcoin.

I was struck by the sheer impossibility of retracing my footsteps to get back all the things I've liked about my life, the loss of loved ones who only exist as they are as a result of interactions with me I could never reproduce.

It's just a silly hypothetical, but I find it crushing to even describe it in a comment. The anxiety it produces is physical, distracting, disorienting, and reliably predictable. It made the article even difficulty to skim. Like the author writes, I find it easier to imagine different lives for other people.

I like what I've lived very much and the people in my life.

What If You Could Do It All Over? -- I say: Thanks but no thanks. ... and please don't mention the idea again!

:)
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Even if it were a given, the point I believe they were trying to make was in addition to the much larger salary, they ALSO have good healthcare
I don’t understand what are you talking about. Honestly.
>or any of the cool stuff you are now mandated to do by the cargo cult.

This is ultimately what drives me insane about the tech sector: so many choices are trend based and cult like when any sort of technical discipline shouldn't be.
It's more obvious in games with platinums and colonies. If your opponent is going for colonies, you can win by getting all the provinces for yourself. You have to make a quick read on if they're going big or not, to decide if you can play fast or not.
I don’t see the article specifically mention slow steaming...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Using sails to increase fuel economy seems like a no brainer, but now I’m wondering if cargo ships were ever using sails to increase their maximum safe cruising speed. Does anyone know?
IANAL, but from my reading Article 3 of the EU copyright directive explicitly protects data mining for scientific research, and Article 4 enables everyone to use content for data mining whose rights have not been explicitly and machine readably reserved.
Doesn't 50% efficacy, by this measure, mean it has no effect at all?

By my understanding, the quoted figure is what percentage of infection occurred in the control group.

60% efficacy is not going to get you to herd immunity, nor even any kind of immunity for the majority of people taking the vaccine.
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Isn’t aging controlled at the cellular level? Mitochondria etc? Routine stem cell therapy thru life may be the best approach.
So if I understand this correctly, they didn’t have the correct understanding/skills to manage a Mongo DB, so they switched to one they were more familiar with.

I wonder what this ultimately cost. Migrating from a document model to a relational DB requires code change in pretty much every single location it’s used. That’s a lot of engineer time to develop, test, and do the data migration.
So cocksure, yet so ignorant. A bad look. A quick google would've given you a few of those.
I've also wanted this on Postgres for years.

If there's subset of rows you frequently want, you may just be able to define a view and use that. (At one point, I defined a text macro in my terminal to list the fields I usually wanted on our "orders" table.)
Created a poll, hopefully we can get an accurate representation. I'm guessing it's at least 75% men

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25551382
not even close!
> On the other hand, only due to my weird, suboptimal path through life did I meet my wife, which is for me a global optimum. I literally can not think of anybody I would rather spend the rest of my life with.

This got me choked up. You're a richer man than just about anyone else in this thread, my friend.
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Bad programming ideas that only become apparent after years
> they didn’t have the correct understanding/skills to manage a Mongo DB

According to the post they paid Mongo a lot of money for support and they didn’t have the correct understanding/skills either.

It sounds to me like the core problem is their requirement to run Mongo on their own AWS stack rather than Mongo’s, and while Mongo claimed to support it seems like they didn’t really.

No doubt this was a huge migration but from my personal perspective going from Mongo to Postgres feels like a move in the right direction in the long term. For one you have a lot more options for support!
There's a patent for a memory metal sail[1], telescopic sail mast[2], automatic retractable sail[3], and many others[4].

Also, there's the Oceanbird[5], a modern car-carrying ship with telescopically retractable metal sails.

[1]- https://patents.google.com/patent/US9481432B2/en

[2]- https://patents.google.com/patent/DE202011101489U1/en

[3]- https://patents.google.com/patent/CN103086280B/en

[4]- https://www.google.com/search?q=telescopic+sail+patents

[5]- https://www.maritime-executive.com/article/swedish-collabora...
No-one wants to be in an ICU with a brand new FY1 trying to intubate or prone them.
The painful collision between work life and pregnancy loss
It’s also not just about giving birth, but a woman’s body is probably far better at recovery after birth in their 20s than 30s.

Not to mention the energy to keep up with little ones, and if you ever want the option of more than 2 kids. And of course if you’re 30+ when you have kids, and your kids are 30+ when they have kids, you are pushing 65 to 70+ which makes playing with the grandkids not as much fun and you’re soon to be less of an asset in terms of help and possibly a liability for your kids due to declining health.

On the other hand, you may have increased your chances at having a higher paying career, but I suspect, for many, the extra savings don’t quite make up for the trade offs.
I studied this vector for attack in college[0] almost 20 years ago based on work done in 1986[1]!

[0] - https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1016/S0167-4048(03)00010-5

[1] - https://patents.google.com/patent/US4805222A/en
> This advantage is not enough to enable 4+4 Apple cores to match 8 Intel/AMD cores.

The M1 is a hybrid 4+4 big.LITTLE SoC and it is the first of its kind that is competitive with the 8+0 pure big Intel and AMD chips.

The M1 has a .LITTLE side that gives it battery powered efficiencies comparable to tablets. This is a very balanced general purpose hybrid architecture. It will be interesting to see the technical strategies used in response.
It actuallyoriented perfectly, but due to the flip, fuel pressure was lost leading an oxygen rich exhaust eating away the engine (becoming what's known as engine rich exhaust) before it was able to complete the landing burn. They should just have to fix the fuel pressure problem to have a complete success.
> OpsManager didn’t really deliver on its promise of hassle-free database management.

I'm a Pgsql fan yet the months of work that followed don't seem justified. I wonder if they're still happy with it given how document oriented journalism appears to be from the outside.
Mostly men with a large margin between the genders. That's probably the most accurate answer you're going to get out of this. Looking at some tech surveys like stackoverflow for example, the ratio is roughly 10:1. You could argue about HN demographics being slightly different for some reason but that would be just guesswork.
You can replace "drone" with "car" and I don't see the "gap being plugged". Of course for the latter we even have demonstrable harm, not only aggressive overregulation.
I’m quite fond of my sceptre. It was ~$200 8 years ago and with a $30 roku it is still going strong. Its a 40” lcd but they make all sorts of other sizes.
Yeah that claim stinks to high heaven. You're just going to bolt these suckers down to the deck and plug in an extension cord? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship#/media/File%3ACar...
Sadly, not directly. Assets inflation != Inflation
This looks similar to something Jacques Cousteau implemented. On his ship the Alcyone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbosail
I was not clear enough by what I meant by "ARM".

The traditional 32-bit ARM instruction set is obsolete and it does not matter for any new designs. I was not referring to it.

The two modern ARM instruction sets, the 16-bit-encoded ARMv7-M / ARMv8-M (for microcontrollers) and the 64-bit (32-bit-encoded) ARMv8-A, are very different from the traditional ARM ISA and they both are very well designed, incomparably better than RISC-V.

RISC-V is primitive even compared to the instructions sets used 50 years ago. It includes a few good ideas and the RISC-V team has the merit of popularizing the fact that the older vector ISAs of the seventies were better than the more recent SIMD ISAs of the nineties, which lead to modern vector ISAs, e.g. the RISC-V vector extension and ARM SVE.

However the base RISC-V ISA is extremely weak and its only merit is that it is simple enough to be easy to implement in student projects.
To solve a problem, we need to be smarter than the problem - or the problem needs to be dumber than us.

When vocalizing something, you're forced to constrict the blob of complexity you're carrying in your head into a linear narrative, which is by definition simpler. Now that you have simplified the problem you are more likely to get hold of it and solve it.

This happens all the time - when I am solving a technical/logical problem, sometimes I feel like my wife thinks I am just staring blankly at the screen day-dreaming. So I get insecure and start to explain to her how hard the problem is, but because she's a physician I have to translate it into common language first, and 99% of the time I say "never mind, got it" before I have a chance to really bore her.

Come to think of it, this may be how therapy works. You are forced to take all the "mess" that's in your head and narrate it to someone else, in the process getting much simpler perspective on it.

Writing is the same way for me. For example, all the ideas in this post were in my head in some amorphous way, but now that I wrote them out they became neat little analogies I can use in the future.
Is Austria subsidizing the electricity for bitcoin mining?
Nobody needs an immunity passport once a location is back below community spread.

Once a location has a low local positivity rate, testing and contact tracing are effective again.

This should start occurring naturally once essential workers are vaccinated; then any partial lockdown or additional vaccination should destroy community spread.
The actual title is “How Complex Systems Fail” (full url: how.complexsystems.fail) which provides a slightly different meaning. The current title “Complex Systems Fail” implies that we should not have complex systems but that’s does not appear to be the intention of the article. Rather we often require complex systems to solve complex problems and the article provides an exposition on failure in such systems:

> (Being a Short Treatise on the Nature of Failure; How Failure is Evaluated; How Failure is Attributed to Proximate Cause; and the Resulting New Understanding of Patient Safety)
It is impressive how people reinvent the well in all human fields. This is the basis of a lot of the research of soviet psychologist Lev Vygotsky (1896-1934), as in his classic book "Thought and Language".

"The tongue is the tool of thought,"
I did play a lot of Dawn of War when it first came out (I also played the sequel a little). I liked it exactly because you could command platoon-level units, rather than well, soldier-level units. That kind of less fine-grained control is also why I totally fell madly in love with Total War. That and the slightly more detailed economy aspect of course (no commerce in Starcraft...).
I feel less anxious about the form of this idea expressed by the artsy film Mr. Nobody.
I didn't understand if the correlation is only for lower skill job tiers but also in the higher skill jobs.
Couldn’t you argue the same thing for Facebook as the ultimate social network that will never be dethroned?
No, it means that you reduce risk by 60%, the threshold for efficacy that government agencies were looking at was around 30% so it’s definitely effective, just less so than the rna vaccines.
The Schneier stream is pretty much unusable, although it seems that the conversation between the speakers is going fine, so the issue must be in the capture and/or streaming broadcast system.

What's a shame is that it doesn't seem like there's anyone monitoring the streams or able to communicate with the speakers out-of-band to let them know there's an issue. Hopefully they have a local copy of the stream they can upload as well, since the snippets that do work are interesting.
Oh I tried that as well, but it turns out I had to click within the graph for left/right to work. Thanks!
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This is a short but really good discussion on real world failures and how to build robust systems.

I refer to it often when thinking about the design of my systems.
I think is better to not use pagination at all.

Design your api or page so that you receive all or more entries than you could possibly need.

If the user wants them all pagination is just in the way.
If the user does not want them all give them as many as they are likely to be able to handle.
The two best decisions I ever made were living and working overseas for several years when I was in my early 20s, and then moving to a small town in Vermont in my early 30s. I had a lot of adventures early, learned new skills, and then settled down somewhere with a great home - work balance.
> She married the poet Ted Hughes and moved around frequently during their short marriage.

My understanding is that Ted Hughes' contribution to Plath's mental health went beyond "mov[ing] around frequently during their short marriage" [1].

> In 2017, previously unpublished letters written by Plath between 18 February 1960 and 4 February 1963 accuse Hughes of physically abusing her months before she miscarried their second child in 1961.

Hughes also began an affair with another woman, Assia Wevill, in 1962 and (apparently) had a kid with her in 1965. Plath knew about the former and committed suicide in 1963. Wevill also killed herself as well as her child with Hughes in 1969 after, you guessed it, "Hughes began affairs with Brenda Hedden, a married acquaintance who frequented their home, and Carol Orchard, a nurse 20 years his junior, whom he would later marry in 1970" [2].

It might be too reductive to say Hughes just drove two women to suicide, but it seems like we can be confident that he had, uh, extensive personal failings?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hughes#Death_of_Sylvia_Pla...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assia_Wevill#Ted_Hughes
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Perhaps for some the placebo effect is enough, and Peterson becomes their savior with devotees.

I don't know, I've listened to some of his stuff and what doesn't come across as simplistic platitudes has baked in assumptions that seem unnecessary, like defining truth to be an evolutionarily useful principle.

That he inspires people doesn't surprise me, the religion of my youth did the same and was more hokum than Peterson's mythological substrate mappings.

But it's still a good idea to clean your room.
I see #13 (human expertise) crop up the most often in the complex systems at my work. I think the two main reasons replacing experts is so hard is (1) it's inherently difficult to understand another's work you haven't built from yourself and (2) it's nearly impossible to find someone as enthusiastic for taking on a system and giving it the TLC it needs to keep it going smoothly to the extent that it matches the passion that the original creator poured into it. I find this most acutely whenever the original expert refers to it as "their baby".
One important corollary of this is that "privacy respecting" federated learning schemes [0] where you train a model locally with your data and only upload the deltas might leak your private data after all.

[0]: https://arxiv.org/abs/1602.05629
Regarding technical feasibility: I don't think the Fed has a system ready that could handle the amount of transactions and record keeping necessary for a system which is accessible to the public. They would need to buy such a system. But more importantly so called narrow banks are not in the interest of regulators and the current financial system. If customers could directly deposit at the Fed they would likely disintermediate regular banks (which leads to a bank run) and prevent them from doing their central function in the financial system (issuing credit). You would have to rethink the financial system and regulators are wary of such big changes. Matt Levine has a great article about it: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-03-08/the-fe...
But did it respond in the form of a question?
Yes of course I by no means implied that there are no obstacles involved in immigrating to the US.
The OP was talking about the more social aspects so I wanted to remark about an often overlooked aspect.
I want to add another point to this TL;DR: 3. Do your research before writing these blog posts.

I don't want to put down anyone for writing these blog posts. The idea is nice from a distance, but the reality doesn't work like that.

It's shoehorning something not suitable for this situation. There's singularity which runs on non-root environments, however it's not for desktop systems, but multi-tenant clusters.

I really get frustrated when people advocate expensive abstractions for minimal gains. We can use our processing power much more efficiently while keeping almost the same properties without the costly abstractions.

Piling everything on top of each other to create impenetrable and immutable abstractions is not the way to achieve this. Docker already makes debugging very hard by being immutable and impenetrable as is.
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If, by headwind, you mean sailing directly upwind, then no, they cannot do that, but they can beat to windward like a sailboat (the direction of the rotation must be reversed when tacking.) According to Wikipedia, the rotor ship Buckau could sail within 20-30 degrees of the wind, though I suspect that is a misreading of the supposed source of that data, and that 50-60 degrees is a more plausible figure. Similarly, I suspect the claim that they can sail closer to the wind than conventional sailing vessels is in comparison to square-rigged ships.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotor_ship#Pioneers

https://books.google.com/books?id=9lqwg3iZyH0C&pg=PA656#v=on...
I imagine one hack for overcoming social anxiety for doing this in public is to put in some airpods or something else that indicates you’re on a phone call. Most people will assume you’re on a phone call and won’t really care.

For myself I do this constantly. Have done it my whole life. I think some people are impressed by my public speaking abilities, how I can often come up with pretty persuasive blurbs on the spot. But I think it’s not impressive at all because I’ve spent so much of my life talking to myself.

I have a hunch a lot of really good comedians and voice actors spend a fair amount of time talking to themselves. I can do a handful of pretty spot on accents. The key? Being a weirdo and messing around with talking to myself in accents frequently.
I do not. I'm a new user who has found resource identification difficult.
I worked on the Hull Domesday Project back in 2000, which was originally published on a CDROM as a Windows application (written in Delphi!). The web site for that project can be found at www.domesdaybook.net

Subsequently, we spent some time trying to open as much of the data as we could. Good to see it being used!
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If you hire a room full of developers at high salary and nobody is capable of acquiring "the correct understanding/skills" then maybe it's not such a straightforward technology.

It is reasonably straightforward to deal with relational databases in comparison, this is a well-known space.
> So if I understand this correctly

Clearly you don't.

They did have the correct understanding/skills to manage a Mongo DB, and on top of that they bough the MongoDB-Inc-recommended management tools and the MongoDB-Inc-recommended support plan.

Basically they were doing everything by the book, as advertised and advised by MongoDB itself.

Yet they were having problems, so much so that even MongoDB Inc's own support engineers weren't able to help.

After a great lenght of discomfort they evaluated that MongoDB was not a good fit for them, and moved to PostgreSQL.
meh... why don't they at least publish an IRC back channel?
Hasn't there been many attempts of that sort over the years? I recall some similar efforts being made to simplify Git for use with writers, etc.
Oops, meant to post as a top level post, not a reply to this comment.
This comes around every so often, with the same claim, then disappears.
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>On the flip side, finance was thought to leave London en masse, and didn’t

It's a bit early to say, isn't it? Finance is still working under temporary arrangements. Most of the regulations regarding services remain to be negotiated.
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I think your numbers are off by about a factor of 3-5 or so.
"Woah, our database is slowing to a crawl, requests are deadlocked everywhere. Yeah, some asshole is hitting GET /messages and pulling 2TB in a single request again."

"Surely that's what he wanted."