skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to have really bad insomnia in my early 20s, and throughout my 20s I have always been that guy who could push off sleeping for long periods of time, and it was something I was bizarrely proud of.

In the last couple years I’ve come to realize how idiotic that position is; just because I don’t immediately collapse from exhaustion every time I get insufficient sleep doesn’t mean that my body doesn’t need it, and that it won’t have long term effects if I push it off too much.

For the last couple years, and even more since COVID, I’ve been making a point of getting regular exercise, and trying to get at least 7 hours of sleep a night (usually 8 or 9). I feel healthier, and I do think it has helped a lot with my depression.
They're not. Like with the original SARS-CoV, there are reported cases of dogs getting infected. Felines seem much more prone to developing illness though.
This is not really true. I help run and launch professional news organizations on WordPress, some of which have tremendous archives of 100s of thousands of posts.

The post meta table can scale fine to hundreds of thousands of post objects without needing special infra or handling. The WordPress core has a caching layer for metadata, and either way it's not like "SELECT * FROM wp_postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'foo' AND post_id = 1234" is going to be a performance bottleneck regardless of the size of the meta table.
Me too! My very first smart phone was a 3GS I needed to put a new screen on. Was actually pretty easy.
You have a source on the 5 years life expectancy of battery systems ?
> The NFS requirement for multiple Wordpress hosts are an instant deal breaker for me when discussing CMS on the cloud.

Unless you have a very dynamic site (posts hourly, multi-daily), would making it static-y be a solution?

* https://wp2static.com

Do a post via web GUI, it gets written out to disk, and then you rsync (or auto-git or whatever) to distribute it.
Looking at the matrix. Encoded ofcourse cause theres way too much information and the image translators only work for construct program.
Wouldn't you think there are multiple local companies that could handle the production?
We need lots of vaccine in a short time. A few companies can't to that.
And AstraZenecas current price for the vaccine doesn't need to be the price after the pandemic when corona shots are maybe as common as flu shots. The took the results of public funded research, can produce a vaccine without risk of loss and and chance of high profit in the future.
And Oxfords insistence on low manufacturing costs, doesn't make it affordable if the IP is hold by a single company. It just raises the profit margin. Oxford should have insisted on a maximum markup to the manufacturing price.
There's a DIY-ish service that can be self hosted (not sure if it's still maintained) that tracks all kinds of data in a way that you can share with a physician. It's called Fluxtream, and might take a few extra keywords to find. Written in Java+Spring. I haven't used it myself.

Putting more and more of our data, especially health data, in the hands of others is the wrong direction to be moving IMO.
Indeed, representing text as a sequence of Unicode code points is fundamentally wrong.

There are no operations on sequences of Unicode code points that are more correct than an analogous operation on bytes.

(Everyone's favourite example, length, actually becomes less correct—a byte array's length at least corresponds to the amount of space one might have to allocate for it in a particular encoding. A length in codepoints is absolutely meaningless both technically and linguistically. And this is, for what little it's worth, close to the only operation you can do on a string without imposing additional restrictions about its context.)
> Given the data above, it’s obvious that [saying that Japan was a country of “one nation, one civilization, one language, one culture and one race”] was an aspirational statement rather than a factual one — a call for Japanese people to think of their country this way. It was a desire to create homogeneity out of diversity, through cultural and linguistic assimilation and through identification with the Japanese nation.

This whole section was nonsensical.
How ITV and Veg Power persuaded British kids to eat their veggies
Of course, when a random PR declares they have trained a ML to detect Covid with 95% accuracy, the public answer is "Why are governments not doing this?" .

But whenever another random PR declares they have trained a dog to detect Covid with 95% accuracy, the public reply is skepticism.
A typical Chipotle order is 1,000 calories, an entire day's worth of salt, and most of a day's worth of saturated fat. Just for lunch. That's insane. Almost nobody needs that unless you're an athlete.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/17/upshot/what-d...

https://www.cosmopolitan.com/food-cocktails/news/a36622/chip...

I think it's also pretty gross, greasy, sloppy food in general - they've caused e coli breakouts in the past it's so bad.
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Exactly, which raises the question why they are interested in buying Arm to begin with. A public statement is in the article:

"With its proposed acquisition of Arm, NVIDIA will be able to turn new AI possibilities into realities much faster."

Which doesn’t make much sense to me, unless they wish to change aspects of Arm that is currently outside of any license.
For me personally, it is only really noticeable when I shift my eyes from one of the middle 4K screens to the 1080p screen.

I am a little picky about fonts and their display though. The higher resolution the screen, the better. I have my Emacs configuration using a bunch of different fonts and sizes/weights/etc for my Org-mode, Terraform, TypeScript, and other editing. For example, when a todo item is put into "in progress" the heading is slightly larger and bolder, and when that item is complete, marking it "done" changes the text to italic, extra-light, and grey to reduce its visibility.

Time spent messing around with fonts is definitely an expression of ADHD and active procrastination, but I do get a pleasing effect from it! :)
Coronavirus has convinced me that most of the world (and the USA in particular) totally lack the ability and will to act boldly and collectively in response to an emergency. The Climate Change folks were making this exact point for years but I only started believing it after seeing government after government fail to control the pandemic. Most governments were either too slow or too cowardly to make and enforce major societal behavior changes for the good of everyone.

We should consider ourselves lucky that it was “only” a moderately-deadly disease, and not something worse. I can imagine government’s reaction to a space alien invasion: Day 100, after most cities are destroyed, government is still weighing the pros and cons of taking action, and debating whether or not to write a resolution condemning the alien attack.
Having dogs point at things is already (or should be) "search".
Sounded like a jet engine! I just looked up the 2940UW and see that it's capable of 40MB/s...how far we've come
> They found that people with obesity who contracted SARS-CoV-2 were 113% more likely than people of healthy weight to land in the hospital, 74% more likely to be admitted to an ICU, and 48% more likely to die.

So basically the order-of-magnitude (~3% vs ~30%) disparity of obesity between Japan & the US would go a long way to explaining hospital crowding & death rates?
Excellent suggestion. It also includes the serial number for non-removable devices, like so:

/dev/disk/by-id/ata-Samsung_SSD_860_PRO_1TB_S42NNF0K123456N -> ../../sdc
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The EU used the force and threat of law to force everyone who already should have been doing it to do it.

A bunch of other people just jumped on the bandwagon.
I don't know but it reminds me of the pro eating bugs propaganda, and this recent "You'll own nothing. And you'll be happy"[1] ad from the World Economic Forum. They're trying to get the plebs to not want their own homes or possessions.

[1] https://reclaimthenet.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/wef2.pn...
Your political bias is obvious and evident. Why don't you compare the US to countries that aren't island nations or quasi-island nations, like the EU?

Do you think the EU doesn't believe in science?

You also ignore the fact that the majority of public health governance in the US, by a wide margin, is at state and local level. I voted for Obama, twice. I volunteered for his campaign. And I don't think his administration handled the Swine Flu well at all. I had a toddler at the time with asthma, who was in a category of vulnerable people. Folks like you didn't care about Swine Flu, but for those of us who did, it was unpleasant. I rode a subway to work daily at the time, and it was widespread and completely uncontained. I'm not a partisan. I don't think the Trump administration handled the virus well at all. I also don't think the Obama administration would have handled it well. Better? Likely. But they wouldn't have done a good job. If you think the US government does a good job at anything other than warfare, you haven't worked with the US government on much.

Your comparisons of the US vs. island nations (SK is not able to be accessed from the north, as you damned well know) with fractions of the population of the US is ridiculous, and betrays a partisan bias that believes that the Federal government in the US is supremely capable, as long as my preferred candidate runs it. Obama, who again, I voted for and campaigned for, couldn't handle launching a website for his flagship legislation. Because the US Federal Government is broken and can't execute on shit. And because of partisans, who truly believe the government magically becomes competent when the leader changes, it won't get fixed. Never mind that over 90% of the personnel of any agency remain no matter who is president. No, this time, they'll get the (funding|scientific backing|whatever) they didn't get from the previous person in the other party. What a load of tripe.
Still, little content to these claims including the one above.
> Jim Keller

I watched a bunch of Jim Keller's interviews and I just fundamentally disagree with ~'we'll innovate our way out of it'.
So, I've been following US politics for most of my adult life, since Bush 2.

In that time, the ratcheting up of survellience has only gone one way regardless of who's in power.

I believe that Greenwald sees things similarly.
My background: citizen of USA, son of two immigrants from Korea. Hopefully someone who actually lives in South Korea or Japan can step in here too.

Subjectively, it seems to me like Japan and South Korea are somewhat culturally similar, but they are not the same, and the differences are important to people there. Furthermore, 20th century history has created a lot of hatred on both sides. These wounds are starting to heal with time and _I think_ the younger generation in Korea tends to care less about the issue. Many people in both countries go to the other country for tourism, and each country's cultural exports are popular in the other country.

For an analogy (though not a close analogy, because the political situation is different): Israel and Syria are pretty similar though, right? Both speak Semitic languages, they have similar food, similar weather, similar religions, and often you can't tell them apart just by looking at them. So they should be friends. :)
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Even those that serve lower end wine worry about it. (Our max bottle is $14ish wholesale). I run a brewery that also serves wine and our bottle loss is a significant enough percentage of our total wine sales, because of our low throughput. It commonly happens that a bottle goes "bad" with only 1 pour from the bottle thus returning a loss on that bottle.

Even with the bottles that leave two pours, at expiration, we are making a few dollars but not enough to keep the lights on.
The rest are probably on the various marketplaces and websites around the internet, not the official plugin directory.
Yes, that is a big distinction. Page 39 of this survey may shed some light on that question. Of those who WFH'ed at some point during COVID (essentially anyone who can WFH at all), they asked "In 2022+ (after COVID) how often would you like to have paid work days at home?". The answer set doesn't separate local-only from living anywhere, but it does list 5 days/week as its own answer.
Culture is such an interesting topic. I do think cultures do exist and have an impact even after they've lost their community (ie, how the great works from hellenistic culture and Roman culture continued to influence later scholars in the west), but you're right that they must ultimately be able to co-exist and progress with their own community to be relevant. That said, I happen to think that NC Culture has managed to progress and has the capacity to remain meaningful.

The fact that our culture is young and highly syncretic (as many cultures are) does not delegitimize it at all. The Scottish have an influence over certain elements - but so do the descendants of various African cultures, the English, German Moravian settlers, and local tribes like the Cherokee. It doesn't matter when my ancestors first decided that the label of "North Carolinian" suffices to encompass all that and more - it just matters that it happened - or rather, it matters that we believed it happened and acted accordingly.

As far as impact the US Senate can make on the state of NC, here are a few I can think of:

- Federal laws about cigarette labeling were very impactful to NC, since our tobacco industry was historically a huge piece of economy (and it remains significant today, though not as powerful).

- Laws that relate to climate change and rising sea levels - The NC outer banks is a fragile ecosystem and is already eroding.

- Funding for interstate transportation infrastructure - which cities should have priority to be put on future interstate routes? This is huge for tourism.

- Rural Broadband expansion - there are parts on the NC mountains, such as where my grandparents live, that STILL don't have high speed internet connection. In fact, the crazy pants representative my district just elected (Madison Cawthorn), despite being a "small government republican", made rural broadband core to his platform - because it's that important here. If NC can ally with other states that have underserved populations on this, then maybe we can get an "internet new deal".

Fwiw, your examples of Texans being Texan first, and American second is exactly the norm in the south that I'm talking about. I didn't even grow up in a particularly southern-culture dominant part of the south, but I only lasted for 5 years in Seattle before I got my behind back to NC. It wasn't just that I missed the trappings of home (though I did), but I still felt that I couldn't relate to how most people there were thinking and acting, and I felt like an outsider. I could have tried harder to change myself to be more like them I guess, but I don't think I would have liked myself as much. The other part of it was, the state of NC played such a big role in making me who I am - that I do feel that I have the duty to help NC as well.

I totally see what you're getting at and respect it - but it's just not in line with how I'm tuned to operate. As I said before, I'm probably just a hopeless idealist :)
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Sidecar is only possible if your Mac and iPad are fairly new models. Also, it doesn't allow one to use e.g. another MacBook or iMac as a screen.
Performance. This is an I/O-bound process; the main influence in performance
is the buffer size: the tool reads a chunk from the source, writes the chunk
to the destination, repeats. If the chunk is too small, the computer spends
its time switching between tasks. If the chunk is too large, the read and
write operations can't be parallelized. The optimal chunk size on a PC is
typically around a few megabytes but this is obviously very dependent on the
OS, on the hardware, and on what else the computer is doing. I made benchmarks
for hard disk to hard disk copies a while ago, on Linux, which showed that
for copies within the same disk, dd with a large buffer size has the advantage,
but for cross-disk copies, cat won over any dd buffer size.

As a meta comment, it has been a shocking revelation in my career that the difference between "get it work" engineers and "make it right, make it fast"[3] has been this kind of low level knowledge. At least in my context, the majority of the bugs that have come up in the past while haven't been because someone didn't know how to concatenate 2 strings or even that many off by 1 errors. They have been things like not knowing the difference between theoretical TCP models and how their actually implemented on the OS in a high throughput environment (see TIME_WAIT[1] if you're curious), or understanding misorder of operations in distributed computing[2].

[1]: https://9oelm.github.io/2018-05-06--Listening,-Established,-...

[2]: http://book.mixu.net/distsys/

[3]: https://wiki.c2.com/?MakeItWorkMakeItRightMakeItFast
ARM is 100% equipped to deal with red tape and PR; it was public until 2016 when SoftBank brought it.
Presumably if one owned many homes and rented them out they might benefit from increased renting demand. Though the resale value of the house might also go down with less people buying so Idk if it balances out. My perception from London is that resale prices continues to go up even if most people rent but Idk if that's accurate or generalizable.
>its arcane and bizarre command-line syntax

I actually like dd's command-line syntax the most out of the Linux coreutils, and I wish more programs used a similar "key=value" argument system. It's pretty easy to remember too, since there's really only a few keys you need to remember to do 99% of what dd typically gets used for.
> The tool just flags features they may have missed.

This is how it functions at first.

Fast forward a few decades and you'll have doctors saying "The computer model flagged this spot as a concern. Our human review can't find anything, but we know that studies show the computer model has a 95% confidence in locating problems so we recommend surgery anyway. Surgery is lower risk than assuming the model is wrong."

Tool dependency changes over time.
Take control over your habits using these perspectives
Reminds of days when I could only sleep with the Air crash investigations show running in the background. It was something about the narrator’s voice that put me to sleep.
I think the value is modest, but since the cost is essentially zero, it's a no-brainer to use it.
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Of course it doesn’t mean that you can’t talk to those people ever again, but unless if you put in a lot of ground work to create a common connection external to work, most of those friendships will evaporate the moment they lose the shared experience of working at the same place.
> People who stress over code style, linting rules, or other minutia are insane weirdos

He seem to have not seen messed up code written and changed by a dozen programmers over the course of years with various notions about indenting, placing parentheses and comments and whatnot. I‘ve seen code with tabs and spaces mixed, wrongly indented code where following the logic is hard, code with no comments at all or code with more comments than code.

Don‘t give any guidelines and you‘ll end up with a mess.
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Providing employees with a sense of ownership and belonging is a surprisingly strong motivator. People who feel they have a skin in the game will naturally work harder.
That's why I never put System32 on my PATH. nothing really worthwhile in there, and it just causes problems like this.
Yeah having standup in the afternoon is great. At my last company I worked with Americans from the EU. My standup was at ~4pm. My "last day's work" was still fresh and still had ~2 hours to resolve blockers.
Doesn't this violate calories in/calories out, or is that model only theoretical?

> Go on a low carb / ketogenic diet instead

Agree, it's the easiest way to lose weight. Cut out processed food, added sugars and rice/potato/bread, and the weight will drop off very easily. No need to count calories because it'll be very hard to eat too much as long as we cut out the above.
ooh, this hits at some things I’ve been seriously struggling with. thank you for the link
Remembering the night two atomic bombs fell on a small North Carolina town
> From a safety perspective, O_DIRECT is now table stakes

Except for the awkward problem where O_DIRECT writes don't send a write-barrier to the drives, so the written data can still disappear.
Have you considered moving out of the state to not have to deal with the all cash situation and the high cost of living?
I am inspired by Aaron's memory in an on-going manner as I try to walk in his footprints as a fellow ThoughtWorker...

https://www.thoughtworks.com/news/thoughtworks-mourns-aaron-...
I’m not sure why everyone is interpreting me as having said “having friends at work is bad”. That’s obviously a silly statement, which is why I didn’t make it.

Depending on work for socialization is bad. That’s what I’m arguing against.
Being judged by what kind of output? At my current employer it matters very much that you get stuff done. It matters to a much lesser degree whether what you got done is actually (as opposed to being perceived to be) useful or impactful.
It's not just the public health measures thethey were bad at. After more than six months, the US still could not do better than direct payments to individuals and businesses. During that time, a competent organization would have found targeted and efficient ways to stimulate the economy. All the Feds know how to do at this point is dump cash.
Also increased Cancer risk.
Shameless plug, I did one too... with GPG, however, instead of directly using AES:

https://github.com/tamentis/mdp

I think I'll look into integrating that into my browser at some point, or maybe the OS, I think the whole copy paste part is clumsy.
No, the argument is saying that the question you are asking makes no sense. You can't "try" to do anything differently, because these things have already happened.

Again, it's just like asking "what if I try to not go to the shop yesterday, what would happen to the bread I'm eating?". Can you decide today to not do something yesterday? No. In the same way, a time traveler can't "choose" to modify the past - it's something that's already happened.

Of course, this does imply that the future is also set in stone, so in fact you can't choose to go the shop or not tomorrow any more than you can choose to have done so yesterday. This is not a paradox, it's just counter to our subjective experience.
Traditionally it was because you needed replication or sharding that you didn't have to boil half an ocean for, or at least half decent full text indices. These days however I believe the differences are smaller and in other areas.

Most often, you choose a database because of what you application supports and is tested with, not the other way around. Or what your other applications already use. Complete green fields aren't all that common.