skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, you can say it it's okay! I can't encapsulate my ENTIRE way of thinking into every comment I make, which has the unfortunate side effect of sometimes coming across as "close-minded".

For the record, as you can see from my reply to a sibling comment from the CTO, I am legitimately interested in CoScreen and products like it.

So why did I ask what I did? I know the CoScreen people are watching, so I took advantage and asked for some reasoning about why "this time, it's different." And I got a good answer, too!
Yes, snapchat and instagram stories are examples of temporary social media products
Honestly, don't do this. Netlify is having a bad day and it's not fun for them. The great wheel of karma turns around slowly and one day it'll be your turn to have a bad day.

Submit StaticDeploy to HN some other day and tell us about it. Sounds cool.
Why must a company have any hierarchy? Why "must" there be a bottom and a top?
Very true. What makes an individual rise to the top is networking and politics. Skills don't really matter.
"How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable About Anything: Yes, Anything" by Albert Ellis.

Helped me with my depression, enough said.
About a minute after that he starts talking about how more and more of the computer's power will be used to adapt the computer to a more human-friendly way of working. A simpler UI requires a more sophisticated computer. Pretty insightful.
Good point -- the minimum 3-month storage duration eliminates this edge case for one-offs (since 3 * $0.4 > $1).

That said, it almost breaks even after the first month and pays off for itself a week into the second month. To eliminate this incentive, I'd suggest setting the cost of egress at (or below) the cost of storage.

It also would make more sense to me as a prospective customer that I'm not paying crazy overage fees, and I'm paying as if I reuploaded the same data and downloaded it an extra time.
Social Media's Role in Promoting Extremism and Misinformation [video]
I upvoted you but, also, it kind of does matter. How you orient yourself toward science and empirical experience says a lot about whether you're going to fall for some BS misinformation campaign, fail to vaccinate yourself and your children, etc...
WpUniverse – A custom search engine for Wordpress and web developers
I guess most DB jokes from Kaioh are lost in translation.
Agreed, but it’s not only a question of scaling. Any app with high uptime requirements will need more than a single process from day 1.
>Not one women including the "evidence" gathered in the original Medium posts mention that. Actual examples they do mention are quite common for socially inept individuals.

I said allegations. This doesn't come from the original Medium post, but the recent update. I was hopelessly socially inept and never did such a thing.

>He did not say that at all. Re-read the emails again. Hint, he uses the word "presented" which completely changes the meaning of the sentence. For someone precise like Stallman, every word matters. Anyway, I have read the emails multiple times now and his only message was to reconsider all the facts first given the serious allegation of "sexual assault" on Minsky. Just because the media has twisted it does not make them true.

Wether someone presents or doesn't has no bearing on it being sexual assault. Sexual acts with a minor are always sexual assault unless Romeo and Juliet laws apply, full stop. There is no need to put it in quotes.

Besides, it was abundantly clear to Minsky that these women were minors and that there was a high chance of sexual trafficking.
> Memorialize life online? To what end? Seems rather self important.

Why are we sometimes curious what our great grandparents did, and why don't we just put our dead in the trash heap with the rest of our waste?
The expensify blog linked from a comment here claims:

> But lesser known is that there is a branch of SQLite that has page locking, which enables for fantastic concurrent write performance. Reach out to the SQLite folks and I’m sure they’ll tell you more
Being talented at your job doesn't necessarily mean you are talented in climbing the corporate ladder or rising to the top of a media landscape. They are two different skills.
Whoa whoa whoa I am not saying the company should not exist. I was simply trying to poke at it to get some more in-depth answers!
> Because before Google Reader was cancelled Google was known for not cancelling anything

Web Accelerator, Wave, Google Video immediately spring to mind, but there's a few dozen smaller services that were all cancelled before Reader was.
The open letter linked to a post documenting his "sexual harassment." It said he hit on women, with the newest accusation from 2004. He seems to have an unacceptable way of asking women out on dates. He can be taught a better way to ask women out. There are no accusations of groping or sexual assault– ever.
Ray Camden: How I Write Content Here
But the UK can do it for towns at the same low density figure (like mine) then why blame density?
I dont see why it needs attribution when it's MIT. Okay, you may argue its about ethics. Then why the heck do we need different types of license then?
Whatever the licence people still want attribution, share in business that use their project etc etc.
Lets just put on the README.md attribute me, release the source or do whatever you want, dont use my project for profits.
I have literally never read a corporate press article on this subject, all the data I have comes from independent allegations made by people who did contribute to free software.
But Keep is much more than ToDo, it is more like a less capable OneNote (or, put differently, it is very much like the newer version of OneNote).
If you want to feel extra sad about it, see this: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONFSERVER-13499
Being talented at something doesn’t mean you’re talented at marketing and selling it.

The headline is interesting but the article can easily be summed up as: “McDonalds isn’t the highest quality restaurant, but it’s very popular, and, I have nothing to add to that beyond pointing it out.”.
Or maybe being the best Cook in the world is a very different skill than making good youtube videos. I tried to watch some of Massimo Bottura's videos, and they don't compare well to what you would find in a top youtube channel in terms of presentation & storytelling. I mean he's just posting badly compressed screen captures of vertically recorded tik tok videos ...
Do Nothing for Two Minutes
That's not even 0.1% of the things Larry Wall disagrees with Aristotle about.
I really like this model - thanks for sharing! A professor of mine drilled into us the idea that much of life is luck, but as he said (and I believe he was quoting someone else here) "the harder I work, the luckier I get."
Collateral damage is an interesting way to put it. I've heard the internal story from people who worked at Google at the time, and it sounds like the rough sequence of events goes like this:

1. Google Reader is launched, built on internal Google technologies (the distributed database and filesystem technologies available at the time, like GFS).

2. Headcount is not allocated to Google Reader to do ongoing engineering work. Headcount is instead allocated to projects like Google+.

3. The technologies underneath Google Reader (like GFS) are shut down. Without the engineering headcount to migrate, Google Reader is shut down.

Google+ was reportedly shut down for the same reasons (but different technologies). The internal tech stack at Google is always changing, and projects without sufficient headcount for ongoing engineering will eventually get shut down. The timing of the Google Reader and Google+ shutdown reflect the timing of changes in Googles tech stack more than it reflects any strategic direction by Google.

[Edit: Just to be clear, this doesn't explain the reason why these projects get shut down. It just explains the timing.]
We're talking about changing a job, and learning a new skill to get a new job. It's something a large amount of people spend 12+5 years 10 hours a day to prepare for, although quite inefficiently.

I may be not familiar enough of the situation in US, but to study for a new job, people generally make compromises: staying with the family so that they don't need to provide that much money, or still work, but let other people do the house cleaning. If a person has to do all of these and still study, generally there's no time left for fun/personal life, and they accept it as part of life.

Sadly most people with low income jobs in 3rd world countries that I know have a life like robots :(
hope you're not running -o compress=lz4 , because you are going to be in for a big surprise when you try to pull this emergency lever! you may be shocked to see you don't actually get much space back!

i do wonder how many FS would actually allocate the 8GB if you, for example, opened a file, seeked to 8GB mark, and wrote a character. many file systems support "sparse files"[1]. for example on btrfs, i can run 'dd if=/dev/zero of=example.sparse count=1 seek=2000000' to make a "1GB" file that has just one byte in it. btrfs will only allocate a very small amount in this case, some meta-data to record an "extent", and a page of data.

i was expecting this article to be about a rude-and-crude overprovisioning method[2], but couldn't guess how it was going to work. SSDs notably perform much much better when they have some empty space to make shuffling data around easier. leaving a couple GB for the drive to do whatever can be a colossal performance improvement, versus a full drive, where every operation has to scrounge around to find some free space. i wasn't sure how the author was going to make an empty file that could have this effect. but that's not what was going on here.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/sparse_file

[2] https://superuser.com/questions/944913/over-provisioning-an-...
I've been happily using Inoreader since the plug was pulled on Google Reader
It's a good question, but asking someone who has used Emacs for 25 years... I'm pretty happy with them, and indeed, do my best to have them replicated in other software I use such as shells and browsers.
Truly curious: do you think every article based on a study showing strong evidence for something should have a title that implies "it can go either way"?

Personally I would trust readers to click on the article and decide for themselves. Otherwise, it's a bit infantilizing, no?
> If we measure by view counts the things that are around the mean in terms of skill will be more popular.

I would instinctively have thought material conveying the basics would be the most viewed in the long run - since skill is cumulative, everyone at some point will have had to learn the basics, and only those who succeeded would go on to view intermediate content
How such an arrangement would work in London, for example, is beyond my comprehension.
The full database (27 MB) can be downloaded from:
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/resources.aspx

It is a surprisingly simple single excel sheet or a single table with 14,248 rows. I was expecting an SQLite database with multiple relationally linked tables. Anyway the simplicity and the fact that it is a single spreadsheet makes it easy to browse through, and for most rows, a reference is provided.

Note to the maintainers:
The last 3-4 entries are spam.
indeed ... I'd at least appreciate someone providing a challenge to what I'm saying. Surely, proper discourse on the topic is merited rather than suppression. I suppose downvoting is the easier way of disagreeing. I'm extremely open to being challenged - I don't personally know the guy and I don't know every detail.
Talent of a specific activity isn't enough. When did we define "rising to the top" as getting the most YouTube views?

I have seen great restaurants (food wise) fail because they didn't have a good location or the right advertising. I've seen engineers fail because they couldn't articulate their ideas in a way that made people realize their value.

It's not always about your talent, but how to make others realize you are talented.
I believe jwz did this first
You've summed up the problem I have with OP's arguments.

OSS already has a number of available licenses of varying levels of freedom that lets the creator decide how their creation should be used.

This entire discussion reads like "you developers are idiots who don't realize you're being taken advantage of." Whenever someone starts their argument with the (implicit or explicit) assumption that they are smarter than everyone else, my experience tells me that there's a hidden agenda in there somewhere. In this case it seems to be as trite as "corporations bad, people good" which, not to put too fine a point on it, is bullshit.
The problem for me is the browser. Unfortunately iOS doesn’t let you put safari into restricted apps on screen time.

I’ve managed to train myself to regard my computer mostly as a work machine but that just means my phone is my mindless browsing machine.
> it's a (possibly misguided) attempt to push themselves towards their goals.

Ist that really so? I think the article is trying to distinguish between three types of self-reflection and only one of them is actually pushing you towards your goal.

1) Punishing yourself and calling into question whether you can reach your goal at all. ("I failed that math test! How could I?! What kind of idiot am I?! What is wrong with me?!")

2) Self-indulgence, which I understand as distracting yourself from negative feelings with activities that bring immediate satisfaction - but neither advance your progress nor give you more insight into what went wrong. ("I failed that math test! I feel like shit! Let's go shopping!")

3) Self-compassion which is more about accepting something happened and trying to find out what went wrong without becoming degrading or punishing.

Only 3) is actually pushing you towards your goal. In fact, the others may be pushing you away from it - 1) through negative and 2) through positive reinforcement.

I think the article's intention is to make people better at spotting the differences and steer their thinking patterns away from 1) and 2) and towards 3). At least that was my impression.
If a personal computer is like a bicycle for your mind, augmenting and expanding your own intellect, what does that make a modern smartphone, where the what and how you use it is dictated by remote parties instead of your own needs and ideas?

It's really interesting to see Apple leading the way toward "impersonal" computing devices like this, considering.
Aloha, yeah, I hear you. The world has changed a lot in my 49 years and some of it is unrecognizable to me.

however, this is an imperfect world that needs a lot of change, and it's not going to stop changing, so you're going to have to figure this out. I assume you're a technologist, you are already dealing with constant change? How is this any different?

Think about it this way: Would you hire an SDE who told you they coded down to Java 1.4 standards because that's where their comfort zone is? Java 1.4 is not where the world is in 2021, just like being creepy to your colleagues is not where 2021 is.
tina the daughter of charles
Can someone knowledgeable please explain where these workers are useful?

Serverless components within an main infa. make sense - it's an easier way to deploy.

But these 'edge' functions ... what is the advantage of saving a few ms on a transaction?

I understand that we may want standard content pushed out to the edge, but in what situation is it really worth all the added complexity of risk of pushing out functions to the edge, to save a few ms?
Who’s to say the ‘random housewives’ are not comparable cooks in their niches than the ‘top chef’? There are major cultural barriers to joining commercial kitchens, so there’s likely a large contingent of incredibly talented cooks that don’t work in restaurants.

And also, as another commenter points out, perhaps the ‘random housewives’ have more accessible content.
"Thanks for taking the time to answer my bad question sincerely!"

No problem! It's actually a great conversation starter.

"With CoScreen, would "hey, can we check the logs real quick?" become as simple as the other peer clicking the window to add it to the session?"

Basically yes, there is a tab that shows above your window.

At the moment we have a shared context space, so your windows have a relative location that is based on the layout of the remote screen.

Ultimately this helps in like the pair programming scenario you make above, but is a weakness in other situations: we are working on a model that will let you break all of the window locations apart, or relatively translate the position of another user's windows wherever you want.

"I'd love to try this out eventually, joining a new team soon and perhaps I can pull it off there if/when pairing needs arise!"

We'd love to hear your feedback. We rely heavily on our community to determine our development path, so please reach out to us when you do, and leave feedback!
That quote has always bothered me. He uses incredibly small details to deduce incredible things, but thinks the solar system will never have any influence upon his casework. I can imagine scenarios where people thought the wrong things because of what the sun was doing, how far the sun was from the earth at the time, etc etc. It does matter, just not often... Much like the rest of what he uses to deduce things.

It's like saying he doesn't care what clerks do in their jobs, but then deducing that someone's a clerk by their hands. He's have to know what they do for that, even if it doesn't otherwise affect him.

That said, I agree with you... Mostly. I don't really care what someone believes, but there are some beliefs that tell me people aren't critical thinkers and will just believe things they're told... And then stick to it no matter what. I definitely treat those people differently for my own protection.

If flat-earth was the only thing that person believed that was weird, I'd likely just laugh and overlook it. But so far, I've never found that to be the case. They go in for a lot more.
Yelling fire in a crowded theater is a metaphor. If the theater is on fire, the situation is obviously more ambiguous.

> And that's the whole point: we're not worried about people arguing over most things. We're worried when they are arguing over truthful things that are sensitive, and often ideological. Like 'identity' etc..

I'm not worried about people arguing about anything, truthful or not, and I don't have a problem with respectful conversation around ideology, large-scale protest, or any other communicative action that respects individual humans.

I am worried about harassment, sending death threats, suicide requests, showing up at someone's house uninvited, etc.

Not many academics are doing this personally, but are they complicit in this harassment if they're tweeting out-of-context remarks to groups of followers who have engaged in this harassment in the past? At least, that's the complaint in piece I posted above, without endorsement, and I repeat that I do not know the facts in question there.

(I am also worried about echo chambers that deceive people into holding beliefs through mere repetition, but that's another conversation.)

> I only see people people reacting to those they disagree with in oppressive ways.

You and me both -- isn't harassment one of these ways?
Weird. A lot of this is focused on youtube stats, and conflates "success getting youtube views" with "skill as a chef."

Their #1 chef in the world, with all his accolades, is indubitably "at the top." Michelin, San Pellegrino, etc., all agree. He's risen to the top of the chef world, end of story. But what about the youtube world? Is he a talented youtuber, or is he merely a mediocre youtuber? Well, I kinda hate the format, so I won't try to judge that myself. But he's being compared to talented youtubers who are less-acclaimed as chefs.

From what I gather, youtube is popular among people who want to learn how to do something. I know what it takes to make a fancy meal, and I know what it takes to get food on the table after a long day's work, in time to get it down my kid's gullet before bathtime rolls around. These goals are not compatible. If I wanted somebody to tell me how to make dinner, I'd watch the unacclaimed housewife.

Later on in the article, the author bemoans the difficulty that good chefs have rising to the top of their world. And, yeah, marketing certainly plays a role in that. But so does the extremely low-margin, high-competition nature of restauranting.
Those cause dispersed changes on people's distribution on all directions around the clock, so no, they are probably not detectable.

Also the sibling comparing with the Earth's mass isn't in a good direction, because the Earth's mass is mostly stable, and the clock only suffers disturbances from changes... But if the story is true, it should have an easy time detecting vulcanism.
Substack: How We Approach Moderation Decisions
> This is weird. History, at least as it's colloquially used, is a accounting of important events in the past. We study history so we don't make major mistakes. Surely you are not implying everything online is important?

That's an extremely limited, pretty old-fashioned view of history. There was literally a post just the other day about Latin grammatical genders that mentioned that linguists obsess over a few fragments of graffiti because that's all that's left that hints at how Latin was actually spoken by the commoners whose speech became the Romance languages. Other historians spend their time studying contracts and receipts from transactions involving cattle and grain of long dead Sumerian traders. There are many schools of history that are more concerned with how common people lived in ordinary and extraordinary times than great men and "important events" (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History#Social_history). An important function of history is satisfying people's curiosity about the past.
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> Another issue with Base is the required JRE

I thought that they dropped JRE requirement when the engine was switched to Firebird? Googling around apparently the transition wasn't quite successful :(

https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/279711/firebird-dead...
I couldn’t have said it better myself @bmcahren! Perfectly summarizes the pain points we’ve experienced that led us to build this. (CPO of CoScreen here)
Or at teaching it.
So everyone is equally empowered to make decision on the strategic direction of the company?

If I got hired tomorrow at Google, I should just be able to decide to kill off Android and Chrome, yeah?
US Postal Service 10 Year Plan to Fix Its Problems
No idea if this is really a fair comparison but just to get a brief idea of current speeds:

julia> @time let
using Plots
plot([sin, cos])
end
11.267558 seconds (17.98 M allocations: 1.114 GiB, 4.83% gc time)

Versus Matlab which probably takes about 15 seconds just to open the editor but plotting is very fast.

>> tic
fplot( @(x) [sin(x) cos(x)])
toc
Elapsed time is 0.374394 seconds.

Julia is just about as fast as Matlab after the first run for plotting.
Good point. I didn't think of that. I'm not sure how my CentOS servers handle this scenario, but it seemed to take up the full 8GB however I checked.
The ABCC11 gene. The odorless version is very common in Asia
It almost seems easier to pull off if you leave exceptionally early (3pm or earlier). E.g., if you leave at 4:15pm, that doesn't give any reminder that you started early.
Having to navigate menu systems to change basic climate controls would say otherwise
It's enough if the support has enough power to convince others to go along.