skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At my uni, it's pretty much solved by having the student's computer society own the most capable machines on campus (sponsored by Facebook if I've understood things correctly). If any one want something done, they just ask the root of the society, and move on with their newfound computer resources. This access can range from a tiny VPS (automatic access for all students) to shell access to the (small but capable) HPC cluster.
Adtech is the most active market, that's pretty merged with Yahoo's businesses these days. A lot of stuff that wasn't actively branded AOL was run by AOL too, like huffpost, techcrunch, engadget, etc. though Verizon has sold a decent amount of that off prior to now. Also mail/aol.com still has users among an older cohort.
It depends on the severity of the depression, but people who are depressed can struggle to get out of bed, shower, eat, or brush their teeth. Many things that non-depressed people find easy are excruciatingly difficult for depressed people. Just picking up the phone and calling someone might be a struggle.

Then there's the problem that many activities that might have seemed interesting and fun to do while the person was not depressed often seem uninteresting or meaningless when they are depressed.

Finally, there's all the self-recrimination and self-loathing that comes from knowing you could "easily" have done all sorts of things to make your life better and reach out to people but just not done them, which spirals people even further in to depression.

It's a really tough cycle to break.
Was she reassured?
Putting an old digital clock (with an outdoor thermometer) on steroids
What better metric is there?

If you ask people, they're bound to lie to you. What people do is much more indicative of their priorities than what they say.
No I'm in an 2br apartment with my wife and teenage daughter. Taxes are $1600/mo. Still cheaper than the suburbs with good schools.
Lots of good points here, but it's also worth mentioning that Amazon accounts for a much larger percentage of overall ecommerce sales (almost 50%). No other online marketplace comes remotely close.

Individual physical retailers own much less of the market... even Walmart is only ~10% or so of retail in the US.
Can't recommend this highly enough! The only calls and texts that break through are from contacts; the only notifications that require my attention are from apps I explicitly allowed to do so.

From time to time I expect calls from unknown numbers (e.g. recruiters) and have to disable DnD mode - it's just unbearable how much crap starts demanding my attention!
What programming language is this? Is it available as some kind of framework for spinning up your own REPL website for your own language?
> While Safari had cache partitioning enabled for 5+ years, Chrome has still to deliver it to users even though it's a clear privacy and security win.

I had to double check, but this isn’t the case anymore. They shipped cache partitioning in v86.
I don't really understand this. Houston didn't grow because of natural population growth (at least, mostly not).

It grew because people wanted to move there, jobs were good, and housing was (relatively) cheap. It's what people wanted. How could you possibly indict this?
>buzz killer
I see what you did there.

And the killing of buzz is bi-directional too!
I remember in high school renaming programs to "calc.exe" so we could run them. Back when these kinds of protections were so primitive :-)
USPS is NOT obligated to deliver to every address. My parents live about ten miles from one of the larger cities in California. UPS and FedEx will happily deliver to their address, but USPS doesn't. As a consolation prize, USPS offers them a discount on PO boxes.
Depends over what time frame. If it's over a 5-10 year period, that corresponds to a 1-3% annual decrease in the purchasing power of the dollar, which is considered pretty normal. If it's happening much more frequently than that (to the same product), though, it could indicate worrying inflation.

Also note that "prices of consumer goods are rising by less than 2% per year" is not proof that the purchasing power of the dollar is roughly stable -- it's possible for consumer goods to get relatively cheaper than assets and positional goods such as e.g. stocks and bonds, housing, healthcare, and education such that it takes many more dollars to buy a certain lifestyle than it used to despite minimal rises in CPI.
That's actually better than I heard. Since ALK is more generally rare biomarker (as opposed to EGFR) more of the drugs are still in trial. I asked an oncologist friend about costs and she said $11,000/month.
A common misconception about Houston is it doesn’t have zoning. Which is true. But it effectively achieves the same thing with a number of city ordinances and with covenants that subdivisions place on their land use which are enforced by the city.
Find something you like doing more than doomscrolling. You probably have no hobbies or creative outlet. Also turn off all notifications so you don't get sucked back in while you're doing other things.
Existing watch heart rate sensors are next to useless IMO even when they work. I've always been skeptical of fitness features on watches. But continuous blood pressure and glucose monitoring would definitely be worth buying and wearing a new watch. Maybe even switching from Android to iOS if it was Apple exclusive.

I'm a little skeptical that it's possible to get accurate absolute measurements of those things purely optically, through skin and hair and while the body is in motion, across all skin types, ages, etc. That would be pretty magical.
It would be very interesting how this would reliably work across a diverse population without some sort of calibration step. I am skeptical, but it is Apple.
I'm let down that "oregano" is not a system command
It's not particularly front-and-centre, but it's all over various discussion boards if you go looking for it directly. I'd like the debate to be more visible, personally, particularly whenever the argument gets deprecated for a particular method.

Essentially, `inplace=True` rarely actually saves memory, and causes problems if you like chaining things together. The people who maintain the library/populate the discussion boards are generally pro-chaining, so `inplace` is slowly and quietly on its way out.
What about Radon exposure? Big problem in Canada in certain cities:

"Over 16% of lung cancer deaths are attributed to radon exposure in Canada. It is estimated that more than 21,000 Canadians will die from lung cancer this year, and more than 3,000 of those deaths are because of exposure to radon indoors."
>If you keep all your logic super high level, then your entire component tree will re-render often.

This is not true, especially if you're following _actual_ best practices and using e.g. React.memo() and immutable state updates. React is explicitly built around the idea that you don't need to re-render every part of the DOM on every state update.
If I've learned something in recent years, is: stay way from HashiCopr stuff as far as you can.

It is all nice and shiny on paper, but applied to "real world" conditions … it sucks.

It works, as long you never touch it again. But, if you dare to look at it with wrong eye, it will break, and if it breaks, it breaks beyond all repair. Every time.
There's a good clip from CBC in 2012 about flu surveillance and how it's an unverified estimate with very large bounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mViFHqDD9hI
>but it could have really gone sideways if there were more idiots who refused.

not disagreeing with the bottom half of the post but can we not forget that the US lost more than half a million people and accounted for abouth a fifth of global deaths. We're still in this thing and the usual indifference to disaster appears to be setting in
You made me curious about how large Pion is, 162k lines! I made sure to delete all test files first.

sean@SeanLaptop:~/go/src/github.com/pion$ find . -type f -name '\*.go' | xargs wc
47871 162998 1394063 total

pion/webrtc is the largest package with 58k lines. Every other package (ICE, DTLS, SCTP....) are all around 20k lines. It feels wrong that WebRTC is so large (and not pushed into sub packages) will for sure be digging into that for fun in the next few weeks :)
> The phrasing probably wasn't ideal. I think they meant something different when they said "infinite demand" than what you mean.

I think that I understand what you meant. By infinite, they just mean that there will always be orders on both sides around the current price... but for that to happen, you need to have about the same amount of orders on both sides (the amount of orders don't matter and could be very small).
The single best piece of React knowledge I've found is an old idea from functional programming and MVC. Separation of components into 2 groups. Pure "view" components that contain no state and are oriented around display. And "controller" components that put everything together. The controller components make http requests, manage state, and manage which sub view is currently active. So far it has worked out well. Dan Abramov had a similar idea with presentational vs container components but missed a lot of the nuance that functional programming had brought, and thus, value.
> FFS - You're behind reddit

I don't _think_ HN was ever supposed to be a competitor to reddit, was it? AFAIK this is not a product that YC is earning money from (through via ads or elsewhere).
Just a heads up, you have to click the images to see the full resolution version! I spent a good while confused about not being able to see the details mentioned in the images.
I was going to say "but that's an IRC server", but last second noticed that one is called "oragono" :D (and way younger either way)
Gravity jet suit taken for a spin by the Royal Marines
"Portfolio", holding DOGE is about the same as holding lottery tickets.
I agreed that it’s unusual. But that’s not the same as insane, and I am not using a euphemism.

If you are using the word ‘unusual’ as a euphemism for insane, that’s not how I’m using that word.

You keep saying we ‘agree’ but that’s not true if we are using the word we are supposed to ‘agree’ on differently.

Do you think all unusual behavior is insane? If not, can you explain how this particular behavior is?
Ohh that's a "computer says no" level of awful. As an aside, I've forgotten the name for this sort of anti-pattern.
Part of the standardization process involves validating stable, compatible implementations in existing browsers. If a feature is on the standards track it can’t be accepted as a recommendation without that.
The Python-code behind this:

ts = int(time() - 16 \* 10 \*\* 8)
return ts.to_bytes(4, "big") + os.urandom(12)
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What's gained from that?
I don't think there's enough understanding about how physics connects to chemistry to biology to psychology etc for a fundamentals first approach. I think what we actually do is we find something that works, and then we explain why it works later. I've had titles like software engineer and database administrator, but the most important aspect of my jobs is always psychology, not computer science.
This is mentioned in the article. The city did reduce the minimum lot size considerably in the late 90s. But, that wouldn't have undone decades of too-large lots for SFH and lot size so large THs were completely untenable.

All that said, it sounds like Houston could be a good "experiment" for something more efficient/optimal than the normal US city/suburb zoning scheme. Reduce the lot sizes a bit more, remove parking minimums, etc.
I doubt that you can make that as a blanket statement, either. There are probably plenty of conservative investors who do include some cryptos as part of a well-balanced asset allocation. It is, after all, starting to make plenty of inroads into the mainstream financial industry.

What you don't see much of is conservative investors who are super hot on crypto. Not necessarily because of anything about crypto, per se, so much as because part of being a conservative investor is that you don't really get super hot on anything.
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Don't force it. It's an in-person skill that some people simply don't have, and as an Engineering Manager, I honestly don't think its particularly valuable. I find the quiet folks often have the most valuable insights.

Push for more pre-work before meetings with documents to encourage async discussion at your company. Be the person person that reviews and comments such documents to add insights, and then ensure the person running the design meeting prompts any left over comments while running the meeting, to cover your items.

This is how most forward-looking, remote-friendly companies work now. If you're not in such an environment, then consider moving to one. It will probably work out better for you.
I guess you misunderstood it. It has nothing to do with optimistic updates. Optimistic updates are about rendering results that you hope will happen, like clicking on a "Like" button and immediately making it bold and disabled even before the request has finished. In case it errors, you simply revert to the previous state and display some feedback to the user.

Now, wishful thinking is about making it work even if not perfect, production-ready. It could be about rendering a hard-coded "Loading..." or "Success" or "Error" string before you hand it over to your translation team. Or just calling your param names `a` and `b` before you talk to your domain experts about the proper terms. This comes with experience.

This is not something the author invented, it's a well-known technique.
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When I play it, one time out of six it sends me to https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ
Maybe it says something about the people I work with, but I've never seen a fully valid shell script, over 20 lines long, that handled spaces in paths and command errors properly, that didn't first go through ShellCheck. I've noticed that hardcore *nix people are usually some of the worst offenders, with their phobia of spaces, from years of broken shell scripts, completely preventing them from even thinking about the possibility of a space in a path, with some considering the space the bug, rather than its handling.

I've found that the best way to introduce someone to ShellCheck is to run it on their script, right in front of them, with most saying something like "How did I not know about this?". Linters are great!
React has really turned into something else. Back in 2013, React was making waves but it was just the view layer. This was back when we were trying to replace jQuery with BackboneJS or Knockout JS or whatever. For whatever reason, MVC doesn't work in the browser so prior art goes out of the window.

The advice to take a react hook and turn it back into an HOC is bizarre. This is not a best practice.

Any post proclaiming a best practice is suspect.
Houston does have unique local situtations, such as "we're going to allow you to build homes inside of our flood management reservoirs [1] and not require you to disclose to buyers that they're in a flood management reservoirs."

[1] i.e., the land that is intentionally flooded to prevent worse floods from happening downstream.
If you are placing 16+ story housing buildings down, it's because you need the density. No one puts an apartment building down that size in a ghost town.

Odds are good that density is still desired across the street. Or maybe one step down into something more mid-rise. A single family home uses an entire lot to house a single family, maybe just 1-2 people.

It's an inefficient use of our limited resources, and artificially inflates housing prices by limiting supply.
It is indeed premature optimisation.
> On these computers, I could factor a general number with around 70 decimal digits in a reasonable amount of time (like overnight).

What’s the comparable figure you could get on typical hardware in today’s university computing clusters or computer labs?
Wouldn't marriage and estate planning be a serious consideration for tech founders?
except, these ideological beliefs are only intrinsictly deep, sparked by the republican desire to have as many polticially potent tools for their trade.

this belief is only a year ood. its not same centuries old belief,
Wayzgoose
> For anyone still at or associated with a university, how would they react to behavior like this today?

They would wonder why the student went through all that trouble instead of getting time on our HPC cluster.
>Yes, they very much do. I'm not entirely sure how to square the GP's comment.

It happened. Lots of the flood plain homes that were destroyed in Hurricane Harvey were not flood insured. One of the reasons cited was lax updating of maps, another was builders gaming the system, another was loopholes for land near flood management reservoirs, etc. Things that happen less often if the local government is active around land use regulations.

And, in fact, Houston and Harris county did enact a bunch of new ordinances around all of this after Harvey.

https://archive.is/XxhE

https://wga-llp.com/blog/city-of-houston-adopts-new-floodpla...
I've been wondering about the apparent contradiction between the limitations of spectrograms and the remarkable fidelity of MP3 files, which I thought operated along similar lines.

When you convert a spectrogram back into sound it sounds like crap, but then how does MP3 store the frequency information (and why can't we use that for visualizations)?

The math is beyond my understanding, can anyone give some kind of analogy maybe?
Every time I visit my parents and observe their phones, I can't believe how anyone can live with it. All the notifications lighting up your phone every minute, all the dinging and buzzing for your attention. 7 unread messages! 8! Now 10!! Ding ding ding! New reply on your Facebook message! Ding ding! It's like living on the Las Vegas strip. I'd be a basket case if I had to go a day with all those demanding interruptions.
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I dont have the source anymore, but ive heard of precisely this happening: Amazon employees snooping around the AWS setup of some other ecommerce competitors... so yea, its not just limited to the amazon seller account data
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You’re apartment is valued at $700,000?
I think there are probably at least a few PHD thesis that could be built around how psychedelics affect the microbiome and the so-called "gut-brain" (or "brain-gut") connection.

I look forward to the day that such research shines a light on this possible connection.
3D 'lung-on-a-chip' model developed to test therapies for Covid-19 and others
very similar to this scenario

> George and Kramer begin parking at a discount parking lot. After picking up his car George discovers a condom inside and suspects prostitutes are servicing their clients inside the cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wig_Master
I think he does and I think he's found a way to make money in crypto, even though he previously stated he thinks it will end badly
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
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Not even that. You can reach those kinds of levels with a GPU these days (and GPU programming is sufficiently obscure that most people won't even attempt to go that route).

Though... with the whole GPU shortage going on right now, maybe it'd be easier to steal computer time from someone else's lab right now!!