skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. I was trying to find the words for what I was so put off by the article, but you nailed it. The tone made me want to disagree with it just by default. Luckily I 1) recognize that I am not qualified to have an opinion on the technical details and 2) Ruthlessly crush instinctual responses until I've thought them through with less emotion. (most of the time... I'm not robot, or perfect)

Someone in a sibling thread said it's not bad to write like that for catharsis... I guess to blow off steam or something. But if the method of blowing off steam is belittling other smart people that don't always make perfect decisions then it's probably not a great way to go. If you need to write it for catharsis, go for it, but there's no need to publish it.

Otherwise, my questions on the technical side: Would this performance hit and the alternative option have been obvious at the time? If so, was there a reasonable trade off for why this approach was taken? Or was this choice only wrong in retrospect?
I'm not planning to take metformin but it was discovered a century ago and has been in use for half that time. A quick look shows me that it's the 4th most prescribed medication in the US. I find it hard to understand how this would not satisfy "years and years of widespread clinical practice", at least with regards to understanding negative implications.

But as you said, you can do your own research, so I'll leave things where they stand. You just sound more like someone who's annoyed by pop-science more than someone who actually has strong opinions about the article or Metformin.
Dickinson’s Improvisations
I'm sure that the contributions from the Victoria University to the history of Pteridology are outsanding but I would not put them on the same level of impact as people like Takhtajan, Cronquist, Zimmerman, Klekowsky, Cunningham, Mutis or, of course Linnee, among other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_authority
Sorry, its taken me a while to respond.

"And it's driving my depression insane knowing my work and personal are all in the same room. WFH works if you can separate yourself from your person quarters but when you can't it really bites."

I'm an old git now and have space but back in the day I ... didn't. I'm not trying to say I understand your particular situation but I do sympathise and I hope it doesn't sound trite.

I wish you all the best and that's why I'm responding to a comment made two days ago.

Take care.
You are thinking way too extreme. An API is still a hell of a lot better than a sketchy bookie. I would trust the former and not the latter. Which helps break up the centralization of betting because it is much easier to establish trust in a 3rd party source of truth than it is to establish trust in someone being financially responsible / honorable.

Will it improve the established market providers for sports betting? No. But that's the point. It enables people to make a small business betting shop
They obviously don't have the transaction semantics worked out. I have been at the gate and the person in front of me had the same seat number. They read it out. When I presented my pass the girl politely took my ticket and printed another one. If the person was not right in front of me I would never have known why. It is not unusual.
Leaving aside whether or not they should want to post it there, I'm surprised it has an audience.

Someone saw it and shared it to HN; enough read it to upvote it this much.. maybe Facebook's more popular than I thought! (That sounds silly or sarcastic, but 'among HN users and similar' I'm serious.)
It’s interesting seeing this point, which has been around the internet for at least a decade now, start to get printed in what are otherwise mainstream publications these days. I don’t know that I buy it, but I certainly understand and see the merit of the argument.
A Day with the Curiosity of a 5-Year-Old – By Lawrence Jean-Louis
I used to have those elevators where I worked and everybody hated them. I think the algorithm was tuned for efficiency, so you’d be waiting for an elevator for minutes as it tries to batch everyone up, while a dozen other elevators sit idle.

This was made worse through the need to specify the number of people who are travelling to a specific floor so the algorithm can allocate enough space in each elevator. Large groups often ignored this so you’d often find that an elevator you’ve waited minutes for is full, and start the dance all over again.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destination_dispatch
meditation can help one to realize the various other unnecessary things we do on a daily basis.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21546239
"Use the mouse"

"Oh, thank you, sonny" -holds mouse to mouth- "Computer. Computer"
For a good chunk of the of the country the god is actually anti-capitalist ideals now,
Note that the Canvas.io software really wants the latest iPhone or iPad devices with LIDAR scanners built-in. It will supposedly run on lesser hardware, but with greater error in the constructed 3D map.

Fine for a sample to get an idea of whether or not it might work for you, but not really enough to actually use for anything useful.
The response is easy "find me an otherwise successful company that actually collapsed from failing to scale things like a database and we'll use it as a case study."

Security and PI stuff is unfortunately something you do have to be super anal about these days but scalability? no.
Shouldn't you be able to rotate the Feynmann diagram in all directions and get a valid interaction, though?
That is kinda like MTREES.io
Redis and I have a golden hammer agreement. I keep finding new ways to use it and it just keeps working.
I wonder how much of these developments remain when correcting for factors we don't necessarily deem to be an issue.

For example, between 1960 and today life expectancy in the US grew by 10 years.

If we look at educational attainment, we also see massive positive changes. [0] From 60% completing less than high school in 1960, to 9% today, and those with degrees grew from 4% to 37%.

If we live longer and educate ourselves for longer, it makes sense to delay certain behaviours and milestones in life, such as moving out of your parents' home, marrying, having kids, getting a job.

This would typically not be something to be very concerned about, rather it would typically be something public policy would aspire to achieve.

However, suppose you plot these milestones and behaviours on an age-timeline (from 0 to 100 for example) and the behaviours and milestones all shift 3 years to the right for the abovementioned reasons (5 years more education, 10 years of higher higher life expectancy). If you're a journalist who then selects a range on this age-timeline (e.g. 20 to 30), you'll obviously find that a smaller share of the people in this narrow range will have met those milestones. Taken out of context, it's worrying. Within context, it might be entirely natural.

Of course there are genuine, objective problems as well that I'm not denying. But the issues might be overstated, as well. I'd like to see a more nuanced, more accurate view, correcting for certain factors instead of just selling a one-sided warning piece. If I look at my own generation I feel in many ways much more empowered and independent compared to what my parents (anecdotally), yet I did live at home slightly longer than my mother for example. However I had a better education, started a company at a young age, travelled to four continents by myself as a teenager with my own funds. My mom moved out earlier than I did with financial support from her parents, and married sooner. But she was not as free or independent.

[0] https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizat...
Slightly off topic, but I do love the translucent terminal on the Mac. It is very cool
New discovery shows human cells can write RNA sequences into DNA
Every night at midnight, I have a script that sends me a blank email with a smiley face as subject. It’s a nice way to very quickly distinguish emails from today, yesterday etc. and also to stunt my prior that every email I get is going to be stressful.
Would this tone of expression be appropriate in navigating performance reviews? I mean the question honestly: My own answer is "no", but I don't know the culture of performance reviews at companies like that.
So you would be fine if a separate "Apple Apps Inc" was required by law to exist, and it had created the Files app instead, and it had the same dropbox integration and it was therefore in the accurate metadata, and it surfaced higher than the dropbox app anyway?

Congratulations, we did it guys.
Religion isn't going away. Ideology is religion. Very bad religion, but it is religion (or a "cult" to use your language, though that term is overloaded). And no one is without religion. Everyone worships something. The question is: are you worshiping the right thing?

In terms of the "traditional" churches in the US, yes, mainline Protestantism is dying because it is a spent force (it has more or less fully acquiesced to the culture, become a consumer and servant of that culture, which means it no longer has any purpose). Muslims who move her tend to become moderates and likely shed Islam entirely eventually. You do see some growth among Evangelicals, but in any case, globally (Africa, Asia), you do see Catholicism and Islam growing. The West is in this sense a decadent freak.
I'd characterize it this way: Reputation systems don't enable trust, but are an attempt to algorithmically quantify it. To paraphrase the old aphorism, all reputation models are wrong but some are useful. Unfortunately, they're inevitably abused by the untrustworthy that they're supposed to filter. Madoff had increasingly-good reputation signals until he didn't.
The kind of "nice" in board games that is bad is when a player is willing to lose in order for another player to win. When you play a game, everyone has to play to win for the rules to make sense (I'd argue almost definitionally for a competitive game.) Playing a board game with someone who is not playing to win is like playing tag with somebody who refuses to run away and won't chase you. You should be working on a puzzle together or writing a song instead. Maybe make up new rules every turn and pantomime playing the game, that's fun.

The kind of "nice" that is good in multiplayer board games is strategic. Being "nice" isn't necessarily being nice. If a subset of players collaborate, they eliminate the other players from the game. It's one of the ways most multiplayer games naturally handicap based on the reputations of good players - other players assume that they will get the short end of any deal with a good player, so refuse to collaborate with them.
My father was a navigator and EWO officer in the C130 Hercules during the Vietnam war.

He didn’t talk much about the war but one of things he told me was that while he was that their aircraft had several stubby antennae around the aircraft that monitored the radar from ground to air weapons.

He said they had various jamming equipment and would send back radar signals out-of-phase so that ground radar would receive strong signals where they should be weak to throw off the targeting.

He said at one point over Cambodia his equipment was overloaded by being locked on by multiple Chinese made weapons.

Later analysis showed at least 3 different “Firecan” radar locked on.

Luckily they were not fired upon.

Edited to add that Wikipedia shows that Fire Can as Russian made. But my father did state he thought they were Chinese made
If you have a fully static-linked library you already don't have symbol interposition.

Furthermore this options still allow the thinks you need interposition for, for calls from/to external dynamic linked libraries like libc.

But most important gVisor is based around intercepting system calls (over simplified), for which you don't need symbol interposition.
Airplane discovered at the bottom of a California lake could be from 1965 crash
Nobody is saying that white privilige means that if you're white, you always have it better than when you're not white.

Bollocks. Lots of people are saying that, or at the very least saying things that directly imply this with arguments to historical injustices which, though real and serious, have no causal bearing on the specific case being discussed.

"Ceteris paribus" is a wonderful average at which no one lives. Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos are white. That has zero impact on the earning power of a West Virginia coal miner whose job is never coming back and had gotten hooked on Oxy.
English does not descend form Old Norse (a North Germanic language). It was merely influenced by it due to Viking invasions of the British isles. English is a West Germanic language more closely related to Frisian.
The Foo Programming Language
Is it theoretically possible to build a LISP-style language on top of Excel's LAMBDA function like Clojure did on top of Java/JavaScript and Hy on top of Python? Might prove to be an interesting venue...
Unless its changed - you can't refuse stuff addressed to 'occupant' like supermarket flyers. You can remove your _name_ from mailing lists, but that wasnt' my issue. So I got a 'PO Box' from a local ups store type place. Now I don't get junk mail.

Maybe the difference is due to my "PO Box" actually being at a store and not an actual Post Office? It's at a local ups store/mailboxes etc. type store, so the Post Office would actually have to forward the mail, not just drop it in a PO Box on premise.
Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify
I find the downvotes weird without any explanation why the raised issue doesn't sound important.
The "truth" you see is the designed outcome of soft diplomacy through the export of US culture via movies, television and the internet.

I know lots of non-US folk who love the values and opportunities they experience in America. But I also know lots of others who don't.

I see my own country adopting more and more aspects from America: individualism over community, the excessive consumerism, the Starbuck-ification of every facet of our lives, that I think are more harmful than beneficial.
Wasn't taxation very high during the period describe, and declining gradually since then?

I also thought home ownership was one of the main generators of wealth for families, and wasn't that government assisted in some way?

(Not a historian)
Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts'
Not often purposely. It’s more like once you know how to see it, it’s hard to turn it off. E.g. the other day I saw magic mushrooms growing near my house. I can teach you how to see that, but I can’t teach you to unsee it.
I'm not from the US, so I suppose I don't know. One of my uncles immigrated there and works in a VA hospital. The stories he tells me, of people dying of ailments that are common in the third world, seems to suggest otherwise.
Why is quality of life measured on consumption crap so heavily? Personally idgaf about useless doodads that waste resources and space in my home (or mind).
For the latter maybe this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_tempering
I thought the data in sport stuff was interesting, but the rest of your arguments were fairly superficial and got lost in the weeds.

I guess my main gripe was that a lot of your thesis can be explained by trend. Women looking like Kardashian is simply no different than looking like Sophia Lauren in a bygone era. AirBnB's being sameish? Go back to the 70s and notice the uniformity of interior design with plywood, rockwalls, bright orange vinyl, etc. Brand mascots being smoother and slicker - again - just reifying the values of our era in the same way the original mascots reflected the masculine values of their day.

As for your broader argument about refinement (itself a clumsy descriptor for all this) - is this really anything new? Hasn't optimisation been the fundamental constant since humans started doing stuff?
I first heard it in Short History of Progress. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsPMaGdg_38

Wheat yields progressively fell as salt accumulated in the ground. They switched to barley until that crop failed too.

According to the book, almost all ancient agriculture was unsustainable. If not because of the irrigation, it was because plowing caused too much soil erosion. The only places that could get away with it long-term were Egypt and China, because of the flooding and lime replenished the soil.
It would be interesting to know if lower doses were tolerated better while still providing some benefit.
>> Any country with public health insurance that is decent is more attractive than the US.

Depending on what you want to do with your life, this is mostly true. But immigration laws to countries with these kinds of welfare structures tend to be much tighter than ones without for reasons that are obvious.
I don't really buy it, it seems to suggest that scientific discoveries are not questioned and changed constantly, when they absolutely are. It's not accurate to always refer to them as "beliefs."
Everything f38zf5vdt said and that you've quoted here can be true (at least subjectively) while your own reply is also true. You're not actually addressing or contradicting their arguments, such as they are, just declaring them categorically invalid because "capitalism."
You generally have more than one database connection per thread. As an example, consider Node.js which acts like a single threaded process. You’d probably want to be able to handle more than 1 database query concurrently since network latency tends to dominate OLTP requests.

How you setup LISTEN and NOTIFY is app dependent. In a multi-tenant database, you could have 1 NOTIFY channel per tenant.

As you scale, you probably do something that listens in a smarter way, maybe 1 Go channel per client with a single LISTEN instead of 1 database connection per client. The downside is that now the app code is responsible for tenant isolation instead of the database.
In other words the opportunists come to the US. The most selfish and greedy. The results speak for themselves.
Amazon Echo v2 – on sale for £10k
Every website you've ever visited or DNS query perfored is logged by your ISP due to that "decentralized" behavior. It's not decentralized when there's very few companies involved and a very long history of happy dragnetting.
"Believe science."

Vox and others stealth-editing articles, people yelling at you if you don't blindly believe the CDC/WHO, etc.

Science by its very nature is heretical, questioning, skeptical. "Belief" in science is exactly what we should not be doing, yet is pushed by the academic elites.
I'm not sure Facebook's privacy intrusions are ok ethically wise. So there's competing value systems at work.
“Saturday” is from “Saturn”.
Things may look a bit different from a (West) European perspective. I know enough people who used to live in the US but left, partly because they did not want to inflict US citizenship upon their children. Among all wealthy countries, US citizenship is probably the least desirable one if you don't plan to live there permanently.

In any case, the expat/immigrant situation is familiar to many Europeans as well. The real difference is that most European countries are nation states, while the US is a land of immigrants and their descendants. "American" is an adopted identity. You become American if you have lived in the US long enough and consider yourself American. In contrast, "German" is an assigned identity. You are German if other Germans generally see you as German. You cannot become fully integrated into a nation state as long as other people pay attention to your origins.
Makes no sense. The whole point is they manually boosted Files to make it surface higher. If it surfaces higher under a level playing field, that is fine.
It's sad no one really uses block characters anymore in text UIs. :(
>Uh ... is it news to people that american nationalism is a very religious belief system?

I think the "news" here, such as there actually is any, is that modern secular progressivism has adopted (transplanted?) many religious notions from e.g. Catholicism, and the comparison bothers people because the left prides itself on being anti-religious. American Nationalism has pretty much always been tied to Christianity given the history of the country, so yeah it's not surprising at all to point that out.
> The swedish economy is a high skilled economy, perhaps the highest skilled in the world. There are very few low-skill jobs, unlike the US which has an army of low skilled workers filling low skilled jobs. This is why the U.S. is able to absorb so many low skilled migrants whereas Sweden is having enormous problems finding jobs for their low skilled migrants.

How is that not backwards?

If you have 'an army of low skilled workers' then there's no room 'to absorb so many low skilled migrants', surely?

If you have 'a high-skilled economy' then surely you are 'having enormous problems' filling your low-skilled jobs, and welcome migrants?

Indeed, isn't Sweden famously highly accepting of migrants and in particular refugees? Presumably skewed low-skilled if at all?

(Neither Swedish nor American, so not pushing an agenda, just commenting. :))
Pg is very fast. If it is slower it is because it does more and does it more safely. When not needed those things can be disabled.

There are a number of tips about that in the discussion above, such as turning off logging of and partitioning a job table.
There's a difference between speculation and practicing belief, and what I see non-religous Americans practice is secular belief--that is--scientism. "Belief" in science. It's not speculation, because if it was, you might see people saying "I don't know, we'll wait and see" more often. Instead, I watch and read about people in America who are convinced of certain outcomes without any thought as to whether or not what they posit is true.
As far as we know, during Big Bang, after the matter had cooled enough for heavier particles to decay but before cooling enough to allow the formation of nuclei and atoms, there were equal numbers of protons, neutrons and net electrons (i.e. electrons - positrons), so the electric charge of the universe was zero.

All the events that happened after that, e.g. the decay of a part of the neutrons into protons and electrons, the annihilation of positrons with electrons and various generations and annihilations of particle/anti-particle pairs, have not changed the total electric charge, so it has remained zero.

The electric forces are extremely strong and they ensure that matter is on average electrically neutral, so the only long-distance forces are magnetic and gravitational.

Any region with electric charge would generate strong electric fields with various obvious effects.
The Remote Debate Shows the Brittle State of Modern Management
The total number of people identifying as religious in the US is declining. The number of people identifying as evangelical/"born again" is rising.

Of course, it's about the same thing as the religious and non-religious cult-dynamics are somewhat similar.

Of course, it's a product of any "local community" fading away - the moderating influence of random people living near one is fading.
At this point I think the EU should just set aside a nice space somewhere and make it a raw capitalist, no taxes, no regulations, no safety net zone.

"Talent" seems to like that environment.
Right, telos is not purely a matter of will, which is a special case. Telos is about the ordering of a thing toward an end. You can't explain efficiently causality without recourse to telos. The fact that the same causes consistently lead to the same effects is a testament to the telos of the things involved.

Unfortunately, most opponents of telos don't really understand what it really means. They seem to hold to a mechanistic/Paleyian view of the world and assume the telos can therefore only be something in some mind external to the universe that directs things according to its purposes but that things themselves lack any intrinsic teleological character. But this is not correct.