skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To add to this, since the work I do at my job aligns very closely to my hobbies, I find that work saps my interest in putting time into said hobbies. If I were able to spend the entirety of my mental capacity on things I _want_ to do, I might do more. Who is to say. As a counterpoint, work can offer opportunities to work with technologies or concepts you might not think of or be able to afford while working on a personal project.
Surely this T-Rex would spontaneously combust from the heat retention.
Working in video production, I know there are a lot of videographers and photographers "abusing" the unlimited nature of this service. It's not my business how BackBlaze does things, or if the usage falls within their acceptable use policy, but I see so many in my industry brag about the insanely cheap rates BackBlaze offers on their computer backup.

From my armchair, it seems like a bunch of personal users subsidize the freelance photo/video production industry. I wonder why BackBlaze doesn't give those extreme users the boot? Or, put in place a reasonable storage limit (e.g., 5 TB or something that 95% of users will be okay with.) I like BackBlaze but it always rubs me the wrong way when I see people in Facebook groups using the Computer Backup solution as if it were B2 or a higher-tier service.
You still don't explain why: Conflating infections with deaths is meaningless where the mortality rate has gone down.

Please forward the discussion by showing how you would present the data.
The Details About Neovim 0.5
NN-512 has no connection to TensorFlow. It is an open source Go program (with no dependencies) that generates C code (with no dependencies). And it's fully ready for production. Similarly, LibNC is stand-alone, and Fabrice Bellard (author of FFmpeg, QEMU, etc.) will release the source to anyone who asks for it.

I'm giving performance comparisons versus TensorFlow, which I consider to be a standard tool.

People who use your proprietary, closed, black-box service are dependent on the well-being of your business. You could vanish tomorrow.
A long time ago I was reading a text on burnout, and one factor that stood out was lack of closure.

Think of an architect - they design a building, deliver blueprints and the building gets built. They're done. They can drive by the building and say "Look, I've designed that building". There's closure.

A developer's job is rarely done. You do a fantastic job and fix 2 almost intractable bugs in a sprint. What happens the next sprint? You get more bugs to fix. There's rarely closure.
> Russia has much more coverage than Canada, at a literal tenth of the cost.

Starting with the obvious point that none of what I'm about to point out excuses Canada's backwardness on telecom -

Poor countries almost always do things at cheaper prices. Canada isn't going to be paying people $1 per hour for their labor. Russia's monthly mininum wage is $169, it's an exceptionally poor country for the bottom 2/3. You need to find what the income adjusted gap actually is, not just go off of the surface difference (which always results in misleading eye-popping differences).

Roads in Ukraine are also built and maintained at lower costs than they are in Switzerland, which tells you very little about whether Switzerland's cost for building and maintaining roads is outrageous or appropriate for their incomes / economic development.

Russia has approximately 1/5 to 1/4 the income level of Canada. That means when they build telecom services, they can't reasonably charge $60 per month for plans and expect to get many customers, and when they build infrastructure they're able to build it at a cheaper cost than Canada can. Cheap labor is one of the few advantages poor nations often possess over affluent nations.

A ten fold cost difference between Canada and Russia, is more like 2x or 3x when you make the proper income adjustments.
Since this thread might attract people who know …

I’m looking at getting a NAS for home backup to get my data out of cloud services.

Is synology still a good option for this? I’ve read that they are starting to engage in some anti-user behaviors like restricting the types of drives that can be used with their gear.
Mind explaining? As institutional day care? I believe it.
> since then I just exist in a constant state of burnout

The worst part is that even that doesn’t seem to matter. Whether I do my best work because I’m 100% into the job, or my worst because I just cannot be bothered any more, people perceive me the same way, and my salary remains the same.

If the effect is nil why should I even bother.
The whole livestream was cringe-inducing, but maybe that's because I'm a peasant and their target market was the ticket holders (AFAIK you can already give Branson your money in exchange for a promise that some day you can experience what he experienced), they even had an interview with 2 random folks at the after-party, who were there because they plan to go up. Of course the interview didn't bring any insights other than "Rich person is excited she is going to go on a rocket".
I think he meant that eradicating COVID is a fool's errand like eradicating common cold or flu is, but it's not the end of the world because it will be like seasonal flu, dangerous only for elderly/sick people.
It's unfortunately pretty common for people adopt an "opposite of what That Guy said" stance on any particular issue.

Obviously, taking a position that is the opposite of an illogical person makes you just as illogical, but it's much easier than thinking.
When Reddit's videos started taking off (more posts using it instead of Gfycat) I got frustrated that I couldn't post the gifs/videos to Discord without requiring a click through to Reddit. I created this simple Docker container that uses Youtube-DL to download an mp4 of the video and upload it to a public Azure blob storage account I created: https://github.com/jesseryoung/vreddit-converter
> why Flink and not Kafka ?

I assume you mean "Kafka Streams" when you say this, as Kafka is just a event bus and Flink can be used to read messages from it.

The biggest advantage of Flink (IMO) is that you can write the Flink logic once, and reuse it for both batch and stream processing. So if I write a Flink job that consumes a Kafka stream and produces some aggregated outputs, that same job can be run against my data lake in S3/GCS/Azure Blob Storage, etc.

Kafka Streams does not support batch processing, or working on top of anything other than Kafka. Flink supports building on top of other message buses like Pulsar as well: https://flink.apache.org/news/2019/11/25/query-pulsar-stream...
We were built to work, to have purpose. Having meaningful work is key - this is what the FIRE movement misunderstood.

By meaningful, I mean to someone other your yourself or your extended self (family). Our purpose is to serve others, not ourselves.
Very well, I'll rephrase.

Yes, it was a good blog post.

> "this is the definition of ad-hominem"

It is not. Ad hominem would be "his argument is false because he is [personal attack]". Ad-verecundium would be the specific case where the personal attack is "he's not an expert in the subject".

Cautioning against grandiose claims by pointing out the author has made unverifiable grandiose claims before, which are objectively beyond their expertise, and was unable to defend them or reason properly against a peer with known expertise, is not an ad hominem. It's just skepticism. Having said that, good for him for doing his bit and writing the blog post. I've done far less.

> also black-and-white thinking (100% right or 100% wrong):

I think you are misreading this, so I apologise. I'm not advocating "splitting". The point of the "he may be wrong or right" part is that the only way to evaluate his claims of "what a public figure should do" etc, is via the conditional fallacy, i.e. "This is the correct course of action because IF you did the opposite, THIS would have happened". This is effectively an unverifiable claim, which is why, as a form of argument, it is fallacious. His claim in absolute terms, however, may in fact be true. Or false. We can never know.

Now obviously, you might say, "but he provides evidence for his opinion on what a public person should do". True. But here is where the earlier argument comes in. It's worth keeping in mind that this is a blog post, by a non-expert, who has shown inexperience against experts previously, and where he is free to take creative liberties to promote his view, as he has done in the past. It is not a scientific article that has undergone peer review, nor is it a disinterested exploration of the literature. It's purely an opinion piece (albeit a well-meant and well-presented one) backed by the evidence and visualisations he feels make his point and linear narrative best.

Which is absolutely fine for a blogpost. Kudos to him.
Less hostile version:

https://old.reddit.com/r/HostileArchitecture/
> Doing nothing is akin to saying my time is more valuable than yours

but it is
Haha got a vasectomy 10 years ago and never looked back. Never had the urge or empathy to raise kids.
My drawing skills are atrocious, I just gave up and started drawing parts where they didn't belong. Experimenting was fun but I kinda regret doing that.
Another data point - user traffic to graphql.org has been flat since mid-2020 - at least according to Semrush - at about 250k visits per month. So it's a tech that people are using, but it seems to have saturated its use case.
We bought into the GraphQL vision on past projects but I came out the other end never wanting to work with it again. So much effort is put into trying to make "one API to rule them all". The shape of that API will always have inefficiencies, waste, and misaligned expectations about the data.

If you control the client the server then most likely your client has a function wanting data so just call a function on the server to provide it. A generic http-based abstraction in the middle isn't always the right answer.

Our most recent project is a SPA making RPC calls with a BFF* architecture. We couldn't be happier.

* https://samnewman.io/patterns/architectural/bff/
Wow, this post is an incredible example of gut-wrenching honesty about things working out differently than expected. I'm eight months into life without work right now, and can relate to a lot of this. I didn't make a plan to retire (early or otherwise), I just wanted to move abroad and take time to learn the language and think a little about what I want out of life aside from career.

I can relate to the anxiety and ennui they experienced in 2018. Something good about being in the rat race is that even during bad days you don't feel adrift or wasteful. During the first couple of months after I quit working, and after moving abroad, I hadn't yet enrolled in full-time language classes. At first it was easy to enjoy myself meeting new people, going rock climbing, traveling a bit, going on dates, etc. But after a while, I started noticing that if I woke up at 11am and didn't have "something to do," i.e. a plan, I started feeling a very strong sense of unease, something like a very mild sense of panic or alarm. Like here I am with no work to eat up my day, plenty of money, nothing but free time. If I wake up on the wrong side of the bed, or just don't feel like I'm enjoying myself, I am utterly wasting my precious time on Earth. That's a pretty dark chasm lurking just beneath the surface. If I'm having a bad day but can still pour a cup of coffee and go to work, I'm at least banking up money for some future day that I can enjoy it.

I feel like he was a little unfair in how he characterized his partner's experience of that ennui, although I don't blame him for feeling bitter after an affair. I've never wanted to keep up with the Joneses or spend my life jockeying for status, but I still don't think I'd feel okay permanently quitting work this young. There's more existential dread in being immediately responsible for enjoying every single day to the fullest than I'm ready to face.
It's backup, not sync.

Your basic consumer choices for cloud-based sync are OneDrive, Google Drive, or DropBox.

I prefer Google Drive now that I can keep all my files in the cloud and download/cache on demand, rather than keep it synced -- this way I get a usable 2TB disk rather than being limited to my laptop's 256GB storage. Google announced a new unified app yesterday actually:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/07/new-google-drive-app...
Let's be honest, the antibiotics and hormones are just an excuse to keep the foreign competition out, and keep prices high in the process.

If the government really cared about protecting consumers, they would not care about the country of origin. They would have import controls that ensure imported foreign milk follows the Canadian standards you mentioned. Instead, they simply slap an incredibly high average duty of 218.5% on any dairy product coming from abroad, no matter its characteristics, effectively blocking any import of dairy.

There is high-quality milk made in the U.S. too. But Canada prefers to protect Canadian oligopolies and keep competitors out. And this way, consumers keep paying higher prices for the same product. Why not let consumers decide what they want to purchase?
With the obesity epidemic it is probably better to tell people they can just compost their food if there is too much and they can't eat it. And then cook a little less next time.

I keep 100% of foodstuff out of my trash, and an added benefit is that you never get stinky trash that needs to be taken out. I take my trash out every 2 weeks and it never smells at all.
AWS and Open 3D Engine
LaTeX imports and interprets arbitrary LaTeX, so other programs can theoretically do just as well. Importers running up against Halting Problems occur in many document formats, but this is not an issue in practice since most documents are not nefarious, and any importer can (and should) have sensible timeouts for parsing.
> Set-Cookie was supposed to have the browser ask the user to confirm whether they wanted to set a cookie. Not many clients doing that today.

No worries, that's why we have laws to make the website do in the content what the browser no longer wants to do in the viewer. ;D
If I was a billionaire I'd be spending money to ensure planet Earth is habitable.
If any medium can be accused of destroying the "West", it would be the novel[1].

Terror of media has been an almost constant train of thought since at least the era of Plato. But most particularly it seems that Protestant Christianity is haunted by an existential terror of the imaginary.[2] At the very core of Christian teaching is the unease around Jesus' use of parables (constructs of fiction designed to reveal truth, a contradiction which has resulted in the use of much ink dedicated to the explication of how the former is not really involved at all). It could be argued to hearken back (conceptually) even to the "Tree of Knowledge", where original sin is no longer sex but knowledge itself (which would include knowledge of sex).

[1] The Novel-Reading Panic in 18th Century in England: An Outline of an Early Moral Media Panic ---
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Novel-Reading-Pani...

[2] ON DANGEROUS READING: A Warning Against The Reading of Novels, Fiction, and Other Poisonous Literature (1849) --- http://www.truecovenanter.com/against_the_world/dabney_on_da...
Shocking, when we're perpetually working in "sprints" that we're burnt out and overworked.

Sample size of 1 obviously, but I recall feeling less work stress in the days before agile took over the world.
You can sort by date after visiting the company page. I've found it to be remarkably accurate.
NASA's Mars helicopter reveals intriguing terrain for rover team
not only does this article mention Musk and his useless sub but its about the life Musk tried to ruin. How is it weird to bring up Musk and how he tried to ruin this hero's life?
Where are the Skripals? Did MI6 bury them to cover for Crossfire Hurricane or connected stuff? There has been no proof of life in years. Readers should see former Ambassador Craig Murray for another take on the Skripal affair.

Meanwhile Bill Browder who is supposedly hunted by Putin is unscathed after years. So MI6 cannot protect a former spy and his daughter but they can a protect business man who regularly appears in public.

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL2007/S00048/were-the-skrip...
I personally built a NAS and use unraid on it along with (dockerized) resilio sync, and it works great for my purposes of local backup from multiple sources.
California to require all K-12 students to wear masks on campus
I've had onset insomnia my whole life, I also workout a bunch. It's just a habit now.

I feel the exact same way, I've actually had nights where I've only caught 4 hours sleep, woke up and ran 5kms, hiked mountains, lifted weights, rode bikes and felt as good as new. I only feel good if I workout.

I've also had days where I've had 8 hours sleep, then sat around the house and I feel absolutely horrendous, usually, I end up going and doing some physical activity to feel better.

I've always wondered if we're going to one day find out that the 8 hours sleep thing was wrong and that it's physical exercise we truly need.
It's actually all types of Californian produce.

https://earthjustice.org/blog/2015-september/california-prod...
Reddit doesn't even work well with TUIR today.
Yeah good point
Or you know, you could just go to their website and confirm that in fact, they did win it[0]

There will always be naysayers, detractors, and people who will always question the value of exporation and human inventiveness.

Like in business, if it was obvious, it would have long been done. Yes, it does tak ea bit of brashness and self serving to do new things. and their practically is seldomly obvious at the beginning.

But this is EXACTLY how humanity moves forward!!! The crazy ones, the selfish ones. The ones that sometimes do it for the glory, or just because its' hard.

It's very easy to critique, but in the words or someone else... "what have you done that is so great?"

[0]https://www.xprize.org/prizes/ansari
I agree with Op that this is still essentially learning on labeled data.

I say this, since there are also cases of constrastive sampling like ideas with truly unsupervised data.
For example, Graph Embedding, where a graph implies structural features of similarity and distance that the representations should capture.
X Prize isn't publicly funded, it's not taxpayer money.
Yes. That's how threats of sanctions work.
Possibly? IANAL, but you probably aren't going to be a target until you are big enough to afford to have these done properly. Worst case they ask you to take it down, unlikely the company could demonstrate a loss, maybe the lawyers?

That being said, much of the language is pretty common across TOS and such, especially when you narrow to a particular niche

Also know that the lawyers aren't writing these from scratch every time, they have templates they share within their firm so many companies are getting standard boilerplate anyhow
I use chamois cream for every "serious" ride (which means anything but popping to the shops in my jeans) now. My butt used to be tougher but now I get saddle sores much more easily, particularly when riding indoors with worse ventilation and a more static position.
Webcam Feedback Fractals (2021)
You mentioned having to pay for your own benefits. I know that was common about 5 years ago with remote work in the US, but companies like Trinet are filling the gaps
Getting a perfectly representative subset of the population, means surveying the whole population of the world. Also, accounting for every imaginable variable is always impossible, because we cannot ethically grow people in an isolated environment.

Sure, a meta-analysis of several studies reveals more than one single study, but that doesn't make a single study bad or worthless - or as said in the parent - "a bullshit study".
projects that are not viable should simply not get done.

it always amazes me that people put up with this insanity. The first thing I teach junior developers that join my team is 1) learn to set boundaries 2) your WLB and mental sanity is more important than any project (if you are struggling you’re gonna get fired, ie don’t kill yourself with work when you are … disposable)
We found a normal http api with the ability to do projection on the returned JSON covered most our needs.
> know-nothing populist bullshit

Can we flag this for unnecessary sanctimony?
What’s New from GitHub Changelog? June 2021 Recap
It depends. Superhero comics are not on a path to becoming high culture, and I agree with that. Electronic music clubs are on a path to becoming high culture (recent law change in Germany), and I also agree with that.
Did he get tested for EPO?
> 6 days ago account

And yes I have. Cuba's regime is shit - the embargo is also shit.

America's argument with Cuba would work better if they weren't suffocating them.
The biggest features are

- Lua as a first-class scripting language

- Language server protocol (LSP)

- Treesitter (early access)

So they basically write that Treesitter integration should not be relied on for productive use
/me not a soccer fan, but I watched a few matches from Euro2020.

I was rather alarmed at the number of fouls I saw, including fouls occasioning injury. Thing is, footie players practice luring their opponent into perpetrating a foul, thus gaining a free kick. Getting fouled a lot is a way of contributing to your team's success, and for some players it is their signature skill.

If you have the ball, and are being pursued, you leave what appears to be an opening for a tackle, but you bait-and-switch, so that the pursuer's boot connects with your shin, not the ball.
>You may not put much weight on those personally but many people do.

And that is fine. I have no real moral issue with people not getting vaccinated. I also don't care if they get sick or if they can't ever leave their houses again.

Sitting here in my house with my thumb up my ass until 2027 waiting for the entire world to die, get covid, or eradicate it is not an acceptable tradeoff for me. More people die of acute lead poisoning from gun violence in my city every day than die of covid. It certainly doesn't stop me from leaving the house out of fear of getting shot.
Imagine Tesla had Waze's traffic tracking data.

The FSD could then infer that no other cars passed thru meridians, planters, and columns. It could infer that only busses travel in restricted lanes. It could infer that all traffic on a one-way road goes one way.

And if FSD remembered its own decision every prior time, it could reconfirm its current decision.

In other words, it could learn from every other vehicle and its own history.
Audacity is pretty good if your focus is editing/tweaking/cutting/splicing individual/small numbers of samples. Haven't at all felt the need for something more featureful still. Ripper seems to have some other niche.

( FWIW, Audacity is a million miles better than it was 10 years ago (aka it's more stable) )
Money laundering is definitely involved in the fine art market but the explanation here is more banal. It's the same thing driving absurd NFT prices: Quantitative Easing policies by the fed have dumped a shitton of money into the equities markets and some people have cash to burn and nowhere to put it. The nasdaq is up almost 200% in 5 years. What do you do with all this extra cash? There's only so much you can spend on luxuries for yourself. For the rest, why not put some into speculative assets which give the small chance of very high returns (crypto, startups, and, apparently, N64 carts).
If you are reporting hundreds of k in donations I'm almost certain you are getting audited, even if it takes them a few years to begin it
Italian Authority Fines Foodinho over Its Performance Management Algorithms Use
You're being downvoted because vaccination is not a new thing. mRNA vaccines are new but take 10 min to learn how they work. There is literally nothing left in your system that could impact you in "3,5 or 10 years."