skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would be great, but I guess many people who have a prodigious ability in some area may not appreciate the dead ends less fortunate people get stuck in. One could also point to innovators whose artistic or scientific insights go unrecognized early in their career or even during their lifetimes.

I came across some valuable advice in a book once, though sadly I forget the author ant title: be ahead of your time, but only by about 20 minutes or so.
It's super sad that the history of Senet is mostly unknown.

The texture we have of Chess history for example is part of the allure. That the rules have changed, we know how they changed, why they changed, how people played in the past, etc.
The way I see it, C heavily discourages powerful abstractions. Rust encourages them, but allows contracts between them to be tightly constrained and safe. C++ encourages them, but doesn't give you much help making them constrained or safe. When it comes to being careful and intentional, C++ is the worst of both worlds.

I think Linus was wise not to empower people to write shaky abstractions in one of the world's a) largest and b) most important low-level codebases.
Yea, the first thing I learned was that nuts are an excellent snack if you stick to the serving size, but the serving size is shockingly small and easy to _blow_ past. I ended up just not buying them anymore, too easy to eat half a bag as a snack.
Close-it’s saying that there is a group of Americans approaching a 3.5-5% down payment who are in economically similar situations to people without savings, the difference being their saving/spending priorities.

Appreciate the concession about the lower down payment mattering.
Having lived there, I don't think you need to blame the people living in the houses to be disheartened to see that kind of wealth disparity in such stark contrast, regardless of the reasons. It's sad to live in a place which has so much money flying around and so many wealthy people that can't find a way to help the most vulnerable or the working class.
Yeah. Part of it is sort of around the data that some of the people have access to. The people with financial licenses are actually required by the SEC to be in the office and have specific controls in place. They have a waiver right now due to covid. Most of them are really hoping that the SEC realizes that it's been working without major problems for over a year and makes the rules more flexible.
> Everyone literally laughed at me, thought was a grade A moron.

A note for anyone else in a similar situation - a good team doesn't ridicule someone for questions like these. A responsible leader should have cited a time in the past that they did a restore or a spot check, and no one should have laughed. The laughter sounds like masked fear or embarrassment.

This goes for any team. "How do we know this function of our job does what we think it does?" You should have an answer. Now, I've only worked in R&D software and not in IT. But IMO IT teams should work the same way in this regard.
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More importantly, we now report for the first time that cannabidiol can selectively kill a subset of Gram-negative bacteria that includes the ‘urgent threat’ pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

So weed kills the clap?
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Medical effects of marijuana derivatives are so convenient for recreational marijuana advocates that I'm instantly suspicious that anything like this is overhyped or selectively reported. If it was discovered that the marijuana derivative turned out to be useless in six months, would we even hear about it?

Also, notice that we have an article also on the first page titled "Time to assume that health research is fraudulent until proven otherwise?"
Atherton is almost defined as a community for the ultra-rich, what with its prohibition on multi-family housing and enforcement of a minimal ratio of house floor area to lot size.
> most are afraid of retaliation

Why does _this_ not pose a legal liability?
> is security simply not a problem?

What problem did US solve by invading Iraq?
>I'm saying it doesn't matter, didn't affect support for the US President, unlikely to be related to one country's administration, and actually was not timed with Biden taking office because the circular is about an earlier circular a few weeks earlier which itself was about an earlier circular dating back to September 2020

Got it. So you're saying we had enough folks vaccinated in the US to contribute to cases going down as Biden took office, even though by that point vaccine supplies barely existed.

I'm trying to get you to see there's more to it than you want to think, but here you are lecturing as if you've somehow got all the perspective.

Whoosh? Yikes from me, dawg.
> The writer had some expectations and was used to things being a certain way in his native Poland, but was disheartened to find that they were different in CA.

I think this is pretty unfair, he's just giving context for the things he's experienced elsewhere. It could have been anywhere. It's hard to say what you like and dislike about a place without having another experience for contrast.

The story is not, "I came from Warszawa, SF was not like Warszawa, so I went back to Warszawa." The story is, "I came to SF, and I loved it, but we think NYC is a better fit for the lifestyle my wife and I want to live."
Seems like a recipe for severe headaches and cursing when devices fail while you're logged out and now you can't log in by just connecting a new keyboard.
Though if P = NP, the exponent could possibly very high, removing the practical effect.
All organisational structures have alternatives, so you’re not really saying anything.
I agree that monitoring calorie intake is the best way to control weight. Bryan from the article is comfortable with intermittent fasting, and that's one of many valid ways to reduce calorie intake. Some people like low-carbohydrate diets because they are less tempted to overeat fats and proteins. Others prefer low-fat diets since fat intake is a greater factor in their calorie count. And some people look at calories in general instead of focusing on any single macronutrient. Any of these strategies can help a person control their calorie intake, just pick the ones that work for you.

However, most whole fruits (and vegetables) have high fiber, high water content, and low calorie density. This means a person would gain less weight by eating whole fruits and vegetables than by eating many other types of food to the same level of satiation. (Fruit juices have little to no fiber, and are not considered whole fruits.) Whole fruits and vegetables are also healthy because they have high nutrient density.

From a 2005 study:

> As expected, we found that fruits and vegetables were nutrient-dense in relation to their energy content.

> Because of their low energy density, the energy cost of vegetables and fruits was higher relative to other foods.

> However, the data unambiguously showed that fruits and vegetables were nutrient-rich in relation to the little energy that they provide. Although fruits and vegetables suffer when assessed on the calories/price ratio, they represent extremely good value when assessed using the nutrient density score and the nutrient to price ratio.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7446672_A_Nutrient_...
I'm honestly pretty shocked you found a studio apartment in SF for $1650. No roommates, really?
I bought a house in the burbs for my own happiness, I will never tolerate city living ever again.
> Does "desk-rejected" mean it was rejected by an editor who decided the paper was so wrong it wasn't even necessary to get a referee report?

Yep.
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Does not match my experience of both living and traveling in multiple places. Compared to the Bay Area, I know public transport from for example multiple German and French cities plus Prague (places where I lived), or Tokyo and Hong Kong (places where I traveled), and a few others, as clean and convenient, and the "suburb" experience being much different as well.
FWIW, Java has had `Thread#yield()`[0] since inception.

[0]: https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/lang/Thread.h...()
Even if you're financing, you don't have to make your offer contingent on financing. It puts your deposit at risk, but it might be easier than finding a seller who will accept that risk.
"Then find another job, when you're in a better mood this experience will go much better."

I am usually in a great mood when posting for jobs. It means I get a new opportunity and can learn new things.

"Catch their manager walking by and invite them in for coffee, when they see the cross-team communication and camaraderie they'll think it's the best thing ever, especially as it is self-formed and not HR-driven drivel."

I used to do this in the office, but it is a little more difficult when WFH. I do try to strike up some non-work conversation when I find out a personal fact about someone else, like a shared interest.

Thanks for all the input!
Id rather not work under a moron.
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I have that same problem with todo apps where things get lost in them.

Definitely want to add categorising lists soon. For pre-populated lists I was planning on some sort of community/sharing system in the ftureu.

For your 3. would categorising/nesting lists cover that?
> social circles are very clique-y and exclusive

This rings true to my experience as well. I only managed to make friends with some fellow engineers after living there for a few years.

And it's not for lack of trying, I joined sports teams, wide variety of meetups, social clubs and tried to chat to strangers I encounter.

It seems people are generally not interested in adding another engineer to their friend circle, except fellow engineers. It's quite ironic because my interests are actually more athletic and artistic than geeky.
This is very nearly a mechanical line by line conversion of the C to rust. What on earth is so much uglier about it that it renders it "incomprehensible brainfuck"?

Is this satire and I'm missing the joke
Obviously FOSS software is bug less and totally secure by "design" ...
It is not just about calories per day.

Going without food (even if only for overnight) puts the body in ketosis. If ketosis does not happen often enough, some of the body's tissues lose the ability to burn fat, which has deleterious effects (including IIRC insulin resistance). And without fasting, the removal of damaged intracellular proteins ("autophagy") won't happen or will proceed at a suboptimal rate.
Those impacts in the early evolution of the Earth sterilized everything, life had to start over again from zero once the surface cooled.

Actually might be wrong about that:

"Three-dimensional computer models developed in May 2009 by a team at the University of Colorado at Boulder postulate that much of Earth's crust, and the microbes living in it, could have survived the bombardment. Their models suggest that although the surface of the Earth would have been sterilized, hydrothermal vents below the Earth's surface could have incubated life by providing a sanctuary for heat-loving microbes."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Heavy_Bombardment

Crazy. But that's only the most basic of microbes that would survive something like that.
You can call it those things but it falls away for those who put in the effort to learn the skills at an acceptable level. We don't care where or how you learned it. Can you do the work without fucking it up consistently? Then you're in.

And frankly I wish software engineering had a credible certification body and apprenticeship system. We are in dire need of one! At least then I could have a lot more confidence when whoever walks through the door looking for work.

Yes hardcore nerds make messes but they also build and run some of the most beautiful code that ever existed. Not to say that normal folks can't, but you can't paint hardcore nerds as all bad -- even with me as an example, because I have a bone to pick with tech and attitudes like yours and I'm not afraid to express it strongly.
If a team lead can’t handle being wrong in front of their manager they are not a team lead you want to work for. Their ego is fragile, they’re not told when they’re wrong, and they’re unlikely to learn at the pace a lead must.

Being a lead does not make you infallible or even least wrong. You must always be learning and that means often being wrong.

Source: me, a lead
Do you have a few years to spare? Algebbraic geometry is immensely involved even by grad level standards. You cannot really jump from college under grad math to algebraic geometry in the way you can for other areas. You would need to start by having a good grasp of linear algebra.
The thing is, I think people can be both reasoning machines and social maneuvering machines, depending on the incentive structure. Unfortunately we’ve created a society that greatly incentives social maneuvering.
Yep.

Granted there are scenarios where you want 100,000 "threads of execution." And that clearly is going to be impractical for system threads.

But if your worried about the overhead of your pool of 50 threads, stop it.
"Is this the tech version of going off and living in the woods?"

This sounds great to me. My wife wouldn't be happy with it/me.
Not currently in the works. Once I'm happy the iOS app is bug free and where I want it to be I will potential build one.
Ask HN: How do you handle backups – onsite and offsite?
I usually backup my files using Syncthing or manually over SMB to a Raspberry Pi connected to a Hard Disk. What do you use for local backups? Are there any automated solutions to incremental backups to AWS glacier or such?
That reminds me, few weeks ago, I read that Preact (a 3kb React alternative) could soon become faster than Vanilla JS.

Source: https://twitter.com/_developit/status/1412451442946981890
"Locked in" needs some clarification. For the overwhelming majority of defined benefit pensions, employees vest in (become qualified to receive) their benefits within the first 5 years of their service. They only need to wait until they've met the payout provisions of the plan...something like 55 years old and 10+ years of service for early retirement, for example.

What's more likely is that employees are sticking around because their years of service factors into their ultimate benefit payout once they retire. More years of service (up to a limit, typically) gets a higher benefit. And this probably only matters for the employees who've been around longest because the plan is probably frozen to new entrants.

The employee being quoted is weighing the value he'll get from adding 2 more years to his benefit formula vs going somewhere else for higher pay.
> And it's extremely clean, modern, and convenient

For every St Pancras there are lots more Gare du Nord.

Convenient, yes. Modern--sometimes. Clean--occasionally.
I have three words for this: BBC Domesday Project.

It may technically count as "File formats created by programmers for specific projects" but there's more than just that going on.
My maybe unpopular thought: There are legal/illegal (relatively)healthy/unhealthy drugs/foods. We already have many legal/healthy, many legal/unhealthy, very few illegal/healthy, and many illegal/unhealthy drugs/foods. It seems that hemp is considered to categorized to illegal/(relatively)healthy drug (only for adults?). So I can think that keep it on the category is somewhat good for who want to do bad thing. Of course it depends on the situation in each country.

Disclaimer: I have no experience.
> walking from one suburb town – Mountain View – to an adjacent one, Palo Alto, would take 1.5 uninspiring hours to walk with many intersections on busy highway streets. Even a drive would be ~half an hour!

In bad traffic, this might be true if you're measuring from downtown PA to downtown MV. But that's because downtown PA is at the northern tip of PA (there's Cal Ave and Midtown further south, and much closer to MV) and downtown MV is toward the southern end of MV.

If you were to cherry-pick an alternative stat, you'd point out that downtown Palo Alto is just a 5 minute drive from downtown Menlo Park. There's also Caltrain, that takes 10 mins to get from MV to PA or PA to MP.
I never said any of those things.

Regarding the cases: the spread and reporting always lags, so if the case count had spiked higher by an order of
magnitude suddenly then it is not improbable that it had already saturated a population.

To me, the actual counterpoint to your reality is pretty easy: if PCR testing cycles were altered by the international WHO and member countries and testing services in those countries all mostly followed that guidance, then why did India and that whole region see that huge spike in cases recently, why did Brazil continue its trend? Doesn't that have a more significant factor than whatever happened in December, in the US specifically, or other relevant countries at that point in time? What's the rebuttal, that the WHO changed PCR cycle guidelines again in spring to make India's administration look worse? I'm being facetious, but you tell me as the only way your theory works is if there are no positive test results spikes anywhere following January 2021. The US is doing good because its ICUs are not full and emergency services are not stressed into nonexistence - something which actually happened in LA county where the winter flare up actually occurred - the US isn't open simply because the PCR testing cycles changes could report fewer cases.
If you decided to use incremental backups to mitigate against this, what are your favourite tools or providers? Backblaze with duplicati? Duplicity with s3? Rsync and rclone without it being incremental?
I think I do. As far back as I can remember - I've always seen numbers & letters in vivid color. As well as things like calendar/datetime, distance and direction in some type of geometric shape. I though that was how everyone perceived the world. It wasn't until much later when I came across an article on synesthesia that learned that it was actually a thing.
This is for relatively high concentrations of CBD in isolation. Notably, adding human serum greatly diminishes the effects because the CBD is highly protein bound.

> In line with previous reports, addition of 50% human serum to the assay media abrogated antibacterial activity in our tests (MRSA MIC >256 μg mL−1). This decreased activity is likely due to low levels of free CBD as a result of CBD’s previously reported high levels of protein binding. One publication describes CBD as 86–90% bound in human plasma25, though THC and other cannabinoids have even higher levels of 95–99% binding, primarily to lipoproteins26,27, and the Epidiolex FDA filing indicates >94% protein binding for CBD and its metabolites (with up to >99% depending on method used)28

The concentrations required for efficacy are also generally much higher than typical antibiotics.

This essentially has zero relevance to humans consuming CBD. It's interesting because researchers could potentially use the CBD structure as a hint for developing new antibiotics.
> The key to make multiple dispatch work well is that you shouldn't have to think about what method gets called. For this to work out, you need to make sure that you only add a method to a function if it does the "same thing" (so don't use >> for printing for example).

Thanks for writing this. I think it is an important concept for getting started with Julia. When I tried Julia, I was initially confused and concerned about the subtyping hierarchy, which as far as I understand is undocumented. "Apart from a partial description in prose in Bezanson [2015], the only specification of subtyping is 2,800 lines of heavily optimized, undocumented C code." [0]. Assurance that users can safely ignore the subtyping hierarchy if we maintain semantic equivalence between methods, and that this actually works out in practice, makes it easier to commit to using the language.

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3276483
Basically none of what you just described rings true to me, for what it’s worth. I moved away from the big city because I love the quieter life in suburbia. I can stand to visit cities for a few days but much more and it really wears on me. Different strokes for different folks.
Accessibility is something I am currently working on. Should be 100% soon :)
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You can also get to this conclusion axiomatically just by following Jamie Zawinsky's DNA Lounge blog and reading about how hostile SF is to nightlife, and also how hard it is to book shows in SF.
I lived as a pedestrian for 15 years in SF and I can attest that it is a perfectly, fabulously walkable city, at least the Northeastern quadrant where most of the stuff is located. But I was always dismayed when I would walk around elsewhere, even in urban areas like Oakland, and find some gargantuan highway interchange sprawling between me and my destination, practically daring me to try to find my way through at my own physical risk. It's an absolute failure of urban design that plagues the Bay Area and is one of the things that ultimately led me to leave.

And yes, bikes are great, but some of us prefer to galavant around without a multi-thousand dollar liability to keep locked up. Also, I was usually at least half drunk.
Munich is where I grew up, by the way, so I'm all too familiar. And yeah, I have no idea of the history here, but it would not surprise me if a lot of what happened in the Bay Area (and maybe other places in the US, though admittedly I don't really know them) was not intentional.

Where I'm pretty critical however is zoning laws. That just seems unnecessary to me. The fact that even in a city I have to travel a large distance just to go to the nearest supermarket, to get a haircut, or to even just sit down in a café, is a bit maddening. This means I literally have to take my car just to go to Safeway here--which is weird at least to me.

As for the cafés, I'm not even sure whether zoning laws would prevent them from popping up in residential areas, but I suspect even if they were allowed, they would be sparse because of the overall effect of zoning. Residential areas mostly only consist of homes, and you are pretty much either in your specific home of that large zone, or out in another zone anyway. So there would probably be little incentive.
If your app is fully non-blocking, doesn't it make sense to just do everything on the one pool, CPU bound tasks and IO polling.
Rather than passing messages between threads.
It depends on if you're talking about the "oppressed people can't be racist" kind of theory of oppression, or the "the rules are the rules" kind of oppression.

Honestly it wasn't written to the person to say "it's totally OK for a person to speak this way" it was more of a "look lots of people are going to rub you the wrong way, here's a way to think about it that involves them being accidentally ignorant rather than purposefully malicious".

I'm not saying a person should have to have this attitude and "let everyone get away with it" but I can say that anyone who does have this attitude will probably have a happier personal life. The decision is up to all of us.
> A responsible leader should have cited a time in the past that they did a restore or a spot check, and no one should have laughed. The laughter sounds like masked fear or embarrassment.

... or assigned the engineer asking questions the task of figuring it out!
Evidently, there is a serious problem with scientific literature and publications and how they are incentivized. On the other hand, we have scientific method, which is a well-defined and understood technique. The publications don't always follow it. They might be fraudulent or mistaken with good intention. Not everything labeled as science is science. I believe "following the science" is important when it's following scientific method, passed peer reviews, can be reproduced independently, etc. The rest is noise, and the problem is that it's difficult for many to differentiate.