skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We cannot do anything about climate change because of the pseudocertainty effect: "what is at issue..are competing claims of expertise and prophecy in human affairs. An expert posseses the truth in a particular domain (in this case climate science). The problem, he believes, is how to transmit the truth to the rest of society. This is a problem of "communications." The prophet (politician for example), for his part, believes that there is no truth independent of the way in which it is transmitted. For him, the objectivity of cognitive mechanisms or of crowd phenomena is no less important than the objectivity of climate science. The falut of the IPCC (Intergovermental Panel on Climate Change) - if in fact it is at fault - lies in its failure to decide between these two attitudes." (The Economy and the Future - JP Dupuy 2014). This sounds very complex, but this short book helps move these circular debates around using logic. Which means hope. .. the goal: "to devise, by means of scientific modeling and philisophical inquiry into the aims and purposes of mankind, an image of the future that is sufficiently catastrophic to be repellent and sufficiently credible to produce behavior that will prevent it from being realized, barring an accident."
Background: many of my former colleagues and team members have made it big. Really, 7-10 figures, big.

Firstly, it is not a lottery. There are several hygiene factors like being smart but the key differenting factor they all share is likeability. They all work well in teams and/or have been able to sustain a team of friends working through literal decades of moderate success and failure. This skill I do not have and that’s why I’m “merely” comfortable in my life.

Secondly, recognize you can’t jump over yourself. You are the sum of all the actions you have ever taken. Had you made different choices and not “wasted” your life, you’d be a different person now. Maybe a worse person?

Thirdly, everything in life has a price. People demonstrate success and hide the price. Children are awesome but are hard work and a huge amount of mental stress. A startup is a mental commitment taking a huge toll. Knowing the price of his success you are unlikely to be willing the price, trust me on this. It’s like a marathon: you are happy when you’re done and get a medal, but making yourself run one knowing the hurt coming your way is a different matter.
Sounds like an ad. I don’t know anyone who’s experienced this, though, and I know a range of cannabis users.
I find this super interesting. Any resources to read more? In all my travels, Philippines stands out as having the most unique people. I could write a novel on it, but in the name of not sounding racist, won't. It's not bad things, or good things, just different things. I'd love to know more about their history.
That’s because our industry is not making choices based on merit, it makes them based on fashion.
There is certainly overlap with what's available in AWS/S3, so in many situations, if you're architecting a system, some of the things you suggest may be completely reasonable. In fact, in another project I'm involved in, we use S3's S3 Select to query CSVs extensively.

But I think there is a, or could be, a place for this:

- I don't think (but very happy to be corrected) that the things you mention can query SQLite files directly. So, there would have to be both a conversion of data, and then the query language used would not be SQLite's flavour of SQL. So, if you're using, or pro, using SQLite and wanting to keep the moving parts and languages down, then I _think_ there is a good argument for sqlite-s3-query to be used (with the caveat that it's a _very_ early version!)

- If you want, "light" dependency on AWS. There are a number of S3-compatible services that this could work on. Or even, the code could be tweaked to just use HTTP range headers, remove the dependency on versionId, which I think is only feature that makes this quite S3-specific. (Although, this would allow the case of errors/corruption if the database is replaced half way through a query...)
In some countries data consumption is still capped, and reducing bandwidth usage goes a long way in making media consumption more affordable.
> Artificial sweeteners still make you crave sweets.

That's not my experience at all. My sweet cravings after having actual sugar are much more intense, and they remind me of what a real craving feels like. My daily consumption of sweeteners doesn't make me crave any sweets, and I normally don't.
> Aside from one time when I correctly predicted my coworker's house would be under a volcano in 15 years

I'm amazed no one in that thread asked you for details about this. What happened?
For those confused by the title: They mean scalable in the sense it is harder to scale up brute force attacks against yescrypt.

> Most notable for large-scale deployments is yescrypt's optional initialization and reuse of a large lookup table, typically occupying at least tens of gigabytes of RAM and essentially forming a site-specific ROM. This limits attackers' use of pre-existing hardware such as botnet nodes.

> yescrypt's other changes from scrypt additionally slow down GPUs and to a lesser extent FPGAs and ASICs even when its memory usage is low and even when there's no ROM, and provide extra knobs and built-in features.
All the IQ tests I know of are always taken relative to others of the same age. So, if you score higher than 100, it might just be that you’re a little advanced for your age, and under 100 might mean you’re a little behind for your age.

But early developmental testing is important to find learning deficiencies and to try to help correct for them as soon as possible.
This is the only thing stopping me from buying an X1 Carbon. I had decided to buy a Dell Latitude instead, but apparently Dell did something similar [1], so now I don't know what to buy. Maybe a Huawei? AFAIK they haven't been caught in these shenanigans yet, but I still don't feel comfortable with them for some reason.

God, the laptop market is awful.

[1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/11/superfish-20-now-dell-...
> It has yet to escape the ZeroVer versioning scheme and produce a “stable” API.

Having worked with it over years, the API stability is there. Backwards compatibility is given very strong emphasis, , even with early versions.

> Maturity for languages other than C++ can be a bit spotty.

The language support is a pain at times, especially as the more esoteric language support tends to be built with a specific use case in mind and may not use and implement all the features of the protocol in sometimes undocumented ways.

People can and do write implementations and contribute to existing ones. The C++ and its Javascript and Python bindings work well enough for many use cases. The Rust ones are also fine. There are probably others that have good support now, too.

> The RPC protocol is cool, but apparently most of it was never implemented. The C++ implementation only implements “level 1.”

The RPC protocol is perfectly usable, just not for the higher levels – which all do things not found in other RPC systems. Level 2 can be trivially implemented between client and server at the app level, as anything similar would need to be in any other RPC system. Level 3 sounds way beyond standard RPC needs.
Isn't Codec2 a speech codec? This seems to target general audio.
I've used this quite a bit for iOS development with Xcode.
It required a patched VMware player or workstation instance. Not sure about other hypervisors. Never had any issues and was running fine on a Ubuntu laptop with 16GB / Intel i7-4720HQ
You might be able to restore the NOR with 'Apple Configurator 2', which seems to be a public version of an internal tool, though it's limited to taking an otherwise unbootable machine to a fully-installed-OS machine.

Plug the bricked machine into another Mac using a TB3 cable in a particular slot (they tell you which) and follow the instructions. Worked for me.
Hah yeah no sarcasm intended at all! It's really neat code.
SARS-CoV-2 is now endemic in the worldwide human population, plus some animal reservoirs. It will never get out of the general population no matter what we do. The most likely scenario is that the majority of us will eventually be infected. It's time to face reality and stop pretending there we can get rid of it. Fortunately the vaccines are very effective at preventing deaths.
This is why my dream is to run a one man software business at some point. At least then when things have been stupidly over engineered I'll have only myself to blame.

I don't have many years of writing software on a team left in me. It really manages to suck all of the joy out of both the process and the result.
>as simple as not being allowed to advertise a service as providing Internet

so then they'll advertise "network connection service" or something instead of internet service. people are pretty willing to accept when marketing makes up new words to avoid regulation, as long as the they are still getting a product that meets their needs. if consumers don't care about ipv6, no amount of renaming things is going to change that.

if you really want to drive ipv6 adoption, find a way to get free porn on it.
Processing is by definition used to extra more of something (usually calories) than would otherwise be present. It doesn't have to be bad, but it's definitely something that doesn't occur naturally and so we may not be well adapted to it. Thus, the chance of it being "worse", health-wise, than the natural thing is higher.
As if implementing loops are really time demanding.
Time goes into solving problems. Thinking and trying.
Writing code is only 10% of the total time spend.
Cost of programming is not going down. It's going up in fact.
While it is technically not 1.0, I have yet to see a breakage and I have been using it since 0.7.

The language maturity one, I can concur though. The rust implementation has been fine, but pycapnp was plagued with memory leaks until recently, and curre tly has performance problems[1] that makes it unsuitable for my use case.

As for the level 2+ protocol, it looks cool on paper, but it looks like a lot of added complexity to address an advanced use case.

The language itself has generics and sum types, which makes it much better at modelling the problem domain than protobuf.

[1]: https://github.com/capnproto/pycapnp/issues/256
I’ve never seen that. I normally see they want experience with it, and they usually find someone who has and when they do they are more likely to get the job.

Graduate job aside, I have never been able to get a job using a language I have no commercial experience with. And I tried hard with both Ruby and Haskell.

A Go shop wouldn’t talk to me because of the .NET experience.

So C# it is!
Note that, Ubuntu had some rough times, and did some odd things (I distinctly remember changing gid of system groups, for example) - but it has gotten a lot better. I don't think I can remember Debian ever having any serious issues on dist upgrade. Well, there was a bit of hairpulling with the change from lilo to grub - but I think that was because I tried it early, before grub became the new standard..).

But of course, there are no perfect tradeoffs. I'm inclined to believe GNU guix (or nixos) might be the next best thing(tm) - but I've yet to put that to the test..
not over yet, he will be Satan Claus when earth is hot like hell.
Perhaps the best solution is to weave the bags out of disposable straws for now.
> a pre-calculus diploma

Isn't that high school?
I believe that's true, that you'll see an insulin response from anything that tastes sweet, but that doesn't automatically entail that you'll crave sweet.
You mean sandstorm?

https://sandstorm.io/

Edit: oh you do mean sandcats..

https://docs.sandstorm.io/en/latest/administering/sandcats/
> but in the name of not sounding racist, won't

Just say that it comes from an ethnographic perspective and do it
Wrong predictions like what? If you're preparing for hundred-year weather, there's not much that will actually be "wrong" unless you really screw up your math. And it's mostly just hot, cold, and flood, isn't it? And some of the preparations will be shared.
Cool phone, but when I message "Hey!" to someone, is it going to show up as an ugly green bubble?
The Operation Paperclip scientists helped build rockets for the post-war era. Not bombs.

The German / Austrian / Hungarian scientists that worked on the bomb came to the US years before the Manhattan project started.
Find your love, make a family, kids etc.

Or at least try some really exciting hobbies that require interactions with people (how hard is it to sing up to nearest alpinists club or mma gym if you can say at least few words out loud?)

This will take your attention away from this meaningless self overthinking about stuff that doesn’t really exist (except in your head).

Been there.
I loved his book, but it's worth noting Catmull was pretty unapologetic for his role in the high tech employee wage-fixing scandal...
I wish they put an epub reader in it.
> I really struggle to write yaml. I end up writing it as json and converting it.

Since valid JSON is also valid YAML with the same semantics, it is impossible for it to be harder to write YAML than JSON, and no conversion is necessary.
OP asks for answers and legitimate ones get downvoted. Was the question in good-faith?
Are you sure it's not just Twitter giving them the headache?
A tutorial on how to experience container technology on the web using gitpod
Here's how I solved this:

I keep a crate in the trunk of my car. After paying my groceries, I put them back in the shopping cart. I drive that to my car, put the groceries in the crate, and return the shopping cart.

No bags needed, and unloading at home is easier too.
> , yet, it’s the endless pursuit to live up to the ideal of ‘being a great developer that’s worth the money’ that has always been the most noise. The turmoil manifests in complicated codebases.

I'm going to print this. My preachings as a 28 year old have gone and fallen on deaf ears. But I will preach it till I drop dead - Complexity results from people justifying their paychecks. No more. No less.
I'm looking at a Librem. System76 also does laptops, as does Pine.
Added speed controls by hovering the mouse over the player:

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I got an X1 Extreme, went to switch the graphics from Hybrid to Discreet in the BIOS to install Linux, and immediately bricked it. It was a bug.

No reset can fix it. They have to replace the motherboard. They had it four months before I finally got them to just replace the machine.
I'm happy with my System76 Lemur Pro.

It's refreshing to buy a nice laptop from a linux vendor who are maintaing their own (ubuntu based) distro and actually shipping a very polished gnome experience.

Edit: Forgot to mention they ship with coreboot too.
Absolutely. I’m currently reading “Open” by Rod Canion, the story about how Compaq reverse engineered the IBM PC’s BIOS. Great read so far.

Think about where we might be if that never happened.. no clones? No open hardware standards? I mean, I guess if Compaq didn’t do it, somebody else would have (maybe?), but yes, thank god for the brilliant engineers of the world who have the focus, diligence, and skill, to be able to do these sorts of things.
Daniel Mendelsohn on the Odyssey
They'll have some write amplification at the filesystem level but should cause less amplification at the drive level.

Either way very few workloads get anywhere near wearing out an SSD, and the upsides of CoW features are almost always much higher than the risk of wearing out a drive. I'd say they fit just fine on an SSD.
For some reason, pointing out differences in people triggers some racist warning. I think it's absolutely fascinating. I'll list just a few.

To list a few examples from the Philippines...they point with their lips, small people with unusually big feet, which probably lends to climbing trees. I noticed this riding transport, as everyone wears flip flops. I wear a 13 US, and I borrowed shoes that fit from a 5'7 man. I saw people climb a vertical tree like a ladder. Please don't take this as some insult, I'm jealous.

They generally have small noses and recognize people by noses. I've never had so many people comment on my nose in my life. Half were in awe, half were insulting.

But it varies so much. In Manila you see a lot of lighter, almost hispanic looking people. In the villages, you see darker and wilder looking people. I remember a bad storm in the villages, and a lady sitting rocking holding her legs and something just seemed so primal in the reaction and look on her face.

I'll -never- forget how they cry, it's so different than Americans. Haunting really.

Probably the most stark thing I noticed though was how easy they sleep. You could get on a hot, crowded, bumpy bus and everyone is sleeping as if they're on a mattress. My wife and daughter are from the region, and are usually sleeping by the time I leave the neighborhood in my vehicle, which makes me think there's something there.

They are the friendliest, and by far the most spry people. I remember waking up hearing the hotel lady's flip flops clanking as she ran between rooms. Everyone ran everywhere, it's so much faster and more efficient than how us overweight Americans waddle around. Jealous, again.
> No, what happens is this money eventually flows back in terms of lower healthcare costs overall.

Only if that really happens - just because obesity goes down doesn't mean that we experience cost savings. People might just live longer then and get other sicknesses instead, require more pension etc - who knows how it plays out. Can you backup your claim?

And even then, there might be better solutions that lower the healthcore costs as much or more, without imposing a partially unfair tax.

> It actually did. Unfortunately, you can only lead a horse to water.

Lol, I already quoted the relevant parts from your study and you just ignored it.

> The point is when we are trying to reduce people's overall number of calories from their diet we could eliminate any calories, but we should try and eliminate the ones that don't provide any benefit and in fact have negative consequences first.

As I already said, that is your personal opinion and I believe different. I suspect physical activity, micro-nutritions (where sugar is part of, but really only part) and also gut-bacteria and stress-levels are major factors. Sugar is probably not the easiest thing to realistically fix and introduces a lot of collateral damage if you generally tax sugars.

But I know you believe different for some reason and I think a discussion is pointless. I would be interested to see a study (and a quote from there) that really says "sugars are the (main) cause and here is why", but I doubt you can show my something, because it most likely just doesn't exist.
I think Slimbook is also a brand that is worth considering.
Virtuosos of the Asylum
> rewinding it in my head

This works for short term audio. Sometimes you hear something without paying attention and you don't understand, but you can somehow replay the sound in your head and parse it again.

Maybe a related phenomenon for vision. When you are in the dark in the middle of the room, not knowing where the obstacles are. You flash a light for a very brief, subliminal instant. Your brain can't process the scene during that flash, but you can somehow mentally study and make a mental map of the obstacles later.

On the other hand I personally can't produce any meaningful memories of odors.
> and leaving HN as my only bastion left.

A curious choice of word as "bastion" usually indicates that the person who says it is allied with what the bastion stands for, and you seem to indicate quite the opposite.

But perhaps your wording also indicates how conflicted we users of social media are with our feelings toward it, much like how other addictions work.
Creative processes with an unknown goal can be automated, such as writing novels or generating paintings, and if you did this with software dev you might end up with something interesting but not very useful - and as a general rule we want programs to be useful.

Maybe automatic esoteric language generation would be interesting - let a million brainfucks bloom.
jfc, can you please keep the regional elitism out of HN?

like we are in the same god damn region, mango is native to us too, we have the same cultivars as you, do you sincerely think we don't have Langras and Dusehris and what not?
I’d suggest this site is practically useless if you care about following the laws of the countries you’re visiting.

I don’t know of many countries that allow regular work of any kind, on a tourist visa, regardless of where you’re technically employed.

Yeah sure if you’re on holiday and answer a work email no one cares. But rocking up and working from a cafe 5 days a week for 6 months is clearly a different case.
Psychology is a pseudo-science. Studying psychology to understand humans is like studying ink to understand literature.
The dome is not a proof. It has several flaws and the reasoning is invalid. A mass perfectly on the top of it will just stay there. It would need a force being applied to it to move at the time T.

It can happen with a time-dependent force, i.e. not Newtonian dynamics.

Or if a particle can change its velocity without a force being applied to it, i.e. not Newtonian mechanics.

It is more straightforward to see using Lagrangian or Hamiltonian mechanics, which are better suited to this kind of constrained problem, if one is so inclined.
This seems like wishful thinking. If anything they will be egged on to conduct even more sophisticated attacks on the West knowing full well that an invasion will never be politically viable anymore. A whole generation of orphaned and suffering populace will probably also just cheer them on and view them as heroes.
The Amiga was stereo, but only 8-bit. There were just two hardware channels per stereo channel though, with no mixing between them, so it doesn't sound very nice with headphones.
Then how do you explain compilers? And high-level languages? Much of it is already automated.
Besides from several typos (I was half-asleep at that time), I should have said "that doesn't make stationary arithmetic coding is as useful than stationary Huffman coding as adaptive arithmetic coding is to adaptive Huffman coding" instead. I really meant that stationary arithmetic coding remains useful but its usefulness is limited.
Let’s automate the functions so we can automate while we’re automating
In which case startup investors should be getting returns in the 1000s of percent per annum on their entire investment portfolios.
What about the phosphoric acid and potassium benzoate?
I definitely had a similar experience of not realizing my memory and recall was uncommon - and assuming the people in my life didn't care, rather than didn't recall. A number of times in my head the same experience played out:

"Of course I know what you wore on our third date and what you ordered. How couldn't I? It's important! Am I not as important to you as you are to me?"

Only after spending time and putting in the work with a partner who had their own memory issues did I actually bring this up to them and a therapist. I recall a conversation where I told them it was OK that they had forgotten what we ate on our first date or what I was wearing, because I didn't want to be resentful over unimportant things. The therapist asked me if I remembered most of our dates - where we went, what we wore, what we ordered, movies or shows we saw, etc. I remember being confused - of course I did! Who wouldn't?

My therapist explained that this was really uncommon, especially in the scale of years and decades. I had never considered it before that. It changed how I interacted with the world and I wish I had known sooner.