skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going by my own experiences. And I don't think I'm puritanical at all, but I am something of a lightweight with alcohol admittedly. I am male and I am a half-recovered alcoholic, for context.

Around 0.05 I'm tipsy to the point of it being obvious. Feeling good, effusive. And if I'm smart I'll stop drinking around here.

At 0.10 I'm flushed, joyous or melancholic, coordination is affected, I might slosh my drink on the table, and I'm going on and maybe making a bit of a fool of myself. I tend to want to go to bed shortly after. I won't have a bad hangover if I eat a good meal but yes, that's quite drunk in my opinion.

And at like 0.15+, I get very sedated. I tend to pass out and while it's not a stupor I am hard to rouse.

Above that is just passed out black-out drunk and I've only done that a few times thankfully, but I have, so I know that most of a bottle of 750 ml of 80 proof on an empty stomach is enough to potentially hospitalize me, and certainly leave me passed out in a puddle of vomit.

These numbers being for when I am alcohol naive. Not having drunk in months. If I have been drinking regularly you could easily double or triple the numbers. Most people do not have alcohol tolerance though, which is why I assumed an alcohol-naive drinker.
It's made worse by the iPhone's hilariously bad support in allowing users to update the URL in the location bar. Try moving your cursor to the very end of the URL, it's an exercise in frustration.
Canon dual fisheye lens for VR video
Altair + vega-lite make a nice foundation for better charts in Python. The interactivity features are great. Hope they catch on.
> The fossil fuel industry benefits from subsidies of $11m every minute, according to analysis by the International Monetary Fund.

OK but what kind of subsidies? I hear about ending "subsidies for oil" but it's never clear to me whether these are some type of explicit oil industry subsidy, or if they're just using standard tax deductions that every other large international business uses.
Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity
>On Friday, Sept. 10, the U.S. Department of Energy granted the state an emergency order to allow natural gas power plants to operate without pollution restrictions so that California can meet its energy obligations. The order is in effect until Nov. 9.

This is crazy. Are they just going to buy more power after this or extend this order? Is there a plan to replace this with renewable energy sources?
I'd imagine the fumes were quite bad too. Inhalation can be a different beast when it comes to alcohol.
Many software products needed by large companies have already been created. This will need updating and revision, so that optimization specialists will definitely be in demand. On the other hand, new technologies are always created, and everyone needs a little automation.
I'm debating with myself over whether to write it up. The TL;DR is that I have come to believe that the situation is much more dire than anyone seems to realize. The big short-term problem is going to be changes in rain patterns, which will cause crop failures, which will result in world-wide famines, which will lead to political unrest, which will lead to WW3, and that all this could happen in my lifetime. The really scary part is how fast things are changing. I live in northern California, and the changes we've seen here just in the last ten years are dramatic. People think about climate change as playing out over centuries or maybe decades, but it's not. Things are changing year-over-year. The scariest thing is that even if we cut emissions to zero tomorrow (and obviously that is not going to happen) that would not solve the problem. We have to actually go to net negative emissions to avoid catastrophe. So an actual solution seems out of reach in any realistic scenario. We've taken carbon that nature has sequestered over a period of hundreds of millions of years and released it in a period of a few hundred. That genie will not go quietly back in her bottle.

There is literally nothing that would make me happier than to have someone convince me that I'm wrong about this.
I hate this language. They didn’t lose money to recover. It’s not like they dropped their wallet. They simply just didn’t get it, it was never theirs to lose. This sort of language for businesses is ridiculous and seems almost classist, like the money people earn somehow belongs to the businesses we spend it on.

I don’t say I’m losing millions a day because I’m not CEO of Facebook anymore than they lost money by not having a running service.
Why would I let someone continuously dump garbage into my life while I wait for a government regulator to respond to my complaint? I would rather not have the problem in the first place.
>So the old small business setup model where a DHCP server is setup, some static IPs configured then reservations in DHCP made, then everything works great no matter what happens in DNS or other servers etc is gone, which feeds mgmt dashboards so you can easily do a alerts or period end report - so and so used 5TB, is something wrong with their machine type stuff - get's harder.

It's obviously more complex, but could this not be solved by running an internal DNS resolver, assigning every machine a hostname, and having those machines use e.g. ddclient or similar to ensure their IPv6 address is current in the internal DNS table?

I mean I know it's easier to remember that e.g. 192.168.1.4 is your printer, and .5 is the CNC router, etc. but I feel like that's not how IPv4 was intended to be used.
Performance Speed Limits (2019)
That's why I was saying it only works for high trust environments, and it's not just about you. Is your manager confident their manager and HR department really back them? Do other people in your team see you take more and trust that you're being reasonable. It all adds up to require a lot of high trust relationships where there are lot of downsides if it falls apart.
Yep. And it almost always delivers. As a bonus all your clients/monitoring/devops stack is exactly the same across applications.
AWS has 24/7 phone/email/chat support on the business and enterprise support plans (with severity-based SLAs) with not only a ticketing system but a case management API, and business hours support on their developer support plan. Your sales rep sounds like they just want to maintain control of the relationship.
Yeah, the good kind of problems to have. Fixed it and it's back up. Setting up a status page for so this doesn't happen again.

Edit: It's live at https://status.indiepaper.me/
I have found looking into practices around what ancient Indian religions refer to as "no-self" or "non-self" to be helpful in learning to respond better in situations where I have acted wrongly or otherwise felt ashamed.
Exactly. Everybody will have some kind of lifestyle job where they dick around a few hours a week on their muse and magically everything they ever want or need is provided for them by "the system".

They don't consider that the more likely outcome is them living in squalor while also going to a shitty job which they hate.

No, no, no. That won't happen. Not to them.
We should not have a domain system. Any person should be able to register any domain just like with the left half, like I should be able to get hi.lolthisdomaindoesntexist as a domain. I should get it straight from ICANN for a low flat fee. This is how we fix the sketchy registrars and "premium domain" nonsense.

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Edit: fixed wrong word
Unless the government burns or locks away the money it taxes - in which case all effects of MMT are muted - it is going to just lead to inflation from government expenditures. There is no way to escape the price impact of increasing the money supply, as prices are always set by supply and demand.
I've been using semantic variables for years, but they were always defined in Sass/LESS. With this approach and using CSS variables, it's really easy to have the same semantic palette, but then define different themes. Nice!
I only recently learned the “long press on the space bar” feature of iOS. It’s still cumbersome to navigate the url but far less so than tapping, which seems intentionally designed to be infuriatingly difficult to navigate.
Have to include ChessNetwork https://www.youtube.com/ChessNetworkTV/videos

If people like Gotham/Nakamura/ChessBrahs aren't your style, ChessNetwork is calm and straight forward without all of the youtube/twitch "entertainer" personality I find grating.
I don't know what point your comment attempts to make.

> not some weird thing where trees are grown in the desert.

This is being tried in Africa. [0].

You can't "regrow" forests if the climate changes too much. Differences in rain, temperature, and/or soil won't be conducive to the survival or thriving of trees if they exceed their tolerable range by too much.

They're not carbon sinks because they catch fire.

I don't think you understand that forests aren't going to "solve" climate change AND that the climate is changing, which means biomes change, specifically desertification.

0. https://www.greatgreenwall.org/about-great-green-wall/
Thanks for the kind words. And I always appreciate constructive criticism. It's the only way to improve.
Random, I guess, but what does "fewer than 5 in 100 will exceed these values" mean? Does that mean 5/100 would be more drunk than what's listed there? Less drunk? "Exceed" the weight on the high end?
This is so true. I grew up in the GUI era and while I knew how to wonk the control panel better than my parents, the CLI was a black box for me for a long time. I couldn't even fathom how you could just write up some text into a file and that becomes a video game. It's probably so much worse if you've been handed an ipad or a chromebook and that's all you know. You don't even have access to the actual file system.

These days though, the bar has been lowered dramatically. I work with some high schoolers for some research projects occassionally. This one kid must have been raised on ipads and chrome books. The goal was to copy the text output of some software connected to the instrument, paste it into a text document on notepad, and save the file. The kid looked at me like I was speaking french. I had to teach him how to copy and paste with a mouse, and teach him what a text file was.

Are kids taught computer classes anymore or touch typing, like I was? Or are they just handed their school issued chromebook or ipad and its assumed they know how to open the browser to g suite?

All these layers of abstraction make it hard to actually understand whats going on. It's like we've flipped the learning curve from being really hard at the start then easier (like learning CLI tools and programming then it "clicks" when you realize the syntax is similar across most languages and you can pick up anything easily), to really easy at the start and impossible to understand later because we abstracted away what actually happens.
> So, what is no-code? No-code development is perfect for engineers who have zero programming knowledge. It’s based on a visual drag-and-drop user interface, with no hand coding required to reach the end goal. It empowers workers to design solutions they need to overcome the challenges they face every day—without writing a single line of code. In 2019, 84% of enterprises across the US, UK, Canada and Australia had already implemented a low-code development tool or platform to take care of some of their coding needs.

This piece is a fluff piece at best. Looks like a "guest blog" entry to advertise for the writer's company [0]

The problem with no/low code is it mirrors a DSL for whatever problem being solved. Anything more general becomes a programming language.

Maybe my understanding of language is limited? I'd love to be wrong about this.

[0] https://www.emnify.com/
And yet, the one person I know who actually works there is the most liberal, Bernie Democrat, socially progressive, perfect-family moral beacon of all my San Francisco peeps. Except for the part about working for Zuck.

Sample size of one, but I often wonder if I should just imagine what half a million bucks a year looks like and extrapolate from there. Probably lots of people “wouldn’t” work for FB except that they already do.
> nor will they ever endorse something like PyPy

What's their beef with PyPy?
Was that before or after HAL in 2001 space odyssey?
In this case it's good for the individual without being detrimental to society.
So Webassembly is definitely the future as far as "what do I target when the platform is everyone's browser"

I am wondering what the win is if you are running it in docker - at this point you can choose any language / form you wish.

But this is very cool. what did you learn most about webassembly that I ought to know writing it?
Are you being obtuse on purpose?

Putting a swimming pool in your truck bed doesn't stop people from buying Fords.
>Agreed, I see this mostly as an expert-assist thing

Thats exactly what happened to the dental AI startup I mentioned. They started off with "we make dental care more efficient" essentially undermining the dentist, to "dentists, let us help you with your practice"
Potential solution for this;

- Have people choose any username they want

- Have an “after the fact” human review system on usernames

- If the username is inappropriate, change it to “smallsausage[0-9]+” without the option of reverting it back or requesting a new user on the same e-mail address.
yeah, but a cluster of the resulting model can transcribe thousands of hours of speech / second, 24/7 with a fixed accuracy, what can 10 humans do?
I think from a higher level there are some interesting things, you're right that I should have gone into it a bit. One of those is that raising my ceiling of play, like challenging myself with super tough puzzles, was actually totally unproductive. Raising the floor of my play, however, was hugely beneficial. I imagine this generalizes somewhat to other pursuits.

The other takeaway I've had is how different procedural learning is from declarative learning. Among one of the weird features of it is I don't actually know how much something is helping until I get to the board and play some games afterward. There were exercises I thought were helping a lot in the moment, but had no effect on my play, and vice versa.

Also sometimes people that are good at something are the worst to ask for help. For example, if you ask "how can I stop blundering?" (one of the most common questions on forums), common advice (from good players), is to have a mental checklist before making a move: threats, captures, skewers, pins, etc. But nobody actually plays like this, running through some checklist before every move. You just slowly rewire your brain over 100s/1000s of games and puzzles. If my queen and king are lined up now, and there's a rook on the board, that's as obvious as a flashing light on the board saying "hey watch out for pins!", but there's no easy answer to tell a beginner that will get him to that state, so people try to convert that feeling they get into a manual approach, and it just doesn't work. I guess this is like the key feature of procedural learning, that it's resistant to verbal explanation, but that doesn't stop people from trying, so you just need to learn to take it with a huge grain of salt.
I have a kid in HS and everything is google docs now. She does not know what a file or a directory is.
>My contention is "trusting the mass media" is not inherently a positive quality.

Maybe not inherently good, but few things are. Given that people who trust the mass media, on average, have a more accurate view of what's happening in the world, it most certainly seems to be better than the alternative, does it not?
Well, individual tax prep is just one arm a much larger accounting industry. Individuals that use an accountant for their taxes probably have more complex situations where the sort of streamlines process we're discussing wouldn't suit their needs. Or they're already buying the upgraded business/home-business version of turbotax for the same reason.

Most people though just use a tax preparer at something like H&R block. A little searching indicates there's roughly 60k to 80k jobs like this in the US, and they earn (at least at H&R Block) about $16 per hour, and only for about 3 months a year. A small # of tax preparers with a bit more training & experience may provide other financial services in the off-season or assist small business with quaterly filings or bookkeeping.

Overall though, you're not talking about much of an industry collapse in terms of people employed. The ones that work in that area year-round will lose some extra hours. The ones that don't, having some experience in finance, might seek further training to get a higher level job of that sort (maybe become an actual accountant) I don't think it should be considered a barrier to ending regulatory capture within this area.

Apart from that, a few software products would collapse, losing most customers, retaining the ones that legitimately needed advanced guidance. And the company would probably have to charge the more for it, and possible compete with actual accountants on price in that respect.

But I don't think "industry collapse" is correct.
Right! I'll also just mention that this Wasm module isn't sent to the clients and run in the browser. It runs server-side.

And for a bit of context, the hello world example below produces a 409K binary straight out of rustc on my machine. It does much less than our example, which also includes some shim libraries not shown in lib.rs.

fn main() {
println!("Hello World!");
}
You may not want to, but there are objectively many, many people who do.
The art of finding referrals and landing job interviews on LinkedIn
Rent control seems like avoiding redistribution, since people aren't kicked out of their home to make way for someone richer. Neither does it kick a rich person out of their home to give it to a poor person. The distribution of the resource stays with the same people
I don't say that though.
I'll never not link this video when it comes to Microsoft naming and branding:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
Coincidentally I was working at an antivirus company at the time, so if anyone had suggested such a communal USB drive I would definitely have opted out.
Is no-code the new trend because full automation with AI failed? I wonder if we're trying to realise what jobs actually require skilled labour.
I'm not sure that it actually is dopamine addiction. Wouldn't we need to have some sort of brain assay to say that it is? There is another chemical though, which does not have as deleterious effects as dopamine, and that's oxytocin. Oxytocin, if I recall correctly, doesn't have the boom-bust cycles (ups and downs), it's just a free glowing high that may have source in social relationships.
I'm author of HashBackup and regularly run performance comparisons between object storage services. While I agree than S3 performance is generally better than B2, I personally have not seen a 10x difference in egress performance.

Here's a test I recently ran comparing S3, B2, and Storj. The test uploads a 700MB backup, downloads it and rebuilds a database, then removes it. The test was run on a small 1 CPU, 512M Vultr VPS.

S3 upload: 20.6s
S3 download: 26s
S3 remove: 1.2s

B2 upload: 28.2s
B2 download: 28.7s
B2 remove: 4.0s

Storj upload: 34.7s
Storj download: 75.3s
Storj remove: 20.6s

B2 does have higher latency than S3, so for short operations like removing objects, S3 has higher performance. If your egress load is for a lot of small objects, I could see B2 being a lot slower. This shows up in my tests where removing 14 backup files is more than 3x slower on B2 than on S3. But even for this, I've never seen 10x slower.

A footnote: the Storj tests are with a new driver so those numbers are preliminary results.
The idea of a single text based markup language that meets most basic web page requirements is excellent.
So many Backend developers, as well as early developers find HTML+CSS complex to navigate.

Using react-ish components looks like reusability will max out in open source - like have custom HTML “tags” for compound elements. Very promising.
I grew up in a part of Appalachia where half the population had a noticeably heavy accent, and the other half of the population had a more traditional standard American accent (broadcast English or general American, there are various names for it). The separation was often elaborated as creek vs crick people, based on how they pronounced the word creek. Interestingly the speech patterns were not solely an economic division (maybe 2/3 of the division was along an economic line), you would have one working poor family with the country/rural accent, and another working poor family next door that would have a standard American accent instead. It was always interesting to trace the roots of that based on where the families originated from (typically PA, MD, WV, VA, OH in the part of Appalachia I was from; as opposed to southern Appalachia), as it was pretty much always a family based accent distribution; the family history largely dictated the creek vs crick language division.
Actually, I didn't. Note that I referred to "the person at the very top". Statistically, those you're referring to will likely only reach middle and upper management, not C-level. There are significantly stark differences between management and C-level employees as it pertains to this conversation.
Yes. But what you cannot do is a load with the sum of any two GPRs. They need to be in the right partitions. That makes register assignment a huge pain for the optimizer, and historically hurt the architecture.

That's the kind of complexity that really hurts software. Compare vs. the commonly-cited x86 nonsense (the REP prefix, say), which complicates silicon implementations but generally makes software easier to write (c.f. decades of optimized inline memcpy implementations).

The point being the 68k was a dead end in a different direction. It was a "clean" archiecture from the perspective of a 1970's assembly programmer, but not a late 80's compiler writer.
There are many applications that only request logged in user’s name and email address to be populated in the registration form. I myself implemented this many times without “harvesting” anything else.
100% is ridiculous.

But perhaps maybe tests like that can get people to stop referring to non-volatile storage as "memory".
I think this is a great question. I’m looking forward to any useful replies.
"The biggest factors were failing to make polluters pay for the deaths and poor health caused by air pollution (42%) and for the heatwaves and other impacts of global heating (29%)."
chesstempo has the best puzzles, but worst interface. chess.com and lichess both have ok puzzles and better interfaces.

I prefer lichess, and sometimes go to chesstempo for more focused work, but reasonable people can disagree.

Also there are many books of puzzles.
The generation gap is real, and it's rapidly shrinking too. 4 years apart is a completely different generation, at least experience wise.

I can sympathize - it is tough to live in a world that isn't your own, where the default expectations isn't what you know. The same aggravation is played out when a dad realizes his son doesn't know how to make a shed or fix a car, and when your parents don't know how to use a smartphone or not get scammed by nigerian prince schemes.

The world relies so much on established knowledge, and this established knowledge makes it hard for the generations to relate to each other.