skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion there’s only one way to deal with this - let’s say - procrastination.
The problem is that you are at mercy of your feelings when you are supposed to sit down and actually do the tasks that you set yourself up for. Feelings of doubt and fear of not being good enough may kick in and your brain will come up with all kinds of ideas to release you from the situation.

For me, the following works:

1. Craft a day plan for yourself: it doesn’t have to be super-elaborate. Just sit down every evening and decide what tasks you want to work on tomorrow. Decide for how long approximately. You don’t have to plan when exactly you’re working on what. It’s more about what tasks and how long. Also take into account how much time you actually have.

2. Once you start your day, consider your plan as fixed. No ad-hoc changes. Your feelings will come. Be prepared. You cannot change today’s plan. That’s the rule.

3. Before you start: Break down your task into the simplest step you can take. E.g. when you want to write a blog post, start with brainstorming. If you wanna code, checkout the repo and have a look at the code.

4. Set a timer for 25 minutes and don’t allow yourself to do anything else. 25 minutes is manageable and you have the feeling you can do it. After 25 minutes you have started and probably it’s already fun to work on the task. Take a 5-minute break to do something fun (listen to music) and enjoy your “success”. Then do the next round.

Hope it helps.

We actually created an entire product around this because we needed it just like you.

Check it out if you like: https://daycaptain.com

However, you can do it on paper as well.

I’m also happy to help you as a coach. I’ve a lot of experience with these kind of things.
> Algebraic types are supported out of the box...

Pretty sure that's not true since you can't define recursive types. For example, the following is invalid (in fact there is no way in the CL type system to define a type that represents a proper list of a given element type without using SATISFIES):

(deftype proper-list (&optional (element-type t))
`(or null (cons ,element-type proper-list)))

More details about this issue from when it came up during the standardization process:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/hyperspec/HyperSpec/Is...
> no, because then the NFT would be exactly the same as the digital artifact

I should not be able to copy-paste the digital artifact and then create a second token.

You should be able to copy the digital asset, but the second part (creating a new token) should fail. Otherwise what’s the point?
Just a casual looks shows that salaries in the Social Work field don't pay that well. I'm not sure how getting a Masters Degree will help someone. I see this in some other fields here at the University I work at. Students will get a degree that has a limited job outlook, and in order to actually get a job in that field, they believe getting a Masters will help them out in the long run, but often times does not. If I were in that position, I'd only look at Public Universities where the pricing should be far better than a private University.
Ah. They appear to be using the RS232 DCD line for that.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." -- anon
GE aviation is the most organically grown part of GE from my experience. I think they only ever did 2 major acquisition/mergers. GE Energy was packed with lots of acquisitions, not so sure about Power but I would guess it is also a hodge podge based on reorganizations. Digital is pretty new with very rapid growth. Healthcare kinda did their own thing from what I saw. I wonder how organic growth vs acquisition growth impacted the choices for how this split evolved. I also wonder how acquisitions vs organic growth impacts the long term survivability of giant corporations.
> someone who seems like a real expert

They almost never seem like it to me. A suggestion: Look for whether they provide evidence, not just claims that anyone can type.
Ahh ok. Understood, but our peripheral vision is awful in terms of resolution anyway. And working with your eyes to the side is annoying, so we tend to turn our heads anyway.

Probably a bit more than we would in real life, due to the narrow FOV I agree.. But I think this will be resolved in newer-gen headsets. It looks like Pimax has already got this covered technically. Though I've never tried them, I wonder how well it works.
I think WGU is probably the best model to get degrees to people at a much lower cost and for working class people to do it while they work.

Its more geared like a trade school, online, at a fraction of the cost. Get people into teaching, nursing, business and IT, as fast as possible and cheap as possible.

Many of these workers are less impacted with a 30k loan (same as a car) than a 100-150k school loan.

I know a few people who worked at minimum pay jobs and WGU was an option to get a degree and not go into debt for life.

Thats how I heard of it, and looked into it, and was rather impressed with the courses, cost and speed.

I was even tempted to sign up and pass the basic courses quickly, as I've been in IT for 30 years, and get a degree cheaply. Plus learn some new skills.
What happens if someone uploads child pornography? Does it just stay there and everyone has to deal with looking at it?
I'm not solely describing "counterfeit" ( again, nft's are not legally protected, so counterfeit is not applicable ).

I'm also talking about hiring a low salary graphic designer to create some simple cartoon avatars and then wash trade it into popularity because of metrics on the platform.

Or just copying of-chain images to create an NFT.

Or copy an NFT and put them on another NFT market.

Or change a pixel and put it on the same NFT bazaar ( by definition of law= code, it is unique by hash)

You can't get a real Gucci bag on NFT. The comparison is false, since i can right-click save a perfect original. There is no copyright on NFT's.

Edit: valid response below and couldn't respond. But it's not correlated to the NFT itself ( not saying you are intuiting that, just mentioning)
This is going to be an unpopular opinion here on HackerNews, but I think that potential protocol is Ethereum. It will be the tool that enables all sorts of Metaverse type things to exist (via NFTs), but I don't think that's where it stops. The metaverse and the real world will eventually be one in the same and are going to become interlinked. In game items, Car titles, house deeds, and any sort of asset that requires proof of ownership are all going to be part of a future society/metaverse.

All fungible as well as Non-Fungible tokens will represent the value that the users bring to the platforms/systems and reward us for participating.

For example, imagine playing a video game where all in game items are built on the NFT standard. A super rare item in game might end up having some sort of real value that a user can then later extract for time spent in game. They could either sell the item via a decentralized market, or leverage that item and take a loan out on it by using it as collateral. And why shouldn't they be allowed to do that? If a user pours hundreds of hours into an online game, they are generating value for that game network by being someone that other users can play with.
Hi! We don't have plans to add Vertica yet. But if your team is willing to help or send PR we can reconsider!Feel free to reach out directly to me at vladimir@jitsu.com
What is the (moral or performance) difference between wrapping every error you return anywhere with a filename/lineno pair, and a stack trace? If anything, the stacktrace proper probably only needs to allocate once, at the lowest level.
Waisted resources by not providing pre rendered versions of the 7 examples. I had to wait 3 minutes to render one.
PagerTree - https://pagertree.com
This is true in the city. Unfortunately there aren't any options in the peninsula. When WFH started, I had 1000ms+ pings for over a month and had to have 2 alternate SIM tethering plans to keep working. Comcast acknowledged that they weren't able to handle the surge of traffic but still refused to refund the months long outage.
Large corps have an economy of scale with this stuff. The smaller the company, the bigger a barrier it is
The flip side of availability and performance is security. Might be nice to do a connect scan to confirm no other ports are open. The http security waters get deep quickly though.
Keep in mind SV is full of immigrants….
Widespread Xfinity Cable, Internet Outages Reported Across Bay Area
I love engaging with brands!
I've given up on believing that there is such a thing as portable SQL. If you use the lowest common denominator, you're likely to have queries that perform suboptimally. Hell, even temp tables aren't portable because of the different syntax between databases. I've worked with tons of queries that would would take minutes to run without temp tables while running in milliseconds with them. People may as well take advantage of all the nice things their database offers instead of fearing a situation that is unlikely to happen and which will be a tough change anyway.
For a nonfiction read (although biased toward the authors perspective) I highly recommend Eeben Barlow's book on his founding and work via Executive Outcomes
<sarcasm> True. Frameworks to build web applications only come out every few months.
I wonder how well Postgres is up to the task of analytical queries? Most people use Postgres for OLTP, maybe they are running some version of it that uses a column store?
Doing Fraud on Securities Fraud
DataDog also launched their own Incident Management tool, not sure how widely it's used: https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/incident-response-with-datado...
Maybe they are complying with the laws they agree with? I don't see any reason why it has to be all or none.
Easy to identify? How do you know that the individual behind a digital signature is the individual they claim to be, unless you meet them in person and they give you some fingerprint (which happens 0% of the time)?
This is the same resource in a pdf format all collected together if you don't want to keep clicking around:

https://attachments.convertkitcdnn.com/112815/c7859eeb-b6f1-...

(ps: my apologies to the arrows co-founder who I see is in the comments)

edit: I'm curious why this was downvoted? it's a more direct link to the same source and saves the users time. instead of being linked to a marketing funnel.
Three rules of bug fixing for better OSS security
Codeberg – Give Your Free Project a Free Home
Yes, of course it is: follow the money. Unfortunately, Big Pharma is favored right now because they provide a big solution to an enormous problem. But, that doesn’t make them immune from the corruption that follows from greed.

When it comes to COVID vaccines, anything that casts doubt on the need for them is verboten. Try stating that COVID, at 99% recoverability, is not dangerous enough for a mandatory vaccination, and watch your future prospects dry up.
And it's not exhibiting intelligence, at least not to intelligent people. It's wasting our time.
This is speculation, but many transgendered folks tend to present gender in an non-traditional way, as well as people in the midst of transitioning that may be "in between" presentations in a traditional sense. If you only train on cisgendered faces, you may only be training on sort of "default" gender presentations, facial structure, and the like, which may give a similar disadvantage.
In the UK, 90% of masters programs work that way. Admissions criteria for international students are a lot lower, because they can charge them what they like. It's where they make a lot of their money.
Please look up where the US ranks in healthcare quality globally before trying to denigrate other countries' health services.

(hint: it ain't good)
That's the beauty of it, it doesn't. You can spam nonsense all day long. This is only a problem if you want people to actually read what you are posting.
This has been what every techno-optimist has said about every technology since the dawn of the commercial internet, and it's always been wrong. There will be open standards up to the layer the user actually interacts with, and that final layer will be proprietary. It's basic aggregation theory (to continue the Ben Thompson point). There's too much money to be made, and modularized systems are too complicated for most people.

Why did XMPP fail? Why is Discord more popular than Matrix? Why does Twitter still stomp Mastodon? Etc.
>> outsourcing/offshoring would eliminate hands-on developer jobs in US/UK and other "expensive" countries

Remember companies like EDS? During the 80's and 90's all the development and support for the 'big' companies in the USA was done by companies like EDS. They employed hundreds of thousands of people. Then in 2000's they started going to India etc.
> I think it is very hard for us to estate these days how good/bad it was living under colonial rule

Can it be inferred that you’re not living somewhere that it working though it’s colonial scars?

There are a lot of civil wars and low level conflicts right now that are directly related to a colonial past. We also have plenty of records of atrocities, so “it could have been worse” is a strange argument. The Belgian Congo comes to mind immediately, but there are unlimited terrible examples.
How do you know?

I'm kind-of puzzled how we'd even start to make such a comparison, given that "the market" for computer software has been incredibly diverse for decades.

Explosive growth in parts of the market that previously didn't exist, slower growth in parts that existed for many decades.

"Modernization was favored over the replacing and retiring of older systems with 63 percent of respondents choosing to improve upon their existing COBOL systems in 2020."

https://www.microfocus.com/en-us/what-is/cobol
It's a vicious cycle. As things become less repairable (due to complexity or forced obsolescence) new generations will lose the ability to figure things out and effect a repair. I presume that's what these companies want.
They use Citus: https://www.citusdata.com/customers/heap

Who recently iterated on cstore_fdw to create columnar: https://www.citusdata.com/blog/2021/03/06/citus-10-columnar-...

But I don't think Heap's using columnar
Since the title is clickbaity: they had issues with ZFS due to too-high a blocksize and too-high a filesystem utilization, so they upgraded to ZFS 2 for the Zstandard compression and saw an improvement.
Rollercoaster has a decentralised traffic-analysis resistant architecture whereas Signal is centralised.

With a centralised architecture such as Signal, Eve could monitor when Alice sends a message and correlate it over time to which endpoints receive a message soon thereafter. If Bob and Carol are in a group chat with Alice and they receive messages soon after Alice sends messages, Eve can assume over time that they're communicating with each other in a group chat. Due to the lack of cover traffic with Signal, the time of day, frequency and size of messages can be used to infer what they're doing or discussing. For Signal on mobile devices, the geolocation of the mobile device known from a cell tower network would also provide additional information about what Alice, Bob and Carol could be discussing.

With Rollercoaster, the idea is that Eve cannot discern between different messages flowing through the network as there is no identifying data (including the size of messages which are all constant). Eve is also hampered from conducting passive timing analysis of submission and receipt of messages (even in group chats) because every node on the network is sending messages at the same rate all year round and also buffering messages and releasing them in a randomised order (not FIFO). To Eve, a message being sent by Alice could be a real message, a cover message, a real message being relayed 1min after receipt from another node or a cover message being relayed 1min after receipt from another node.

With protection against Eve performing passive attacks in place, the focus moves to protecting against Eve performing active attacks including Sybil attacks (owning a considerable number of nodes in the network to try and control the entire mix net between Alice, Bob and Carol). Rollercoaster is based on Loopix[1] which includes "loop cover traffic" to detect Eve performing some forms of active attacks. The paper for an alternative mix net communication network Miranda[2] has more detail on how such mix networks can be defended against active attackers, and the numerous limitations that remain.

[1] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical...

[2] https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1000.pdf
Ask HN: Something like GitHub copilot but for content?
I am often sending UpWork proposals or contact mails and they are ~70% identical. Is there any tool out there that would look at my messages history and create suggestions for sentence/paragraph completion ? Thanks!
I've been seeing them recommended more and more, and myself have been keeping a passive eye on BetterUptime (which has an on-call feature): https://betteruptime.com/incident-management
> Pretty much any job that you're not doing asynchronous work in front of a computer would apply here.

It's lame to ask for examples, but do you have any? Because honestly I don't think it applies to many jobs, unless it's something that a) puts you in high pressure situations, and b) requires specific in-depth knowledge. There aren't that many jobs like that, and for the ones that do exist (medical, military), you don't get in just by doing a bunch of multiple choice tests.
And now we write “screen scrapers” to get information from html instead of the terminal emulators. Rinse. Repeat.
It is. It's a legitimate degree and they won't let you slack off.

Some of the classes have a metric ton of homework and projects, and the deadlines can be pretty rough. I know my coworker was sweating after work a few times (this was pre-pandemic) and told me they'd be spending a few evenings implementing project work.
It's not just in parts of California.

Major outages were also being reported Tuesday morning in and around Philadelphia, near Chicago, in the Indianapolis area, near Detroit, in New England and in the Los Angeles area.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/11/09/widespread-xfin...
Technically there are many advantages, but operationally, I find it extremely useful in systems where an int PK is auto-generated to use it as a pretty good proxy for a relative created time with relation to other records, with built-in indexing that avoids having to index on an actual created datetime column for a lot of less precise lookup purposes. The backend frameworks I use around data access make the security benefits of UUIDs pretty moot.
I love to see the use of Github discussions, and I appreciate you pointing out the Discord server!

I agree that having Discussions in play really help with RFCs and larger design decisions like this. Thanks for the thoughtful reply, I'll check out the ongoing discussion!

For others hunting for it, here's the link. I think dwettlaufer mentions it in another comment
https://github.com/stargate/stargate/discussions/1381
I’m sure there’s value in a masters social work degree, but not for anyone who wants to do hands-on work. If folks feel they want to do higher level work (i.e. addressing systemic issues that are behind the day-to-day issues social workers help with), then the degree could be useful.
TL;DR They switched compression from lz4 to Zstandard.

The latter does more compression (and therefore requires less storage and less IO), but is slower at decompression. Results show that query (read) performance did not actually change, whereas write operations needed only half as much time. Storage also saved ~20% space. So it was a win-win all around.
Exactly. I used to consider academia as a separate entity from the private sector, thinking it was full of altruistic individuals wanting to further the knowledge of humanity. Then I started seeing that most colleges operate as tax-exempt businesses with different marketing strategies, products and target consumers. They're just layers of bureaucracy while those delivering the most value (professors) regularly get treated rather poorly (pay, job security, responsibilities, etc.) while the administrators soak up all of the benefits. How do the objectives get shifted back towards learning rather than building new stadiums and student centers?
This is an outstanding article that invites all of us in technology to question some of the foundations our current world is built upon: ownership of intellectual property; rapid obsolescence; indeed, monopoly capitalism itself.

The readers of HN would do well to think long and carefully about the ideas herein. The fate of our world may depend upon it.
My current Director completed the online Tech MCS and said it was "challenging." Considering he's a polyglot tech wiz who masters new material ridiculously fast, it's clear that this program is the real deal.

[disclaimer: from ATL, dad went to Tech, &c.]
> I thought you were sort of remarking that NFT proponents are the ones not technically literate (paying for NFTs rather than being aware of right-click>save)

Well yes.
People get emotional and re-share pictures and videos more than text.

A photoshop of a politician doing something they never did or a deepfake of them saying something they never said is a lot more infectious than a mere written claim of the same thing.

It's only cencorship if they prevented that and NOT also your clearly virtuous and harmless pet video.
These degrees are worthless. The fields are worthless. And a constant ongoing propaganda campaign is waged to get people to pay for them. Helping along are an army of useful idiots who will pretend like this is academia when it is pseudoscience packaged up as a program to steal from unknowing young people.

It’s time for us to publish expected income based on major and university.

“God forbid someone study something for the love of it”. No, god doesn’t forbid shit. But the realities of the fact that you gotta put food in your mouth constrain you.

If money isn’t such a big deal, why not just share the data. I’m sure people will say “Oh yeah, I think it’s worth it for me to live my life in undischargeable debt so I can ‘study’ this major at this place and work for minimum wage”.
Maybe they've always existed and I'm only noticing now because of remote working but there's a whole industry of companies that provide HR and IT (helpdesk level) services for smaller, distributed companies so you don't have to take on that additional overhead yourself. I think there's definitely potential for the corporate equivalent of geeksquad in the remote working future.
Could be both. I think it's both.

What I don't understand is the vociferousness of the detraction. This community loves Capitalism; crypto is just Capitalism Capitalisming. We've had snake oil salesmen and door-to-door salesmen and contract housing and pyramid schemes and dotcom startups and on and on. People abuse the freedom of the free market; we've always had to cut the "promise" of such markets short with regulation to stop real harm from being done to consumers. That doesn't mean that every possible iteration of such products were useless, or their sale predatory.

Or maybe that's wrong. But that would tend to make most HNers hypocrites, and it's only fair to give everyone the benefit of the doubt.
Way more of a scam than any bootcamp
I think "white supremacy" tends to imply direct, explicit bias, and may sort of exclude the built-in "unrealized" biases that exist in the current culture, where white supremacy was the foundation but not necessarily explicitly imbued.
Then why are NFT owners mad on right clickers?
Take a look at solana.com. 400 ms block time.