skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your points are also true.

In my life, kids helped me relearn what it was like to be young.

It took me a number of years to realise I had bad depression / anhedonia.

My kids helped my focus on what was important.

I accepted myself for who I am and was able to feel happy again. My kids think I'm the great wizard with technology, even if I'm considered average.

Message to OP

We can't all be famous or the best at something.
We don't all have eidetic memories.
You will meet those savant like personalities and they will skew your view of the world, to think that you are not capable by comparing.

Stop comparing.

You can do great things. The greatest achievement is to live a long life and to challenge yourself. Be the best you can be. Accept your limits. Use your ability to help others and take joy in that.

If you can't be Einstein or Tesla, take pride in being part of their journey.

No one will remember us. This is the norm.
>It's said to be a good fit for ZFS. I tend to lz4 because its baked into the older systems I use, but it may be at a point where my default should be zstd.

It is, and you should definitely at least give it a look. I posted a comment mentioning it the other day in the OpenZFS 2.0 thread [0], and it also came up recently on HN in a thread linked there, but there are some interesting performance graphs comparing different standards in the github PR for zstd in ZFS [1]. LZ4 still has its place IMO, ZFS is not run nor good for exclusively heavier metal, people use it to good effect on the likes of things like RPis as well. Sometimes CPU cycles is still the limiter or every last one is needed elsewhere. I also think it matters a lot less on spinning rust, where $/TB tends to be so much lower. How much one gets out of it also is influenced by application, general NAS with larger record size is going to see different gains vs a database. But with even vaguely modern desktop CPUs (and their surfeit of cores) and SSDs, particularly in network storage dedicated devices, an extra 10-30% even is worth a lot and there's usually plenty of CPU to throw at it. Even more so if primary usage is limited to only a 10-50 Gbps connection.

As always though probably best if you can benchmark it with your own stuff and play around a bit pulling different levers. ZFS is nice that way too since it's so easy to create a bunch of different test FS at the same time.

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0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29268907

1: https://github.com/openzfs/zfs/pull/9735#issuecomment-570082...
One of the things that causes littering is a lack of trash cans or a lack of non-filled trash cans. Not all littering (or throwing recycling in the trash) is done out of pure malice. If you make it easy for people to throw trash out, they generally will. If you make it hard to throw trash out, many will litter.

Stronger fines and other enforcement would help, but the first thing is to make sure that you actually have accurate places to throw stuff out (or have the culture where people bring stuff with them and throw out at home, like some non-American countries). This article mentions how the streets got really bad during the pandemic when the city stopped doing certain things.

SF, NYC, and other cities with trash problems could significantly solve this just by having more trash and recycling cans and by changing them more often. You'll notice how much cleaner DC and its surrounding urban areas are than SF and NYC and that's because they have a bigger commitment to making it easy to not litter and they do more cleaning.
You might enjoy https://www.futureme.org (there are others as well I see, but I think they were the first). I've used it with a few friends and myself over the last ~15 years - usually in 1-5 year increments. Whenever I receive an email, I make sure to type out a response over the next few days and send it off to be received in x years. It has always been a nice surprise receiving a "diary" entry from myself in the past, especially when I make note of current affairs... particularly in the future, past problems always seem so insignificant... and it's always surprising how often many of my plans were completely thwarted.

edit: pro-tip: type it out using your favorite editor in case your browser crashes or something!
You probably already have xy bounding boxes for every element and the selection itself as it helps with selecting, drawing, etc., so using them is the easiest option.
> And in any case, our circumstances are different:

Oh yeah?

> I'm not misrepresenting her words;

Sez you.

> you're misrepresenting mine.

Sez you.
I think we can all agree that this is just plain stupid. Cutting off your nose to spite your face.

No we can't alI agree on that and I think you would be surprised. Personally I'd be seen with a gas can and a box of matches
Thanks very much for posting this response. Everything I've read about general relativity has basically said that if Einstein didn't come up with it, it could have been many decades until someone else did. It was just that unique at the time, and Einstein's genius really was as deservedly celebrated as it's been.
Toyota 4runner might interest you. They have a old-school SUV philosophy with the standard modern safety features.
I love watching football (soccer), I was so happy when Fubo.tv came out and I was able to watch everything in one place (EPL, La Liga, Champions league, national games etc). Now I have to have Fubo, Paramount+, peacock, ESPN+ and NBC sports streaming subscriptions. Not sure why Fubo decided to focus more on general market vs sport only…
You need to be using RubyMine. Simply command-click on ANYTHING to jump to the definition, even if it's nested deep in a gem that your project uses.

RubyMine, and the "jump to definition" feature in particular, is the primary thing that enabled me to really "get" Ruby and finally understand how everything worked together.
Depends a lot on your set-up. Many pair Hugo with a headless CMS for exactly this reason.

Even with a standard Hugo set-up, most content is in Markdown files, so one could also just train someone from marketing on how to edit those. Not exactly rocket science.
I really enjoy my mechanical keyboard ever since I got quieter switches. But I have to say, this article reads like it is trying to produce value rather than explain it. That is, “let me tell you all the meaningless things that make this so expensive.”
> How can you design a payment scheme for the medical professional so that you actually get the ideal treatment?

Draw up a contract whereby you are only obligated to pay the doctor while healthy. The doctor loses money as long as your health is suboptimal and therefore it is in the greedy doctor's best interest to do everything they can to keep you healthy.
Because, if such parts were really needed, people would've gone to any length to make them for things like missiles.

High performance heat exchangers for applications where every gram counts for example were hand made like a jewelry work at a huge expense.

I spent 10 years working in electronics, and not only manufacturing.
> If he hadn't been born other people would have come to the same conclusions.

Definitely. But in his generation?

Some things, like Calculus, pop into human understanding because there comes a time when our existing tools + our understanding of peripheral stuff inevitably intersect.

Other things maybe not.

One of my favorite sci fi short stories, The Road Not Taken, has as its premise that some scientific discoveries might be low-hanging fruit that we happen to overlook in one generation after the next, so we develop along one road and not another.

In this case, simply because no particular Einstein comes along to explain it to us, and because our other discoveries, impressive as they might be, are always one or two circles of overlap removed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_Not_Taken_(short_stor...
> I think SLS is in the same boat, we have it operating inefficiently for civilian purposes, but it's a hot standby in case we need to manufacture a lot of ICBMs in short order.

There's very little applicable to both manned rockets and ICBMs. There's no mystery about why SLS is what is.

It's built out of STS parts in order to keep money flowing to the same companies that supported the space shuttle.
This is true, but irrelevant here. The bird is moving much less mass, so it takes less energy per mile traveled. I was trying to point out that if you normalize the energy consumption of a Tesla by the mass it is moving, you get a much more favorable (and sensible) comparison.
(why can't they make smaller mice??)

People do make smaller mice. But the downside is that they are generally cheapies, and not very robust. I have bought several over the years from supermarkets when I found I'd left my usual mouse behind.

When it comes to left-handed mice, it's often easier to obtain a symmetrical mouse, and change its handidness in software.

I use my mice so much that I have a problem with wireless mice forever running out of batteries. "Up to six months usage": bullshit. I'm lucky to get two weeks out of a set of batteries. So I stick to wired keyboards and mice.
Yes exactly. That is why the diversity metric that would actually alleviate the situation of poor blacks like being income based is NOT used as that would also cripple the rich white elites.
This is a also a city with a multibillion dollar budget and some of the highest in the country.
vSphere has significant licensing and support costs. Last time I checked a minimal, managed vSphere cluster runs like $3600/month. I’m not sure how this can translate to “basically $0”.
The mechanical keyboard community is unfortunately really toxic. In addition to second hand accounts, I have a friend who’s a newbie in it who I encouraged to talk to people to get her bearings, and there was a basically unanimous chorus of “fuck off, until you have something to offer us you’re just a waste of time”. I think it’s partially because it’s largely gamers, and partially because it’s largely about perceived superiority, the pursuit of which also motivates shitting on newbies.

It makes me think, though, that one of these manufacturers might be well served by creating an attached forum, like HN, that’s well moderated and permits discussion of other brands. People are getting into mechanical keyboards for the products and the art and then being driven away from community participation; whoever can capture those people could likely become the default home of mechanical keyboard fans, and the attached brand the default brand.
That was the theme of Quake2: captured humans were "automated" with implants. Today we start with cows, in 50 years we extend this to violent criminals and who knows, maybe in 100 years most of us will be automated for "safety reasons".
I'm the GP poster but I don't agree with this social darwinist crap at all. I bet you would never apply this logic if your own kids fell into drug addiction. it is not "nature" taking its course here, it is a sick, stupid society that tolerates the proliferation of mind-altering poisons and then shovels vast amounts of public money into useless fake "rehab" charities run by politically-connected grifters. there are people out there getting rich off all this misery and it isn't just the dealers.
Blocking /dev/random has been a problem that many people were interested about for a long time, and it has had alternatives: /dev/urandom since forever (though it has a big problem for some short period just after bootup), getentropy() since 2015 can do the right thing with the right options, and finally since 2020 /dev/random does the right thing - it only blocks until seeded, then gives unlimited secure random bytes. (I only learned about this 2020 update in this very thread!)

My understanding is that /dev/random behavior persisted for so long only due to some dumb corporate/military compliance thing that some huge companies "needed".
EDIT: apparently this was due to NIST standard SP800-90B and maybe German AIS 31, and the most recent idea is to forget them, and have orgs that really need the strange/problematic blocking behavior implement it in user-space.
Emby is open source and can stream outside your network for free. The metadata grabber fails sometimes or needs to be manually refreshed but you can edit metadata for each episode.
One of the big draws to the FC660C for me was that there aren't any keycap sets for it.
I don't know, what about them?

I'm talking about the vast majority of people who are not vaccinated because they just aren't inclined to rush to get new medical treatments of little benefit to them.

Do the stats for the over 65 group honestly not make the situation clear to you? Focusing on the 0.1% lunatic fringe doesn't help your understanding, and it's the reason so many people are utterly baffled by what is easily explainable. Life is not the 20 loudest and most obnoxious twitter accounts.
Exactly. We can't rule out the possibility that the editors of Nature are microdosing on LSD.
Comments about voting, flagging, and other moderation actions detract from actual conversation: that's clear from the guidelines (e.g., Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.) and 'dang's moderation activity. As does enumerating every rule, as it encourages just this type of rule lawyering that I've now played a part in exacerbating, so I'll stop now.
I advice HN readers to go, and to participate.

Besides actually cleaning the streets, it brings very big spotlight to the problem.

And in some rare cases, if activity like this may go viral, some people in charge of public sanitation might remember of the shame enough to do their work.
PhD drones get paid tho.

Einsteins not so much.

There are a lot of invisible Einsteins stocking shelves at Walmart.

This is why we need UBI.
I think Einstein had a particularly unique way of thinking. In fact, he discovered relativity by doing thought experiments, purely by combining his intuitive understanding of light with imagination. Such experiments can only really be conceived in a singular mind.

Individuals matter.

Maybe we'd have had to go another few hundred years before someone else conceived it. While we can't prove a negative (we don't know what the alternate Einstein-less universe turns out like), certainly there have been examples of technology that has been forgotten or lost and it can take another thousand years before it is rediscovered.
Solar Terrestrial Activity Report
GTA V Tips
Arithmetic-coded JPEG rendered as black box on
iPad 4th gen, iOS 10.3.3 (latest version possible)
I think the parent's premise is that the cows can't see a well defined fenceline with the smart collar, to visually know to stop, whereas they can with an electric fence (or other types of physical fencing). And that lack of visual cue would induce anxiety in the cow, perhaps not being as certain where it can go.
Yeah, but once you're there there's very little difference. Travel time to start the colony is (hopefully) only the first 0.001% of the life span of a colony. Also if the trip is so different how does a test run to the moon help us prepare for vastly different transit conditions?

Either way, a pilot program on the moon offers virtually no benefit. It amounts to dipping your toe in when you know the water is cold; you're looking for an excuse to back out.
Relevant excerpt:

"...How can you salvage your reputation? Apple just found one incredibly effective way — get listeners to submit better reviews by interrupting their podcast experience with an in-app prompt to submit a rating.

That’s how the Apple Podcasts app went from a publicly embarrassing 1.8-star score all the way to 4.6 stars in a little over a month without any actual fixes..."
Yeah, self-reported data should be taken with a grain of salt. On a large enough scale though, that data says something though. It might not be the original insight you're looking for, but it's still data.

There are also plenty of tests and measurements that can be given over an app that don't rely solely on subjective self reporting too though. For instance: reflexive tapping tests, wearable health telemetry, memory tests, etc., etc.

I'm excited to see researchers taking advantage of tech to speed up studies and make research more feasible in general. More research means more insights and advancements in the long run for all of us.
I like to imagine you sent an email as a CEO saying “please read this ASAP” and then it links to a Rick Roll
I would be surprised if it starts to show wear within the next 10 years.

I've been using mine daily for around 10 years, and yes, you are entirely correct. If I could somehow clean all the coffee stains and grime it has accumulated it could probably pass off as new! And while I personally love the feel of topre keys, I can see why people might not like them - to each his own.

I just wish the new wireless HHKBs weren't so dang ugly!
Interesting!

I guess this can now be done with Gmail/Superhuman/Boomerang "send later" feature as well.
Who are the Einsteins in other fields?

(i.e. people who discover stuff that otherwise wouldn't have been discovered for generations)
I question how many A24 movies actually make much more than $10 million.
It’s actually fairly simple I think, but will probably lead you away from most modern client-side JS frameworks.

- render the website on the server (with PHP, Ruby, JS, Java, whatever you’re comfortable with)

- deliver HTML and CSS only as far as possible

- reduce JS to a minimum and stick to raw JS where possible (or use simple libraries like jQuery)

- use native fonts wherever possible

- rely on as few third party elements as possible (chats, popups, etc). You can’t control what they are doing/loading.

Very unsexy way of doing web development but worked for me anytime I had to do a project for a client.

Here’s a website of mine where I pushed my approach to the limit: https://www.pinhok.com/ (and yes, you could still produce nice designed websites with this approach, wasn’t the main target for me for this website for now)
Elimination vs. mitigation of SARS-CoV-2 in the presence of effective vaccines
And before somebody says “aha what if the car battery is dead!!” (Which is what I thought)… if the car battery is dead, you ain’t going anywhere. Can’t start the car without the battery unless it is a manual transmission.

Of course the doors… well, shouldn’t there be a backup physical key?
For sure. Although one thing that has baffled me is that all Swiss Germans do their school work in traditional German and NOT the language they speak. Swiss Germans understand Germans but the vice versa is not always true:

The dialects of Swiss German must not be confused with Swiss Standard German, the variety of Standard German used in Switzerland. Most people in Germany do not understand Swiss German. Therefore, when an interview with a Swiss German speaker is shown on German television, subtitles are required.[6] Although Swiss German is the native language, from age 6, Swiss school students additionally learn Swiss Standard German at school and are thus capable of understanding, writing and speaking Standard German with varying abilities mainly based on the level of education.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German
>Submitted plans for the fission surface power system should include a uranium-fueled reactor core

Why Uranium instead of Thorium Fluoride? A liquid salt reactor doesn't need water to cool down in the event of an accident, it just has to be drained into separate sub-critical masses.
If it's only an odd-even difference, why are composite bosons (like, whole atoms) so more.. exotic than composite fermions?

That is, why do atoms normally obey the Pauli exclusion principle?
I'd wondered that as well. Playing with tldraw and excalidraw, it looks like it's using the center of the bounding box as the pivot point.

Suppose that you have three boxes like this:

* - - - * . . . * - - - *
| | | |
| | | |
| | | |
* - - - * * - - - *
. .
. @ .
. .
. * - - - *
. | |
. | |
. | |
. . . . . . . . * - - - *

The pivot for rotating them will be at the @ in the center of the bounding box around the three. If you then turn that counterclockwise by 45 degrees:

. . . . . . . . . * . . . . . . . . .
. / \ .
. / \ .
. * * .
. \ / .
. \ / .
. * @ * .
. / \ / \ .
. / \ / \ .
* * * *
. \ / \ / .
. \ / \ / .
. . . * . . . . . . . . . . . * . . .

then the center of the bounding box has now moved towards the corner of what was originally the upper right square (because there isn't a fourth square to complete the symmetry and push the bottom of the box around the three squares down). Rotating again will now pivot around this new point rather than the original and a rotation 45 degrees clockwise back to the original angle will now have shifted the boxes.

Honestly, I'd think the correct solution here would be to pivot around the center-of-mass or some other rotationally-invariant point.
The article says that there is an audio cue.

The cow will hear a beep long before it gets zapped. It's the same as for invisible fences with pet collars.
The best keyboard I ever used was in 1997, an old (already) IBM PC with 5" soft disc, forgot the model.
These are deep questions and they are hard to get a handle on for many: thanks for opening up a discussion! You're not alone and if you ever want to chat one-on-one my email is in my profile.

> Now, I’m an unimportant technical writer composing documents for developers and users. There’s no path for career growth if I stay in this specialty. My work doesn’t feel like it takes much talent and I was hired a few times without having any credentials in business writing.

Do you get feedback from anyone at your job about your work? If so, do they disclose the value of your work to the organization or to individuals? Perhaps you can start a conversation with someone on your team, in your user base or in management to get more insight into the value as perceived by others and see if that helps?

Have you considered schooling or certification that you could pursue to help validate your current knowledge and experience? Your employer may have programs or would be willing to sponsor some of the costs to help you.

If your current workplace doesn't have an avenue would you consider a coach or mentor who might be able to help steer you to a new company or career path that you might find suits your needs better?

Self-care is quite important. If you're having trouble feeling at home with your daily routine and aren't feeling able to fully care for yourself or to follow through with the changes you hope to make then asking for help from friends, family, community, doctors or peers is a great way to help move the needle.

> I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.

If you haven't talked to a doctor about your current situation it could be helpful to share what you're going through and ask if they would recommend a change in treatment or if they have other resources they could recommend.
I haven't had that experience but I came into the hobby after going to an in-person keyboard meetup that helped me to learn the basics.
"World champion" is also a bit of a title.
Seen as how you aren't originally apart of the thread. This clearly struck a nerve. Are you okay?

By the way I didn't act like I know everything, I acted confident in the absence of knowledge about a thing and challenged someone on their bold claim to which to me requires good evidence.

What your comment misses completely is when I say I'd be delighted in a response that has some evidence I really do mean that.

Cant you have to agree it gets tiring reading statements that assert bold claims of which have such a low probability of credibility.
Understand. We all find ourselves unfocused at some point, even if we don't have significant mental conditions, but try to avoid blaming it on a medical condition if possible.

Instead, spend less time on Hacker News, and actually everything else, too -- news, social networking, etc.

Actually unplug your Wifi router. Start coding. Disconnect your TV. Buy a book and force yourself to read it.