skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! I used to do that and found it worked great. Calculated my desired monthly spend (outside of rent, etc that were fixed) and then divided by days on the month to get a daily number. For me it was something like $30 which included groceries and gas and entertainment and capex like clothes and stuff. I saved physical cash that was left over each day for the bigger things. It was a great and very visual / physical way of keeping track of money.
On the other hand, jumping aboard the hype train can be a good way to make some money without much skill. Might not be as fulfilling work, but it shouldn't be discounted.
Not 1st person nor 1v1, but I've made a shooter back then where you play against several nn

https://github.com/victorqribeiro/aimAndShoot
That's an old YAML 1.1 behavior. It was removed in 1.2 (in 2009), though some implementations (looking at you, pyyaml) are still on 1.1.
Stop using SASS/SCSS in your React projects (or prove me wrong)
The human population has exploded though, so presumably increases in other types of pollution have more than made up for decreases in diesel fumes and soot.
Anyone know where the term “staff” came from?
I always read documentation. I just have to run into issues because I haven’t read it before I do. I imagine most engineers are like this as we tend to prefer learning by doing
Can you find a facebook engineer on LinkedIn and send them a InMail? Only costs you one month of linkedin plus, or whatever it is called.
Stevia's weird herbal aftertaste makes it good for root beer, though.

I think monkfruit is the best alternative sweetener I've tasted.
fake your browser header to a chrome variant.
Not all of them have solved it, no. But the United States is the only place I’m aware of that pretends the presence of firearms is a good thing.
dataclasses do not use metaclasses (I’m the dataclasses author).
Same here but I pre-emptively moved everything to Fastmail (coincidentally) anyway, was the nudge I needed to finally drop the last of my Google services
This commentary track single handedly made me appreciate film critics.
I have my own domain and use email with that domain.

I have a gmail account but only use it for mailing lists, ecommerce orders, etc. Relying on Gmail for everything is a bad, bad idea.
I never liked MMPR when it first became a phenomenon. The characters seemed to me like perfect little balls of nothing -- no unique personality to them, and they were like a hivemind. All of the subordinate Rangers always followed Red's orders -- seemingly in lockstep -- and Red always followed Zordon's orders. It was implied that they only got their powers contingent upon using them in compliance with Zordon's wishes, which is lame. It's like being handed the keys to a Ferrari and being told you can only use it to go grocery shopping for your mom. The way superhero stories work, usually, is that the character receives powers and then has to make the choice to use them for good.

The only distinct one was Tommy, but they were careful to explain that Tommy's bad-boy-ness was due to Rita's evil magic, not his own choices. Thus absolving of any blame but also stripping him of his agency.

(Rita was the coolest thing about that show. I always love a good, sinister female villain... because at the time they were rare.)

I never saw this movie in theaters because it just seemed like more of the same. I saw parts of it on YouTube and yep, looks like it. Like, don't they skydive and then rollerblade for charity in the opening or something? It just hammers home the point that the OG MMPR are what every fortysomething suburbanite parent wishes their kids were: attractive, omnitalented, getting straight A's and scoring a perfect 1600 on their SATs (the maximum at the time), all while lettering in football, participating in all the extracurriculars, volunteering at the homeless shelter and touring with Up With People. And always, always obeying authority figures to the letter.

I wasn't that kid, so I couldn't relate. I did, however, greatly appreciate the 2017 Power Rangers film, because it reimagined the Rangers as messed up kids who gained superpowers and... had to make the choice to use them for good. And were so stubbornly independent that working together as a team was a challenge for them. They were like the kids I actually hung out with in high school. If those Power Rangers were in the original show, I would have been way more into the franchise.

Later seasons of Power Rangers got better. Same hokey production values, but the characters were more human and fleshed out. And the primary original Japanese series behind Mighty Morphin, Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, was pretty rad in a VERY cheesy way.
It’s not arbitrary within the US, it’s arbitrary everywhere else, where the US law doesn’t apply.
It's a blast from the past for me to see this particular review. I believe it was the first Roger Ebert review I read, shown to be me by my high school English teacher. It's partially what turned me on to Roger Ebert, and from that cultivated my current love for movies.
> which is called entitlement.

Or you can call it bait and switch by the company.
Are you near a microcenter? They tend to have them, store only, and limit the number you can buy, so they don't all disappear.
Make the computer read to you.

There is text-to-speech tool build into macOS that you can use in a script to convert any text file to .mp3 audiobook: https://gist.github.com/ivanistheone/de3ccb244224d101bb93320...

I use the script fro certain longer books (usually fiction), but in general just tend to select text and press a keyboard shortcut, see here for how to set this up
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem...

Here is a sample if you want to hear what it shouds like: https://minireference.com/static/tmp/constructive_feedback.m...
src https://productivityhub.org/2019/04/19/how-to-deliver-constr...
I wouldn't really classify "soft failure mode" as OSR; from my experimentation it reinvokes the entire function when there's a failure rather than migrating over the execution state.

In terms of tests, I get the impression that this compiler doesn't (yet) have to deal with much of the complexity a modern JavaScript one has to (OSR, GC info, inline caches, probably even most ISA-level details), so there are whole classes of tests that just don't need to exist.
I paid my house off a few years ago. But, last month I decided to max out an equity loan and buy dividend stocks. So, if all goes well, I'll have an extra million in 10 years. Worst case, I figure I'll break even.
You hit the nail right on the head. Right after high school, both my parents lived in the same small town on the outskirts of a larger city. From my father's house, it was a 30min walk to get to the bus stop, which had one passage every 30 minutes. Even from my mother's place, going to school was ~2h to get halfway to downtown. My only decent option was driving to the train stating further from home, and going straight downtown that way. Cut a good 30-40 min off my commute, just mean I hit traffic every day.

Anyway, all this to say, public transportation gets pretty light past a certain distance from city center, and you most definitely needed a car if you want to have some sort of life outside commuting. Admittedly, we're 17 years past that time, but from what I've heard from a friend still living there, it's still the very same situation.
>> uses pure python to do numerics

Many orgs use Python+Numpy, and that can be made faster using Jax

>> this is not jit compilation.

I disagree. Jax jit uses XLA, and XLA is a JIT compiler. An XLA graph is created during the runtime of the host program, and JIT-compiled to native code for the CPU, GPU or TPU.
Did you read the entire YAML spec before using it (https://yaml.org/spec/1.2-old/spec.html_? And all other specs? And docs for all your dependencies? What about docs for system services on all your servers?

Software/specs/formats have edge-cases. Theses exists usually because of a tradeoff in usability. That's why there is YAML, JSON, TOML, etc. Choose the one that best fits your use-case and the strictness you need.
It's not at all a readable language imo.

Compared to what? Python's closest peers are arguably the members of the P*-family of programming languages (Perl, Python, PHP, with Ruby as honorary member), and among that group, Python traditionally skews towards the readability end of the spectrum.
Good article -- archived at https://archive.is/iah0J. Subtitle: "For years, engineers have made microchips ever smaller and more powerful. Now they’re applying the technology to a host of miniature marvels."
The mobile app is terrible too. Even many of the 3rd party apps are not very good, especially on iOS. There are some good ones for Android like Boost and Relay, which I wish I could get on iOS.

It is an embarrassingly bad mobile app and web UI for one of the most popular sites in the world that really grew up natively on the modern web.
The 1996 release of Godzilla with Matthew Broderick had a character named Mayor Ebert, and this was no accident. Director Roland Emmerich had apparently gotten a bad review from him in the past and decided to get his revenge by naming this pathetic character in the movie after Roger Ebert.

Mayor Ebert : What the hell's the matter with you people? You've caused more damage than that goddamn thing did!

Gene - Mayor's Aide : All right, Mayor, calm down. Have some candy.

Mayor Ebert : [flails his arms around like a child having a tantrum, knocking the bag of candy out of Gene's hand] No, I don't want any candy! Leave me alone

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120685/characters/nm0503627?re...
Thanks for this.

If you don’t mind, what envelope setup do you use? Is it one envelope for “fun money” and another for “gotta have it money”?
Yes, it's 4.77, about 1/20.
That was one of the last movies that Gene Siskel reviewed with Ebert on his show. Siskel actually had to phone in to the show from a hospital - and he didn't like the movie either. But I remember that Ebert specifically asked Siskel how he'd felt about the fact that there were two characters in the movie named Ebert and Siskel - that were obviously intended to make fun of them.

Siskel called it cheap. But then he added, as a purely objective criticism, that the bit never actually paid off. That he was expecting Godzilla to attack the characters, but instead they're just still standing around talking at the end of the film. What was the point?

But whatever you think of any of that, that's what was so great about their show (and about this review, for that matter). That it creates this "middle space" between viewer and film-maker, for this additional giddy social mix of reactions and opinions -- all the "best of the year!" and "what were they thinking?"

Or maybe I'm just saying that sometimes I really miss Ebert.
This really seems like spam. None of these apps are real and your "product" is kind of sad really.
Study what? Even the New England Journal of Medicine is full of articles funded by drug companies. And for good reason -- the results of drug trials should be communicated to physicians. Buying them lunch may be less prestigious, but it's essentially the same thing.

Merck, Dec 2021: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2116044

AstraZeneca, Jan 2022: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2112431
Nice! If you don’t mind me asking, what do you do now?
Is that really the motive? Or is it the desire of friends who are a reflection of who they are. We see men as a better judge of our ability and women as a better judge of our decency.
Hedonism Is Overrated
Prices are only going to go up. The side-effect of bringing 60M new people each year into the middle class.
Very cool app…followed the founder on Twitter and I’m checking this out, thanks!
Another fun one (not Gmail but Google property): ReCAPTCHA will validate and re-CAPTCHA you infinitely if you’re using Private Relay. They could just, like, store a cookie… they already have (assume) permission to do it. But just green checkmark > same question forever.
People deciding to ditch their smartphones
I've slowly come to the same conclusion, though partially in the sense of audiobooks. When someone makes a book, even if it's a relatively short one, that usually means they know enough about the subject and have something valuable enough to say, regardless of whether one agrees with or enjoys the content for its entertainment value.

Although there can be good long-ish form content on the internet, there's simply too much incentive to spew loosely connected ideas that aren't fully formed and serve mostly to get attention. And a lot of it really is just chum to get clicks, however nicely it's presented.

The way I see it, written content on the internet went the way of TED talks. I remember a time when TED was popular, at least in my social class, and now it's pretty widely mocked not only for being vapid but by lowering the barrier to entry via TEDx. Medium is a perfect example of this phenomenon.
> Google sometimes blocks me from searching using Firefox, saying it’s “suspicious activity” and sending me into captcha hell that always rejects my results after several screens for no reason.

That happend to me only when using tor.
Who does the CFO report to if not the CEO?
Interesting...

Me, the programmer finds those kinda cool.

And the sysadmin in me developed a dislike of both within 1 minute of looking at them.

Honestly, I think a good configuration library should be more than a spec, it should come with a library that handles parsing/validation.
See, there are two sides to configuration, the user and the program. Knowledge about the values, defaults and types should live on the program side and should be documented. Then the user side of configuration can be clean and easy to read/write and most important of all, allow the user to accomplish the most common configuration without having to learn a new config language on top of learning the application.
I feel like yourself and the other poster saying Eberts review is bad are missing the point.

Given that the owners of the IP are filthy rich, they could have done a better job. Indeed lots of other production companies produce kids shows that are better and they make shit tons of money on merch: Star Wars, Frozen, Toy Story, all the Marvel stuff, basically most of the Disney stuff. All the Studio Ghibli stuff (actually I don’t know how rich Ghibli are).

I’m trying hard to think of anything not Disney…
It's not (directly) about testosterone in this case, women are more guarded/suspicious because they're being hit on all the time. For men it would be an opportunity, for them it's a nuisance/threat.
I struggle with this. Part of the problem is that engineering (therefore the group of senior engineers) somehow always become the first-tier technical triage for problems. A customer reports a problem, a PM gathers more info, and then it's immediately thrown onto the queue of headaches that every single senior engineer is on the hook to fix. The ticket invariably gets round-robin assigned to a random senior engineer, who now has to drop everything and context switch over to debug mode.
I still play chess, daily.
I mean, in a Node project, if I need some internal CLI tool, I'll just write a Node script. But for distributable apps, doesn't make much sense to me either.
I looked at Purelyemail recently and it looked attractive for what it does and what it provides for a low price of $10 a year (compared to Fastmail and others, which can be quite expensive for more than one user/mailbox). But the fact that there’s just one person behind it makes me uncomfortable to consider it for any serious use. But that also probably works in favor of the low price.
> YAML was intended to be a superset

My impression was JSON came years after YAML, and it was somehow coincidental that YAML was almost a superset of JSON.

(Shockingly wikipedia tells me they both came out within a month of each other in 2001).
I make enough money that I don't worry about a budget
These details aren't particularly relevant in a bouncy pop song.
Does it make you feel more alive – Approximate ethics as a user and technologist
So what? It certainly isn't metal either.
Additionally inorganic growth or 'buying other companies' has consolidated many other startups into these giants and it makes any kind of analysis on successful founders ages considerably harder.
Happened to me too. Gmail asked for a valid phone number for verification though and after that it worked.
Match.com continued success while actively ruining products it acquires is a stark counter example
The Atlantic has some of the highest quality long-form content I've ever read in my life. It's not all excellent, but quite often it is. Highly recommended.
Was thinking similar: "what lessons can we apply to Rust"
try erythritol. it's very similar to monkfruit, and cheaper everywhere I've looked.
I remember once Ebert published a letter from a teenaged girl who was writing to tell him she'd liked a movie that Ebert had panned. It was another movie based on a franchise -- maybe the Bratz dolls? But I'll always remember how Ebert responded to her.

"I'm glad you liked the movie. I love movies too much to wish anyone a bad time at the movies."

Ebert was a classy guy.
Okay, so what's the catch? I see no Windows support and no ABI compatibility, but other than that it's just... a drop in replacement and I get a 30% speedup? I'm aware that "too good to be true" is only a heuristic, but it generally holds; am I missing some great caveat?
Ajax the Great
My pipeline of interesting Twitter users/threads to Substack mailing lists has served me well. I recently discovered Google Assistant's "read this article aloud" functionality and it's been amazing to help cut down the backlog of unread newsletter emails. The experience is quite good, makes a newsletter feel almost like a podcast.
Recognize the impulses to watch Netflix when they come. Try to pinpoint the moment, and then make a conscious choice about what you truly want to do. Besides that, I don’t think “binge reading” is the best way to study anything.
That's a good quote, but Freddy Got Fingered is beyond conventional notions of 'good' and 'the worst thing ever made'.
IME, that's my biggest complaint. Even plain text emails take 2+ seconds to load.
Finally YAML does something it’s expected to do if you acquire expectations from YAML!
I've had this problem too.

In terms of security, it's great, but it's terrible when you're going back to old, dormant accounts and have lost trusted devices.

Thankfully, it's not a problem if you've set recovery emails and 2FA options, but it is easy to forget if the accounts are set up for someone else who isn't checking often (like family members who only use their accounts rarely)

It really takes months for the lockout to clear up, and it sucks when it happens.
Two that affect me: can't use it with Nest, can't buy family plan YouTube subs.
> The glow.exe app on Windows is 19M, the launch is fast and I love that it is self contained and portable, but I think that even a pretty markdown viewer could be compiled to a much smaller binary, like easily 10x smaller without doing hardcore demoscene style binary compaction.

I've not dug into it but syntax highlighting for code fences probably is costing some space for the syntax definitions.
> anthropic principle only says something about the past.

and it says nothing about the future, so I don't know why you think "likelihood that life is possible in the future approaches zero". If anything the possibility in the future correlates with it in the past.

Also we are not concerned with life that will start in the future, when we talk about extraterrestrial life, we're talking about now or in the past.
I agree! As a man I find it much easier to make friends with men or women when there is a shared project or sport.

On the other hand my wife seems to get friends this way: go to party > meet person > coffee date > boom. friends.

for me, arranging a 'friend' date with no goal other than to get acquainted seems awkward. Too intimate, whether with a man or a woman.
Used market seems unaffected. I own several, but can always get more whenever I look locally. Those sold on used market are almost always new anyway. :)
> Instead of web sites, the nerds will run their own ssh servers, then you can run programs and read files on their "web site" (ssh shell).

That used to be a common practice before the advent of the web. There are still plenty of them around, including a few games.

> Now you say what about graphics ? Text only might be a break from the ad ridden web today, but you could also ssh -X to run GUI apps.

There are some extensions outside of the VT100 protocol that allows things like graphics. Emacs buffers are capable of much more. They could achieve graphics right in the terminal. Ultimately, they are all variations of the same idea that HTML and CSS are based on.
A lot of the Great Courses are on Kanopy. The Archeology is fantastic.
How to add comments to Jekyll blog
It seems like the article is saying that as long as it is a mild case, and you are already somewhat fit, it is better if you exercise. However, if you are over 50, or moderate to severely ill, then don't. Which seems to make sense and it pretty common advice among gym goers.

Usually the saying is something like, "If it is above the neck you are better off exercising, below the neck wait and rest." Where above / below the neck refers to chest congestion versus nasal/sinus congestion.
SQL Server has similar capabilities with sp_getapplock/sp_releaseapplock, though IIRC it doesn't work well in a distributed environment. I believe when I tested it on an AWS RDS multi-AZ database, the locks got released by a failover from the primary to a read replica.
There’s an ambiguous question mark here?
Yeah absolutely. I think there are four corners to the square: "meant to be written by humans/meant to be written by computers" and "meant to be read by humans/not meant to be read by humans". JSON is the king of meant to be written by computers read by humans, grpc and swift and protobuf and arrow can duke it out the written by computer/not read corner. We are missing good options in written by humans half.
Won't work though, big email providers have made it a nightmare to run your own email.
That doesn't get rid of the problem, it only prolongs it.
Ebert only gave 0.5/4 stars and IMDB gives 5.3/10, and Rotten Tomatoes' Audience Score gives 56%.
The variables are hidden because the system would be insecure if they were known.
The most insane thing is is not being able to sign in with the kind of 2FA you want until after you've signed in with a phone number.

This also affects paid Google Workspace accounts, which has a setting on GW to disable phone-based auth...

So you're stuck. you can't have people sign into 2FA until they do it via phone... and they can't do it via phone by security policy...

Just nuts.
Fun!

Nice to win against the machine....
There's more material available, not just scientific journal articles. The medical specialty associations periodically release detailed guidelines covering new criteria, methods, treatments. For example:

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA....

There are courses available if you wish to be taught. There are events where people present new developments. There are paid sites like UpToDate. Even textbooks eventually get new editions and there's always plenty of fundamental science in them that doesn't change
Something that genuinely adds value to people’s lives.

So nothing in ad-tech, cryptocurrency, marketing, or finance.
Not if you’re in sales, I’d guess. It almost literally tells your target C-suite that you’re cut from the same cloth and to ignore the bleating of underlings. It’s a peripheral cue calibrated to increase bonding and trust. “These are my people. I’m safe with them.”