skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My fiancee had previous issues with vertigo, and few weeks after getting COVID this got as bad as it was ever before. Took her a few months to recover fully, thankfully. A neighbor lady also reported she started having balance issues, though after a vaccine (not sure which one, but I guess it should have been Astra Zeneca). Most of my friends that have contracted the virus around me are reporting that whatever they had issues with before, worsened.

For me on the other hand there were no particular issues after the virus, though I certainly don't have the same strength I had before. Haven't yet vaccinated, as I've been instructed by my GP not to yet (still have ~600 bau), my next test is in 10 days. Still researching which vaccine is safest.
You could name your servers after cuts of beef, beef recipes, and hamburgers, like the WOPR Computer and Big Mac:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRsycWRQrc8

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_(supercomputer)
That's an incredible site and airplane design. Would be awesome if the last scene in the promo video shows the plane flying & gaining altitude just above orcas speeding and jumping over the water right before it says Fly freely. Prob demands CGI.
The sarcasm is strong in this one.
Controversial counterpoint: If you want any minimum wage job your boss should have the implicit right to install cameras in your bathroom and sell videos of you showering on the internet.
Yeah but for the 16k a month they have someone they can sue for damages and costs if there is a serious issue. You're more likely to win a payout against a massive bluechip than a teeny weeny IT outfit or your own sysadmins.
I've stumbled upon this article before thanks to a tweet by @azforeman (https://twitter.com/azforeman/status/1370779212697628672), which I'll reproduce here:

> I once was sitting in O’Hare airport reading a book of Latin poetry when a guy looking like a monk walks up to me looking utterly lost and asks “Loquerisne Latine”? (Do you speak Latin?) To which I answer “Ita, possumne te adiuvare?” (Yes, can I help you?.)

> Turned out he was indeed a Polish monk and knew only Polish and Latin. Had never been outside Poland before, or even seen the inside of an airport, and needed help finding his way.

> That is my personal story of Latin as an auxlang.
You can also check out how https://www.openfaas.com/ works.
I have a similar take on stuff pushed onto the dev team. I think it’s often not the unplannedness of this work that’s at the root of the problem but its low value.

Pushing back against actually important unplanned work would be harmful — and usually nobody does that, which shows that it’s not actually about planning.

The point is, at least in my experience, many orgs have lots of other teams running around with ideas for things the dev team might do for them. Many of those are just not very important in the grand scheme of things. A lot less important, for example, than keeping the codebase healthy. But it’s usually not politically convenient to say that explicitly.

It’s much easier to “shut them up” by citing schedule pressure. Of course, this tactic backfires hard whenever there’s even a hint of downtime.
Doctors are highly specialized mechanics for the human body. The reason they can work the hours they do is because most of what they do is not creative and can be done on basically autopilot.

MDs also work in a profession with a fairly unique quality: you always get paid more for doing more work, and the work is more or less completely prepackaged into self-contained units for you - i.e. a GP seeing patients more or less breaks their day into a pattern of independently compensated, 15-30 minute slots.
Yup this is “what the hell” for me.

I’m Asian
>This is exactly what math... teaches you.

This is more or less agreeable.

>...as a subject in school...

Maybe for a lucky few. My entire math career in school, from middle school through university, grades were based on homework completion. I even had one sadistic teacher who would grade a semester's homework twice. Imagine getting Bs on tests with no curve, but getting a D in the class.
I remember in highschool and uni, that there were often one or two kids who would do the homework and then it would get passed around and copied by half the class.

I would go so far as to say math-in-school was about successfully processing complex tasks without needing to understand them, as well as the value of teamwork & organization.
I volunteer to taste test the original limb versus the regrown one.
Mainstream economists don't know how to stop inflation.

Keeping the money supply stable does not stop inflation. Inflation is ehat happens when you have a currency where a portion of it is not circulating in the economy and then suddenly becomes active and turns into demand for products and services. Even a gold standard will have inflation.
Let me say something about what you wrote.

You're not telling us what you're thinking, or you're telling us something without thinking about it. What you posted reads like a collection of ideas and not an argument of any kind. The quality of individual constituents in that above collection seems suspect as well.

An argument might go something like: hypothesis, supporting evidence, prediction, theory, course of action.

What you wrote reads something like: prescription, direction, story, conjecture, prediction, dismissal of example to the contrary, proposed emotional response.
You can use the Prometheus TSDB package, it's easy to import and use. Plus it's designed around mmap, so the kernel deals with the caching.

You don't have to use a whole Prometheus server to make something like this work.
I actually don't suggest that people get off the cloud. My gripe is with the devil may care attitude toward costs. I am still very cost-conscious about it (even those most business aren't). Newer engineers just don't think of it as a factor. Push a button, get a load balancer. It all adds up.

Your AWS bill is directly proportional to the number of developers, because they all spin up cloud toys they are fond of.
Who doesn't take off the Man now and again, though? Honesty doesn't get you very far these days.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply!

Re: pareto principle, I've never actually looked at what the principle means. "80% of the consequences come from 20% of the causes" is quite useful, as I understand it it means "don't assume that causes of consequences are randomly distributed".

I think I see it often misunderstood the way I misunderstood (/misunderstand?) it: "As with most things, there is the 80/20 rule (Pareto again), exceptions are sometimes warranted in important situations." this sentence just says "you should stick to the rule about 80% of the time"

Re: advice, thanks for taking the time! I hadn't considered research, but luckily I already agree with 3) :P
IMHO it was a big mistake of Firefox fighting the DRM for so long. It pushed many users and projects towards Chromium.
> const y = h(g(f(x)));
This notation usually does not reflect how we think about the computational steps.

Do others feel this way too? I have to admit I don’t really see it. It seems like a very subjective syntactic decision to me. Why not assign each call to a variable for readability? GC overhead? I guess naming things is hard, so sometimes you’re just going to do things like:

halve(double(triple(5)))

But honestly this doesn’t seem that hard to read to me for reasons that are perhaps beyond me. Granted, JS is my mother tongue, so maybe I’m just brainwashed.

I think I’m also hung up on the use of % because it already has the job of being the remainder operator. Are there other examples in the language where operator behavior changes in different contexts that are similar to this I’m missing (aside from the obvious order of operations or operator associativity)?
If you are interested in a detailed account of the cyberarms race, check out "This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race" by New York Times reporter Nicole Perlroth. While the books tends to get a tad repetitive after a while, and definitely skirts many of the technicalities, its definitely provides a lot of insight into the underground zero-day exploits markets and the cyberarms race that we are in right now.

https://www.amazon.com/This-They-Tell-World-Ends/dp/16355760...
The classroom is useful to help bootstrap the understanding of the language: here are some common words, here are the rules they follow. But there's no substitute for diving into real texts, and there's not enough time in the classroom to do that enough.

I spent years learning various languages at school, but moving to another country and being forced to read text (etc) in this new language day in, day out, taught me far more in the space of just a year or two.
I am sorry the question is extremely unclear and without context.

What battle? What compliance? What unlockable features/subscription outside of app store like Hey for those of us who dont use Hey?
When I left Spotify, I felt better
> I’m not sure why you think this is their fault

I think you missed the point. What I was making a point about was first the tin-eared nature of the salesdroid (i.e. "cloud cloud cloud cloud" despite me explaining why not). Second about the price point of on-prem. Of course I will "pay for value" but there is a difference between paying and paying through the nose.

Basically it gave the impression that Dgraph was so up itself that it thought it could dictate how their customers should run their IT and thought it was special enough to be able to ask silly money prices.
A decent and self-aware work team is one who treats each other as equals and respect and keeps their political beliefs outside the work environment.

An iterviewee who brings race into the discussion clearly doesn't understand work/personal boundries and is going to be a liability.
It was discussed yesterday at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30115132 which has 57 comments.
> I think it is partly that most of us, … still learn ancient languages largely passively.

This fascinates me for two reasons.

In my high school, which drew from every corner of the city of Boston, taught Latin (a required subject) as a living language and most students were as reasonably fluent as you would expect high schoolers could be. You’d encounter it in other subjects, not just Latin class. For many students Greek too. What’s the point otherwise?

I am somewhat surprised to hear that actual classicists might not be fluent — again, what’s the point? Didn’t they choose their domain because they loved the language or material? Computer scientists who are poor programmers are not uncommon but then they know their mathematics, the language of their trade (academic computer engineers tend to be better programmers).

But my son observed that many of the faculty and grad students of his university’s German department similarly were mostly not strong German speakers. While I noticed that in the 80s the political science profs who taught geopolitics all appeared to be fluent in Russian (though tbh how could I know?)
I don't experience this! Sometimes I'll get stuck on one song and listen to it for days, or an album for months, for multiple hours each day. Sometimes all day. Then one day I'll stop entirely. I always still love the music afterwards.
If you have a cogent argument, make it; someone genuinely curious is still going to need more than "because I say so" to work with.

> It's not that complicated a concept. Even kids can understand it quite well

Children will also readily believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny if their parents tell them that they exist. That's not an argument.
Some simple game theory on discursive conflict
So we can easily give one IPv6 address to any star in the observable universe _OR_ one IPv6 address to any virus on our planet, but we can't possibly address via IPv6 every single virus in every possible planet.
I've never used Tor and practically know nothing about it. But I always wondered about something like this many time.

I mean, while using Tor, sites can't track you or fingerprint you. But the fact you setup Tor in itself gives something to someone so that they can fingerprint you.
European Electric Vehicles: Market share by auto group
I dialed into a Gandalf Box at the university:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandalf_Technologies
Managing Director, it's a sort of middle management role that a lot of people aspire to. Running a team, getting paid fairly decently.
> Unlike other east European countries Finland did nothing to clean the administration.

You seem to be labouring under the misapprehension that Finland belonged to the Soviet sphere, like "other east European countries". It never did. Demanding that it "clean the administration" after the fall of "Communism" / the Soviet Union is as moronic as demanding the same of, say, Luxembourg or Spain.
It's not, foldingathome doesn't do those calculations either but uses a simplified model too.
Thanks for your thoughtful reply! Glad to hear your thoughts on what's important, and I'll give the treatise a thorough read
She's not just a Cambridge don. In the UK, she's well-known as a TV and radio broadcaster about classics, history, and art. She is of the left and approaches those subjects with a progressive slant, which attracts negative attention from conservatives (in my view, much of it justified), but also some vile sexist attacks from morons, which are definitely not justified.
In my experience it can be a bit of a canary.

People who are assholes tend to be extra-assholey to out-groups (which often is minorities). If members of minority groups don't want to work somewhere it usually means that the people who work there are assholes.
Penalizing the websites that are heavy.
I don’t support the pipe operator. I want my code to look like it came out of a beginners book. Esoteric syntax makes it hard for somebody new to the language to understand your code. Codegolf is cool but not helpful
Are there any app stores where the developer needs to submit the source code for inspection?
Google terminates Play Store account of Simple Keyboard developer
What are the chances somes org is tracking who is using Tor?

I mean one can't see what I am browsing on Tor browser, but the fact I am using Tor or have downloaded Tor, is it also hidden information?

Sorry, I know very little about it.
This is why your 6509 should have dual PSUs.
You only need two of the three factors to make it multifactor. A computer with a fingerprint scanner could be enough if it’s implemented properly. It’s something you have (a specific computer with a specific fingerprint scanner) with something you are (the fingerprint). In practice, you also need to know an identifier like an email or username, but those are often considered public.
Many may be cynical.. but, say, Chloe Valdary's Theory of Enchantment looks wonderful. https://theoryofenchantment.com/

At least, I found its principles striking:

1. Treat people like human beings, not political abstractions.

2. Criticize to uplift and empower, never to tear down or destroy.

3. Root everything you do in love and compassion.
How often have you found the metaphor that a computer is an extremely stupid employee with no common sense to be a useful prompt at getting business people to think of corner cases?
Yooo, that's the full book right there. Thanks!
We're all unique in the same ways.
Thinking about it now, I do go out of my way to avoid mentioning crypto-adjacent keywords, which helps avoid this type of spam. Perhaps it would be much worse if I didn't.
I am wondering if OP submitted the wrong links or article.
I don't normally have two long things to do in a day, I just have a max capacity of 2x hard things, if that day is not broken up by something.

Long term doing 2 hard things a day for a whole week would probably not be sustainable, either you run out of motivation or you run out of hard tasks.

One of the things you do under "hard tasks" is simplify your code so that subsequent tasks fall under "easy tasks". You trade your "must not disturb" time for "can be stopped and started".
Another study here that uses an estimate for productivity.

https://ftp.iza.org/dp8129.pdf

His models show peak productivity between 5 and 6 hours a day.

In my own experience, I have found productivity more related to sleep and exercise than anything else.

Getting 7 hours good sleep (which means winding down for at least 30 minutes before sleep, a stretching exercise or meditation), and enough exercise every day to get the heart rate up.

If I don’t do this for a couple of days, I can be unproductive from hour 2 after waking! We managed to implement a defect metric in my previous team that worked well, my defects went through the roof after a couple of days of 2 hours sleep.

There is a lot of literature on this correlation, but just thought I would share my own experience.
Did the books help raise your rank?
I've done this test in the past. The typical footprint of default Prometheus is around 100MiB of RSS.

Removing everything but flie and static configs reduces it to about 50MiB.

Interesting for more embedded use cases, but not really a big deal when you're using a few GiB of memory for TSDB ingestion buffering.
> Fun fact: during 2021 she earned quite more with her Latin teaching business than me as a full time software engineer. Not bad!

Not that I am doubting what you're saying, but I find that fact surprising. I see on her channel info that she has 363,157 views in total. Does youtube pays really that well that with 300k views you can make more than as a software engineer? Or do I misunderstand what you're saying?
Why the UK's IBM Failed – The Rise and Fall of ICL
> I'm talking about scrum masters who have trouble navigating Jira

I've been programming for 20 years and I still can't navigate Jira. The interface makes vim feel like a marvel of intuitive interface design.
that's GP's (and the linked paper's) point :)

"paradigmatically can't understand" = "can't figure out using current methods", so pretty much what you're saying
I do believe you can work 18 hours a day, since that's what I'm doing lately.

But i don't think you can repeat it successfully every day. Since the biggest problem is being able to focus.

I normally start with something very trivial that takes like 3 minutes and low effort and then I hope to be "launched".

If it was a difficult/stressing day at work, it won't work.
Yes, LiveScript was like CoffeeScript in good.

I really liked that it was so concise.

But somehow static typing was deemed more important an, so it never gained traction.
> It would be very interesting to develop a modern web based purely on declarative content

Is not that the subset of the web that would work when javascript is disabled? Some already develop it in that direction - what is not declarative shall be unnecessary. Or are you suggesting something different?
> How helpful could zoom level possibly be towards fingerprinting a user

It's just another bit of information. Collect enough bits and eventually you'll have a likely-unique id. It doesn't matter what that information is as long as it somehow is about you (and not e.g. random). If you want to fingerprint, you just try to grab every bit of information you can, no matter how irrelevant it is taken on its own.

It doesn't need to say anything about a cohort to be useful, it just needs to enable identifying so that they can track you around and eventually combine other information they discover about you in a profile. And it doesn't even need to be 100% accurate; "that person coming from a Telia-owned IP visiting this site again at 2 AM GMT+2 using Firefox Nightly on Linux, with 1440p display and 120% zoom level and no fonts installed" could be two or three guys if I'm lucky but it's probably close enough to not matter for someone who just wants to sell me garbage.

If your zoom level were the only thing, then indeed it would be useless. Problem is, browsers leak lots of bits. It's better to try plug all leaks you can than it is to ask whether that particular leak alone is harmful enough.
The Curious Absence of Lifetimes in our daily code in Rust
Like I said, I'm not here to argue or debate. Genuinely curious people can find ample information on Wikipedia.
I've never seen a convincing explanation for why doctors work these long hours that didn't boil down to 'the doctors union restricts the supply of new doctors and limits the tasks that can be delegated to non-doctors'.

As a result, the regular mention of their long hours generally just makes me angry at them rather than grateful to them, but I guess I'm in the minority.
Ask HN: Block posting from websites that are heavy/annoying ads
This idea has been toyed with for a decade. Im pretty sure lodash still has a pipe method somewhere. I actually prefer the `.pipe` function over the proposed operator, but we’ve had that available for 10+ years with very little adoption.

Unless the new operator was wildly easier to use (it’s not), that adoption says everything we need to know about the need to add this feature to JS.
Yep, I have been using my Kaldi backend through Dragonfly exclusively ever since I got v0.1.0 working.

I bootstrapped writing it initially using the Dragonfly WSR (windows speech recognition) backend, because that gave me the best accuracy out of the available options at the time. All of my development of it since the initial working version has been done using each previous version, so now it is basically bootstrapped itself. My productivity skyrocketed once I switched to Kaldi, due to being able to use my custom trained speech model just for my voice for orders of magnitude better accuracy, plus dramatically lower latency. (And it freed me from being dependent on closed software out of my control.)

I bootstrapped my personal speech model by retaining the commands from me using WSR. My voice is quite abnormal, and it took only 10 hours of speech data to train a model dramatically more accurate than any generic model I've ever used. And of course, I retain much of my usage now with Kaldi, so my model improves more and more over time. A virtuous flywheel!
At my secondary school, Latin, Greek and Classical Studies were all distinct subjects. It was uncommon for someone to do Classical Studies and either language - rather, Classical Studies was seen as the “can’t hack Latin/Greek” class, and most switched to it after the mandatory year of Latin.

Of the people I schooled with who are now classicists, they almost universally studied Classical Studies. The linguists, only one, as far as I know, is now a classicist.

I think the explanation is straightforward. The language teaching is, or was, practically designed to make you despise the topic. Classical Studies involved field trips, videos in the classroom, archaeological surveys - and was positively engaging.

Therefore, people who studied the languages, usually at the behest of their parents, ran from the classical world as fast as they could. The ones who dropped the languages and did classical studies instead, found themselves engaged by the subject matter and went on to be classicists.
I think you might think your opinions are facts.

You say everything like you have the singular objective answers beyond a shadow of a doubt even if your ideas are just one of many possibilitys.
That's not running binaries works.

Only the parts of the code that are in use are paged into the page cache. So if you only use a couple of the features, it fits in cache just fine.
By 1/4th, do you mean 1/4th of nuclear? Sure, I'm totally happy with that. Once EROI is high enough, further improvement has only marginal effect. If EROI of PV is 10 (say) and nuclear is 40 (say), that just means nuclear is 1/10 - 1/40 or .075 better than PV by this metric. The contribution of this to the cost difference is minor, and is swamped by the other contributions to the cost of nuclear.