skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I have wondered this myself and mostly just fine with “it’s annoying so I make sure not to ratchet it anymore,” but since I don’t have kids (yet?) — thank you for the explanation!
The scale is interesting. 1 million people in 11,000 square miles, with a city, town, and farms more or less self-sufficient. That's the area of Massachusetts with the population of San Francisco.
> successes of neural networks

Too early to say that with a straght face yet.

"Deep learning" produced some amazing generative art, and some very flashy research papers, but it failed to drive business decisions. (And not for the lack of trying, that's for sure.)
Ever heard of FBAR? [1] The IRS already has access to all your domestic and international bank accounts opened in your name, even if not in the US, because they are required by law to send this info to the IRS, or risk being sanctioned by the USG.

[1] https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employe...
I've worked at a few companies remotely.

One company was absolutely abysmal. No video chat ever. None. Never saw my coworkers' faces. Who can work like that? Obviously they can, but man that sucked.

Second company was a bit better, but not great. Avoided collaboration and/or video chat pretty strongly but not entirely. Which was weird because when we did do it, everybody was very chatty and they were also good working sessions.

Current company has been great. Strong collaborative culture but they also respect if somebody just needs to focus solo.

I would say that overall this company scratches like, maybe, 80% of my itch as far as being immersed with other engineers (in terms of actual collaborative work, and random tech talk bullshit) is concerned.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver...
You should see the microchip ads from one of the think-tank he is funding. I wish I had kept the links/videos of them. They were strait up talking about the advantages of having a microchip in your hand and had testimony from "normal" people telling us how great it was to no longer have to carry around key cards to open doors. It was very creepy knowing who funded it and how much influence they have.

On a positive note, it was nice to see the extremely negative reaction from social media at the time. Hopefully that got us an extra decade before someone more serious than a shitty think tank (eg. a government) makes a push for it.
I will for sure check that out. My usual go-to breakfast is Soylent at the moment. My food tracking app (Cronometer) seems to insist it has too much fat, however.
Just read another thread "my seatbelt rule for judgement" https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/ ,I can't agree more.

Before you make any judgement about anything, you need to learn about it. In this case, go visit Xinjiang, talk with natives, see with your own eyes, and then you know who's telling lies.
Gotcha, I apologize if I came off a bit condescendingly, it's just hard to tell how people truly are based on a single internet comment. I just have friends who have really shut themselves in light of COVID, I think almost to their certain detriment. And I have found myself in similar patterns, and have recently begun correcting that and have been on a bit of a personal crusade to combat anti-socialism in the guise of introversion. But I digress.

I was wondering if you elaborate on your position regarding homeschooling and the risks of in person school a bit more? I am curious to hear your perspective. Thanks!
If you think it will help, ask for an unpaid leave of absence. You can afford it. That also gives you more freedom to pursue treatment for the depression if it persists.
Just happen to read another thread "my seatbelt rule for judgement" https://www.dannyguo.com/blog/my-seatbelt-rule-for-judgment/ ,I can't agree more.

Before you make any judgement about anything, you need to learn about it. In this case, go visit Xinjiang, talk with natives, see with your own eyes, and then you know who's telling lies.
> Isn't this is a rather common configuration for a distributed DB?

In my experience it is not. Rather, aggressive fsyncing/O_DIRECT usage are common. The rationale for this is usually partition risk: better to durably log a write before propagating it than to potentially fail in propagating it and then be left in a position of having to either reactively fsync or hope that automatic flush-to-disk will persist your unexpectedly-sole possession of that update.
A fun read.

The "Commuting Five Directions Operation" (通勤五方面作戦, tsukin-gohomen-sakusen). That last character "sen" means battle. That word means more like "wartime/military operation" which reflects the urgency.
The agenda I'm pushing is the facts about the crashes that are consistently omitted from popular narratives about it.

Other times this has come up, I faulted Boeing for making several design errors in the MCAS.

But the pilots bear some responsibility, too, because they did not follow runaway trim emergency procedures. In order to make flying safe, all causes of an accident (and there are usually many for each accident) must be addressed.
Ha, she predates Dead Kennedys and Henley by quite a bit. I did know about her but not _that_.
Yeah, this is the key.

Whenever I hear about somebody's hellish Slack culture at their workplace and they blame Slack I always think, "That sounds like a bad office culture that would be bad even if Slack was removed from the equation."
How many hours per week do teachers work? How many months in a year? I hear exaggerated accounts of teachers working 11 hour days and 60 hour weeks.

Sorry..if those are their working hours, there is something wrong. It’s just odd. All public schools teachers are unionized. All the teachers here spout the same numbers for work hours and talk about spending from their pockets for school supplies and working at home.

Only in the USA, the teachers are ‘overworked’. And the results aren’t stellar compared to the rest of the world. Maybe something’s got to change. I am not buying it anymore. Unless there is something in American tap water that is making all the kids dumb as rocks.
Could you share that FAQ here or link to it? I've been recently thinking of writing something like this for my team, so having an existing working template would be of great help.

Thanks!
I don't but we've been doing generical modification by trying to put two random things plants together since dawn of times.
I meant multiple separate consonants.

And I very occasionally hear people pronounce it, so it seems like URL is somewhat borderline.

Compared to URL, HIPAA is pretty close on effort to pronounce, and double the effort to say the letters.
Oooh your paragraph of text is sooooo compelling that I do want to “join your site” and agree to your cookie policy!! Omg how did I live without such insight. Take my money please!!
Maybe they could supplant the dollar in adjacent southeast Asian countries first? It’s pretty surprising how far the dollar goes in Laos or Cambodia, for example. The RMB not being convertible or freely traded is a real PITA (when I was being paid in it), why would they let their digital currency float if they aren’t ready to float the yuan? If the digital currency has full convertibility with the R!B, that’s a huge whole for their currency controls.
I had an Intel nVME SSD. It failed catastrophically after only a year.

I posted about it, and somebody from Intel said, not surprising, that model was crap. Apparently the only products Intel goes to any effort to make reliable are the ones meant for data centers. So, no more Intel for me.
I don’t find a problem with a joe filtering out what he doesn’t want to hear, I however have a problem with some platform growing so big and establishing itself so that if you or your business isn’t on it, you may just as well not exist at all, and then booting people out on a whim.

Come to think of it, for an effective censorship to exist, you don’t really need a hostile government, if private entities that affect your life in a big way are just as big, if not bigger.
It’s good that you are aware these individuals have influenced your bias in this area.

The “DIY vs professional” mental model is not as helpful as other perspectives when evaluating homeschooling. Homeschooling is an extension of parenting, something we do not outsource outside of extreme situations, often involving criminal behavior. The ideal child-curriculum-pedagogy fit for each stage of growth for each child varies so much that understanding the child is a valuable educational skill. Parents are in a unique position to exercise this skill.

Where teachers do outperform parents as professionals is in leading a group of students to achieve standards in tandem within a large bureaucracy. The skill of deep per-child customization and response becomes less important than skills like public speaking, organizational psychology, reporting and forming rapport with strangers. Trained teachers outperform any particular child’s parent in these tasks.
All about Common Symbols
Relevant moment:

https://youtu.be/sbSDsbDQjSU&t=208
> I don't think I want the Fed to have access to every recipient and source of every dollar I ever spend.

That won't matter much when people inevitably start to trade in a physical proxy.
Ask HN: Tools to prevent information loss in modern Open Source communication?
I have noticed that, mostly for obvious reasons, new OSS projects stopped using IRC, Google groups, forums, mailinglists and even Github for communication purposes; instead I see Discord, Slack and Telegram. While these tools work well, their search capability is awful, but what is worse, at least to me, the content in these platforms stays there and is not indexed by DDG, Google etc. A lot of valuable information is getting lost that way; internals are discussed in detail and disappear when channels are cleaned up, destroyed etc.

What are tools (bots? I could imagine a free service you can have sign up to a server/group which lurks and dumps 24 hour archives to HTML), alternatives and ways to reverse this process? Or does no one else see this as an issue?
Attractiveness affected reply rates for men and women about the same.[1]

[1] https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/yourlooksandyo...
Let me break that trend and say that I enjoyed driving to work. I spent an hour total (back and forth), sometimes 1.5 hours if I went during peak traffic. But it was time I enjoyed: I would listen to my favorite music, think, and have time to transition from one environment to another. I'd arrive at the destination refreshed. Working from home feels like being a caged animal whose 'change of scene' is a twenty-yard walk to another corner of the cage.

I agree with the sentiment you have expressed in your comment, though. Every person has a threshold beyond which the commute goes from a daily ritual that one looks forward to, to an ordeal that one ends up dreading, and it varies from one person to another. I have been lucky to have always had a commute below my pain threshold.
Another colleague reused his earmuffs and earplugs
from the gun range, but I think most of those are
pretty uncomfortable.

You can definitely get ones that are about as comfortable as a pair of comfortable over-ear headphones.

Ideally, everybody struggling to work in an office would wear big, absurd earmuffs.

Maybe if management looked around and saw that 80% of their employees were geared up like they were working on the tarmac of a busy fucking airport just to get some work done, they would rethink the hell of open offices.

Nah. They wouldn't.
Remote:hybrid:on-site preference seems to be 3:2:1
Give away all that money.
My App definition was a bit too narrow maybe, games too tend to be multi platform.

I think that’s possible when the App and user interaction model is completely custom - like shooting zombies or drawing 3D shapes.

That's also party why browsers can't replace every app(the browsers have it's own opinion about the UI and interactions), the other reasons are performance and access limitations.
while 戦 does indeed mean "war/battle", 作戦 means "tactics/strategy" which can be used in a military context but doesn't have to be. Japanese has a lot of compound words, so looking at just a single character can be a bit misleading.
>When public discourse was a physical event, you were forced to hear both sides as they exist in your neighborhood.

Were you alive during the 20th century? If so, can you maybe go into more context for what you're referring to, because this was not my experience in my neighborhood.

>instead, listen to a small cult on the other side of the planet if it so suits you. Take, for instance, those few who have left the west to join ISIS

There were cults and converts before the Internet. Some were very famous. You haven't heard of any of them? People...uh...found a way.
So the problem with fasting is it depletes things like glutathione from the liver. Fast too much and the body will catabolise itself, ie loss of muscle mass and so on, plus things like ketosis acidosis can be a risk for some.

The hygienists (1950's US based org headed by a bloke called Shelton) were into fasting and it was what Christians Lent was originally about. Now water is also a factor with fasting so if you take Islam's no food or drink during daylight hours, that type of fasting caused an increase in blood sugar levels due to the lack of fluids. When you have no food or drink parts of the immune system increase rapidly and will attack the body so you get into autoimmune disease territory.

The world record is actually 382 days done in 1971 at the University of Dundee. Just water and electrolytes, but the bloke started from an obese state in the first place. He might still be alive today.

There are risks with many things, not only eating (diabetes/protein rich depression) but different types of fasting. Even the paleo diet which is like a ketogenic dieting has its risks. So thats protein rich, but some chemicals like tryptophan will not be absorbed in the presence of other proteins, they compete in the gut. Copper & Zinc iirc also compete. Then there is the form so we have a gut enzyme which limits our ability to absorb ferric iron ie fe3 or iron oxide (the brown rust you get when you cook meet), but its possible to absorb lots of ferrous iron (fe2), but then too much iron can cause its own problems like internal bleeding.

Ultimately it depends on what your goals are for intermittent fasting in the first place.
If you have $500k in savings and still feel trapped, you’re living in the wrong city. You could easily take a 1 year off to rest up and still have a substantial safety net at the end of it. However, I’m presuming this $500k isn’t liquid.

As for advice, if I could stay at home and hang out with my 18 month old day, I would. Work is overrated.
I used to use a chair. Now I use a stool. I get up to walk around more often, now.

In "Pushing Tin", Billy Bob Thornton's character took his folding chair with him wherever he worked. That must have been based on some real character.
Superficial and ignorant. Need journalists who don’t just repeat press releases with clearly labeling as such.

> With a digital dollar, you could in theory eliminate those middlemen. If you wanted to buy a sandwich, for instance, you could transfer money from a digital wallet directly to a cashier.

Cash has no ?middleman. You trade one set for… how direct is the transfer? Who is extracting the money from your account, depositing into theirs?

Can you invest them and get returns? Put them in the bank and get returns?
Bitcoin was invented to specifically avoid centralization, so it definitely doesn't solve the same problems.
Commuting to a crowded downtown core every day never made sense to me. I much prefer WFH. In my admittedly well appointed home office, I am much more focused, productive and it's easier to connect with my distributed team via video chats, Slack messages and Huddles.

I do go into a corporate office about once a week and candidly I have issues with concentration and productivity because of the open office and stark lighting. To take calls or video chats you have to step away from your desktop setup (monitor, etc) to find any empty conference room so you don't have to compete with other people talking in the open office area. Sometimes when I go in I am the only one on a floor with 50+ desks. Those days are slightly better for productivity, but the vaunted social aspect of the office isn't there anymore. Or other team members are in so randomly and infrequently that the serendipity of water-cooler world problem solving never happens.

While I prefer WFH for a number of reasons, I can understand why people prefer the office. But even on the days I appreciate having a corporate office, I still hate the open office configuration. It's almost like WFH has evolved and changed to be much better, and the office is stuck in the past. Candidly, you won't get me to come back into an office consistently, until there is a way for the office to be more like WFH.
Wow, thanks for the timestamps. This wouldn't even pass a driving test.
How does your view comport with the fact that the supply shortages did not actually begin with the trade war or the pandemic? The problem worsened, certainly, but global stock of components had been tight for years before any of these supposed causes.

If fault must be found with the US it is in the consolidation and outsourcing of manufacturing to a small number of manufacturers, removing competitors and excess capacity from the supply chain. China's part has simply been to grow; creating consumers and thus demand for products that it had previously not consumed.
"Free download": pity that phrase can't be erased from the Internet.
>This flight is almost never mentioned, as it doesn't fit the narrative.

It was mentioned repeatedly Walter; if not in the articles, then in the comments. The fact remains that afterward, when regulators put more pilots (two military and one civilian trained) pilots into single-event upset simulations, 1 of the three failed to recover the plane in time.

If you acknowledge the training was faulty, then just let it be. Trim runaway presenting continuously vs. intermittently may not seem that important from a clean room engineer's perspective, but when viewed by a pilot through the lens of instruments, blaring alarms, and whatever else is going on in the cockpit, my engineer's optimism favors not relying on the human being perfect, or the defect only happening at a non-terminal part of the flight regime.

It sucks that it played out the way it did. Maybe if someone would have spent as much time on MCAS and the pilot training as you did the 757 auto-trim, it wouldn't have been an issue.

But they didn't. And innocents paid for it.
> 86% vs. 98% isn't mild hyperbole

you're splitting hairs. 7x .02 doesn't change the trend.
I disagree on the idea that it would render crypto useless.

In one aspect this would absolutely fail to address an entire section of the crypto market - privacy. You can attempt to make the tired “if you have nothing to hide” argument against it, but I don’t think that will change a privacy conscious person’s mind to suddenly accept centralized spending tracking by the gov.

The other area this would utterly fail to address would be the existence of a central authority. Failure to understand why people in crypto look so negatively at centralization is a failure to understand why Bitcoin exists in the first place, and how it was a direct response to the 2008 crash and subsequent reaction of the USG. I’m sure a portion of the modern day crypto “investors” would migrate to whatever the USG puts out, but it certainly wouldn’t be embraced by a large part of the overall crypto community.
Mind-boggling, Dan. What did he say that even remotely comes close to "ideological flamewar hell"? Is "leftists" the keyword? Is criticism of "today's leftists" forbidden here?

Meanwhile this thread[0] that rants about the supposed evils of the "US right" (burning Harry Potter books? complaining abut D&D and heavy metal? what is this, 1995?) is not flagged, not dead, and not officially chastised, despite being several levels deep and the originator having doubled-down on the flamebait.

And then, when people say that HN comments seem biased toward the left, you express bewilderment. As I've said before, whether or not you personally apply moderation fairly, the fact is that the community does not, and the leftist bias is obvious. It's much like the supposed bias in policing: if people of one group get the cops called on them, and the people of another group don't, then even if the cops are fair in their interactions, which group are they going to end up policing?

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30239153
Who is going extinct?
I don’t remember the case, but I read somewhere that the Supreme Court drew a distinction between deciding not to add something vs taking away what was already there in regards to school libraries.

Assuming this is referring to Maus, it wasn’t a part of the curriculum, it was just a book that was available in the library. The school board removed it from the library, clearly in an effort to limit access to it.
Thank you, will look into it!
Facebook's metaverse creates 'personal bubble' after rampant virtual groping
I have a foreign wife and it really drives home one truth: America is a very nuanced place. We have this idea of almost unlimited free speech. Which sounds great, but in practice, it is not really true. Because ultimately, Americans do not have equal rights. We see this over and over in different aspects of society. The Frederick Douglas example from Boston in the article is a great example of why free speech is good. But the truth is it is the same kind of people who are always preventing free speech in meaningful ways. If your takeaway from the speech is that "all kinds of speech need to be heard", you might be philosophically correct. But, again, in practice, the people in power do not allow free speech. And this is fundamentally different from most examples of cancel culture.
Well, frankly $500k may not go that far given my liabilities
I worry the TRA (not high-speed) in Taiwan will collapse. It’s a separate system from the high-speed HSR system, and aside from Taipei, their stations are separate and only loosely connected by buses or metro in Kaohsiung. It’s a shame, because the HSR can get from north to south in about two hours, but the stations are all outside the city centers. TRA stations are far more convenient, and the network is far more extensive, but Taiwan has a strong car culture. Despite an excellent rail system, many people will opt to sit bumper to bumper traffic on weekends and holidays.

TRA has also been poorly managed and doesn’t have a great safety record compared to other developed nations. I worry that as more and more people want to demonstrate their new wealth by driving, ridership on TRA will fall, and without integration with HSR it can’t even serve as a feeder network and we’ll be stuck with a high-speed rail too far outside the cities to be useful without driving and parking at the station.
> A good chunk of the engineers at Boeing are also pilots

I don't know how you square that with the MCAS disaster. Everything relating to it ( design, piss poor implementation that somehow passes tests and certification, hiding it from the FAA, airlines and pilots) at best indicates that the people involved have maybe seen an airplane, once, from afar.

IIRC the Ethiopian pilots followed the Boeing airworthiness directive to the letter and the plane still crashed. Boeing accepted responsibility for the crashes. Sadly there won't be any criminal prosecution and it's highly unlikely there will be significant changes at Boeing and the culture that led to 300+ dead will probably lead to other issues ( like the poor quality on the 787s manufactured in South Carolina). How many people have to die for serious changes to be made?

I hope that future Boeing models will require full certification from the EASA and other aviation authorities, the FAA has zero legitimacy.