skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus one on health. Probably the last thing I’ll stop paying for is my trainer / coach. (I am doing gymnastics)

My life has picked up so much momentum after that.

A failed relationship left a hole in my heart and existence. A failed business also sucked—but much less) Health is the first foot forward.

And sports with people is probably the best way to go! (OP you have the cash for a trainer. Do it!)
I'm using a Blackberry Key2 phone which has a keyboard built in. Sadly, I've just learned they are no longer being made. Not sure what I'll do when this one breaks.
That makes a lot more sense, all the usernames are green, unlike the posted link ;)
> I have just under 500k in debt and about 30k in savings ... Most of that debt is a house (that needs a lot of restoration)

I feel like the concept of net worth is crucial to communicate things like these effectively. Reading your comment, I can't even figure out if you are in the red or in the green.
If you get started with R, I heavily suggest to use some kind of IDE such as RStudio or Jupyter Notebook. It makes your life so much easier.
There are apparently exploits against Intel ME on some platforms that do indeed allow executing these instructions as an end consumer.
> Have those taken over "the trough" so thoroughly?

Definitely! In 12+ years in Japan I could count the number of times I've used a squat toilet on one hand. Anywhere remotely nice has bidets.
Wow, Twitter really turns everything political and toxic these days.
About 5 years or so. It's probably done well over 1000 cycles since then. It's had one breakage, which was a heat pump, which was repaired with a part from ebay. Other than that, its going strong.
Let me see if I get the analogy right:

"Being handsome positively correlates with being a jerk" as attested to by the ladies at the dinner party.

Since all the ladies only ever date handsome men (making them the jerks), they fail to account for all the men who are not handsome, but also jerks.
Nope; social life is important. I find that I get overwhelmed and drained with large groups, but doing things with a group small enough to fit in a car together is fine. I personally have some hobbies I enjoy for their own sake, and meeting people through those has been rewarding. It’s good to have a mix of “close friends” who you can be open and will support you emotionally, and “activity buddies” who you can geek out about your shared interests with.

Humans are not meant to go through the world alone and modern life can be incredibly isolating. It takes effort to build social connection but it is well worth it.
I’m 30, in sort of a similar position.

How terrible of an idea is grad school? Honestly any… but recommendations would be cool. MBA, law, cs, psychology/sociology…
Sounds like the local jobs couldn’t compete?
> Math and software prefer lon, lat.

I had always thought math prefers lat, lon ...well not lat (which is the altitude angle) but polar angle. But anyway, this order: polar, azimuth. Turns out I have been getting all my spherical coordinates math from physics, which uses polar, azimuth. But math uses azimuth, polar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical_coordinate_system

But then again: Where does math even use spherical coordinates that is not physics related?
Socioeconomic Background and Gene–Environment Interplay in Social Stratification
IMHO, the key element were 1) foam, 2) warmth. When large bodies of water are formed, wind and earthquakes started to generate waves, waves started to generate foam from floating organic compounds, and warmth start to generate complex reactions, like in a lava tube. We can see similar things at a shore after a tanker spill. Water-organic foam cells are similar to life cells. In a few cubic km of organic foam, short samples of RNA can be formed just by chance. RNA + RNA transferase can produce copies of itself, forming a primitive virus.
Cool!!! Is there maybe something similar for wines and spirits?
Actually, we made a real mess of things in other countries by attempting everything except direct cash payments.

There is really interesting history around the food rationing program from the Red Cross that actually just increased human trafficking.

It may turn out that direct cash payments are the most efficient means because then you parallelize the distribution of decisions.
R has many cases of inconsistency. Like substitute

"its value is substituted, unless env is .GlobalEnv in which case the symbol is left unchanged."

dim and dims :-)

R could do more here. I really like R.
I'll give you a proposal. For $30k, I'll share you real good ideas and optimistic project I've been thinking about for a while. With that amount, I'll be able to quit my job and you can become a partner in building the product. It'll give you a purpose for some time.
> That is not always true. There’s some overhead to introducing parallelization so it’s not always worth it unless you have a big enough chunk of work.

This isn't fine-grained parallelism though! As I said, HVM spawns threads on to-be-evaluated redexes closes to the root of the program's normal form. So, either there is a significant speedup, or the program is sequential (or too small), and there is no speedup, but the overhead is minuscule, since a bounded, small amount of spawn() occurs. To be clear: there is no situation where HVM's parallelism will make the program significantly slower, which *does* happen if you use too many sparks on Haskell. That will never happen on HVM.

> But the other reason fine grained parallelism isn’t often worth it even if it can provide a speedup for a single computation:

Yep that's definitely a good reason. Thanks for sharing. (You can just run HVM in a single thread, though.)

> It’s very cool in a “wow that’s neat” kind of way, but, well we already have machine ints that are even faster

I couldn't disagree more. Just because I used integers as an example, which happens to be optimized, it means an entire optimization technique isn't interesting? This applies to every data structure that can be defined algebraically.

> My other question - it seems like this approach requires giving up on separate compilation?

Compiling a function in isolation is fine, why wouldn't it be? Not sure I get it.
To start, I absolutely don't think this bill is good, BUT I think there might be potential for some interesting silver lining.

Let's say it's passed and big platforms such as FB need to start heavily policing their users because they become responsible for all published content. This level of moderation is nearly impossible to achieve, so they are forced to heavily limit participation (you can only post a limited amount, posts need to be confirmed before becoming public, AI filters auto-reject various topics etc.).

Users are pissed and move to platforms with "more freedom", but nothing lasts - as soon as they grow, they all hit those same issues.

Because all the responsibility is on the publisher, the only realistic solutions are smaller and more distributed communities. You can self publish your blog or create an invite-only forum/chatroom/Mastodon instance for your friends/family/neighbourhood.

Because now everyone is doing this, hosting providers, ISPs and software publishers adapt by improving UX and reducing technical barrier to entry. It's basically a reneissance of oldschool internet.

Whaddya say, too optimistic?
Hey, I’ll leave it to you to take those jobs away from folks in Netherlands then.

No doubt they’ll be be happy to hear how the country has “dobe just fine”.

Again, another citizen willing to cost a fellow citizen their job. Very brave of you!
I may be missing something... Is bash exec()ing something in the loop? If so, caches will be the least of our concerns; there will be context switches, system calls, and even I/O, all orders of magnitude slower than even DRAM access. Otherwise, what is bash doing in the loop? When is bash ever CPU-bound?... in a library function call... that is also called by the other process?
bookdown has a wealth of online books for R.
What’s worse is that you can’t say ‘end my subscription when the current billing period expires’ - you can only cancel when you’re in a magic 1 month window when your plan is about to renew.

I was 15 years + user of Illustrator and Photoshop - now I actively avoid embedding myself any further into their eco-system.
And that's why we shouldn't fix bugs anymore? https://xkcd.com/1172/

Fixing this would only affect users who send emails "from" other users email addresses, basically users who commit fraud.
Anecdotally, pretty often. They tend to release individual features rather than doing versions.
You're not getting old just yet.

Don't go to bars (drinking for the sake of it is a waste of time) ... except to see live music, or live comedy, or something. Go to festivals, though.

Or start a regular event or a festival with friends, or spend some time helping a local music venue. Or if you don't know those people, join some group that helps people put on events you might want to attend.

At 33, I was handed a bit of a social lifeline and the brief self-esteem to grab onto it, and found my way into a local music scene that I worked how I could to help support, which sustained me personally until the pandemic arrived. Now I find my life is lonely and detached, but 33 is a long time ago. That period of life was good; I look back on it fondly.

Do something to build the kind of life that fits you now. Be part of something: 35 is a time when you can still have fun but you also have life experience and maturity that helps you organise, see more different perspectives, value creating fun for other people, look out for them and take care of them.

And right now, post-pandemic, anything you do to help people re-establish the connections that have gone a bit cold and the friendships that have lost their steam in periods of lockdown and restriction will be welcomed by like-minded people, many of whom will be your age.
Hi, would it be possible to contact you to ask some career questions related to the pharmaceutical industry and data science? I'm a biostatistician who uses R for everything and lately I've been thinking about doing a career change, but I'm a bit lost with all the available options.
No, that isn't true. Java and JavaScript are typically run through a good, optimizing JIT runtime; Python rarely is. Hence the general classification.
Looks interesting, how do you use it?
Plus one in health and physical fitness. Buying a bicycle and using it daily was probably the best investment I ever made in myself. Also, I can't believe that I smoked those filthy cigarretes for so long, but how good is that I stopped this habit.

About material realizations please remind that the average successful enterpreneur age is about 45. I only started being able to save serious, retirement-style money when I've got 40.
You don't need to _have_ a family. But it helps to find one.
I wouldn't know, but either way I don't think OP is rich enough to hamper their chances.
You don’t feel the amount of new things you see slows down considerably as you grow older?

It’s not that you can’t find novel things any more if you go looking for them, but most everyday things hold no more (or less) excitement.

I notice this especially much with my 3 year old son, for whom everything is fascinating. He’ll find out that sticking a bowl upside down in the water and turning it face up will make a lot of bubbles and he’s tremendously excited. I’m excited to see him being excited (which is novel’ish), but the fact that bubbles appear is incredibly mundane now.
The point isn't that you will never be part of something great. The point is to keep your stress level low in regards to work.
80% mechanical keyboard (Vermillo). Fountain pen. 5k monitor.
Actually no RBL alone should be used for decisive actions such as banning.

It's not UCEPROTECT either, big vendors like Cisco with their IronPorts are just as bad.
Not just typos - from [0], we have

“The absence of corrections yesterday was due to a technical hitch rather than any sudden onset of accuracy.”

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/12/guardian-200-t...
What I'm getting at is that Jeff Bezos didn't plan for the bridge to be dismantled, he was probably not even aware of it, and him buying a big boat is besides Amazon's exploitation of workers, tax-avoidance and sucking money out of countries.
They should have done more for the software engineering side of things because people use it for this reason.

For repl driven development or academic code or exercises it is excellent.
> It’s also a good way to find potential relationship partners, although the primary interest should be the dancing, since people can tell if you’re just there to hook up and that will come off as creepy and predatory.

If anyone reading this is lonely and thinking of going to social outings for the purpose of finding a partner: do it. It's ok! It's not creepy or predatory.

Furthermore, reading peoples' minds is very difficult, so people actually can't tell what motivated you to go to a social outing. It's okay to go to a social outing motivated by the prospect of finding a partner, and it's okay to say that you're out to "learn to dance" or to "have a drink" or any number of things.
The successful SME owners I've known have worked in an industry for some time, and have found (often by accident) a profitable niche or pain point. If they needed to build something they've done it themselves with a "For Dummies" book on their lap or hired a student or junior dev for peanuts, but the technical side is very much an afterthought. One or two I know started with just an Excel spreadsheet and a Rolodex of contacts (or the modern equivalents).

Sure their "solutions" were a pile of technical debt held together with duct tape and a prayer, but they got profitable to the point they could afford professional developers to build something more sustainable.

An experienced developer should be able to out-compete these guys out of the park - they would be able to build a solid solution, or at least an MVP with a good foundation, on day 1. But it's quite rare to find a developer with both coding experience and the insights and contacts in a specific industry. Often when I see a developer running a successful SAAS, here or on Indie Hackers, they tend to be selling pickaxes and shovels back to the developer industry such as web analytics, IDE plugins, books, etc. because that's what they know.
I don't have a source for this, but I think R as a language has one of the highest concentrations of users in a single IDE - and for good reason - something like 80% use the free (and amazing) RStudio IDE.
I think it is worthwhile to first look into the fields of Complexity Science/Complex Systems Science and Systems Thinking/Systems Theory for overarching insights : [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex_system and https://complexityexplained.github.io/ ] and [ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systems_thinking and https://thesystemsthinker.com/systems-thinking-what-why-when... ]

For Software specific issues i highly recommend David Parnas' collected papers in the book Software Fundamentals. He and his colleagues defined much of what is mainstream in today's Software Architecture/Organization practice.

Finally, the case studies given here are a great source of insights: https://aosabook.org/en/index.html
seccomp affects syscalls only, which this code doesn't really use. May be worth checking just in case, but it's extremely unlikely that's the issue.
500K in savings, that's nice. I have 1k savings.
I started surfing with 40. And then I found out plenty of people do it, now I am starting with rock climbing.

Plenty of things to see and do after 35. New friends, new activities, new music to listen, new places to go. Don't self limit yourself.
I think you are incorrect on both accounts.

It's easy to spend upward of $10000 on really robust automation, when the same manual process would cost only $3000 over its usable lifetime, and the economical-but-less-robust automation costs $1000 over the same period.

The robust automation, in that case, has over 10× worse ROI. What's wrong with that calculation?

The thing about really robust automation is that for it to pay off, the process have to be static over a large number of executions. For many business needs, the process, or its inputs, change every few executions, and you never get to reap the benefits of robust automation before it needs to be redone at great expense.

As for thinking that it's a dichotomy between "no automation" and "absolutely robust automation"... well, I think you're robbing yourself of a large chunk of the strategy space by refusing to see any middle ground but the two extremes.

Edit: also note that I'm not talking about "failed scripts" at any point. I'm talking about scripts that do exactly what they are supposed to, but they are performing a narrow, easily automated slice of the work. A human can chain such scripts together in the requisite sequence by spending very few minutes of their day.
33 (and 35) is young, please don't think you're over the hill. I'm 38 and I still feel I'm just starting out & there's a lot to look forward to (I'll bet having little kids is a big part of why I feel that way).

Like the above it sounds like a lot of it might be loneliness? I'm not saying it expecting it to be something easy to rectify but if it is the cause it is indeed possible to become less lonely. I dare say it will give you more happiness than a lot of success in your career.
I believe the point here is this: now that the hacker community knows about these opcodes, they can now focus on other ways to access the functionality.

Yes, you currently need Intel equipment to access this functionality today, but its quite probable that some innocuous function on the CPU itself can be used to gain access.

I mean who would have thought just reading and writing memory you already have access to could be used to exfiltrate system secrets? (Riwhammer)
My mum has a Miele washing machine that is almost 30 years old. As far as I know, it's never needed a repair.

Which is probably just as well as Mieles can always be repaired, but the cost of parts is, let's say, dramatic.

My fridge has a broken egg tray lid and a dent in the door. Replacing the former is £35, a freezer door is almost £300 (nearly half the cost of the whole fridge freezer). The fridge door is almost £700, as much as the whole thing!

The egg tray lid is particularly annoying as the plastic part is actually not well-designed and clearly has obvious weak points where a modest redesign would both make a breakage less likely in the first place, and allow the most obvious failure mode to be repaired with a small sacrificial part (that, moreover can be shared amongst all fridge models, so it's not even a major SKU count increase) rather than the whole lid.
Vastly unequal US has world’s highest Covid death toll – it’s no coincidence
Seeing all of those "first name" usernames (eric, matt, greg, justin, ...) reminds me of when my first email address at my university was "matt" because it was on a VAX and almost nobody had accounts. It would be interesting to measure the maturity (half-life?) of a site by the complexity of usernames as all the obvious ones are snatched up. I joined HN pretty early but unfortunately used my standard username instead of grabbing a short one.
I've too felt this way and one of the reasons for this is you're lacking something on which you can't really put a finger on just yet.

Take this test (1) - it's from a book called your best year ever (no affiliation just found it on gr) and though it feels a little pop-pschy it does give you some insight on where you may be lacking and the cause of such feelings.

(1) https://assessments.michaelhyatt.com/lifescore/ (it will ask you for email so use mailinator)
If you look at what's important, you are, in fact, hugely successful. Maybe you're just comparing yourself to others who you probably don't really know. You have achieved quite a lot and for sure more than a great majority of the population.

If you want to feel better and become engaged again, help others. Share your success. Teach. Do hobbies that bring you physically close to a community. There is a lot of research that indicates that volunteering and helping others improves a lot our wellbeing [1].

To me it makes all the sense and I've experienced how it greatly improved my own life. If you like fabrication, the Maker/FabLab movement are awesome (at least here in Portugal).

I'm 46 and some time back, in my early forties, I joined a local CoderDojo club. CoderDojo is a global community of Programming Clubs for Kids. I started there as Mentor, teaching and helping kids having fun with coding and it was a lot of fun. However, the best, was the community itself. I have acquired many new friends and have met a lot of great people between the other mentors, the champions (club leaders/organizers) and also the kids parents. The parents of the younger ones are incentivized to participate.

Good Luck!

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/2020/07/29/voluntee...
[2] https://www.jstor.org/stable/3090173
ESS (Emacs Speaks Statistics) is also a great Emacs package for dealing with R.
There's also the concept of Pagni for the opposite:

https://simonwillison.net/2021/Jul/1/pagnis/
Cats and boats, I have no desire to own either. Sorry, be enslaved to either.
Before that you should have more fear of the lathe.

Yeah and maybe buy the pressure-tank (with over-pressure valve) or just use pressured air.

And if the machine itself blows up...even more fun to repair and improve it.
> play a small part of something impactful that's larger than yourself and will be respected for generations.

So do you know anyone from MS who played part except Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer? I would attribute the guy who invented C# and TypeScript a significant impact, however I don't even know his name without googleing it.
I know people who are older than that and with less in the bank. They live on a sailing yacht and are more happy than most will ever be. They cross oceans when they want to change scenery. They haven’t seen temps lower than 20C in decades, living between the tropics and SE Asia, sailing along the way.
MacOS. Project scripts and software are hardcoded for Mac. The alternative is Windows, but making the project dev environment cross-platform takes time. I dislike non-standard keyboard shortcuts for everything, lack of FAR Manager (using Midnight Commander has the same problem as all the different keyboard shortcuts), its constant annoying notification popups that covert part of my windows, its problem with handling non-Apple mice (have to jump through many hoops to make mouse movements sensible, put mouse wheel in the proper direction etc), its windows rounded corners that cut at the application's view area (run Alacritty without status bar, the rounded corners at the left bottom corner will obscure part of the shell prompt), its support for Linux that is significantly worse than in Windows and probably more that I cba to remember.

The other thing that I dislike but can't get rid of is JVM. Mind you, Python, Go, Javascript and so on is worse, but JVM is what I have to work with, unlike the rest of them.
Interesting. I must admit I've never used substitute.

I tried dims but: Error in dims(iris) : could not find function "dims"

I do find the occasional oddity. I've noticed more very useful messages/warnings (particularly in common tidyverse functions) recently, so I think they help.

To be fair, these quirks are generally very uncommon in day to day use.