skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the OP is MEP

They are the worst kind of neutral sources.

Talking from experience.

EDIT: I've worked as a tech consultant on this matter and commented on previous submissions .

MEPs are constantly lobbying for their own side, which is completely normal, but their job is the exact opposite of being neutral

My position as a regular citizen, not as consultant, is that secrecy is not a given, privacy is.

If I send a letter to someone, the letter is not secret.
Anyone who can read can open it and read the content

Privacy on the other hand means that the aforementioned letter cannot be opened by anyone who's not been authorized. It's against the law.
Not brilliant and highly productive any more?
Personally kefir, sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha - all give me lots of bloating even after trying out for weeks. Maybe thats just how its supposed to be? Not sure but I stopped after a while after it affected my daily life
Weird question perhaps, some research suggests that bacteria source nutrients from the cell lining in the gut if there is an absence of sufficient nutrients from the food coming into the digestive system. (example: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(16)31464-7)

That made me wonder what the triggers might be, since the studies see the corroding effect appear in diets deficient in polyphenols/insoluble fibres. At what interval do microbes need nutrients and is simply eating a highly-processed snack that has nothing much to offer bacteria in the gut a possible trigger in itself?
> Just don't take away autonomy out of spite.

It's not a question of taking away autonomy, and there's certainly no spite about it. If you want to get around town, you have bikes or e-bikes. If you want to get out of urban centers, you can always rent a car at the periphery.

I've lived in SF for 10 years with no car and have never felt unable to do anything I've wanted at any time.

> If you want to pick blackberries at the local farm, you need a passenger car.

Not really, the farm can have a bus with regularly scheduled pick-ups or routes like a lot of the Napa wineries do.
Plenty of build outputs are compressed collections of files.

Maybe you want to distribute a .jar, .deb, .whl, or docker image?
Family, brewing beer, lock picking, repairing stuff (which ties in with learning new things), cooking.
How do I stop feeling overwhelmed at work?
I'm a business analyst doing all data work for some middle man company. Atm, I feel overwhelmed, one email after the other, demanding me to finish all the reports (all still in dev. stage for this new program). Sometimes I just stare at the screen, I couldn't even start anything. And then there's constant distraction (Ms teams, more emails...).

I got assigned to this new program where I have to build all the reports from scratch. I do like building and creating but it just got to a point when it feels overwhelming.

When I found out someone else is going to revamp everything that I created for the old program I was handling, I felt even more demotivated. No wonder I couldn't even finish anything now.

I was promised of promotion and wage increase this quarter but now I feel like I wont be getting it as I cannot fulfill the demands anymore.
In your opinion, what is the best study that shows direct evidence that changes in gut flora can change health outcomes (preferably something that is a randomized control study). The only area I feel comfortable that good data exists is in the setting of fecal transplants for refractory clostridioides difficile infection. Thanks.
hmm.. Indeed as homo sapiens, we no longer have to forage on the Savannah and are far safer than our ancestors within in our nations, states, cities with our PS5s, 401Ks, I sometimes do wonder.. WTF is the point of my existence
Part of the issue is not just the density of the fuel but also the fact that the weight remains the same no matter how much of it you use. With gasoline/coal/etc. when you use the product it then decreases the weight of the amount of fuel stored, you don't get that loss with batteries so while you get "additional" gains with e.g. aviation fuel the further you are along your trip and the more you've burned, you don't get that with batteries.
Aren't Eleuther's models libre and free though?

https://www.eleuther.ai/faq/

> Are the codebases free software?

GPT-Neo is MIT-licensed, while GPT-NeoX is licensed under Apache 2.0. These are the most freely-termed licenses that we can provide for each codebase respectively.

Mesh Transformer JAX is licenced under Apache 2.0.

> Are the models free software?

EleutherAI is licensing models under Apache 2.0. If you use our models, we would highly appreciate you citing or displaying your usage of them.
Pentium 3 isssue? Immediately knew it's an old article.
> One explanation may be that when the neurons shut off, they don’t require as much oxygen, so blood leaves the area. As the blood leaves, pressure in the brain drops, and CSF quickly flows in to maintain pressure at a safe level.

If this theory about the blood leaving the brain due to the neurons needing less of it during sleep is true, then possibly that could be a supporting argument for why being more relaxed (i.e less stressed) before sleep is helpful for better sleep. My explanation for the hypothesis in the previous sentence is that the neurons due to being more worked out from being stressed would require the oxygenated blood to replenish them and thus the CSF would not naturally be able to seep in early while in bed for sleep.
A big part of the hate for teachers unions is the inability to fire bad teachers.

>California has more than 1,000 school districts and 300,000 teachers, yet only 667 dismissal cases were filed with the Office of Administrative Hearings between January 2003 and March 2012, according to the Los Angeles Unified School District”s chief labor and employment counsel, Alex Molina. Only 130 of those actually got to the hearing stage, and 82 resulted in dismissals — fewer than 10 a year.

https://www.willitsnews.com/2013/01/26/firing-a-tenured-teac...
he literally not only imagined it, but did it!
NVIS Experiment for Regional EmComm
My old business partner started a small company and built software and worked directly with small contractors to do exactly this. They seriously don’t care and don’t see a need for it.

The real problem is a lot of these contractors and subcontractors are running micro businesses—with just a person or two involved—and it’s usually independent subs all the way down. But they don’t treat it as a business—it’s just work. It’s how they earn a living. They don’t want to be businesses. The ones who care and think of it like a business are night-and-day different.
Hiking & photography mostly.

The photography I'm not very good at, but I enjoy it and I'd like more time to do it available to get better at it.
No, and it's not even possible to completely stop human movement. At the end of the day you need trucks to get across, etc. But getting close to perfect isolation is feasible: this is where monitoring and testing becomes most important, as you have to react quickly to contain any outbreak leakage.

Importantly, the key benefit of this approach is that it allows you to open up in a controlled fashion areas that are clear of any outbreaks. So while the measures are most extreme and most costly up front, they ultimately are economically advantageous because they are of shorter duration.
- reading (in particular, I love long, epic series, which keep me from having to decide on another book when I finish one)

- bicycles (repair, improvements, and, more importantly, touring/getting around my city)

- coffee, in particular espresso

- writing, though admittedly I haven’t produced as much fiction as I’d like

- hiking

- running

- DIY repair, from laptops to ovens to dishwashers (or maybe I’m just cheap?)

- building out and managing my music library and self-hosted streaming setup
It follows from basic math that, if I dislike Feinstein the most, I dislike the other 99 senators less.

However, it doesn't follow from:

“Feinstein is the senator I dislike the most”

That I don’t mind the other 99, or any subset thereof.
Programmers often feel invested in the success of their product but that's not what they're incentivized to do. They're incentivized to produce fast results that are bad in ways that you have to be a programmer to understand.

If you have to be a programmer to understand why something's bad, who's going to prevent it? This is a major unsolved problem in the structure and organization of working.
It's .02% -> .005%, not .08 -> .02. In other words, a few days of life expectancy. I certainly understand your decision, and I made the same decision, but I can also understand reaching an alternative decision about a booster (especially for those younger than you, or those who had worse reactions to the initial vaccine), where the discomfort and hassle might not be worth the small increase in life expectancy.
It's not that inspirational in reality. I worked for a company that produced software for banks converting their systems over to Windows in the 90s. The resulting packages are still being sold to new financial institutions by the company that bought the company that bought the company that bought the company I worked for at the time. Heh. One of my old coworkers there still makes some decent money as a consultant supporting it.

I also worked on some ATM software at the same company, but it was pre-windows and I doubt it's running many places, much less being sold still.
I'll take "all services are down, we need to fix it now" over any job interview. At least I know what the problem is, where to start looking for causes, and probably how it can be fixed.
The car does a right turn on a red without stopping. I wouldn't call that "flying through a red". It's closer to the "rolling stop" behavior. I'm guessing he didn't see any cross traffic in that lane and just let it go.
Here's how it looks on Android and iOS -

https://docs.beeware.org/en/latest/_images/tutorial-5-launch...
https://docs.beeware.org/en/latest/_images/tutorial-5.png
This is the way.

There are a handful of libraries written by core Django developers that can be beneficial given their intimate knowledge of the framework and how those packages tend to fit neatly (often before being outright integrated into the core)
Great to see the gut brain axis becoming more well known in medicine. Less than 10 years ago it was considered near pseudoscience to consider that the gut could actually influence the brain.

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/wellness-and-preventi...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/#:~:tex....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%E2%80%93brain_axis
Tangentially related: digital currencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum have spawned a burgeoning physical-document-security industry. If you don't want your private key to leave the airgapped computer that created it, but you do want a backup, then you might manually etch, engrave, or stamp your key onto metal rectangles. Some companies are now providing kits to facilitate this tedious process. It's a little steampunk.

Even more tangentially related: if you've seen the Rick and Morty episode "Morty's Mind Blowers," do you know the name of the red container that Summer snapped open to reveal emergency recovery instructions? You also see them in old Atomic Age movies. I don't know if they've had any practical application in the last 20-30 years, but they are pretty cool and maybe useful for protecting the secrets mentioned above.
Which is at the bottom? It's like that by design.
> convolution

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

I am not sure I would like to see dogs convolved with humans.
The general clearance envelope you're looking at is AAR Plate H:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gabarit_AAR_Plate-H....
MPR's Traffic Updates Include Bike Commuter Info Thanks to Pedaling Pastor
Weird, they could embed all of this in the php file and echo it, keeping it one file.
> The homeschool support groups add a lot in this context

Also was home schooled for 5 years. From watching others I can fairly confidently say my parents were far above average for the time and area in terms of being educators and trying to get ahead of the "socialization" curve. They had degrees and tried their best to teach to lesson plans prepared by professionals, modifying as they saw fit.

These groups tout how well-rounded they are, but many are bluntly filled with extremist nutjobs. Abusively so in many cases. My parents were utterly blind to this, and to this day like to talk about how "well rounded" socially I was.

I was not. I was exposed to the nutjobs and crackpots of society in a fairly intimate manner at a very young age, with very little supervision other than whichever adults were performing a given lesson at the time.

Not saying this to scare anyone away from home schooling. If done thoughtfully, carefully, and evidence-based it certainly can have great outcomes. I just have my hairs stand on end when I hear folks talk about these groups as some sort of fix for the problem - when in fact they are the problem to begin with in my experience.

Homeschool may be becoming more "mainstream" but I think a lot of folks just now starting out due to the pandemic are in for some very hard truths in the next couple years.
I pretty much only use hand tools and I construct things using traditional joinary. It is challenging on a lot of levels. Finding a design that works, the joints you choose, the order you alter each piece of wood and the skill in which you weild your tools.

It's hard. There are so many ways to get it wrong and it's obvious when you have. It's usually a fixable when you or cheap enough to do again, so it there is low pressure except from yourself to be good.

The basic skills are highly transferable so it makes sense to invest in yourself.

I find this combination suites my personality. I've been doing it for 7 years and love it just as much as when I started. Probably more.
My personal favorite: "An unexpected error has occurred." (Apple!). Or the more casual phrasing "This should never happen." (open source!).

I sympathize though. Ironically these messages are often written by people who try to do the right thing by detecting as many error cases as possible. Eventually their creativity fails, and, well...how would you describe an unexpected case within the framework of all the other cases which have simple explanations?

This could be tolerable in some cases/products (presumably the failure case is very rare) -- but for a special sort of torture, apply this kind of error handling 10x (or 100x) throughout the codebase!

(Absolute) Minimum mitigation: add a (unique!) error code to the inscrutable message, e.g. "An unexpected error has occurred, code T-2600.", and give customer support (and debugging engineers) something to work with. Maybe even a crumb for resolution via web search.
Is there such a thing as a non-user facing system with a user interface?
Or willing to pay so much to the current owners of land for all the miles of railways you would have to purchase to do the same here
Executes faster and uses less resources for probably providing remote exploit opportunities :-))
Imagine for a moment

I think this is the problem - you are imagining a question that isn't being asked by telling someone to just not make that problem.

This person asked for book on managing complexity. You are saying 'just don't make software as complex and do it by not making software at all'. That is two steps removed from being any sort of answer to this question.
Not sure if you have heard of the low FODMAP diet? Its now the standard treatment for IBS. The theory is certain bacteria ferment FODMAPS into gas and water which leads to the symptoms. They don't know which bacteria yet but going low fodmap is now a well researched and accepted treatment.

Everyone is different but personally, I'm able to tolerate everything except Fructans (one of several types of FODMAPS). So no garlic, onion or wheat for me.

https://www.monashfodmap.com/ibs-central/i-have-ibs/starting...
Many NDAs include language preventing just what you said, and allowing one party to seek an injunction from a judge preventing disclosure and a breach. Violating a judges injunction will usually result in jail time, not just a fine.
You don't have to look at other industries. Other auto-manufacturers do their testing on test tracks.
Does this really make sense in terms of actual dollars? There is just no way that google spends less than 1% of its income on employees, right? Even 10% is way way too low. It’s probably closer to to 35% with another 25% or so going to keeping the lights on (data centers are expensive).

What am I supposed to make of the rest of the argument when it’s predicated on a number that is probably off by 50x?
Do you think that civilization only exists within city limits?
* Having extreme fluency in one data wrangling tool for text and tabular data. Could be bash + awk + grep/sed/cut and other shell tools, Python + numPy, Ruby, etc. The point being that given a table or a text file you should be able to extract whatever information you want quickly without thinking.

* Fluency in Postgres, specifically its aggregate functions, window functions, and CTAs. Again, given a company's dataset you should be able to write complex queries to answer business-critical questions in a few minutes to be able to drive decisions. As an aside, knowing that UNIX system usually has sqlite installed and is the fastest way to analyze local tabular data.

* Being a competent writer. Some people command clear thinking, gravitas, and vision when they write. It is easily the most important skill when remote working, and a definite shibboleth when you want to sound convincing to overeducated knowledge workers. Being able to explain complex topics to a lay audience had gotten me many jobs.

* Knowing how to use AdWords, Google Trends and mailing lists to quickly validate product ideas. This is one of the easiest ways to discard or validate ideas. It's so useful and quick and such a simple way to avoid months of wasteful work.

* Knowing the basics of Western philosophy and psychology. Everything humans do fits within a system of values a loosely consistent logics. 99% of people rarely think outside of those value systems, and if you understand the history of philosophy you'll see that we're quite predictable in our wants and desires. It helps you be more persuasive, choose the right work for your own preferences, put people to work where they'll feel useful and fulfilled, and will help you see the pitfalls of certain group dynamics for whatever institution you're working for.
Very interesting! I actually have both Crohn’s and bipolar disorder, and one anecdote that’s interesting (to me) is that the TNF inhibitor I’m on, which has put Crohn’s in remission, has simultaneously appeared to have a positive effect on the mood disorder side of things as well.

Really cool to see the GI getting so much research!

Edit: Found an interesting study that addresses the relationship between TNF and mood disorders - go figure!

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19477018/
I have learned to ignore ads in general, except when I use a search engine and the top results are ads. When that happens, I spitefully avoid clicking the sponsored links, even if they are pointing to where I want to go. I will intentionally scroll down further and click into the unsponsored links. Maybe I'm just weird, but at the very least, I'm confusing the algorithms.
It's been described as a "cat's brain" equivalent of neurons. Largely seems attached to regulating various rhythms of the gut, but who knows what computations it could be influencing.
Looks like it might be possible but difficult on mobile: https://docs.beeware.org/en/latest/tutorial/tutorial-6.html

"On desktop platforms (macOS, Windows, Linux), any pip-installable can be added to your requirements. On mobile platforms, your options are a little more limited - you can only use pure Python packages i.e., packages that do not contain a binary module.

This means that libraries like numpy, scikit-learn, or cryptography can be used in a desktop app, but not a mobile app. This is primarily because mobile apps require binary modules that are compiled for multiple platforms, which is difficult to set up.

It’s possible to build a mobile Python app that uses binary modules, but it’s not easy to set up – well outside the scope of an introductory tutorial like this one."
> But I found that the hardest errors for beginners are linker errors

I am with you on that one. I just didn't consider the linker as part of the compiler. I mean, wtf is a ctor and a vtable?

Now, I know, but when I started programming, the linker was the scariest part for me, and it took me a while to be somewhat comfortable with it. Obviously, error messages didn't help. The good thing is that linkers (static and dynamic) don't change as much as compilers, so it is useful knowledge in the long run. Understanding ELF files really helped me on that one.
I appreciate you pointing out the nuances in how it might play out, not just for the user, but also for the moderation of it behind the scenes. The pains and scalability of moderation is something I've thought about a lot when I've been imagining myself as the admin/moderator, yet, oddly enough, I easily forget about it when I just think about myself as the user.

For example, as a user on HN, I've often felt so lost in having conversations longer than a day, because I only notice upticks in my karma (is that what it's called here?) number and if someone replied to something not on the first page of my threads, then it may as well disappear. So I've wondered why HN doesn't have notifications, yet maybe there's a hidden moderation pain that I'm not imagining behind the scenes.
Despite some advice here, I beg you - don’t get married and don’t get children out of boredom or to fix yourself.

Firstly, this will not fix you. I’ve been there.

Secondly, it will make another human being suffer and bear a part if your sh..t.

It is only your own responsibility to find your own meaning and your own happiness.
We did not yet achieve brain scale compute.

Current machine learning models have around ~100B parameter, human brain has ~100T synapses. Assuming one DNN parameter is equivalent to 1 synapse, then the biggest models are still 1000 times smaller than human brain.

Cat or dog would have around ~10T synapses.

AlphaCode has ~50B parameters, that is 20 times less than number of synapses in a mouse brain ~1T. Honey bee has ~1B synapses.

So AlphaCode would be somewhere between a honey bee and a domestic mouse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_animals_by_number_of_n...
Ice Spikes: Strange things you can find in your freezer
You lose nothing. You just tell the backend by accept header what you expect it to return.
The first example I see is expanded access to voting rights. Since when did this become a partisan issue?

Between January 1 and December 7, at least 19 states passed 34 laws restricting access to voting [1]. This should be a concern for any American citizen with the right to vote; don’t turn this into some politicized drama.

Let me be clear; this is the very foundation of our democracy. I find it simply appalling that there would be proponents for this.

[1] https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/voti...
No. Mostly because I am now at a FAANG and the quality of engineers is much better than previously (large not-so-interesting Bay Area startups that get the quality of engineers they can afford to pay, aka well below FAANG), so it is more difficult to stand out.

And the few times I could stand out by making insightful observations in front of senior leaders, it is just not worth it and prefer to let team mates take the lead. I am truly happy being an averagely productive team member, my main goals in life are now towards reaching financial freedom in a few years, and with some luck I am on track even without swinging for the fences on the career side. Senior engineers at FAANG are paid unbelievably well.
And if I didn't request a password reset ... I'd like to hear about it.