skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my kids (~6, ~8) don't have access to videogames and watch TV maybe 30m a day, and not every day, but still don't do chores happily.

I don't think screens are categorically different from other distractions (tho they may be worse in some ways). My daughter will happily spend time reading books after having made a mess with toys rather than tidy up. My son does the same and he can't even read.
> People will talk about decentralization being a good thing — but rather than talk about web3 from the economic lens of decentralization the arguments always flow to crypto scams and environmental factors.

"web3", by the bulk of use, is a pile of crypto advocacy.

I want decentralization. I don't want web3. They're not the same. (Even if at one point they were.)
The concept is great, there are a handful of limitations that become more apparent with actual use. The main one is there is no encoding, just decoding. The generated code and representation of the parsed data also sometimes feel idiomatic to the language used, particularly in cases where I found I had to add extra levels of indirection to satisfy kaitai.
I love that I get to work from home [1], yet I still get together with some coworkers for lunch once a week. Yes, we don't work for the same department, but we used to regularly go out for lunch before the pandemic. It also doesn't hurt that we all live closer to each other than we do the office.

[1] I "work" from the Ft. Lauderdale, Florida office. My manager is in Tampla, Florida, and my two other team members are in Reston, Virginia and Seattle, Washington [2]. There's a push from upper management to get people back in the office in May, but there's no way I'm going in. No point to it.

[2] Due to our company being bought out by a larger company, and the rest of my team basically retiring at the end of 2020.
What does your hourly wage come out to? If you sysadmin an hour per quarter, it’s ($180-12*$6)/4, or $27.

Personally that’s way too little, and I’d absolutely go for a managed option
You're probably not the target market. Not everyone knows how to setup a server by themselves and run a blog and keep backups and keep it running and update it, etc..
Look, I agree that it's biological - I'm not claiming, for example, that people who claim to have 'gender dysphoria' are lying. No doubt there are both men and women who don't feel right in their own bodies. But I draw the line there. I think surgeries and hormone treatments, particularly in children, are abhorrent and that we as a societal are enabling mental illness and self-mutilation. One interesting thing I never see anybody talk about is that perhaps (and I'd suggest this is the case) the reason suicide rates amongst trannies is so high is literally that they are mentally ill/fucked up to begin with. The data show that having the treatments don't actually help the outcomes - ie., if you're miserable as a natural born male, you're likely to be miserable after you undergo genital mutilation and hormone therapy.

Point is - no doubt there's something biologically and cognitively going on with these people (I'd frame it as there being something wrong with them, in the same sense that eating disorders are maladaptive and harmful).

Longwinded way of saying I agree with you.
Forgive me for this digression and for sounding selfish, but as a junior, I’ve really struggled for the last 2+ years to fully adapt to remote / hybrid working.

I’m wondering if anyone has advice on how I can continue to grow and become a top-class engineer within a remote environment?

Based on my experience so far, it’s very difficult to both onboard and mentor a junior from a remote setting. It’s not impossible, however, a lot of employers / teams still have not setup effective means for including and training the less experienced members of the team. I realise that much of this learning is of my own responsibility but I really, really miss spending time with my team and learning from those more experienced than I. I feel as though I have stagnated an awful lot over the last two years and there’s only so far self-learning can take you when software engineering is such a collaborative process.
It was just an exaggeration on my part of course.

But as a European looking at US culture, there is definitely a difference between this "positive thinking" attitude. I guess that's what the first response to your post was referring to.
Thanks, I’m glad somebody has grasped the point I’m making - which is that the whole system is built around coercion, so singling out one arbitrary part of it as involuntary is completely inconsistent and ideological.
I think it's axiomatically true and ML models get a pass on being inefficient because people are so busy being impressed by their magic tricks.

In particular, using ML models for compression would get a free advantage because they're often several GBs where a traditional codec is KBs, so they can hide data in there, but most people wouldn't think of that as being part of the compressed message size.

But they could have very differently shaped dependency trees, especially if you somehow managed to not run an entropy coder as the last step of compression.
Funny, the article explains “how”, but I don’t see any discussion of “why” at all.
As you alluded to, unfortunately we aren't even left with gaudy corporatism. It's just an SEO shitshow now. For certain searches, Google is basically useless. It's the same fucking content copy pasted across 15 results.
The funny thing is that while it is possible to get a PhD at an advanced age, it is probably impossible to land a scientific job at that age.

Sometimes I think when the kids are grown up and I've saved enough for retirement, I'd like to go into science again. Just for fun. I would probably be happy to move to some crazy place and get an intern's salary if the project was interesting and meaningful. Alas, that doesn't seem possible in the academic system.
CDC warns of a steep decline in teen mental health
This has been shared without context but I guess the SQLite team is starting to modularize the btree code in order to facilitate work like SQLightning: https://github.com/LMDB/sqlightning

At the time SQLightning greatly improved SQLite performance but due to LMDB's requirement to have keys fit in 2/3 of a page it wasn't really useful as a general purpose replacement of SQLite's internal b-tree implementation.

EDIT: It looks like SQLightning got adopted and has been worked on by the SQLite team under the name LumoSQL. Here's the project's readme: https://lumosql.org/src/lumosql/doc/trunk/README.md which contains at the end "A Brief History of LumoSQL"
Yeah

The easiest way to have actual affordable housing is to change the "single-family home" zone limitations (this might have changed recently IIRC but it might not)
"sudoedit" is equivalent to "sudo -e".
Individuals may be able to make good decisions for themselves (though, reading this thread, I believe some WFH advocates may just be doing what's convenient, not what makes them happier in the long term), managers need to weigh what's best for the team or the company as a whole. The outcome might be the same, but not necessarily.
It will teach you more about engineering. Most jobs aren’t pushing the boundary of CS knowledge, or doing important discoveries
I use cat file|gzip -9c|base64 -w $COLUMNS To copy and paste files, I've even had to use rdiff/zstd with a dictionary.

Fun indeed.
Oh that's cool! I remember hearing about this mix at the time and wondering how it would sound. I much prefer it, way more in keeping with the indie 'live' vibe of the rest of the album and it feels darker/more menacing because of the greater contrast between the verses and chorus.

I actually always felt the original track stood out (in a bad way) on the album and it's interesting to hear how much of that was introduced by the remix.

The recording style Albini uses here was also in evidence with another classic rock album he references here, PJ Harvey's 'Rid of Me'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeP-AHFk-s

Some people (eg. Elvis Costello) hate this 'naturalistic' style, but I think the overproduced style that dominates radio often strips tracks of their personality.
I don't think meetings are really there for the informational value for a lot of people, but to give face time as a show of strength.

But, I do exactly what you do - I prefer something well-written and it gives me time to think about it. As someone talking to a lot of people within the company, I sometimes get asked to go on a client call. I almost always say no. It's not my job to talk to clients (and that means being ready to look good for them) and saying whatever needs to be said in a call doesn't do much that an email can't do. While being there as an "expert" to the client is probably something that customer-facing people want, I have nothing to gain from it.

Useful meetings engage people : a fresh new idea to have everyone go research more, a way to gather the team to focus on tough questions, or to explain a point better than chat messages.
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I really wonder if that measure (lower levels) is not correlated with veganism, and there might be a cause/consequence confusion there.
There's no monthly payment option. So it's never $15 a month, it's $180 a year.

Also, what if I don't want many of those features? And I don't. This is why the previous plans, which were more graded, made sense. The annual billing option on the other hand caters to customers in need of all these features, who are also likely to be the sort of people who'd be willing to pay $180 at a go.
Damn. That's the equivalent of having to walk to school uphill both ways during a snow storm. It makes me feel really grateful for the hundreds of thousands of man-hours that have been spent on giving us good and reliable tools.
I use this:

01:00.0 Unclassified device [0002]: MEDIATEK Corp. MT7915E 802.11ax PCI Express Wireless Network Adapter

Bought from here: [1]

Works with no hassle as AP under stock Linux kernel.

[1] https://www.asiarf.com/shop/wifi-wlan/wifi_mini_pcie/wifi6-4...
It’s more than just developers, our CEO is in love with in person interactions, so now we have managers at my company who have made a zoom background of their office and work from home to try to keep up appearances. It’s the most bizarre thing. At a big enough company, everyone won’t be in the same office and you’re interacting across regions, so you’re already doing zoom/teams/emails/voicemails/ whatever pre and post pandemic. If you’re spending your day on the phone or email or in conference calls, that can be done from home.
Discord has done more to kill traditional forums than Facebook has.
This line of JS will make the text in every paragraph become black:

document.querySelectorAll('p').forEach(elem => {elem.style.color = '#000'})

You can turn this into a bookmarklet or run it from the console(necessary on sites like github.com which do not allow code running from bookmarklets).

Of course, it will not fix all your text color problems. To cover more elements like lists and headings, you'll need to add them to `querySelectorAll`.

document.querySelectorAll('p, ul, ol, h1, h2, h3, h4').forEach(elem => {elem.style.color = '#333'})

`#333` is what Firefox Reader Mode uses because it's less heavy than full black (#000).
>Your point is good, but it turns out that a lot of really expensive parts of Manhattan aren't anywhere near as dense as they should be, such as:

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.744212,-74.0017042,3a,90y,34...

I'm not sure what you're getting at here.

I live in the area (in fact, I grew up there too) covered by the link you posted and don't know what you mean about density.

Yes, many of the older buildings are only 12-15 stories tall, although a bunch are 20, 30 or even 40 stories tall.

And yes, there are many brownstones (usually 4 or 5 stories tall, with 1-2 apartments per floor) on side streets as well. And there are buildings like mine (5 stories tall with 4 apartments per floor with a lot size of ~4,000 sq ft.).

But there are zero single family homes.

Or are you suggesting that we bulldoze Central Park and build 500-600 60 story residential buildings because Central Park is wasted space?

As a Manhattanite, not having Central Park (or Riverside Park, or any of the other greenspace in Manhattan for that matter) would make upper Manhattan completely unlivable.

Please do elucidate on this. What mechanism could significantly increase the density of Manhattan housing?

This ought to be interesting.
The slogan was always cut short. Here's the entire thing:

"Information Wants To Be Free. Information also wants to be expensive. ...That tension will not go away."

Well, it's even slightly more complicated than that but you can read the details here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_wants_to_be_free

Deep thinkers were always aware of these tensions. Cyberpunk writers in the 90s and even 80s correctly predicted a lot of what is going on right now, namely the use of technology to cover reality in gaudy advertisements (that could look back at you), as well as corporations gaining powers that used to be associated with nation states (for example, policing speech). People just hoped it would not turn out like this... I still have a feeling that it didn't have to.
Ask HN: Teaching My Partner SQL
Her background is in business analytics, specifically reporting. Ideally, she would like to deepen her knowledge and gain practical experience to become a more junior data analyst. Since I am terrible at teaching, I wonder if you know any good resources for such a task.
Sceptre are 4K but I don’t think they’re high quality.
Maybe this is due to an attempt to compete with Wix?
In FP I think composability and interchangeability of these higher order functions help, in case the supplied filter did not work like you want: You could write your own filter function variant that guarantees to return the same list if the predicate function returned true for each element.
It's impossible
I learned a lot in my PhD that I wouldn't have learned in my subsequent engineering job: Public speaking with confidence, how to be proactive in your job, how to apply for public funding, teaching experience. How to present results, and how to write. I had exposure to what (at that time) were rare computing resources, which is useful now with in the cloud era. And I learned a ton about my specific field of course - which is probably not monetarily useful, but was a lot of fun and you can't learn it in such depth anywhere else.
Don't realized gains followed by realized losses within the same tax period offset each other?
Bookmarking this for future reference!

I recently started a fun/side project which aims to improve my personal tedious process of (a) managing a queue of things I want to listen to, (b) keeping track of which of them I listened/liked and (c) easily sharing my "discovery activity" with my friends who share the same passion.

The idea is that you can add items to a "Queue" list, using Discogs Master URLs (e.g. https://www.discogs.com/master/1994809-Alt%C4%B1n-G%C3%BCn-Y...) or Spotify album links, because this is what I use in my day to day.

So I've started by parsing Discogs' data dumps[1] to backfill my database (aka. "release groups" in MusicBrainz), so that I avoid hitting Discogs API with every user query) with all "master" releases. But then realized that (a) they don't include cover images and (b) not every release has a corresponding "master" release and (c) they're not updated frequently enough (maybe monthly).

Then I thought of using MusicBrainz data dumps[2] to augment the entries by Discogs in my database, which do provide cover art images, but then how do I correlate them with the already-inserted Discogs releases? Fortunately there's a Discogs URL for many release groups from MusicBrainz; unfortunately only 50% of them do have it.

Then I could perhaps use solely MusicBrainz data and not Discogs at all, but then what if people are mostly using Discogs links? This will result in two identical records on my database, pointing to the same underlying release but in different sites (Discogs & MusicBrainz). Perhaps this can only be solved by human moderation and providing the ability to "merge two items".

Then I thought of actually contributing to MusicBrainz and add the Discogs URL for every release group.

Another interesting assumption I made, which turned out incorrect, was the every [artist, release title] pair was unique. But that's not the case - an artist may have multiple "master" releases (i.e. completely different tracks inside) with the same title.

[1] http://data.discogs.com/

[2] https://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Database
Most of the comments here are discussion about the title, and not the podcast itself
Just move on; decisions are made without your best interest at heart and nothing you do will change that fact.
You may want to look into an object storage solution with an S3 compatible API. Then you have something extremely common and relatively standard. The museums can upload using many many tools, from command line to Software libraries to graphical user interfaces.

A few links if you want to look into it:

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_storage

- https://min.io/

- https://docs.ceph.com/en/latest/radosgw/s3/

- https://aws.amazon.com/s3/

- https://cyberduck.io/s3/

- https://winscp.net/eng/docs/s3
I have a site in Jekyll, but the tech stack is moving all the time and causes compilation errors. I’m not a Ruby dev, so I can’t compile my Jekyll site anymore, it was something along the lines of being programmed for Ruby 3.x while Ruby 4 is the default now, or something similar.
here in germany you get shared hosting plus a domain name starting at 2 Euros monthly. No admin skills necessary.

You can publish, have a legal claim on name and service and close to no smallprint. You can publish whatever is legal under local law and are responsible for it.

And: do not use any content management tools. They require a lot of attention over time. Write html. With any text editor.
Ferrari F1-75 Dash Layout
I think the problem is that none of Apple's hardware competitors make enough money to match Apple's investment in hardware research creating a downward spiral where Apple just eats more and more of the top-end highly profitable market for phones and laptops.
Some TV sets can grab firmware updates over the cable TV network.
Lossless-Cut
Not irritating at all. You are saying that you can't swap the pointed at object for another one AND that you can't change the pointed at object. Two very different things.

You have four possible combinations all with different meanings.

It's also why I always I insist on putting const to the right of the declaration part the const is referring too. The C++ standard allows const to the left IF it is the first const. But I think this flexibility is kind of garbage....
Doesn't work well in filenames either.
> "I think the impostor syndrome is more related to fear of failing the others trust..."

And why might one fear betraying the trust of others in ones intellect?

Could it have something to do with being viewed as less capable, less intelligent?

I think for some it could be. Earlier in my life I know it was for me (this exact circular spiral as described above)
You're contradicting yourself. Either you have used `--allfilters-b --pal_sort=120 --mt-deflate=$(nproc)` and the quoted text in my previous post is true, or you haven't, and then the quote is false.
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I started listing to it, thinking the same, and was confused for a few moments.
My point is, there's dozens and maybe hundreds of people responsible for implementing the cryptographic primitives across the software you use. Keep in mind e.g. Schneier was primarily a writer and teacher - and keep in mind most of the primitives he designed are not in common use! - and Bernstein was more practically-minded but... idiosyncratic about software development practices at best. You're probably not running much code directly from them, not even some kind of small-but-critical component.

Then there's hundreds and maybe thousands responsible for implementing cryptographic systems and protocols using those primitives. Most of them could also implement such primitives correctly with a little more effort, and many of them will do a better job making these systems practically safe than the first group would have.

And there's another large group who need to learn how to do this, because relying on a cadre of curmudgeonly aging white men, several already of extremely dubious moral character, isn't exactly a sustainable strategy for software development.

You don't know most of their names. They do mostly fine work. Please, end this rockstar shit.
Like everything, these are all actually made by something like Shenzen Golden Rooster Optical Instruments
No, I didn’t mean faking it at all.

I commented as a light disagreement with:

- need to use the word “smart people” or even such a need itself

- also possibility of this being a trite - more of an unconscious habit without maybe meaning anything specific about it (again, not faking it) [1]

And more importantly it was joke kind of a retort which I think I should have been clear about. Wasn’t a personal attack in any way.

Edit: [1] e.g. like the zero day old guy saying in his intro, “I’m super excited to join you all super smart people. It’s gonna be fun”.

And as for WFH - god, I just want to go back to office - fully or hybrid!!
A real bully can not have "friendly", neutral neighbors by nature not matter how much he desires it.
Which GP did not claim it was. Also: besides being pedantic this comment mostly seems to be to put the writer down in some way, so applying the principle of charity here, what did you want to achieve with your comment?
They teach entirely different things. My first 3 years working taught me a lot about the real world practicalities of writing useful software, as a team, that you can charge money for. It taught me very little about doing research or the cutting edge of my field. I suspect a PhD would be the exact opposite.
The biggest difference between working and research is that you're free to just try things out without so much pressure.
My Samsung Frame TV has never been connected to the internet (and never will be), but still shows constant nag messages. Not only do I have to not fall prey to them, but also must hope that anyone else using the TV does not lest I get ads foisted upon me. I will never buy another Samsung consumer product under any circumstances.