skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"What's external and what's internal?"

> 1. Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions.

http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html

Does it matter where our desires and hope come from at the very beginning ?
We have thousands of divergent influences pushing us everyday.
The ones we choose to go with come from within, they come from you, probably ingrained and influenced by your environment, but the only thing that matters is that you take them as yours.

Regarding "Is winning the point? What if someone doesn't care about winning? ", winning here has a wider meaning than the small 'winning a game' meaning, it means succeed at what you set yourself to.

You're of course free not to set goals to your own life, but doing so has long been found to be one of the best way to find happiness and meaning (it's the conclusion for Candid of Voltaire for example, but there's much more). If you're interested in the matter, I can recommend "Man's search for meaning" from Viktor Frankl
That's an odd bet to make. At Google promo committees were desperate to promote women. There were entire schemes set up to encourage them to apply more, to give them special help men didn't get etc and that was years ago. Probably it's worse (less fair) now.

It wasn't just process, either. I saw severely unfair decisions go the other way. A woman in my team who everyone hated because she was dishonest, staggeringly unproductive and had a habit of upsetting other teams, sailed through promotion several times into management. On the other hand team members who created entirely new products from scratch or were the backbone of their team got bounced. The patronage of another (female) boss higher up in the management chain seemed the most likely culprit, along with a pervasive "everyone's gotta help women get ahead" attitude.
And that's where serverless excels, highly variable loads.
> Very interesting, potentially useful. But if doesn't spit up exactly what you want can't edit it further.

DALL-E 2 spits as many outputs as you want. Then you choose the one you prefer.
Not quite following the dumbed down story part.
Crysis2 had Richard Morgan responsible for the broader story beats and it explored some quite interesting topics.
UK deaths per million were 2,400, France was 2,000 which is comparable. Especialy in the early phases random events like super spreaders made a big difference to individual countries impact. Germany was 1,500 but that's an outlier, it helps do mass testing and targeted lockdowns early if your country is one of the global centres for the medical testing industry.

You're quite right we should have locked down a few weeks earlier in the first phases. What I'm saying is the lockdowns and mask mandates worked. You're saying we needed more aggressive lockdowns and more masks, and I won't argue with you, yes. We could have done with even more of these measures, but the measures clearly did what they were supposed to do.

That's just saying we needed more of the system not that the system failed in the way I think OP meant. If anything Germany's success was because they were even more tightly integrated into the system.
There's a cool language in ML family called Ur which is based on that idea.
> The key to happiness is to do those things that make you happy while you do them.

Exactly. It's not about reaching the destination. It's about enjoying the journey.
Yes. I always found it odd, especially in mathematical textbooks, but to some degree also other areas, when a field is explained top down from a theory that is the end result of hundreds of years of discovery, fiddling and trial and error. As if that whole theory was god given and just happened without motivation or process. Besides making it harder to understand by going abstract idea first, it also makes it harder to develop an understanding for how people come up with and improve ideas over time.
Interesting, no idea why that is happening but certificates aren't my strong suit. Does the HTTP version show?

Certificate is valid, showing OK for me under all browsers on Windows, verified by Let's Encrypt.
just a regular blog https://iagovar.com and mostly in spanish
After you've manage to back it up, you might have still trouble finding and terminating everything.

While I don't have an answer to your question, you might find this tool handy for cleanups - https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke
Below average while working only 2 hours per day or below average per hour?
Wish there was some kind of tutorial with tips about web vitals. It feels overwhelming trying to catch up with all these little nuances.
It's only funny because it is so close to the truth.
Amazing that in reply to an article about Covid being classified as airborne and transmitted as an aerosol, with specific concern for indoor venues due to wide variation in ventilation, there are still comments like this this about bodily autonomy.

As if clothes weren’t already a requirement for visiting your public venue of choice.
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Engelbart's team (the one that came up with the personal computer back in 68) was a combination of engineers and psychologists, and I think there's something really powerful about that. It's not about the psychological results specifically, it's more about integrating the psychological perspective during product discovery.

So what is the equivalent 50 years on? Maybe sociologists could be hired as PMs, or anthropologists in R&D (I know Microsoft and Intel are really good at this, but I mean for smaller, sub-1000 person firms). I wonder what those blended teams would come up with.
Ukraine and Russia certainly do vastly better in gender balance in programming than western countries, but that's counterbalanced by the fact that Ukrainian refugees are almost all women, children and the elderly. Men of fighting age aren't allowed to leave. And even in Ukraine, most programmers are men, so it may not lead to an influx of skilled people as you'd imagine.
Japanese has a huge number of words derived from Chinese: "Sino-Japanese vocabulary is referred to in Japanese as kango (漢語), meaning 'Chinese words'. Kango is one of three broad categories into which the Japanese vocabulary is divided. The others are native Japanese vocabulary (yamato kotoba) and borrowings from other, mainly Western languages (gairaigo). It is estimated that approximately 60% of the words contained in the modern written Japanese dictionary are kango, with about 18%–20% of words being used in common speech." -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Japanese_vocabulary
I had a conversation with co-workers once. The question is: Do we really want to do what our engineering manager does? I thought maybe I would want to, but as an engineering manager, he has the gravitas and attitude to do that work. I would think that I would have to do that and have been slowly gravitating towards that, but that was never my original motivation into getting into software development. Though, I think the fact that I don't have that position right now is a testament of how rather successful I am of what I originally wanted.

When I was in my 30s, I felt like some colleagues had a bit more luck even for what they wanted to do: joining the right company, getting to work on the right projects. Maybe they slid into them or maybe they struggled to get the best projects. The fact is that I don't know. I never asked but it doesn't matter because I think that very few things from people are insightful enough anyway.

Let's say we're successful slackers inst
https://yannev.es

Nothing fancy but may relieve others who experience imposter syndrome from seeing some flagship dev personal sites!

Serves as a directory out to where my musings exist on the internet, and the travel map is embedded from NomadList.
If we're talking Half-Life2 then one could argue, that it brings in a whole other dimension compared to the two games you mentioned: physics.
Something that is almost absent in DE & T2 and has (afaik) no gameplay effect.
I spent quite a bit of time optimizing my main website. Lighthouse was the primary tool because it's easily available in most browsers. webpagetest.org is another test option that partially overlaps with Lighthouse.

Eventually performance of my site got to be pretty good. If nothing else going through the procedures to make improvements has been quite educational. With all the discussion around energy costs due to web inefficiency doing something to reduce wasteful cycles feels like a small but definite contribution.

Interestingly I used Lighthouse to measure many websites other than my own. I mean, why not see what the "big guys" are doing? Incredibly disappointing to say the least. Almost all sites have been poor performers, some scoring 25 or less on the performance section of Lighthouse. I won't name names but really it's shameful to preach efficiency and then perform so badly.

The article makes some good points and anyway LCP is the biggest single factor (weighted at 30%) of the total performance score, so it makes a lot of sense to focus on reducing LCP first.
My partner (from Wuhan) had received wechat messages (a shared wechat 'moment') reporting of an outbreak, I believe this was on the 24th of December 2019, however it could have been a few days later. It indicated that there was some type of outbreak and hospitals were becoming full.
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Hi HN, I've been working on Data Science problems exclusively for the past 5 years, and gained a lot of supporting knowledge related to ML infrastructure during this time.

I'm most proficient in GIS and financial time-series datasets, like locations of shipping vessels/flight tracking/road traffic tracking as I've spent the most time with trading houses correlating paper contract prices to the movement of these physical assets.

I've got 7 years of experience with Python in general, and I'm really proficient with PostgreSQL (for any back-end task) and establishing pipelines for Machine Learning (ML) tasks (using Prefect for the past year or so).

I also work on data science problems exclusively, without the adjoining back-end problems (e.g just give me the data set and you'll get back a model).

Over the past 3 years, I've also become quite proficient in Golang and if you have some projects in Golang, I'd like to work on them as well.
I also find Terraformer.

It can dump the configuration to text files and later could be consumed by terraform.
As using CA like a substrate is clearly "theory free" in the sense it doesn't impose any restrictions on how calculations should be done, do you concede that CA doesn't actually provide any theory as the OP lamented?
What’s Wrong with Heroku Config Vars?
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So what we're basically saying, and seeing is that Chrome on Windows, is the real culprit here?

Edit: Just checked Firefox on Windows, same result...

So it's Windows, yay.
Nope, it's never a function of data -- because data is always ambiguous. It is never possible just to infer the conceptual model of the data from the data alone.

Animals solve this problem by having bodies and moving around. It is that we take the bent stick out of the water which allows us to impart a theory to the "data" we receive... a theory implicit in our actions.

Since we are causally active in the world, sequenced in time, and directly changing it -- our bodies enable us to resolve this problem. The motor system is the heart of intelligence, not the frontal lobe -- which is merely book-keeping and accounting for what our bodies are doing.
What are the downsides? People in the UK can still have private insurance if they want, which actually tends to be much cheaper than in the US.
> Can anyone enlighten me why he is delusional and why he has lost it?

DISCLAIMER: Views not necessarily my own

I think it would be hard to try to pinpoint a single point in time where "he lost it". Stephen Wolfram grew up as a mathematician/physicist wunderkind, so as it's often the case for people that produced highly praised work early in their life, it's hard to transition to a life with humbleness and where output is received with anything else than praise.

In the past he has made a number of outlandish claims that didn't bear fruit (predictably so), to an extent that one would think that only a delusional person could make them.

E.g. he did a lot of work on cellular automata, and wrote a book titled "A new kind of science", in which he predicted that cellular automata would revolutionize all kinds of natural sciences (hint: that didn't happen). He later made similar claims for Wolfram Alpha revolutionizing search engines, and the Wolfram language revolutionizing programming.
For blogs there's no need for "serverless" ( in the "classical" sense, FaaS/CaaS), static hosts exist, have an added security benefit and are very cheap, often with generous free tiers. They're also serverless in the sense that you don't need to manage servers, and can scale from 0 to millions in the blink of an eye. ( For reference, my blog costs me 0€/month, once going over the free tier of Firebase Hosting and costing me the grand total of 0.03€ in a month where it was twice on the HN front page, including briefly at #1).
By the title, I thought it was an AI extension to help you on GeoGuessr.
I mean... it didn't make you happier, but it's better to be unhappy and rich than unhappy and poor, or obese, or physically weak. Single / in a relationship can be hit and miss though; it could work, but it might make things worse. Don't settle for anyone / anything.

That said, having a relationship helped me out of my funk, which was not dissimilar to yours. I - and my girlfriend - are now more content with mediocrity.
A cursory Google early in the pandemic told me that virus particles are smaller than cigarette smoke particles, so paranoid me thought masks aren't bulletproof (it feels like a lot of people think - and I exaggerate - "I'm wearing a mask, I can stand at making-out distance to this other person and I'll be fine."), and why shouldn't the virus be as airborne-transmissible as cigarette smoke?

It was also funny how people were screaming about people going to beaches, hey, they're outdoors, if the groups are distant to each other, they'll probably be fine! On the flip side, it was aggravating to see moronic restaurants building enclosed outdoor tents to meet the requirements of "outdoor dining". Sure, they meet the legal requirements, but for the health requirements?
https://simone.computer

I wanted to refrain myself from shameless plugs, but oh well, hope any of ye will find all the 10 easter eggs hidden in this website.
My experience from the army, a startup growing to 100 or so (majority remote, or local offices), hanging out in online communities which grow beyond 120, is that around 100-130 it gets hard to keep track of all the people and have some emotional relationship. Without that relationship it gets harder for me to care about the progress the group makes as a unit.

Interestingly enough, for me it is based on context. It is ok to have 100 people in the company, 100 people in an online community and 100 people in an off line community, all at the same time, and still keep track and have some kind of relationship. When a context grows too large it doesn’t seem to affect the other contexts.
Andreessen has never been associated with "spouting off at the mouth about things he doesn't understand".

What exactly does he not understand, that his betters do?
Logically then, the stuff they ate wasn't the cause of obesity. Modern nutrition must have got it wrong.
“Strawman argument”
> I am not American and I don't care about Fauci. I'm just reporting on what I observe in the Dutch discourse.

Neither here nor there. Fauci, along with most governments in the oecd lied about mask efficacy to protect mask stocks for health care workers.

This was done because they didn't trust the poor stupid people with the truth.

All they had to say, masks work but please leave these for health care workers as they are more at risk. Most people would have done the right thing if they just trusted them, and if not? Who cares, it's not your fucking job.

> This doesn't mean that I condone lying about being wrong. But it also doesn't mean that it's as easy as admitting mistakes.

Except it is?

You need to trust humanity to make the right decisions when given the facts.

Hiding the facts, lying, or obscuring the truth in hopes of controlling the poor stupid people is how you get a nanny state.

Let idiots win the Darwin award and move on with your life.
Nsh, a unified router style CLI for OpenBSD
Not in the US, nor am I a particular fan of the US or US foreign policies. I also think Trump's IQ is sub 90. This was still a massive Chinese fuckup IMO, with the local CCP in Wuhan implicated in particular.
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Hope I'm not too late to share these.
> For example, an IDE lets you rename a variable or type in a semantic fashion, making it easier for me to iterate on names and land on something that people understand.

The rename functionality is helpful, mainly for names that are referenced throughout the codebase. For locals it's not hard to replace this functionality - narrow the buffer to the scope you want (expand-region helps), then use iedit or multiple-cursors to perform the change. For public names referenced in multiple places you can use grep-find, then wgrep with iedit or multiple-cursors to do the rename. It's more work, and you risk renaming things you didn't intend to rename (ie. it's not semantic), but it works also with languages that have no IDEs or LSP implementation, so it's worth knowing.
Why not Estonia? Their digital e-residency stuff sounds great and their laws (including tax laws) seem pretty business friendly.
I've done that; after the first year, I had to go from 36 to 40 hours because cost of living was increasing while wages stagnated (due to covid). This year I've decided to move on, because the company itself is stagnant and yes, cost of living is increasing.

That said, with the latter point, me and my girlfriend have long-term goals of moving someplace bigger and more out of the way, which is a nice goal to have. Staying at my current employer would have been stable, but ultimately stagnant and ungratifying.
Growing up in a city can harm your spatial skills – new research
If I remember correctly we got the weekends we where on call payed like normal work days, adding 2 days a month per dev (4 or 5 of us doing the work and rotated through) if something happened or not. After work incidences during the week where not compensated.

Things didn’t usually escalate, the type of people that called during that time would call during that time anyway. One Project manager abused the system to force us to work on the weekend to get her project done quicker.

I honestly don’t think I would do on call again. It bit into my private time and not even for the type of things I should have been on call for. Some project managers looked at it as “if we pay him anyway, might as well make him work” that in combination with “we pay you only two days more because you are probably not going to work on those days anyway” was a bad deal.

To do something like on call again I would want:

1) Payment for the time if they use it or not (because I can’t plan that time freely)

2) Double payment for the time they do use (this is mainly to prevent them from abusing the system)

3) Extra days off (to compensate for the time I can’t fully relax)

4) Make sure they have a pool of people on call so that I can switch for personal emergencies (death in the family and so on)
My current project is https://neonarcade.games, a collection of silly casual games. 90% of the motivation to make these games is to have fun in the process, so the focus is on funny ideas and DX over UX and good game design. The canvas api is excellent for these kinds of projects, and you really don't need much more. Most games I make start as a single HTML file and a math.js, which I regularly start from scratch, and I often use emoji as a proxy for real sprites.

Though the focus is on making, I have been playing my own minesweeper clone almost every day. In some sense, that makes it my most successful side project to date.
> the nuclear power plant I worked at ran mostly on LabView

Jesus wept!

-Signed, a physicist with 20 years LabView and Fortran experience.
I also like that approach, but I get sidetracked. For example I have to wait for a CI build to finish, or for the compiler.. then I come here.. and write comments..
A week ago Kaspersky AV software was labeled a national security threat by the U.S. government, and people here were up in arms. Now folks are already upset that sealed court orders were obtained by U.S. law enforcement before they could protect infrastructure against a direct attack.

Maybe someday the HN comment section will realize that U.S. intelligence is actually competent.
Scans reveal the brain's early growth, late decline and surprising variability
Previous HN discussion from 2020: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23778878
What if all our existence is actually part of an algorithm to generate strings with very high Kolmogorov complexity?
Russian war crimes in recently liberated Bucha, Kyiv Oblast
These big guys can't optimise like we do in our websites. That Hotjar/FullStory/HubSpot/Pendo link is essential. Removing or updating that high-definition hero image, will require numerous meetings. Fixing up the contrast rate is an afterthought for the PO that nitpicks the design.
Measuring Damage on the Internet
It barely provides human-time-scale compilation!
Go to indiehackers - two options there - not very well paid jobs - won't be too competitive because of pay. Second option is tech co founder - there are so so many non tech founders looking for tech Co founders on the boards - he'll be in a position of power.
Wow. Thanks for writing that. I've had friends preaching the miracles of k8s or managed k8s to me for years but reading your post I'm glad I went with a rinky-dinky systemd+debs setup for my current servers. You can't even adjust the FD limit?! Force upgrades without notice that remove features in production with a blame-the-user mentality?