skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fiddle around with tube amps and Ohms law is about the only math I use in that hobby. It is kind of beautiful in its simplicity
This should be labeled (2017). Most of the justification for Pg on EC2 vs RDS is outdated in this video. For example, Pg RDS supports native streaming replication.
Not really. Let's say you're sharing chores. It would make sense to ask if your partner is okay with doing a bit more chores while you prepare for a better paying job.
Using your peleton example, there was also that 2020(2021) Tokyo race where the woman just got out in front, maintained the same speed as the trailing peleton (slowed in the 2nd half) and just stayed out of sight the whole time. I guess there were 4 or 5 members of the break out group earlier, but all the others fell back at the halfway mark. Sometimes just getting out front and maintaining speed just works, especially if there's one giant gold everyone is competing for at the end.
> To be clear, the net result was still higher pay overall, but not a lot.

Then I don't understand your ambivalence. Who would complain about getting more money?
After reading the original post I was reminded of the article you shared and went to go check if it was the same guy.

Definitely a good read!
> The nominal reason for it was to improve working conditions and pay for grad students. In practice, it improved very little

It might be interesting to consider how much worse the pay or conditions could have gotten in the union's absence.
It's nice because scrolling is a 1d interaction, and the path you're navigating is 1d. It's superior to a movie because this scheme makes it super simple to control how long you spend at various points, and they open up optional interactions at various points.

I don't understand why a lot of scrolling would be problematic, doesn't seem different then e.g. pushing arrow keys over and over when playing a video game.
Not to give any credence to Wolfram's theories, I'm wholly unqualified, but why not? Mathematics extends all the way into algorithms and complexity. We have already established that for example machine learning could lead to new mathematical discoveries, and machine learning is easily described by math.

Of course whether such a space is in any way practically computable or of a scale that could even reasonably comprehendable to a human being or even to some machine is an unanswered question.
Those open storage tables and shelves that commercial kitchens¹ have are usable there because they have the main dry storage outside of the kitchen space. You keep some essentials there that are used many times every day, and the rest is moved into the kitchen as part of the prep phase and cleared out at the end of service. In big kitchens this is enough of a task that it's a role on its own: porter.

If you were to use those as your main ingredient and tool storage without clearing it every day it would be a mess both in terms of visual clutter and just flour and shit spilling out everywhere.

Is that more minimal than putting cabinet doors over it? I don't know actually, maybe. Which indicates to me that "minimal" is a subjective judgement based on certain criteria, and there are multiple valid measures of kitchen minimalism.

I grew up in and worked for decades in commercial kitchens and I am often saying this. Commercial kitchens have a different set of constraints than home kitchens, and commercial kitchen design adopted wholesale is not going to be more usable than a well-designed consumer kitchen. It's not more minimal per se either. That open storage demands a closet worth of plastic bins to keep ingredients in, for example.

BTW commercial kitchens pretty much all have terra cotta tiles for some reason. Must just be a good combo of cheap, durable, reasonably non-slip (which coated concrete definitely is not).

¹: Not industrial kitchens that's a different thing.
> What matters is that they put the combined product through mostly the same testing.

No. Not even close.

You'd be surprised at the level of testing most OEMs do. It is not zero but at the same time it is not at the same level as Apple.

Apple controls the SMC and Firmware/UEFI. Dell, HP, etc buys the one that comes with the board.

Apple "hand picks" most of the components. Few PCs are custom designs, most are OEM designs.
I believe that's just endorphins.

I'm familiar with the sensation; it's enough to make you feel better, possibly even sober (if it was a drinking related episode), but the effect is unfortunately very temporary.
Well deserved. Also, his podcasts are more than great!
I think Linux users are bound to critique every thing that makes Linux Desktop a better product.
> I didn’t find any of this to be true

Any of what? You felt with the union that you could change your advisor on a dime? How many of your fellow students did so?

> the university would not be able to provide the same level of service without graduate student TAs

Just factually not true. The difference between a senior and a first year PhD student is quite literally one year. Plus, graduate student TAs are not the university's only source of TAs. At $100k/year, there would be many former PhDs willing to work at the university full time. That's what I meant by full time equivalent. My stipend as a PhD student was $35k plus subsidized housing. That's already pretty aggressively close to the upper bound.
Yes I am. What you describe is equality, which I think is great!

What they are advocating for is equity, a much different goal. Equity involves giving preferential treatment to certain groups of people who are perceived as persecuted in the current social climate. It has no basis in law, and is antithetical to a meritocracy.
The vaccines do not prevent infection but reduce the ultimate harm of the infection.
May not have read the article fully.
And what percentage of the time is is medicine free of nasty additives? As opposed to labeled sugar pills. Or heck, how there are cases of lead in paint still.
War crimes committed by democratically elected officials are still war crimes. I don’t see a compelling argument in giving Bush and Blair total control to decide the economic fate of nations who didn’t elect them is justifiable. Crypto is partly about separating money from state so democratically elected governments such as Canada cannot unilaterally delete people from the banking system without due process.

My original argument stands. The author’s primary argument is that crypto is bad for authoritarians/statists as it allows the subverting of state power. He is not wrong on that point, but he is viewing the issue from a one-sided perspective and his arguments are tired.
I'm an amateur painter and AI hasn't even kissed high art yet IMO, although it's nominally good at amateur illustration.

I'm going to have to write up a piece on this sometime, my argument is a little too involved for an HN post. But the gist is that the heart of what a fully trained painter does is make personal choices. A quick and dirty example of the difference:

Suppose you train an AI on Picasso's pre-1901 pieces. It's not going to decide it's time for a blue period.
A typo in the first sentence "candiate" is not a good look.
That's deplorable, I hope everything works out all right.
Thanks. There is also a GCP fork: GCPinstances.info

I needed more information than that. E.g. all the SAP stuff and I also wanted links for each VM.
> pastoral whimsy

I think that's an ungenerous term for what was merely normal for thousands of years into the past.

I'd argue we're still recovering from the brutalist ugliness of 1960s fashion and ideas -- the notion that despite our humble origins, man could transcend nature and do better than it.

The widespread adoption of baby formula over breastfeeding is perhaps the saddest outworking of this notion, but it showed up everywhere else -- in brutalist architecture, cold metal furniture, metal Christmas trees, linoleum floors...

Not that new synthetic materials are bad, but I would have hated to live through a time when natural beauty was at such a cultural ebb. I think we're still recovering from it, and we need more design leaders to help us remember natural beauty.

Here are a couple of quotes from William Morris: "everything made by man's hands has a form, which must be either beautiful or ugly; beautiful if it is in accord with Nature, and helps her; ugly if it is discordant with Nature, and thwarts her; it cannot be indifferent."

He also wrote, "Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."
> or any other form of advertising

You poor thing.

Informercial: https://electrek.co/2020/04/30/tesla-influencer-stream-adver...

Informercial: https://www.inputmag.com/culture/tesla-cyber-rodeo-rabid-elo...

Informercial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUmkbzQ-BS0

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bq4Gp4-IBg

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz394aKhfLY

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CorrbelUSIE

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIehAaVTmR0

Ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwZQe1s2ScM

A really, deeply cynical ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZbDg24dfN0

> This video is promotional marketing. It is not advertising.

You sweet summer child.
When people are starving and have nothing left to lose, change happens.
"Archaeological evidence reveals that people abandoned the coast for centuries after the disaster."

"The sea has always been vital to life in the Atacama, but it's clear that, for centuries, no one wanted to live too close."

But no idea how I came to 2000yrs number
Very cool!

Unfortunately, half the comments will be a shallow dismissal about the scrolling, but that's typical HN.
For stuff at the scale of a small Access database, does the normalization (or lack of) end up being a big deal?

I get that there are real advantages, I'm just wondering out loud whether they are universally applicable/important to small scale databases.
Did you talk to students in biological or other lab sciences? At my PhD institution the materials science students were paid a lot more (and barely taught) because they essentially had a 9-5 job with plenty of overtime.

(Compared to the math department where people would surf between commitments.)
The distribution thing was key because a lot of people would not have had networked computers at the time. The first version of Linux I installed was Slackware. I downloaded 27 disk images for 3.5" floppies at the university on one of the handful of computers we had with an internet connection. I then biked home to install it. One of the disks turned out to be corrupted so, I had to take the bike back to fix that. I had no internet at home. That PC never got connected to a network. Slackware was great. It worked. I was able to get it going with the bundled documentation and some howtos that I printed at the university. Without that, I would have gotten stuck quickly.

Later, CD-ROMs became popular and I bought a red hat CD in a store. Cd burners were not that common at the time and I did not have access to one. Also, 700MB was a lot of space at the time. My hard disk was smaller than that. Red Hat came with a lot of software (more than I could actually install) and that quickly became the key selling point for distributions: lots of software and a convenient way to get it installed by people that did not necessarily have a lot of unix experience. The competition between Linux distributions was fierce. You had Slackware, Red Hat, SUSE, Debian, Mandrake, and more. Some of these were commercial companies that were making money from selling CDs. They had budgets for marketing and distribution, they payed people to write nice installers for them, they spent a lot of time testing things and fixing things that needed fixing, document things, offer support, etc.

BSD did not really compete much in that space. I never actually used it so I can't vouch for how easy or hard installing that would have been but I bet it would have been harder to install and probably did not have the same level of hardware support for the simple reason that far less people used it. I don't think I ever saw any BSD cds in the store. Was anyone even selling such cds commercially? They had the software but they lacked the distribution.
They've worked spectacularly well at preventing death. It means health systems arent being overwhelmed even when the disease is infecting people at record levels. Chinese vaccines may not have been particularly effective so that why China has to rely on lockdowns again even for Omicron, but other countries that have mRNA vaccines are virtually back to normal now.
Pre-pandemic, I had a fairly active social life, and I want to get it back (life changes happened, too, where my wife and I used to play soccer and other sports, and had social outlets there, but we hit an age where that became too tough on us) - so I agree with what you are saying. The thing is, there are different types of people you end up socializing with. Outside of work, it tends to be more people like us, with the same interests, same kind of humor, etc. At work, I get to socialize with people that I don't normally get to socialize with - especially with remote work. On my team now are people from different religions, nationalities, backgrounds, etc. People I never would meet usually, or at best, rarely. They think differently than me, and that's really cool and interesting.

But on the weekend I play RPGs with my ancient group of friends and we have a huge history and common interest and that's a lot of fun too.
> They are not vaccinated because they did not want.

That is a perfect answer on the individual level. For example: Why is Bob’s uncle not vacinated? He didn’t want to.

On a population level it is insuficient. When you are asking why only X% of a large population is vaccinated, you can look at larger forces at play.

Is the availablr vacine working? Rationally is the risk of getting the vacine worth the benefit of it based on what we know? ( This is the bedrock of the question. )

Assuming it is worth it, are the people who have this information able to communicate this in a credible way to the population? If not what made the expert not credible? What could have been done differently for them to be more credible in the eye of the population? ( This is equally important! Having a good working vacine, which is not trusted because the system squandered away trust is tragic. )

Was the logistics of the vaccination well executed? ( Less people will get vaccinated if its not convenient for them. )

Are there any other factors which affected the vacination rate?

These are all valid questions, and they are all enclosed in the original one: why only X% of this population is vacinated?

> i am wondering about your question.

That is a good thing, but it sounds like maybe you are insinuating something? If not sorry for the misunderstanding. If yes it would be better if you could spell out what you are wondering so we can discuss it.
0 is the center of an infinite number line.

Additionally nobody knows if the universe is infinite.
There won’t be much left of our civilisation. I was told recently that concrete is acidic and attacks the metal netting in reinforced concrete over the long time. None of our structures will still be up 500 years from now.
With omicron isn’t a zero Covid policy a fools errand? As the virus mutates into ever more infectious variants a zero-Covid policy becomes impossibe.
Typing inside of the default WSL terminal feels amazing
When you visit Persepolis, you can rent a VR headset and see certain parts of the site reconstructed in VR. It's really impressive and drives home the scale of what was built.
Strangely enough, from their desktop FAQ: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Desktop_FAQ

> openSUSE installer provides three officially supported desktop options. There is no default choice

Coming at this from another angle, their installer isn't super opinionated. The KDE radio button is at the top of the list on the desktop selection page.

Does that make it the default choice? I guess it does by some definition.
Check my post prior to this one. Art will be fine.

Well, representational art. I'd like to say post-abstract expressionists are at risk, but they still have their admirers convinced they're wearing clothes, and there's no indication those idiots will ever change their minds.
This is roughly similar to my experience changing jobs recently. Adam was definitely more organized than I was. In any event congratulations on the strong offer @acconrad!
You’re asking the wrong question, vaccinations don’t stop the infections themselves. Why China still needs lockdowns, compared to the west? Because sinovac is basically useless.

> Against the original virus BioNTech was 95% effective compared to 50.7% for Sinovac.

https://www.otandp.com/blog/covid-19-vaccine-comparison-whic...
Agreed, Omicron is almost as infectious as measles, and everyone will likely be exposed to it. Combine this with the negative externalities of GDP decline and other effects, and the picture is pretty straightforward.
There was a parts supplier site that used to offer a 5% discount in this exit intent handler. (I’m not sure if they still do and I’m only on mobile at the moment.)

I’d happily trigger their exit intent handler and juice their “this feature is a total game-changer for our business!” reporting.
I largely agree with his comments. I especially liked:

“” A large part of my work was around automatic machine learning, so I’m obviously biased about thinking it’s a big deal, but I do think it’s a big deal.

The vast majority of people working in ML, be it academia or industry, seem to be working on tasks that are on the edge of automation.””

I just retired after about a 7 year sprint doing deep learning and I think the field is getting close to the type of automation that will hugely reduce the required ML headcount at most organizations.

An other job category I expect to see mostly automated away is manual creation of “dashboards” for data visualizations and decision making. Not an easy problem to solve, but there is a ton of money to be saved.
You should look into Product Management! I studied Economics and am now a Product Manager. The entry level job title is typically called Associate Product Manager. I believe that several large tech companies recruit for this role in college career fairs so look into that.

Just make sure to look into the expectations of any roles you apply to. The PM role can vary from company to company. I personally look for roles where I am expected to analyze data and run A/B tests to make decisions.
Explaining the LGBT Explosion
I mentioned a perfect geometric sphere that is expanding has no center on that surface.

I also stated that no real world analog of a perfect expanding sphere exists. Because we can't imagine an analog it's much more likely that the universe DOES have a center similar to the nozzle.

Try to imagine a real world analog to the expanding geometric sphere without a point of discontinuity. You can't. And because you can't maybe it doesn't exist. Maybe it does. But not being able to imagine a real world analog is slight evidence that there there is a center.
…a web of naked fancies, which can never find the semblance of support from even the most superficial observation of facts: (and) he who looks on the world with the eye of reverence must turn aside from this... as the result of an incurable delusion, whose sole effort is to detract from the dignity of nature.

is anything more "unfortunately human" than this statement, right here? Both in its creative wording and in its cocksure unwavering wrongness
MoH data is a bit sparse on detail but still mentions 300K+ doses of vaccine administered daily.

http://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqjzqk/list_gzbd.shtml

The economist has some aged grouped vaccination data from the end of March that actually shows pretty good vaccine coverage for the 60-79 age group. I couldn't find a source but the numbers are consistent with a prior press release.

https://www.economist.com/china/2022/04/02/why-so-many-elder...

http://news.china.com.cn/2022-03/25/content_78130625.html
I remember waiting for loading modals when you would try to close windows.

In what world was anything faster 20 years ago? Do these readers not remember waiting minutes for their computer to start up?
Keep in mind that a substantial portion of users now use ad blockers such that a lot of URLs used for analytics like this are blocked.

Consequently, you can't actually expect to capture 100% of these analytics events nor even expect the percentage captured to stay the same over time since the filter lists are very regularly updated and users enable/disable different ad blockers over time.

More broadly speaking, once you have sent a webpage to the user, you should not expect anything from the user's browser. They may or may not allow whatever arbitrary JS you have on the page. They may even intentionally give you bad data (e.g. hijack the payload to give you intentionally malformed data).

edit: even more broadly speaking, there's additional reasons why you can't expect to receive these kinds of callbacks: consider what happens if a user loses connectivity between loading the page and them navigating away (e.g. their phone loses service because they went into an elevator before navigating away)
I am a wage slave. I look at every corporation as being negative, as they exploit the wage slaves who work there. One way being how much surplus value they expropriate from workers.

If I am being paid a lot at one place, and very little at another place, I might feel more of my surplus labor time is expropriated from the lower paying place. If I program, and one place pays more, it is an indicator (although just one, and not a solid one) that they exploit their workforce once.

A handful of companies might be even more distasteful than the other ones, but I look at all of them as exploitive - so I may bypass a few companies, but all corporations employing people are exploitative, and I am a wage slave.

The concept of anything changing due to individual choice does not add up to me. Things happen due to mass action, not some individual choice with some liberal moral reasoning. Amazon exploits their factory workers, but the factory workers who organized and voted to join a union in Staten Island have improved the lot of all Amazon workers, and other workers by their organizing and mass action. Some individual moral liberal reasoning to not join Amazon would not have been better. I'm sure most joined because it was the best and highest paying job they could find.

Also, I don't see the work I do at a corporation as being something that is not causing harm in the world. It is inherently exploitative. The notion of a woke corporation doing good in the world is a contradiction. If I am doing something good it is when I am not working - organizing, educating and agitating. Primarily so that workers have more control over their labor.
A resume, for me, is used to communicate as clearly and as accessibly to as many people as possible about your work history and qualifications. We use them as a front line mechanism to filter candidates.

The problem with these approaches is they’re harmful to the goal of resumes while giving minimal signal for filtering. Oh, you know what JSON, HTML, or markdown happen to be? That’s a very limited signal you’re sending for your resume not being clear and accessible (to people and systems).

I also think your attitude may have been sensible in another market, but this one where demand outstrips engineering supply greatly? I could write my resume on crayons and still have people reach out.

Edit: You may also want to look into cover letters? It sounds like that’s what would solve your desire to get a unique, creative response from the candidate while they still maintain an accessible resume. This problem has been solved in other industries.
This position leads to inevitable follow up question: if vaccination reduces only personal risks, and does not prevent infection spread, why forcing it on anyone? If a person is unwilling to vaccinate and accepts the higher risk of a negative outcome, let him decide for himself, no?