skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the person you asked but here’s an attempt from a 48yo diagnosed with adult adhd about six years ago.

- imagine watching tv at a bar where everyone had a remote control. That’s the attention model in my head, i can start to form ideas and concepts then suddenly realize I’m thinking about something else

- add 3-4 more tvs. That’s the distraction model, external stimuli drag my attention

- the ‘hyperfocus’ you hear about would be similar to the bar handing you a pair of noise canceling headphones and dedicating the tv directly in front of you to binging on an amazing new series. It’s not just focus as much as it’s a temporary obsession.

Some ways it seems to manifest in my life:

- i never ever ever finish a discretionary project, 80% at best. i completely lose interest and have zero drive. Projects for work require me to procrastinate to the point where my attention is fueled by adrenaline.

- i can’t read anything that requires more than one sitting. I’ll read for three hours but the next time i have an opportunity to read i find i have no interest

- i constantly lose shit

- i constantly pack more and more activity into the period before i need to get ready for something, causing me to always be lateish and running in the airport

- i think of great gifts for people but always end up last-minute scrambling for garbage

- i can be a bit of an airhead at times

- at work I’m a generalist. I’ve been at this a long time but i don’t know anyone in my personal sphere that knows a bit about more domains than i do. On the other hand there isn’t a single domain that i don’t know someone that knows more than i do.

The first time i had a ‘quiet mind’ was probably a week after i was prescribed Adderall. It was like a flashing cursor in my head and I became so overpowered with emotion that i just started crying. Like those videos where someone with color blindness tries on those glasses. It was incredible.
Impressive numbers, thanks for sharing.

Out of interest, were you running on bare metal/cloud?
And what kind of CPU was behind those 24M face compares per second?
Here, I fixed the headline: $0.0 permanently locked into AkuDreams contract forever due to bad code.
An incredibly cool, inventive and awesome system! And somehow quintessentially Japanese too. Lovely writeup.
Longevity Secrets and Lifehacks from the Oldest X Games Qualifier
Indeed. It is wildly counterproductive over the long term. The things we dump on them are largely things they’re well able to make for themselves. If we wanted to dump stuff that would have real, long term impacts we’d be sending cutting edge technology or capital goods that enable more development, like solar panels or biogas setups. Shipping free, cheap commodity products that they could just as easily have jobs making themselves just means fewer jobs producing those commodities.
I bought myself a 2nd hand slide rule on uk ebay last year. Price was something like £5-£10 including postage, for a rather battered and 'cheap' example.

I really liked learning about it, seeing how it worked, etc. Such an ingenious idea!

So if nothing else, it might be worth putting them on ebay - there seems to be a market for them.
It is inevitable that to progress ideas need to be built upon ideas. In order to make progress in any area of science or technology, you can't investigate every axiom in the chain. You need to implicitly trust that a lot of those ideas are true, especially if there is an academic consensus.

In my experience the people who mostly have their views shut down are people who derail high level (conversations about ideas built upon lots of levels of ideas) with questions about lower levels of ideas.

One (strange) example may be; in a debate regarding the best way to colonise Mars, a third person questioning the existence of space.

It's not helpful to question the existence of something that has been proven over and over again. It's wasting everyone's time. But it makes a good hot take for the media to represent like it is somehow an equal and opposite opinion.

So the third person, who questions the basics that scientists have been agreeing on for a long time, uses cheap arguments to derail the conversation. They get rewarded for it with media time, and people that want to confirm their anti-establishment biases.

This is the person that is most likely to get their views censored; and then the most likely to complain that wokeism is going too far and censoring debate.

I apologise for the Australian slang but-- Mate, nobody is censoring real debate; they're censoring shit-takes.
Well I don't live in Bangladesh so I'm not too worried.
If moderating static text messages searchable against abuse selectors
is hard, how is a room filled real time audio visual streams going to
work out?

The "metaverse" has congruent problems to federated social media.
There can be no global rules. At best it will atomise into millions of
small trusted groups with local rules and enforcers like game
communities when cheating was rife. At that point, what's the
advantage of "Meta" over an a-hoc collection of VR chat rooms using a
common protocol?
I think a lot of us fall into the trap of expecting that our apps will grow to a huge size, and that we need to be ready to scale just in case.

This is where the "MongoDB is webscale" meme came from.

The truth is SQLite and a single webserver or Docker container will be fine for 95% of web applications.

People really underestimate the advantage of simplicity vs perceived power.

Use SQLite.
The only remaining supported Big Ending architecture today, to test BE quirks.
https://uploads.peterme.net/nimsafe.html
Great, so now that we have established that nobody is a fanboy let us objectively take a gander at the current situation.

Here is Doug Demuro reviewing the Volkswagen ID Buzz:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4JraQ6KrVM

tl;dr: It is fine.

Here he is reviewing the Rivian:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYrunRy8hmw

tl;dr: It is excellent. In fact he says "coolest pickup truck ever made". People who were excited about the cyber truck and know cars would rather get this one.

> Maybe the Germans and the French can also source their batteries from the Chinese but they just haven't been able to put them to good use the way Tesla did (and does).

Well.. I don't know about the French. ;)

But Volkswagen will make you an electrified Golf just fine. And that is the best selling car in Europe. Toyota will make you a Yaris and a boring beige Prius.

The bz4x is out now and getting good reviews:
https://www.toyota.co.uk/new-cars/bz4x

It is just fine, and slightly cheaper, and so longer term it is unclear how it will all play out.
Putting authors into a box is the opposite of any intellectual or philosophical approach. Why would you even believe that? That would intentionally numb your understanding of any statement. If you need that box to evaluate those, intellectual approaches might not be too suitable.
Question for people using SQLite in prod: how do you cope if your app is running on a platform like Heroku or Cloud Run, rather than a proper server or VM? Have you found a solution for the fact that those environments, and disk, is ephemeral?
I think they might just be running out of food.
This is definitely the correct answer - the glass project is really good, and having spoken to people working on it they are absolutely the closest to nailing this. It is close too, at least to a wider rollout.
This is like the third downtime in a month. Hosting your own infra is easier than people think, but it is completely trivial if weekly downtime is the expectation.
How Yubikey works? (video explaining OTP composition)
> an employer is aware of a substance problem...

No, they have to grant you one unpaid medical leave for rehab before firing you, not "help you".

It's illegal, for any company that works with the Federal Government, to tolerate drug use or intoxication at work.
To read more on this concept, look up "paradox of tolerance".
That's for sure a good point. SQLite has really well defined limitations, and most if not all of those are by design. You should consider them BEFORE starting a new project with it, but it it is a fit, it's a great experience.
> For device-local storage with low writer concurrency and less than a terabyte of content, SQLite is almost always better.

Isn't MySQL MyISAM faster and this way constitute a better choice for a scientific number crunching application? I mean near 4GB DB, very simple schema, heavy reading load, little/no inserts and no updates.
That's a great anime. I'd highly recommend it even if you're not an anime fan.
rqlite author here, happy to answer any questions. One thing I've noticed is a trend towards folks doing bitcoin mining (and related applications) wanting to use rqlite. I think they like that it is very easy to run, and gives them complete control over their data.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q8lQgCaODlecHa2hS-Oe...
I've looked through the various pages linked trying to find out what Kermit actually is and have yet to find out.

Ironically the 'About' link 404s.
Good point, it's indeed common for couples to get married when having children.

Still, I think what's helping ensure commitment in that case are the children, rather than the marriage. It's much easier for a married childless couple to split up than for an unmarried couple that has children.
Jest 28: Shedding weight and improving compatibility
I read in one of your Tweets that you use one database file per (unrelated) table to avoid corruption. Why did you move to this model? Are multiple tables per file really more easy to corrupt?
It's an old file transfer program.
Wow, tone it down with the pretentiousness.
> 70h workweeks.

Which country? "The average American works 34.4 hours per week, as of May 2019. For people between 25-54, the national average work week comes in at 40.5 hours."
Sounds like Habbo Hotel with the pointless addition of 90s-style 'virtual reality'.

(I'll go yell at a cloud now.)
> Labeled loops

> I'm not yet sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. Sure, you can do clever shenanigans now, but something tells me this will make the code's control flow much harder to follow.

The most popular example I can think of is JavaScript: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Tbh, I think the opposite is true: without the ability to break outer loops, I have resorted to shenanigans using an auxiliary variable and then have to check it after the loop completes, obscuring the logic of the program. Of course, it does not have the full power of goto, and in this case I think it is a sensible choice.
So with the UK government debt to GDP ratio at its highest level since WWII, your proposal is to… increase public sector spending… and lower taxes?
> One input maps to one output and by knowing the output I cannot find the input nor I can produce two inputs that map to the same output.

> Now, those attacks basically violate the principle that one input maps to one output

That’s not really… the principal. That’s an impossible desire. You simply cannot fit a larger set in a smaller set. Any function that transforms an arbitrary set of data into a smaller set of data is definitionally going to have collisions.

A flawless hashing function that transforms an arbitrary amount of data into a fixed amount of data is subject to an infinite number of collisions for every given output.

The problem is not that there are collisions, it’s mathematically impossible for there not to be. The problem is the speed at which they can be found. If you can find them quickly enough, the potential exists in finding malicious inputs in the mix.
back in 2010-ish I ran a bootstrap/startup that was a community based writing platform for indie authors. Our writing app was entirely web-based, offline with CRDTs between browser storage and backend, where everyone's book was it's own sqlite DB. The forums ran on sqlite as did the auth system.. it worked really well for us (although we had to build a bit of logic around lazy updating schemas). I think it's well suited to user-partitioned data.
Needs a (2018). I knew I read it and wondered if there's anything new here?
No one is claiming that performance problems did not exist on an alpha version of Longhorn.

Performance problems get sorted out, instead we got management chaos,

https://hackernoon.com/what-really-happened-with-vista-4ca7f...
I think the modern mascots are inspired by Hikonyan (2007)
Prior to the 20th century, communicating ideas had a much higher cost. If we're talking about natural selection with respect to ideas, then we have to consider the last 100+ years as a massive environmental shift that we have not yet adapted to.
Docusign lets their customers withhold the ability to download PDFs.
Did you read just last 100+ years history? Is it conspiracy? The Britannia was a conspiracy? Just to cite one. The public Cossiga statement (ancient Italian minister, well known criminal) that he like opposing manifestation because they are good target to few crooks who will crush cars, magazines, etc pushing the population against the protesters and justify the subsequent and purposely late police response, was conspiracy or history? Anne Morin classic "on war propaganda" to justify any crimes on their own side and depict the other side as diabolic and criminal is a classic book of propaganda or a conspiracy? Bernays campaign fro the United Fruit Co to overthought the legit and democratic government of Guatemala was history or what?

What you call conspiracy is normally named classic strategy by all who study and use it. So any normally prudent State do it's best to avoid creating potential threats potentially used against itself. Some do not just because those threats are corruption-fueled economy. And again we see countless examples in just the very recent history.
Thanks. It's great to get some other honest personal perspectives.
>> No, property is far more risky than that. However even if nothing goes wrong, revenue tracks local rents, not overall inflation

Nothing truly "tracks inflation" because inflation itself is a highly debated figure which depends on who calculates it and how it is calculated. It isnt some scientific constant to which we can track.
This poem is from outside the bounds of ordinary human experience. It conveys a sense of absurdity and an immensity of scale that belittles the individual.

I find it quite harrowing. Within the ordinary bounds of human experience, there is meaning and rich individual life. We form bonds to each other, we grow, we experience and interpret the world. When we step outside our lives and immerse ourselves in the various structures and properties of the universe, it can seem so senseless, but that's only because this realm of pure intellect is alienated from our lives.

If we follow our intellect too far away from life, things become unbearably surreal. It's like when Goethe mocks philosophers in Faust because they fly off into other barren intellectual worlds when life is all around them. I feel the same way about the mindset that produced this poem as well.
Affordances advancing user-created communication (UCC) in service
Sorry for the rude people on here :-).
People with money are interesting, but they usually don't affect population level behavioral statistics because there are too few of them.
Would love to know more about how you set this up.
That’s just not realistic. We live in a complex world, and we need complex software. That’s why I vehemently hate these stupid lists: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/

Don’t get me wrong, it is absolutely not directed at you, and I absolutely agree that we should strive for the simplest solution that covers the given problem, but don’t forget that essential complexity can’t be reduced. The only “weapon” we have against it is good abstractions. Sure, some very safety critical part can and perhaps should be written in a single-threaded way, but it would be wrong to not use the user’s hardware to the best of its capability in most cases, imo.
Makes sense.

> Maybe Twitter was going to surprise on the downside. The board knew that without the Musk bid, after earnings, the stock would drop into the 20s.

I think it may surprise on the downside initially due to may external factors: Buying out other startups, previous earning's misses, interest rate hikes, Russo-Ukrainian war escalation etc.

They might as well accept Musk's deal to take it private at a higher share price while they can before it crashes down to less than $30 if their earnings go south.

Twitter is going to get really chaotic when Jack leaves the board in May.
DOH! Correcting myself in the use case of a public TV channel, IP broadcast does not help here (would generate traffic for no users), only IP multicast would handle it properly. Namely, under the authority of the "local" telecommunication regulator, multicast IPs would be statically allocated for all IAPs to provide to users, and not only CDNs, efficiently distributing content like public TV channels (for a public TV channel, probably a high bandwidth IP and a low bandwidth IP, etc).
I don't know the real reasons why this is not done, the IP multicast "subscribe/unsubscribe" state machine is not robust, etc?
That's a good counter-case to keep in mind, thank you.

I guess the take away here is that this underscores that sqlite isn't for the 'large number of writers' scenario.

p.s.
> I didn't want to be the guy who comes in and says "you are doing it wrong" month 1
Very wise
What if they bought smart lightbulbs?

I’d want to take those with me.
Hey, I'm open to any answer that helps me write better programs. :) Which languages do you have experience working with in high-performance situations? I, for one, had high hopes for using Go for video game development, but it turns out that even in highly-tuned Go code with the latest GC optimisations, there are still significant GC pauses that cannot be overcome [0]. However, perhaps you're referring to other types of GCs I'm not aware of?

[0]: https://ebiten.org/blog/native_compiling_for_nintendo_switch...
That is going to run afoul of some common law marriage laws...
Not sure why you're downvoted; you seem to be right! In Activity Monitor's Energy tab, I have to expand Terminal > login > zsh > python, but my python process is shown as App Nap: Yes.

How would I opt a program out of App Nap? Should I trust https://pypi.org/project/appnope/?
> except without any of the optionality

Or the reciprocal gifts, or ....

I'm not entirely sure it is "basically how" the London/UK tax system works ? Perhaps you could elaborate.

Local government is ultimately funded by central government, which is (as we've seen from the present UK government) subject to political whims as to who gets what and how much (Tories favouring Tory seats/councils).

I suspect you might have Council Tax in mind, but I'm not entirely convinced that is "basically the same thing" either.
Yes, multiple times. It went/is going great!

Pros:

- A single API server, no separate database to worry about, configure, and update.

- Backups are as simple as backing up one file every so often. SQLite even has an API to do this from a live connection.

- Handles way more concurrent users than we’ve ever needed.

- Dev and test environments are trivial and fast.

- Plenty of tools for inspecting and analysing the data.

Cons:

- There are certainly use cases it won’t scale to, or at least not without a bunch of work, but in my experience those are less than 1% of projects. YMMV.

- The type system (even with the newish stricter option) has nothing on Postgres. I realise this is basically a non-goal but I’d seriously love to somehow combine the two and get PG’s typing in a fast, single file embedded DB library.

- Postgres JSON support is also better/nicer IMO.
Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources
No, I don't think so. The TMS34010 is nothing like the 3D accelerators that these slides are about. The TI chip is a 2D graphics accelerator at heart, like a lot of the graphics hardware of the 80s. The SGI RealityEngine is noteworthy because it is an early hardware implementation of a 3D rasterization pipeline. The individual hardware boards of that system correspond almost exactly to the conceptual boxes you see in an introduction to the 3D rasterization pipeline.
Suicides are an informal measure of how unhappiness. The thinking is that if people reach a certain level of unhappiness they opt out of life. The implication is that there is a lot less unhappiness in Greece.
There is something cruel about having the base unit of your counting system be 1/2.

But then again, pi.
my favorite editor was the turbo pascal one! (then Delphi, then PHP, then PHP with unit tests and something like TDD/BDD, then entirely too much Bash, and then python, and then TS, Scala, Rust)

I never learned to code without a superfast feedback loop. (maybe I've never learned to code!!!?)

oh, okay, there was a C++ project (a music recognizer - shazam clone) and I've mostly hacked that together in vim until the compiler stopped complaining about move semantics and right-references.
> Nah buddy I didn't even post when you did update 1 don't even try fam

1. I didn't mention your name anywhere, yet you got offended.

2. That's a lie. I made the update after you posted.

3. Look at all the comments around. You're the only one spreading hate here. The few other posts partly disagreeing with me are still civil and polite. So the point of my comment still stands.
Oh, did not know that. Thank you

Pretty nasty for a regular contract but maybe there are cases where this is ethical...
They should take inspiration from nginx and Apache directory listings. Doesn't take 4s to load and uses actual links so you can open in new window or copy the link.
Big Tech’s last minute attempt to tame EU tech rules
First USB-C iPhone (2021)
The article generated a big discussion at the time (254 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18256660
Any sources to back up your claims? And yes, by help I mean not fire and provide accommodations and/or time to attend rehab.

https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/worklife/reference...

https://corporate.findlaw.com/human-resources/what-are-an-em...
The part about accents sounds interesting to me. I always believed I can't do accents because I absolutely can't fake/hear them in my head. I can even only speak my own accent with close family and switch to regular German with everyone else. I also can't hear/recall music from memory, so it's near impossible for me to sing freely, while singing along works fine.

I can imitate different voices in my head when reading a novel and I can't even comprehend how one would read and comprehend without hearing everything spoken in ones head. It's just impossible for me.

I do have a constant monologue though that is impossible to shut up. Even if I try to calm it or meditate I would think out loud "calm/meditate/don't think", so that doesn't work at all xD

I did start thinking in English at some point. Before that I would translate all English to German, think about it and translate my German thoughts to English, if I needed to say something. By now I just think in English when I'm in an English context. It feels entirely natural.
It is the point though. My public github projects are either empty (i pushed nothing cause everything was bad) or are half-baked projects. They would still pass those bars, which i can feel gratefull for.
> Let's talk about "unlimited PTO"

I refuse that outright and demand unlimited unpaid time off.
Visual Studio was pretty decent for semantic assist for C++ at least as far back as '05 when I was doing my undergrad. It was night and day better than etags and whatever was available in the Linux world at that time, at least as far as I was able to get it configured.
That's a big part of the problem: It couldn't be done safely. It's very difficult to crash a plane safely.
Replacing them with working commodity bulbs seems to be a reasonable middle ground to me.
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