skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was a definite change in the wind in the 80s. Oddly I remember feeling that the newer, pastel coloured 80s offerings were a bit weak. I'd grown to quite like being terrified. Around 1979 our teachers showed us a public safety film, called 'Apaches'. I was about 8 years old, at primary school. It was a film chronicling the gruesome deaths of a group of children who were playing on a farm. It genuinely traumatised me well into my teenage years, it was really bad, and showing it to kids would be unthinkable today. Anyone else remember it? :-)
Most students in my engineering programs had macs (2010-2015)
Getting an eye mask works better for me; if you have blackout curtains and forget to open them you end up living in a cave. They do keep the room a bit colder though.
If the boss wants to "move arrows up" then it is possible, that the boss should have been involved in the design process, or keep feedback for later to be worked in, but not in the middle of a presentation.

And please ... Don't do software modelling in powerpoints. It is quite painful to watch that happening. It lowers interest in contributing of people, who would have used a proper tool for such a job and would have been 3x faster that way.
Neat project.

How does it compare to Wireshark' console cousin tshark?
It doesn't seem worth it to figure out time/date representation at the data layer like this.

Rigid definition of time stamps leads to incompatible parsers and risks if you need to update how the timestamp works.

Or, store it as a string and deal with it after parsing.

The latter one always wins, hence json's popularity.

Baking it into the data format isn't going to make people treat timestamps right. Probably will do the opposite, really.
This was a great post and covers many day to day topics that practitioners tend to hand wave over, especially as distributed systems are becoming more pervasive. Dare I say even some of the statements are becoming cliches.

The section on distributed transactions could have a little more nuance. Particularly the example about the counter where I suspect any system offering transactions also has a CAS operation. Additionally the benefit of a transaction system is that you can offer bounded counters where as an AP or “strong” EC (CRDTs) system cannot.
I would say that - in this particular example - knowing that the ball is white and will remain white for the next 950 years and will then be black for the next 1000 years, etc. makes the macrostate "the ball may be black or white" irrelevant.

However, I agree that one can still define the macrostate as if the color was unkown - and make calculations from it. (It's just that I don't see the point - it doesn't seem a good or useful description of the system.)
replace "impossible" with "not really useful"
Instead of using the alarm to wake up, try setting it as a reminder to go to bed.
Pump stations disguised as homes:

https://www.businessinsider.com/fake-house-pumping-stations-...

https://www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/pump-station-dis...

https://triblive.com/local/new-pump-station-in-hampton-strat...

Of course, cell towers are often disguised.

What other things are hidden in plain sight in urban environments?
I owned and ran a web design agency, but because of my skills in Flash a lot of our "value add" was doing impressive experiences/interactive showcases for our various clients. A lot of it was doing kiosk deployment work, which I think is still done today with Flash sometimes.
I find ADHD to be an "occasional" disorder. I feel very much like the author much of the time, but honestly I want it to continue to be researched as a disorder, because I want strategies and medications that are better than post-it notes and Adderall (and yes, I've tried lots and no, none of them are better for me than the occasional 5mg of Adderall).

Most of the time, ADD works in my favor. But sometimes, (and NOT always due to "societal expectations") I need my brain to work differently than it does, and for those occasions the meds do wonders. But I truly hate the after-effects, thus I rarely take them.
I own a four letter domain called near.com.<country_code>

"Near me" is a popular search I has this same idea for my county. I couldn't think of a decent revenue model except promoting listings which requires a sales force, or ads which is just tacky IMO.

I was also thinking about selling leads, ie someone wants a new pool installed
I am 30. I got diagnosed with ADHD a few months ago and I started treatment (adderall and lifestyle changes).

Growing up, ADHD was my biggest enemy in life and I didn't even realize it.

Once I began treatment, the change was almost overnight. I know I'm just one data point in a sea of data points, but I really just want to add that I'm on the other end of the parent comment and getting diagnosed, other than my marriage and the birth of my son, was the best thing that's ever happened to me.
Interesting take. In all seriousness, is there a way to integrate other languages with this pipeline or with this level of simplicity i wonder?

Eg, i prefer my language of choice. However i am personally focused on self hosting, so being "just as easy as PHP" seems useful.

I tend to ship self contained binaries that can run on your computer without configuration. While that would work on a web host it's not going to restart automatically or have any integration with old school PHP focused providers. Has anyone heard of a PHP bridge for this sort of thing? Perhaps I make a version of this app that works under CGI (or w/e)? But then you still have to know "Do i want the binary? Or the CGI? What the hell is CGI anyway?" etc.
Turned it into a discord bot in about 3 hours or so of fighting Heroku, big hit in our server https://github.com/MitchelPaulin/OwenWilsonBot
Frameworks can be limiting, but I've never seen a framework that doesn't allow you to implement business logic on top of it. At the end of the day frameworks execute code that you write, and you can break out of the concepts your frameworks introduce and do whatever you want.

Just because 10% of your codebase is uniquely unsuitable to the 'standard' introduced by the framework doesn't mean that you can't use it for the remaining 90%. And even for that 10%, it's probably not so alien that some of the functionality provided by the framework is still relevant.
Unfortunately, it seems that “affected” is being taken at face value in the parent comment, and the nuances of the presence of the disorder are being ignored.

Yes, many individuals with ADHD can cope without medication and may go on to live good-enough lives that might be the envy of others. However, there may be a lot of potential being left on the table staying untreated.

So to say that someone clearly doesn’t have ADHD because they don’t have a rep of reckless driving tickets because of impulsivity lapses is a bit of a slap in the face for many who still do, but developed compensation strategies to some extent.
$50,000 for a brandable one-word generic domain was a ridiculously low quote. I'm amazed no-one bought it before now as he was underselling it.

1994, when he registered it, was a great year for domains. As the article says, everything was still available. I registered all sorts of goofy things, but back then no-one was thinking they would be worth anything. They were also FREE in 1994. Shortly after they started charging a yearly rate for dotcoms and I let all but one lapse, to the loss of many millions in future revenue...
The good news is there are more employment opportunities than just programming for these folks.
There are presently sanctions forbidding it, are there not? Those sanctions are what I'm referring to. Language has nothing to do with it.
A great way to improve mental health and productivity is for someone to optimize a NLP model that can convert our emails and messages from what we actually feel to professional speech.
Ugh I over thought this and had a really basic word in the mix of my super silly sat vocab words - by my estimate this was different, but not by their metric.
My score is better than average, but looking at the highest scoring sets they seem to not follow the rules, because they use specialised terms like "trichrome" or "pustule".

I'm not a native English speaker, but I don't suppose the mentioned words are used in normal conversation.
Except the part where you don't have people throwing _very_ large quantities of money at you based on these estimates, such that when/if you're wrong it could potentially spell disaster for an entire company costing shareholder money and peoples' livelihoods/jobs.

I'm not trying to claim that each individual claim of Musk's has this potential behind it, but equating it to day-to-day situations of underestimating the difficulty of a small task at your day-job oversimplifies the matter way too much and just makes excuses for someone who should TRULY know better.
I started adderall a few weeks ago after a vary recent diagnoses at 30 years old. It affected my personality in the sense that my wife claims that I now seem interested in what she has to say, I no longer get angry at the smallest things, I have patience with my son, and I don't get so overwhelmed that I regularly want to curl up in a ball and cry.

Otherwise, I'm the same me. Just functioning and less pissed off or annoyed all the time.
I have tried Inkscape a few times over the years, but the extreme instability kept me from adopting it for regular use.
If there is one thing the Touch Bar is it is pretty.

Aesthetically it changes the entire look of the keyboard and wraps it together.

My next computer is having function keys though, so make of that what you will.
It had half the colors of an Apple ][, dramatically worse sound, and arguably even less computing power, but it's true that it was ten times cheaper and had more RAM.

It sold well in Europe due to poverty and because the non-NTSC Apple ][s and Apple ][+s sold in Europe were black-and-white only. It didn't do very well in Japan or South America, and perhaps most importantly, it completely flopped in the US. It did poorly enough that, following the flops of the Sinclair QL and the TV80, the remains of Sinclair Research were sold off to Amstrad in 01986.

But it didn't have to be that way. As with the DEC VT100, with the benefit of hindsight we can see how some moderate design changes would have made it immensely more capable.
> This is perhaps the difference between pseudo and statistically random.

Not quite. Pseudo-randomness is defined as being indistinguishable from a uniform distribution, meaning if the next in a sequence is no more predictable than a statistically random selection.
That's if you started studying them right after birth maybe, but otherwise it's more likely one had more childhood lead exposure than the other or ate different diets, things like that.

Air pollution in particular seems to be really really bad for all kinds of health.
Coworkers always talk about how there are people out there who like them but I’ve never met one. Glad that you like it, drives me nuts.
I think it's possible to build such a lock, but if your lock will inevitably deadlock due to random failures it's probably not that useful.
How would you redesign it with the benefit of hindsight?
A Nim MOD player just for fun
So a contract is formed when the TCP three-way handshake completes.
Unfortunately SSRIs can't be permanent for everyone. They completely fixed my anxiety, but also made me gain 50kg and completely lose my sex drive, so I had to get off them.

The withdrawals (for me there were brain zaps and confusion) didn't last forever though. However, my eyesight isn't ever going to improve ;)
Martin Gardner had a wonderful demonstration in one of his columns, where he had people write out 36 "random" numbers, then fold them into a 6x6 square. there were inevitably doubles or triples of the same digit going vertically, and almost never horizontally, since repeating a digit didn't seem random enough to the person generating the sequence.
Sound like you're gatekeeping a disorder without understanding it.

FWIW, the author definitely has ADD/ADHD based on their descriptions.
I personally had to write a small fragment of PL/SQL last month that interfaced with some COBOL that manipulated Rdb (new development required on that side). We are down a few developers in that arena.
I kind of wish they had asked whether respondents had come across semantic similarity, or had previous experience with linguistics, NLP, or sentiment analysis. I don’t think I’m particularly creative but guessing at how it must have been implemented under the covers I have to believe contributed bunch to the score I received. It’d be interesting to have seen how much of one’s score can be explained by those past experiences.
>The DOT makes it clear that 399.88(a) requires airlines to honor mistake fares.

No; it doesn't state that at all - it states that it's an unfair or deceptive practice to increase a price for travel involved scheduled air travel after purchase. Airlines are, as a matter of contract law, able to rescind contracts made under mistake. Section 399.88 was originally interpreted by the DOT as creating strict liability for airlines if they refused to honor mistake fares, but that's different from there being a breach of contract. Breach of contract creates a remedy for the consumer; unfair or deceptive trading practices give rise to civil and administrate penalties by the DOT.

The fact of the matter is that the confrontation with their regulator and the civil penalties involved are in the "greater of two evils" category for the airlines, so there's commercially speaking no way this would ever come to court.

>Is there a single case where any shopkeeper has been held to specific performance?

This has nothing to do with specific performance; that's just one remedy for breach of contract. Why are you suddenly talking about remedies?
I would try to contribute to open source and put a volunteer section on your resume, if you contribute to an open source app used by a company, I would think getting an interview would be doable
Probably just selection bias.
It's interesting to know the possible difference for native and non-native English speakers for this test.

I got "higher than 94.3%" and wonder if being non-native puts me at an advantage for the task.
It's a term that felt appropriate to describe what OP's article was achieving
> and people don't tend to talk about it as one does a medical condition

While I basically entirely agree with your comment, my partner (who is an optometrist here in Australia) would often point out to me that myopia is a big risk factor for retinal degeneration and detachment, open angle glaucoma, and cataracts at a young age. So while we definitely shouldn't treat mild myopia (like I, and likely you have) as some horrific medical condition, she also gets a bit frustrated by general practitioners and retail optoms who don't treat a lot of the eye diseases she handles with the gravity some of them actually should bear.

Anyway this is a massive tangent, just was something interesting I wanted to share!
On the other hand, starting adderall was the best personal decision I have ever made.

I am less angry, less impulsive, more deliberate, more attentive, more kind, and more patient.

Your reaction sounds like the reaction of someone without ADHD. I'm not claiming that's the case. I know everyone has different reactions to medications and you should do what's best for you. That said, starting adderall literally changed my life.

I would consult a physician though instead of eating less bread if you really do feel that you might suffer from a mental disability. Bread might help, but professional insight will certainly help more.
https://www.xe.com/currencyconverter/
The many random sidebars in Inkscape are a bit questionable, but I prefer its UI over many modern ones. The UI just works for me for the cases, where I use Inkscape.
I agree with your comment and would add that aesthetics impact usability.

If a design is for some reason repulsive to a user then it is not good design.

I think Ive and Jobs together raised the bar for tech so many times that its easy to forget what computers used to look like.
Based on the constant pushes I get in Windows to use MS services, I believe the software is just an advertising platform, and the actual moneymakers are cloud services and selling users' data.
Some might argue that’s a track record of bad picks…
Over the last ~5 years many of the "New Grad" recruiting programs in tech companies have pivoted to "Early Career" programs that accept non-traditional candidates. This is partly in a response to diversity requirements.

How these might work is that you come in at a lower level (Associate, "level 1", whatever, varies by company) and generally these are up-or-out roles where a person has a year or so to prove themselves or they would be let go.
> Windup Girl isn't uplifting?

Well, given the degree to which humanity fucked up the world in the story, I'd say its not uplifting. It is uplifting compared to The Road, or On The Beach - but what isn't? (The energy storage breakthrough subplot has real utopian potential, actually.)
I mean, anyone benefits from Adderall whether you have ADHD or not. How are you so sure you really have it?
> Remember when sites used to serve requests based on the browser identifier rather than trying to contemporaneously display and format text with jscript?

I remember when my window to the world was a 56k modem, which took its sweet time to load the page I wanted.
This is awesome. I too work on mobile app development. I started on Java way back where I use Eclipse IDE for Android development. Then the transition to Android Studio, I remember I was an early AS adopter around version 0.8. Then I started Swift also the same as you, around 2014. Then another transition to Kotlin. I am not sure if I'm a niche programmer but I want to stay in this lane until I get old and for me as someone who's approaching 40 this is a little bit worrying. But reading your story is awesome and gave me hope.
The short answer is because if the lock holder fails your other nodes have no way of knowing if the lock holder failed (consequence of FLP Impossibility result). If you set a timeout, then that’s a lease.

The long answer is to peel this onion for yourself and see where it leads. It’s a lot of fun.
If apple wants to ban me, specifically, from running software on my M1 computer now, they can do so. If China or the US government says so, apple will probably comply. You are completely dependent on a network connection to apple to be able to run an M1 now.

If I want to make an app on my iPhone that I don't want to publish, I have to reinstall it every week, and can only install apps with network connections to apple, as apple gives my phone another 1 week permission slip to run code that I have written.

There are no more offline updates, no more offline app installs.

Also apple cares about privacy, except for privacy from apple. They transmit a shit ton of info all the time from their devices to the mothership and know effectively when and where you have been running apps on their computers constantly. They also do so unencrypted in some cases so anyone spying on the network can know too.

You are not the owner of an apple computer anymore, it's apple.

Ultimately in the end, if they really cared about giving their users ultimate ownership of their devices, they would. It would show up in the form of corporate MDM servers which make the ultimate certificate authority the corporate MDM server owner, and in personal cases you could launch and run your own or use Apple's.

Apple hasn't. They are game console computers and macOS is effectively legacy at this point compared to iOS.
A paper that spends most of its introduction on opinions about permissible modes of reasoning under social convention is starting out badly. Everything expressed may be necessary, but it would be better to come to them than to start out with them.
There are a huge number of people who would disagree with Python being a "crap" language, and the irony is that the only language supported in the browser is js. You're missing a big reason Python is popular, and it is another reason this is a big deal. The number of people that have an opportunity to make web apps opens a great deal.

Also the idea is you CAN now access those libraries like numpy, even though Python speed in general is usually overstated.
I am so happy to see this, thank you a lot for your feedback!
Surely not, but those developers in their country how much spend for a good house, connection, health, food etc respect of let's say Norway?

Remember that moneys are NOT a value themselves but a unit of measure we all agree/accept, to represent an underlying value for helping exchange, so the same 100 USD/EUR/* represent a much big sum in Indian rupees just because renewing the house, get some services etc costs much less there. It's not a matter of skills/time price. Let's say I want to renovate my house. Here (France) that might be for instance 50k EUR for a not-so-new house, how much can be an equivalent house renovation cost for an equivalent home in India? Is it fair for you getting the same amount of wage and with this very amount being able to buy much more or much less?

Surely, costs differs, so in a country, like USA a newborn or a broken leg might be far more expensive than here, while a car might be far less expensive. That's part of the reason why I say ok for location-independent costs INSIDE nation borders, because a broken leg or a car cost almost the same in Alaska or in New Mexico, but not beyond national border because here a car is more expensive a broken leg in money cost normally nothing.
That's very cool, thank you for sharing!
It seems the way this works is that you get a higher score if the 2-gram frequencies for all pairs in your set are low. But this can easily be gamed just by choosing very specific words, since they will naturally occur rarely with other niche words, regardless of whether or not their meanings are "related" in any sense.
And it sounds like you’re diagnosing someone based off a blog post.

By the way, don’t tell someone who is disabled and was hospitalized several times with a mood disorder that they’re gatekeeping a disorder. I can assure you, I know more than you do about mental illness, It’s genetics, and its environmental factors.
This really doesn't ring true to me. The biggest value of frameworks in my mind is that I don't have to waste time doing software design for things where my solution has no reason to be unique. Directory structure, how I interface with the database, how I write to logs, how I route HTTP requests to endpoints in my code are all certainly things I could solve, but I'd rather spend time on things that are unique to the problem I'm solving, and accepting a perfectly suitable standard for everything else.

As a bonus, I know that every dev I hire with experience with that framework is also going to know how these things are set up, and they can focus their onboarding time on what actually needs to be unique to the problem we're solving.

Regarding the downsides:

- a framework doesn't necessitate additional libraries any more than rolling your own does (arguably this is worse without a framework, because unless you don't use libraries altogether you have a hodgepodge of libraries to solve common problems that don't have a lot of incentive to be cross-compatible, and a framework really can't be incompatible with itself)

- Any half-way popular framework is going to ship security updates for past major versions (and again, if you're using libraries this is more of a headache than updating a single framework)
Thanks I'm glad you liked it! Your point on distributed transactions is very true, using CAS is what I meant by "transactionally advance a summary".

For example, you could place a unique identifier on every count event and then roll
up those deltas in the background and transactionally advance a summary, either
preventing ingestion after some time delay or handling recounting.

Certainly transactions can help, but you still have to data model correctly for failure.