skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So does RPi deficiency[0] but that doesn't mean everybody should panic about it.

You would have to be consuming extreme amounts of caffeine regularly to suffer from withdrawals. It's not like giving up 2 cups of coffee a day is going to turn you into a wreck.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribose-5-phosphate_isomerase_d....
It's almost a given that everyone on the planet will eventually catch Covid. Despite being fully vaccinated and being isolated for the most part, my entire family caught it in the Omicron surge. From what I can tell, hospitalisations and deaths are significantly lower compared to earlier the waves.

This is what living with Covid looks like. A small portion of the population will have at any given time but it won't be overly disruptive.
A Difficult Diagnosis
Turbo Vision/Turbo Pascal for MS-DOS. Borland put together one of the best instances of an object oriented library that just worked. The follow up with Delphi for Windows was the most productive environment I have ever experienced, until I was priced out of it in their pivot to "Enterprise" customers.

Nothing since is anywhere near as productive. Lazarus is ok, but the documentation is horrible, (almost non-existent, only doc-strings in many cases) which makes the system far less useful.
I actually wouldn't mind you going into detail about why naming systems like ENS do not benefit from being on a blockchain, as they seem to me to be one of the more obvious use cases.

If the default path of technology were such that our current DNS system were based on a blockchain smart contract system, and then someone proposed a new system with single points of failure, reliant on trusted recursive resolvers, registrar middlemen, a trusted root zone for every country, and a tacked-on CA system that requires fully trusting N-of-N organizations dotted across every jurisdiction on the globe whose job is to verify address resolution from multiple network perspectives, plus OCSP and CT servers to enforce revocations and maintain certificate history - both of which are problems directly caused by a non-blockchain system design - they would be laughed out.

With ENS:

* The blockchain itself is the root of trust, because every name entry has an associated owner entry and every owner entry has a public key entry, which can be used to encrypt and authenticate content.

* Name resolution can be performed by anyone running the client software, by connecting to anyone else running the client software.

* Users can register names directly by using a piece of software, without requiring registrar companies.

* The whole system can be built within a single root zone, because no parties need to be trusted to host the system on privileged servers.

* In practice the system is highly distributed and available, so has had 100.00% uptime for all zones since launch, a higher uptime than DNS.

If you want to go into "extreme detail", now is the time. Please tell me why I am wrong.
They didn't specify the currency or the country. That's why I asked.
That is how it started, as Dr. Scheme, then it decided to go its own way and they decided a new name to make this visible.
> .. there would have been no census to bring Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem ..

Most historians agree there was no such census, certainly not one that required people return to their birthplace. There was a 6CE census (but it certainly would not have required everyone travel to their origin - that would have been as ridiculous then as it sounds now), plus the timing would put it at odds with Herod's death in 4BCE. In any case, it appears to be a literary device employed by the author of Luke to get the main character of the story to the prophecy-mandated location.
college lacks structured socializing time

This may have been true of your college, at the time you attended, but I don't think the experience generalizes at all. Lots of colleges and universities feature heavily structured socializing time. They may have extensive orientation activities during the first week on campus, before classes begin. This functions as both an ice breaker and team building event within faculties or departments. As part of this process, first years / freshmen / frosh are typically introduced to a host of formal clubs, student organizations, and fraternities/sororities they can join. They will also often participate in orientation activities and be introduced to groups and events within their residence building (or college within a larger university) which adds another layer of structured socialization.

Frankly, I would say that university has the potential to offer the most structured socialization time a person can experience throughout their entire life. Of course, as with any opportunity, the door may be open but it's up to the individual to walk through. Plenty of people go to school and put 100% focus on their studies. They never socialize with anyone and they largely remember school as a time of stress and isolation. Barring specific programs with insane workloads, that was their choice, however.
First Edition had guidelines for high level characters literally becoming gods. IIRC one of the paths involved being reincarnated (without memories of past lives) as a level 1 character in each of the different classes and needing to reach high level in each of them in turn -- no easy feat considering that the attributes which make for a great fighter will make for a lousy wizard, but of course becoming gods shouldn't be easy.
IIRC a K80 goes for prices between 0.3 and 3 USD per GPU-hour

Pretty expensive all in all
Your example code now already uses lists of characters for names, and it is very readable. A good debugger will emit the exact same representation you are now using in the code, such as "Bobberton", "Bobbing" etc., and it will be very readable as well.
> Your definition of "woke" is one that has been applied to a set of concerns, ideas and strategies from the outside. It is how those who wish to reject those concerns, defeat those ideas and strategies define it. You're quite welcome to do that - it's not as if this is the first time this has happened. But "woke" (an almost absurd term that seems rarely by anyone outside of the conservative right at this point) doesn't have anything to do with the way you define it to the people you actually consider "woke". I think that's worth reflecting on.

I found it to to be the exact opposite. GP has written of the best descriptions of wokeness and gets to the core issue without beating about the bush.
Beer is notoriously inexpensive in a fair number of european countries. When I first visited from Canada, I was shocked at how much beer I could get in Germany for $5 euro or something
If you liked that, you might also enjoy reading about the oil islands off Long Beach, CA

https://la.curbed.com/2018/9/28/17858248/history-long-beach-...
When I was a kid, I would have dreams of falling and wake up petrified. Now I recognize these dreams and have fun with them by flying. I don't know how/why the change occurred.
Plug: www.snaplet.dev is such a company. We're building tools for developers. Our idea is that if our own company doesn't have the happiest, creative, and engaged developer's that we won't be able to build a product that's meant to help other developers.

Our internal state should reflect the way we want developer's to feel about our products.
Assuming those are V100 GPUs at $3/hr, that’s at least $300k.
The plans produced by the electrical and civil engineers I work with are a set of instructions for electricians and construction workers to follow that results in a power plant. I have not worked with an architect but I don’t think their drawings are ready for trades.
The US is exporting this culture at an ever increasing pace: https://www.economist.com/international/2021/06/12/social-me...

This comes as no surprise since tech is mostly lopsided politically.
I take wild lettuce, and tumeric with black pepper fairly often. in 1998 or so there were "tobacco-less" cigarettes that my partner at the time bought me to try, i think they're probably used as props on movie sets and for people who want to look "smoker cool" without the whole cancer and emphysema aspects - these were 100% wild lettuce, and smelled like what, at the time, i assumed was marijuana. I've since discovered that more people around that area were smoking catnip/wild lettuce than weed, since they're different, and it's not really that subtle.

Plants, and how our gut bacteria interact with them - or not - are one of the most interesting things i can think of.
My Two Cents on the PayHere Hack
> That's a bit like telling us the ending of a movie as a way of saving us time

The answer is not on the page linked and the topic is obscure. The "ending" to an "enjoyable article" is not the answer to the title question. It's obvious why "Pre-Code" is contextually confusing.
Damn I also lost it. I’ll take the downvotes with you.
AWS RDS Postmortem: Is AWS Collapsing Under its Own Weight ?
Hi everyone,

I have been working with AWS with many years and the service over the years has been outstanding. A few months ago I started the migration of (yet another business) to AWS, and we had an incident. This made me think that maybe AWS is starting not to be good any more.

I would like to share the postmortem report with the community, and please comment on what you think. I would like to know if we made a fundamental mistake or if AWS is actually degrading.

Times are UTC. Personal opinions are removed from the report, just facts are stated.

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POSTMORTEM REPORT

The project consists on moving several services to AWS. The system consists Services in 1 autoscaling group, and a PostgreSQL Database in RDS.

- Sunday 4.30 am: we migrate the PostgreSQL database to RDS. RDS is configured with 200 GB in the disk, the database size is 15 GB.

- Sunday 10.17 am: RDS detects that we are running out of space, and decides to grow the database from 200 GB to 999 GB. The RDS auto scaling event starts

At this point the performance if the database is degraded. Alerts are triggered.

A test performed from the VPC network with the query "SELECT now()" took 20 seconds and 248 milliseconds.

The database performance is that bad that many of the services goes down.

- The RDS auto scaling event finalized at 14:39.

After contacting with AWS Support (see details below) we decided to roll back.

We contacted with AWS Support (Business). The points more important in the transcript are:

- The fact that RDS decided to grow the disk from 200 GB to 999 GB, when the actual database size is 15 GB, it is not a problem.

- In the actual auto-scaling event a performance degradation while the auto scaling event is operational is expected. As "sessions"(1) are not being drop, from AWS the database is considered online so it is working as per expectations.

- Pointed out the example of a SELECT now() taking 20 seconds. This did not change the fact that the database is online and all is good.

- When asked for an estimation of the duration of the event, it was stated that could take "from several minutes to several days".

- The objective of AWS Support is to communicate what is happening (implies that you should not expect them to help you to fix the actual problem)

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Opinions ?
Why settle for one if you can have both? I think the smell of freshly baked bread is from another world but the satisfaction during consumption for me is on the coffee side of things.
The public health system has been stood down, for political reasons.

The crisis isn't over... many of us suffered a fate worse than death, long covid. I'm one of a huge number of effectively disabled people yanked out of contributing to society in a fully productive manner. The estimates for how many of us there are vary wildly, but we're definitely a cost that hasn't been considered.

In the future, I suspect they'll look back and wonder how we missed the long term implications of this. The closest analogy of this disease is when the explorers from Europe brought a novel disease to the American continent. They weren't all wiped out in a year or two... it took decades. I fear we're in for a long term decrease in life expectancy as a result of the folly of setting the wrong goals in the initial response.
Wow thank you for taking the time for such a detailed, thought out response. I really enjoyed hearing your story, which ran through my mind like a documentary on this seedy underworld you are shining a light on.

What are you up to after this learning experience? Working in e-commerce? Tech?
I generally agree with you. But on the other hand, my ADHD makes me way less reliable as an employee, a spouse, and a friend. I’m not sure it’s really right for me to expect people to continually bend over backwards to accommodate my disorder. My ADHD is an illness, and I don’t think that’s just because I’m expected to adhere to the norms of a neurotypical society. A world run according to ADHD norms would be an absolute nightmare to live in! I perhaps wish there was a wider and more correct understanding of the disorder (i.e., it doesn’t just affect children, it’s not only an attentional disorder, etc.), but I’m not particularly bothered by other people expecting me to adhere to social norms of timeliness, behavior, and so forth.
Out of all of the 60-70 year olds I know, I can’t think of one that has a condition that prevents them from exercising.

Also, the fact that you’re typing is ableist - think of the poor people without fingers that are also mute so they can’t use text to speech.

If we can’t talk in generalities then we can’t talk at all.
Don't like this since it's probably based on gpt3 and I can see how the results can easily be gamed, and how unrelated nouns can sometimes have a higher correlation based on artifacts in gpt3
Large models generally require beefier GPUs and more RAM. Wide (not just deep) models require more GPU cores, total model size requires more RAM. Some models require multiple GPUs to train and/or run. Some require non-consumer server GPUs. These are non-trivial hardware investments if purchased, and non-trivial cloud bills if rented, even at preemptible spot pricing.
I wonder if it's very personal, I drink coffee all the time for taste but don't get any boost from it. When I run out of coffee I don't mind and go and buy it. I can go weeks without having it overnight.
I very well do know what addiction is because of other stuff in my life. On the other hand my dad is quitting coffee all the time and at least the way he talks about it is like a heroin addict going to rehab.
Xbin – Use CLI tools without installing
> I already avoid it because I think it redundant with my medication.

I get your drift, and my heart probably wishes I would do the same... literally.
One thing I loved when looking at F# was Type-Driven Development that I imagine could be quite applicable to data modelling (as in, piping stuff around and sanitising). This has possibly had the biggest impact on how I think about programming out of anything I've done! https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/series/designing-with-type...

You might also find this interesting: https://fsharpforfunandprofit.com/posts/recipe-part2/

Another thing - if you find you write small scripts in Python to read a file or parse some stuff or plot a couple things but these aren't for production, Racket has an amazing library of basically everything you could need. It's actually very practical as a scripting language.
in-country location blind. I suspect this is the end state for most 'remote anywhere' policies - it will stop at national borders
I can see it both ways. I think people who follow this stuff closely understand it without even having to click on the article.

But I have noticed an attitude among most non-news junkies of "I don't get why not everything is renewable - it literally is just as easy - must be bribes by oil execs". And I assume most non-news junkies who end up seeing that headline will assume it means California is 100% powered by solar and wind.
If the DSM-V definition is overly broad, and the truth behind ADHD is different, is that not fairly alarming?

Currently 9.4% of children are diagnosed with ADHD[1], but we don't diagnose 9.4% of the population as having a disorder on merit of being very tall or very short. In fact, with ADHD, we're also not also counting the opposite of ADHD as a disability, so we're counting a HUGE swathe of the lower end of the spectrum as being disabled. I don't disagree the reason ADHD is considered so serious is cultural, but I find the culture to be incredibly condescending.

For context, Russell A Barkley has been a paid consultant for a large number of pharmaceutical companies. He takes the position that ADHD is akin to a physical handicap and Ritalin is akin to a wheelchair, espousing how incredibly treatable of a disorder ADHD is. I don't agree with him very much because I've found the wheelchair to have a surprising amount of side effects while not being entirely effective. It feels more like a wheelchair I sit in to please others which ruins my own health. I have watched all of Russell Barkley's videos, and took him seriously enough to try everything he advised (Which is a LOT and I had to fight with psychs to try some of it), and it didn't work. Overall, I've mostly found myself to be pretty successful without using any sort of pharmacological treatment, and thus I'm not very attached to the "ADHD as a disorder" narrative and honestly feel like it's mostly done me a disservice.

I also don't really feel it's something I have to accept due to it being scientific fact, as the sheer instability of ADHD diagnostic rates makes me sceptical scientists really have that firm of a grasp on the disorder, the differences in how people react to medication is pretty much completely unexplained by the current scientific theories, and the current scientific theories don't really explain that well why people without ADHD seem to have performance enhancing benefits from the drugs [2]. Which makes me wonder if we're "treating" ADHD, or if we're just letting people with ADHD dope while not allowing others to. To me, I suspect ADHD is an oversimplification of a more complex underlying reality, similar to IBS. I am much more keen on the "ADHD as as social construct" theory than I am on the "ADHD as a medical condition" theory.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/data.html
[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3489818/
hahaha.. Thank you for comment. Yes, I actually signed up for a course on Udemy and did some F# after a few lessons on SML from Dan Grossman on Coursera. My company has bet big on .net and our products have been developed on .Net. So that's another reason to learn F# for me. I find it quite interesting and am surprised that it doesn't have as much adoption as Python or R!
I remember lucidrains from his site, Epicmafia. Good times! Made so many friends there, many of whom I still talk to today.
My kids can't stand them. Too sweet even for them.
Pretty sure most people who jailbreak their tractors get their software from Russia. I have no doubt they'll be able to overcome the lockout.
I’m also a photographer, though I’m in my 30s. I frequently run in to other local photographers at a nearby state park. One in particular is so overweight she can’t crouch down, so she just uses live view and holds the camera as low as she can.

I’ve seen another do basically an entire session in the parking lot on a beautiful fall day. It was clear she wouldn’t be up for going on even a mild hike to the prettier locations.

I stay in shape with a standing desk snd walking treadmill. Editing photos isn’t exactly mentally taxing so it’s pretty damned easy to do.
> while the urban population continued to skyrocket.

Blaming the urban population "skyrocketing" for contention of water usage is ridiculous. 80% of water used by humans in California is used by agriculture.

It's about the same share as 1970: cities have increased water consumption slightly (despite a doubling of the population, urban water use has also gotten significantly more efficient), but farmers have also moved towards more water intensive crops... keeping the shares about the same.

Meanwhile, farming's share of California's GDP has halved.
I wish you all the best on the journey. It’s a hard-as-hell place to be in, but I’m glad you have someone who can balance things out. (I’m fortunate to have the same!) But it’s still a path you have to figure out on your own, and I’m glad you’re in a good place with it now.
Bootcamps supposedly used to be good, nowadays even the "best" have largely cashed out and don't care much for education. This is an expected result when the top employers put almost 0 funding into education, no feedback, complain, and outsource their work anyways.
Unless one tries to write GUI software, then it is Rc<RefCell<>> everywhere.
This is literally what “Chapter 2” in the article is about.
I think the latest research was showing that soil and mycorrhizae networks are very critical to the nutritional content of various plants. The sad thing is that same study (need to find it again) showed that applying conventional fertilizer actively reduced mycorrhizae and biological diversity in the soil. The scary thing is there's not much awareness of this in mainstream media. The only thing I've seen in mainstream media about this soil problem was from a hermit Indian guru type on a spotify podcast.
I think urban sprawl and car focused design is the cause. Having to arrange an event, drive, meet up, etc is too difficult when you can just play a game online or talk on discord.

I moved to an inner city apartment and suddenly my social life exploded. I have a few friends very close by and some are in the same building as me. A social event is now as simple as sending a message asking if any of them want to grab dinner with me in an hour. We meet up at the lobby and walk to a pub/restaurant. Cars and commuting are this huge barrier to socialization these days.
I would argue this confirms what the OP said cmake is really not very friendly to the user (not developer). Reading through the cmake sources for options is equivalent to "read the source".
Right. The switch away from openness coincided with their conversion to a for-profit and the Microsoft investment.
What could have been done differently ? What should we do diffidently going forward ?
ePub Support in Kindle's Personal Documents Service
> Take every feature of C and explode it to its logical conclusion and beyond. And there you get C++, which has its uses but is really one of the few languages I would ever call straight up bad.

I think you could take the approach you described, and get something better than C++. Especially with the benefit of hindsight.
I imagine it depends on where you live, but in the US, it is insane how easy it is to get prescribed. Try to do it yourself, it takes literally a 10-minute phone call and you'll have a script at your local pharmacy -- https://www.donefirst.com/
This is where most companies are trying to go if they can though. Unfortunately it has been proven that people will willingly pay for a service every month above purchasing it outright and shareholders love it because it means that revenue from each user is consistent.

The future is one where you don't own anything and companies nickel and dime you for features and services.
Actually, you're correct. The only reason I can think of is curiosity. Beyond that it has very little importance, to me personally. That's why I may never do it. But it definitely looks fun. I don't know about Haskell but I'm more interested in F#. Some of my colleagues have worked on Haskell in the academia.
And the other thing also happens. When LADWP bought up all the land with water rights along the Owens River people acted like it was the crime of the century.
They still mostly do, that is where Abseil is used.

Go has more mindshare outside Google than on Google's critical infrastructure.