skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a lot more localized. I read in the Violet Blue link posted elsewhere in thread that the "Bay Area was in a 5th wave" with "numbers higher than the Delta wave from summer 2021" and I couldn't reconcile that with the state-level numbers I had been seeing elsewhere... but then I drilled down into the county-level numbers and sure enough, for SF, Santa Clara, and Alameda, it's back up to August 2021 levels.

But if you look at the data for CA overall, you see a very different picture: yes, things are up, but they're at about 30% of last August. So the bay area trend gets lost in that.

Also, at-home tests are plentiful now, so I'm guessing that a large number of cases are not getting caught up in the reporting system.
Regarding the issue of people sending requests directly to your server, bypassing Cloudflare: While you can use IP allowlisting for this, Cloudflare can also be configured to send requests to your server exclusively over mTLS, with a client certificate chaining up to a root CA which they publish. If I were worried about this kind of attack, I'd probably turn that feature on (and then reject requests that don't present a valid client cert); I don't fully trust IP allowlisting. (On the other hand, I can't say for sure that the performance overhead wouldn't be a problem in a DDoS scenario. But it doesn't seem super likely?)
If you have ADHD, you can know with medication. It's my understanding that modern ADHD medication is remarkably effective and well studied.
> High five, fellow PhD dropout. :(

High five back to you. No shame in that game. I’m mostly just glad to have learned that my issues weren’t just because I was “lazy” but because my brain just doesn’t work that way. I learned something about myself, even if it cost me a few years to learn it!

And I wish you all the best. When those coping mechanisms run out, they run out hard. My wife is an attorney, and one of her best friends at work clearly has undiagnosed ADHD. We both keep pushing her to talk to someone about it because I know the day is coming when she’s going to hit that wall, and I seriously don’t wish it on anyone. It’s bad. When it happened to me, I had no idea what was going on. I’d always been able to just get things done (albeit in absolute panic mode), and then suddenly I just wasn’t able to. Keep fighting, my friend.
Maybe boys are exposed to more pollutants because they tend to do more outdoor activities?
You can use iTunes, the VLC web interfacr, iCloud, Dropbox, NextCloud and probably a myriad of other ways I haven't considered.

It's not 2008 anymore.
https://archive.ph/OAU1U (I also posted this at the top level just now)
Alexa.com Has Been Retired
I think it's basically pay Aphyr/Jepsen $mondoConsultingRates. :)
A Functional Introduction to Computer Science (Part I)
Commodity Chokepoints and QT
Talent is global now, but culture and time zones still matter. For the top 15% of companies and talent offshoring is less about “pay people less” and it’s more about “hire a team of 80 people in a year”. It’s extremely difficult to hire a team of 80 US based engineers in 12 months, even with top of market pay, even with fancy stock and remote work. It’s much easier to do this in Latam for example because there is more slack in the labor market.
I just said a non CS degree isn't anything.

A strange view of the world (even the world programming), to say the least.
Mmm? The consequence of reading the uninitialized variable is that your program's behaviour is Undefined. There's no point worrying about this other variable named 'a', it's already game over.

It's not called "Temporarily unusual" behaviour or "Reliably crashing" behaviour or even "I bet it'll probably just skip that and do the next thing" behaviour, it's Undefined for a reason.
Not to mention more sugar.

I have read zoos have started having to source fruit not raised for human consumption has the sugar levels are now getting too high. In some cases 30% more sugar content if I tember correct.
Can the World Feed Itself? Historic Fertilizer Crunch Threatens Food Security
Speaker seems like he has never worked on a large project nor understands OOP. He mentions Single responsibility principal but then seems to understand its usage or effectiveness, saying that your logic is scattered all over the code base. It's not if you do OOP right.
I’m a native English speaker and I’d never dream of dropping an f-bomb in a professional context.
If it is not gpt-generated, it is a rather remarkable experience worth elaborating on.
Isn't the friends phone one of the ends?

It sounds to me like it is E2EE, but people can opt in to back up the message after decryption. How is this different to any other E2EE program?
Even if a naive keylogger is only capturing keystrokes and sending that file somewhere. It's a simple script to search for email addresses and then assume the next 8-64 characters are the password. How many of us type in a web address, then go type something else. Then return to the web site and type the user name, go back to work on an email, then come back and type the password?

I would guess approximately no one does this as standard behavior.
If the study and/or article mean "nonprescribed" when using the term "off-label", then the study and/or article are misleading.

The survey cites numbers for children's prescriptions and estimates of adult off-label use. That latter would still be prescribed, but the study is claiming that the prescriptions aren't consistent with FDA certification, which would involve deviations from that certification as I've discussed above, citing FDA terms.

Your preception may be accurate. But it would require either the survey reported on here being misrepresented, or a much larger nonprescription use, which does not appear to have been the study's focus. Either way, you're proposing a possibility without specific supporting evidence.
CRDTs: The Hard Parts – Martin Kleppmann’s Talks
Evolution of Linux Gaming Distros From 2018 to 2022 (Video)
AD&D was such a world creation myth to immerse oneself in. Greyhawk and the Forgotten Realms. We fell out of it, my friends and I, in our twenties. But it has pulled us back in in our forties. Playing the original TSR modules with new characters. So much better than computer role playing games as the fun exists in the real tabletop experiences of people interacting with each other in meatspace. It demonstrates what has been lost in virtual space. Similarly to playing boardgames with real players around the table.

Humans are social creatures who belong in close physical proximity with other people. To interact, to feel free to belong, to be humans. Technology is a poor replacement for this.
If possible, get a second opinion. I was in jail and a lot of people were there because they had been prescribed a regimen of drugs, by a psychiatrist in the free world, that was subpar and caused them to behave in a way that ended with them being locked up. Psych drug prescriptions are hard to get right due to the varying combinations of mental illnesses and how difficult it is to diagnose some of them, but some psychiatrists seem to be straight quacks prescribing whateverthefuck.
Ask HN: Companies hiring for a 4-day workweek?
I'm pretty interested in finding a fully remote company, that hires for a 4-day workweek (as opposed to 5).

How can someone (in Europe) find such employers?
Allegedly, based on info from a DALL-E 2 paper, it takes about 100k-200k GPU hours to train the model:

https://github.com/lucidrains/DALLE2-pytorch/issues/22#issue...
vlc can play youtube links so you just need to open the m3u file in vlc if you don't want to download.
Sometimes? I had good friends in college, but I barely talk to them anymore over a decade and some change later.

They are in different industries, with partners and kids, and just doing their own thing. They've all sort of faded into background noise at this point. Every once and awhile I get a text message around the holidays from one or two of them.

Most of my friends these days are former coworkers and random people I've met gaming online over the years.
> As someone diagnosed with ADHD later in life, a lot of these ADHD superpowers are just the result of taking dopaminergic stimulants.

I experienced them before I was aware of my issues, before had ever tried any medication.
Big assumption that a distributed system has to serve “people” and have “responses.”

A distributed system might be, for example, the ACH system: all batch, all store-and-forward, no replies flowing down the line, only processed message response batches dropped off “eventually” in outboxes.

Or, for another example: any workload manager, whether on an HPC cluster or your local Kubernetes node. No synchronous workload execution; just async batch scheduler enqueue with later best-effort status querying.
Sounds like you might have picked the wrong product. The iPhone SE is significantly cheaper and has the button still. Probably a great purchase if she doesn't want the latest hardware widgets.
I can’t seem to scroll the help on iOS. Workaround is to use reader mode in Safari.
The alternative is that there's no historical character, merely a mythical one. Many of the early stories make much more sense if you adopt that position.

The earliest allegorical story that mentions the character was written around 70 CE - so a good 40 years after the supposed crucifixion.

You assert plenty of first hand accounts were available (they weren't), and that there are many corroborative accounts now (there aren't).

The movement seemed to be spreading remarkably slowly until it was leveraged by an opportunistic emperor in the early 4th century. At that time there were dozens of various sects, the Nicene was just another variant, but the orthodoxy that came out of that adoption meant we lost many of the works and details of the others. That rewriting of history would also address your last point, too.
For us(https://buildroot.org/) cross compiling with meson tends to be significantly more reliable than autotools already as it tends to be much better at separating host/target artifact builds within a project and setting up the toolchain correctly, autotools tends to need lots of package specific hacks in my experience.

We have a fairly customized integration(https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/package/p...) which we've iterated on for a while that works quite well these days. The cross compilation support with upstream meson has improved a lot over the years and while it's quite mature now IMO it still takes a bit of env setup to work correctly(but once it works it tends to not break much).
This wasn't the case for me and I'd also argue that in an ideal society it also should not be the case. The reason is in the corollary. Any meaningful chunk of people's friends being made in college ultimately means that the vast majority of their life is spent without making friends. And that'd be the perfect recipe for a lonely and isolated society.

From a practical point of view as well, long distance friendships can work for some time, my most successful made it about 2 decades (with a few interspersed physical 'reunions' in between). But they will all eventually fail as the 'Hey how's it going' messages start to become more formulaic, repetitious, and more of an obligation than a desire. And so unless by happenstance you end up living in the vicinity of college friends, you're going to gradually drift away.

And there's already a solution/alternative: literally sort of of local activity. I enjoy chess and a single trip to a local chess club is often more than enough to go from 'I know nobody' to 'I know lots of people' in a new city, and friendships form easily.

I'd also encourage anybody here who has even a vague interest in chess to consider that. Chessclubs often have a huge diversity of skill levels, always including a few guys who don't know that much more than how the pieces move - but enjoy getting out and going to play against other people. And "chess club" often translates to 'Hey we meet up this time at this restaurant and play a bit - BYOB.' B being board of course, there's always beer a plenty there.

Best part of it all is that chess players tend to be pretty atypical so you'll find all sorts of interesting personalities.
Sounds like you may have had too high a dose, or too quickly absorbed of a dose. That's more or less what I feel like in the 30-40mg range, which is about middle of the road for Adderall XR. The problem with XR is for some folks, it isn't extended release at all, it's just two timed dumps of immediate release.
> modern replacement of LaTeX

It's one of the most reliable and useful pieces of software, and it seems to be doing just fine.
Most efforts at modernization focus on extension, either with packages, other languages, GUIs, etc.

> latex in general has awful compile times in part because of it's ancient design.

I would expect the "ancient" to mean it's faster, as it was designed for a more restricted resource environment, and Knuth tailors optimal algorithms for each task. For example, the single-pass is ergonomically a pain, because you often have to run it multiple times to get the final output but it also makes it faster.

Do you have ideas about alternative architectures that would improve performance?
> When those coping mechanisms run out, they run out hard

Oh, don't I know it.

Have switched career paths a few times because of it. About 4-5 years to ride the wave up before the crash.

Thankful for MY partner... because she's an absolute harbour in the storm. All the executive function I lack, and then more to spare. Otherwise I'd probably be homeless, imprisoned or dead.

Think I am finally dealing with it properly.
Technicalities: “not rocket science” (the story of monotone and bors)
Yeah, Intel had the opportunity to avoid this outcome, and they fumbled on the mobile sector. Ben Thompson gives a deep analysis of the history here: https://stratechery.com/2021/intel-problems/
Swearing in German is dreadfully dull, you donkey who has a bird.
"What is art? Art is when you challenge the assumptions that people make about a medium and use that conflict to help them change what they think about that medium."

I think the above definition, perhaps unwittingly, robs us of traditional value in art. By that above definition, a classical greco-roman statue that doesn't challenge anyone's ideas or perception cannot be art. I am not very interested in communicating with anyone who doesn't sooner or later realize how preposterous it is to say "your work doesn't challenge anyone's assumptions, so it can't be art". It's a self-defeater because at some point the unchallenged assumption that art challenges assumptions must itself be challenged in order to produce any more art.

I think the below definition is good, maybe better but also not perfect because of its insistence on beauty alone.

"The conscious use of the imagination in the production of objects intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful, as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words."

The definition for "object". I prefer the word "pattern" where any physical object is matter arranged in a certain pattern.

"Something perceptible by one or more of the senses, especially by vision or touch; a material thing."

Here's my pitch for an improved definition of art:

"The conscious use of the imagination in the production or recognition of patterns intended to be contemplated or appreciated as beautiful or thought-provoking such as in the arrangement of forms, sounds, or words."

I am going to include the author likes to call art as art, because it is. I am going to exclude anything without a conscious intention of creativity in patterns. You are not making art unless you intend to. You may retroactively call something you did subconsciously "art". When you do that the conscious creation is your identification and naming of the pattern you noted, through logos; that is, the power of the mind, and language. In this way, even pointing at a mountain can be seen as a kind of performance art. The way you pointed to it at that moment, if you call attention to it as art, that is your art of being and communicating. The distant mountain was one of your artistic ingredients, so was your finger.

What the writer has helpfully noticed is that art seems to be elusive; doesn't easily allow its definition to be pinned down, but it has a concrete existence in part of who we are. It cannot really exist without this thing we call "consciousness".
Would you rather your build failed during configure or 10 minutes into the build, where parallelism will make the compile still print tons of things after the error message?
Ok, but if USPS loses your important document, what do you expect them to do about it? They have no idea where it is and, unless someone paid for special tracking, no way to locate it aside from dumb luck.

Whatever agency was sending you your important document has to be the one to re-issue it and resend it. USPS has no role until it comes time to deliver it again.
Definitely. It's also mostly Steve Jobs'/Apple's definition. But in the context of discussing Apple, many often solely talk about the shiny exteriors and looks of Apple products while neglecting usability.

We may disagree, but the usability used to be and maybe is again the main selling (or at least "staying") point. I think this was lost a bit during Apple's "high design" years before Ives departure. It was often form over function.
Close your email client and Slack. Then out your mobile phone in Do Not Disturb mode. Biggest productivity hacks for me.
If I understand it correctly, it’s based on a single tree, though - so not exactly big data across many specimens and types of trees.
Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy Is Killing You (2020)
They're the world's largest exporter of wheat.
Unpopular opinion but Microsoft Excel. It's a powerhouse of features.
> It looks like this means "Racket-on-Chez-Scheme"(i.e. "Racket >= 8.0") will run, but it won't use Chez Scheme it'll default to the old system: https://github.com/racket/racket/issues/3802

No, that item means Racket CS runs on platforms where native code generation isn't available via a portable bytecode backend.
Right. This lines up with people I know who did dorms. If you didn’t do dorms - you basically didn’t experience this part of college friendships and likely found them difficult to be formed.

Personally - I lived alone because I was too poor for the dorms. I got a good deal on an extremely small and niche studio apartment that was cheaper than the rooms in houses I was looking at. Naturally - I took it up because I was incredibly poor.

It’s always the Craigslist ads with no photos and maybe two sentences for a description that always end up being killer deals for the savvy hunter like myself.
I remember when I first got an iPad (version 2?). I spent a lot of time traveling at that point, and wanted to write code on it pretty badly. I started research and prototyping pieces of an IDE and ran into not technical limitations, but Apple policy. Ultimately they wouldn’t let me do what I wanted, which obviated the viability of the whole thing.

Great for watching YouTube by yourself on the couch though.
Dungeons and dragons groups lies somewhere on the spectrum between improvised theatre to strict rules boardgame. If you imagined it to be anything other than that you will be disappointed. But if you want one of those you can always find such a group, just note that most people are really bad at improvised theatre, so you need to find bad acting to be funny to enjoy it so you might not like it even if you like stories.
What's interesting is that long-form narratives seem to less popular in newer systems (and particularly outside the traditional D&D camp), which tend to aim instead for a reasonably short, self-contained arc in maybe half a dozen or so sessions. Particularly with the PbtA/FitD genre that's come out of Apocalypse World and its derivatives, there's a lot of emphasis on telling the one story that the system makes sense for, and then moving on to another story.

Even in more traditional games, I feel like I also see that tendency in certain parts of the Old School Renaissance scene, which makes me wonder if it's got something to do with the plethora of different systems that are out now. If I'm only going to have time for one game a week, I might not want to end up stuck to one setting and one system, but rather try deadly space horror in Mothership, surreal British fantasy in Troika!, steampunk metropolis Victoriana in Electric Bastionland, etc.

I'm intrigued to see if this sort of style, where one jumps from game to game relatively easily, but doesn't invest so much in a single character or world, will be as long lasting. I think the danger is that eventually you run out of new things (although that honestly seems hard at the rate that new games are being punished), but a lot of these games are fairly replayable, and my impression is that people keep on coming back to their favourites.
reflexive skepticism is a form a credulity. Due diligence requires analysis of primary sources fairly critiqued, rather acceptance mediated interpretations. The is true irrespective of political system of either party
Creating Font Subsets
Plenty of people form lifelong friendships in all sorts of ways that aren't an expensive college. For many, their lifelong friendships are cousins, high school friends, or colleagues.
Fun!

I tend to be paranoid about exposing things to the Internet, so just put my raw servers behind Envoy. I have tuned that to do rate limiting, circuit breaking (stop sending requests to an upstream when it returns too many errors), idle connection termination, and to shed load when a certain amount of memory is in use, so without any additional configuration for a new service behind the proxy it's somewhat difficult to get the proxy and other services to not respond at all.

I'm guessing that in a real attack, the rate limiting service is a weak link. I use a custom rate limit service to aggregate rate limits across a /24 (and hacked that together in an evening), and that is likely the first thing to blow up and erroneously deny service to legitimate users. (I'm sure I have it set up to fail closed, which will be annoying.)

I had a hard time ever generating enough load to test any of this for the static serving path. I just set up a mirror of my production environment on my workstation, limited the critical services (Envoy + nginx + rate limit + Redis) to some low amount of CPUs, and then had 31 workers generate synthetic load. I was able to get circuit breakers to open to at least prove that that code works, but I somehow think that I'll run out of network bandwidth before I run out of memory to keep track of open streams. Difficult to load test when the upstream can respond to most requests out of memory.

Would be interesting to dig into it more. But for those of you reading this and thinking "I'm going to launch an attack right now", I will just turn off the site if I go over my bandwidth quota. Clone the config repo, host everything locally, run your tests, and send me the results ;)
Farms in California already get a disproportionate and growing amount of water. How about they do better?
I believe it. Some of these new apple varieties are delicious. But that's probably because they're bred to be sweeter, and presumably less healthy. Still better than eating processed junk food, but not as healthy as their less-tasty predecessors!
Is Racket a practical competitor for Common Lisp yet?
This site is a start: https://4dayweek.io/
It looked like he was mostly using binders. I’m a lot more interested in how he keeps up with the hundreds of sub-quests at any given time.
Maybe they have a hard time paying attention to the text? Or does ADD affect reading? I'm not really sure how it works
Love it! It feels like a glorified RSS viewer, but with much more thought put into what people actually want to read and know on the 21st century. I would probably put much more thought and concentration into reading the news if I'd have a page like that with my own news feed that I usually read.

Good job!