skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I noticed the same about myself and have been doing something similar. I haven't been as focused on cutting down things I follow (actually even increasing), instead just paying attention to what I find valuable and aggressively cutting out everything I either dislike or find superfluous and spammy (eg if I see the same post multiple times on my reddit feed, I'll quickly check the poster's profile, if they spam the same content on several subreddits regularly I'll block them even if the content is something I enjoy).
That sounds promising. Ever done it this way? Howd it turn out?
That church undergoes a lot of maintnence, masonry requires constant repair, so it gets constant repair.
NetBSD Packages Inaccessible?
Is anyone else having problems getting to the cdn.netbsd.org or ftp.netbsd.org www/ftp sites? I need packages and they are not accessible...
64 MB RAM, not unusual for a high end desktop/dev machine in the late 1990's, but...

VB6 (the last one) was 1998, same year as win98, which listed a 486+16M of ram as its system requirements. Which was a big step up from a W95 386 with 4M of ram. So one probably didn't want to run VB itself on those smaller machines, but the resulting apps definitely did, and those low end desktops were exactly what a lot of vb apps were running on.
What I really like about GraphQL is that it completely get rides of the silly verb questions such as

- POST or PUT or PATCH?

- Why can't my GET or DELETE requests have a JSON body?

It is just a better interface, even if it where to be used exactly as REST without any nesting. I used the Appollo server in NodeJS and it was so natural to make parallel queries and let the query planner take care of the parallelism for me...
> It's the developers not companies that make this decision.

I don't see developers making these decisions anymore, not in large web-based tech companies.

My experience has been that management controls a lot of these decisions and/or steers them in the direction that they want them to go. And the more power a manager holds over a team or department, the more influence they can exert to get their way.

As an example, I'm hearing from a colleague in another department that they're being told by an engineering SVP that all new backend services are to be written in NodeJS. These are .NET developers. How does this guy who is 3 layers above these engineers intend to enforce this "rule?" The implication is you can do this or get fired, I guess, so it's happening regardless of how stupid it is. This was all explained to me when I noticed that I had gotten 3 "so long and thanks for all the fish" emails from long-timers in that department.
Do you also have an iPhone that you just leave at home?
I'm more likely these days (as the decades pile up) to deliberately stop reading a book, if it hasn't engaged me by the time I've read 20% of it. Of course, many never get started, once I do a quick scan.

I estimated how many more books I would likely read before I die, and it's a shockingly small number, even though I read a lot! So - choose wisely.
Since the first sentence is factually wrong this article is useless drivel. The FED is not a government. It is a banking organization created to keep the rich, rich. Full Stop.
Yeah I only meant they don't recommend earning to give as your career path if you are going to devote your career to altruism. Giving money is still highly beneficial, just not as beneficial as giving top charities your mind full-time.
It looks like big-sleep [1] is their CLI? I did:

pip install big-sleep
dream "a pyramid made of basketballs"

and after a few hours got this: https://i.imgur.com/FxdfdmV.png

Not nearly as cool as the real DALL-e, but maybe I'm missing something.

[1] https://github.com/lucidrains/big-sleep
What Is a Race Condition?
Haven't tried this myself, but perhaps it might work overseas?

https://github.com/abrasive/mygov-totp-enroll
> There's nothing improper with adding

The point of the waiting to edit suggestion is to avoid a bunch of reactionary edits during the most heated period. Immediately implementing every edit demanded of you when different people are demanding different edits all at once seems improper to me and waiting a short period seems a level headed approach. It also avoids the look of just trying to cover everything up the quickest way possible instead focusing on well thought out sincere reactions.

> No. That's not where you heard it first. Otherwise you wouldn't have written "this needs doctoral research on performance" in the original issue.

You've attributed the quote to the wrong person, it was not lhecker who said that.

> There's an actual, verifiable screenshot of your reaction to his words. That was not an "again".

There is nothing in lhecker's response that suggests he hadn't heard of the alternative. His comment argued it should all be able to handled in DirectWrite without using the alternative not that the alternative hadn't been thought of.
See this article: https://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/best-places-to...
And here we are, wasting time to write for the n-th time 'if feel the same". Someone even write it's refreshing ...
Worth remembering that "No." is a complete sentence. No requirement to respond "No, because ...".

This can help your mental health considerably.
Unfortunately, the Ivy Leagues of the world have a wonderful opportunity, they now have tools to provide education to millions of people but they are choosing a black box, opaque style of admissions and going for a Luxury Brand model.

I hope there is at least one university of prestige that opens up its doors for admission.

Easy to Enroll and Damn Hard to graduate, so that the actually degree has real value while being accessible.
For that reason I never take my phone to the gym. I just enjoy resting between sets. I also try to make my workout as efficient as possible.
It's just a GET request. Same as REST. I don't know what you want me to show as an example. You can use Apache, nginx, squid, any proxying webserver worth its salt...
Its not that bad.
WordPress is great for people who don't know how to code and just want to make a website,
yes if you just want a blog you can do that with Hugo(but you need to know git and CI/CD and pages hosting etc..) But anything more advanced would be best on WordPress, its very easy to use and is extremely popular so you can find guides anywhere.

There is yet to be any CMS which has the ease of use and capability of WordPress and its plugins.

Unfortunately with it being that easy users are often not very security savvy and don't update plugins/themes and end up getting hacked.
It's simply not possible to anchor policy rates to any value. Rates behave according to an unstable equilibrium; when they're too low (i.e. deflation) they tend to go lower; when too high (hyperinflation) they run even higher. It's possible to peg an exchange rate, or the value of a commodity (such as gold) or a basket of goods (such as those used for the CPI), etc. (Currently, policy approximates a crawling peg on the PCE consumption basket, but this is only an approximation.)
A Streaming Edge Side Includes Parser and Executor for Fastly Compute@Edge
The British police unit helping remove drill-music videos from the web
I'm sorry, who passed away? Rich Hickey? Conor Sullivan? Huh
A better/faster JavaScript library for physical math
I made a better (at least in my opinion) engineering math library for JS. It doesn't get much love so I am posting it to HN to see what people think!
>will use this educational experience to go on to impact and change the communities and world around them

When I had my alumni interview during the admissions process, it was with a senior partner at a medium-sized law firm. He emphasized that Princeton (at the time) received $200M/year in Alumni donations, and how important it was that students admitted to the school understand that obligation. We didn't talk about making an impact on the world. (Disclaimer: I was rejected.)
> Tip: close & re-open the file for each write

That seems very expensive. Why not just use line buffering or even flush from a signal handler?
I messed up pretty badly when I learned IT. To be fair, the Army isn't a great IT teacher, but I started my scripting life with Powershell (gasp) and worse, Powershell Integrated Scripting Environment (double gasp). They had an awesome thing called the "Powershell scripting games" and I managed to convince the government agency I was working for that counted as work for a week or two. Downsides of powershell aside, it did jumpstart me into coding...

However, one of the horrible habits it gave me that I absolutely adore now is having an interactive REPL for everything. If I want to understand anything inside my code, I can run just that little tiny bit, spit out the answers I need, and move forward. Half the time the best part was just having an open powershell session connected to the same env as the script. For me, it was the first time experiencing scripting with almost no downtime between iterations (most of the time) and the ability to inspect any/every object in play mostly seemessely. I moved on from Powershell to Python/Ruby, but I've basically gone all in on Ruby (devops, no one cares what I write code in) because I am just so much more productive with Pry and the other Ruby REPL options.

It seems to come back to bite me fairly often, but despite trying every ~12 months or so to learn a better way to work with the code, I never seem to find anything that sticks consistently. CodeRunner/random extensions in VS Code, REPLit.com, all the IDE's I could think of....no joy. REPLit comes extremely close, but its online only and that becomes an issue almost immediately. Still, REPLit is amazing when you just get pissed at a random python script that's spitting out junk and you want to figure out how a specific function works.

Maybe I'm missing something? Maybe I need to learn to code the "right" way? Maybe I'm just burned out? Idk, I will literally try any IDE/Tool that hints at giving me a better REPL experience or teaches me a better way to do it.
> Some gamers with high-end cards are likely doing a bit of mining. If the parents or dorms are picking up the electricity bill, that makes sense.

Yeah, I think a good number of gamers who bought cards are mining on them in their spare time as well. I'm counting that as a gaming sale since it's primarily for gaming rather than someone who set out to buy 10 cards and build a mining rig, but I do think a lot of people did the "well, I'll mine on it when I'm not using it and it'll soften the blow a bit..." approach.

And you don't even need free electricity, the cards were and are still profitable, just not profitable enough (anymore) to gamble $10-20k setting up an industrial-style mining rig with a full loadout of cards. If you have the card anyway (because you game/train AI/etc) then it's still worth mining.

I question how many people cashed out regularly though, there may be a lot of people sitting with a bunch of paper profits from their gaming card...

> And then there are some cards that are used for gaming and to study deep learning, I guess. It is likely a bit more of a mixed use of compute than just pure mining.

I think that's a small market in general, there's not millions and millions of those people and they're not setting up hundreds of rigs with thousands of cards, but yeah definitely, that exists. I know people who bought a quad-1080 ti or quad-3090 rig and used it for gaming/DL/homelab and mined on it when they weren't using it.

It was perhaps a little less appealing this gen since there was never a proper Titan - the 3090 is still locked down in certain types of operations, not just FP64 but also some data types/operations that iirc might be relevant to DL users. bfloat16, and some types of FMA operations, or something like that? But lots of people can work around it or it isn't relevant to the thing they wanted to do, there are still a decent number of DL/homelab people who will buy it. It's again, not a gigantic market, but it's there.

imo with the way prices stacked up - it was $2400 for a 3080 or $3000 for a 3090 on ebay, and it was actually possible sometimes to get 3090s at decent prices ($2000) from partners (Zotac, EVGA, etc), where it wasn't really possible to ever score a 3080 from partners due to extreme levels of demand. So you could score a retail 3090 for cheaper than an ebay 3080, and actually even at ebay pricing, if you're going to spend $2.4k on a GPU anyway... just spend the last $600 and get the extra VRAM. 10GB is going to noticeably shorten the viable lifespan of the card anyway.

Given the pricing, it made a lot of sense imo to aim for the 3090 over the 3080, both for homelab/DL type stuff, and honestly also because the 3080 had a very stingy amount of VRAM out of the box even for gaming. I know the technical reasons (yield, memory bus width, etc) that make this complicated, but I'd really liked to have seen 12GB on the original 3080, if not 16GB. I think GDDR6X was a mis-step in a lot of ways and they would have been better off with a conventional 512b bus with GDDR6 instead of a super-fast 384b bus with GDDR6X... but that also complicates routing and board design.
Based on your green account name, it appeared you were new to HN. I commented because the site guidelines include:

> “ Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.”

Your comment, “Don’t forget to mention they still have full health coverage in the EU.” was doing exactly what the guidelines ask us not to.

My hope was that bringing attention to this would help deflate the impending generic argument about health care and help you improve future conversations on the site.

It was just an attempt to be helpful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the exaggeration was for humorous effect
Also a lot of those homes are tear down/replace vs. net new
Curiosity can be a curse, and has killed several cats.

I may have been on psychedelic mushrooms at the time, but something I took away from the trip was an acknowledgement of a feeling of 'shedding' in life, in terms of hobbies and interests.

Stuff will get boring and be forgotten, or fall to the side and be ignored while it collects dust. This is something that I should expect to happen, and be prepared for. So long as you derived some value from those once-great things, it hasn't been a waste, and is just a symptom of time passing.

Maybe you pick those things back up later, and maybe you don't. For myself, I think my 'best life' would be one where I had the space and tools to be able to pick up or put down whatever ideas come to me.
Like what? Everything I find is just “breakthroughs” that I feel never reach mass market. There’s very little information regarding incremental improvements.
I got a new Android phone that has an excellent battery but in return, it doesn’t have wireless charging because it just be too slow. This is not new technology, it’s a tradeoff.
(Russian) Doomsday Plane
Working with gdb is quite the learning curve. Luckily, it’s mostly unnecessary, except in the rare case where you actually need register-level debugging or hardware watchpoints. But it can still be done if you’re willing to suffer through the docs.

For debugging multithreaded code, you can run a gdb script in batch/non-interactive mode, and direct the gdb output to some out-of-band channel, like a file or other terminal session.

For debugging JNI, you can try running Java under gdb and set a breakpoint on the extension library entry function before it’s loaded.
Your estimate is low: it's actually 43%.

https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
People that remove objective transparent measures often do so because they are preventing them from doing they want to do that are contrary to those measures.

The more objective, open, and clear the measures are the better everyone can understand what is required, when you change to a "Holistic" measure it suddenly goes to whatever the admissions officer wants to do or feels like doing. Remember the opposite of objective is arbitrary.
As opposed to wasting so much time on ... ?
> Given the house for rent is an investment, it’s obvious who should be taking the loss: the investor.

That seems like a statement that feels good, but what should be the desired outcome for the benefit of society?

If you make taking a loss being the norm for a landlord, the outcome won't be having landlords grin and bear it and a city full of happy renters.

No, the outcome will be landlords will stop renting out since it doesn't make sense to take a loss. So the availability of rental units will dry up.
Thoughts:

1. Tetris -- Obviously different than Tetris

2. Not Tetris -- https://stabyourself.net/nottetris2/ Similar, but less destructive. Not-Tetris is closer to the original Tetris.

3. Tricky Towers -- https://www.trickytowers.com/ . More similar to this game than Tetris. Tricky Towers blocks aren't destructable, but the physics and very "limited" platform space makes a real game. Special powers (ex: vines) to "solidify" some blocks together really make building higher-and-higher better. The "puzzle" mode of trying to get the most number of blocks with the least height is also very fun.

4. This game -- This is a sandbox for now, the unique part is "impact physics" which can break apart blocks if enough weight / damage were dealt to them. Not a real game yet, but clearly on the path to something fun here. Not sure what the gameplay loop should be, but Tricky Towers is the closest game to maybe draw inspiration from?
It's like those people that open a parenthesis (for a short sentence, and then go 5 paragraphs without bothering to close it!
Regarding affordability, I thought money was no object?
And with the halt of such publication comes the decline of alumni donations.

It’s sucks to be a college dean and president.
sometimes i wonder why do i waste so much time high, not even doing productive work. Just drinking and smoking and sometimes doing lines. Its not like I enjoy them 10/10. So why do I do this? I even made a stratergy to stop this, but no matter what I do, it just...doesn't work. I will follow that thing for 2-3 days then back to that unproductive and mindless pithole. I haven't achieved anything in life, but i want to, i want to own things...i want to have friends...i want to have fun....but this....something is just holding me. I could simply just say i'm lazy, but is that a good reason..why would i even need a reason.

I would like to think its not laziness, but then what even is it? And again i will search on the internet about this, find some videos that talk about this, then some people in the comments will say the "i suffer from the same things",,,and then? then i will feel better that there are people that are similar to me....and? guess what? back to the same routine. I am sick of this...its like i know i will not have these comfortable days, these days where i just sit down and stay sober. But what will be at the other side of it? A person who i would envy and want to be like or someone who no one cares about and is pathetic
It’s getting taller too which is crazy
I think this is a great idea! Sadly, I don't think the goal of the admissions staff is to let in a diverse class. It slowly has become a race-to-the-bottom of "which applicant will enable me to tell the coolest story at the cocktail reception" (note this announcement's focus on highlighting individual members of the incoming class).
the part where "he" is wrong, is the part where he tells everyone that his reference software can be compared to a real terminal. You cannot compare shoes with towels, nor cats with a TV. The tiling renderer "he" wrote as part of the reference software to demo isn't that bad as a product (to some degree), but that piece of software is garbage, as it has zero use. And almost none of the techniques "he" brags about can be applied to a real terminal. I mean, I like being educated. But so far, noone of the internet fanboys "he" has, has so far ever provided a real product out of his reference software. Admitted, some people tried (just look around), but they all failed. I wonder why. Do you know it?
You're saying it's impossible to not accidentally delete 7TB of videos, and when you do, to blame it on Vimeo?
> This might be just over-familiarity on my part, but does SQL really have a strong learning curve, or is it just not used often enough directly these days that people can get by without knowing it?

I think the problem is that it's declarative instead of imperative, which is really kind of a shock if you are not used to it (you can't go step by step, there's no debugger, there are no branches etc), and also that you have to think in sets in terms of your solution, which is also awkward when you're not used to it.

I think it's definitely worth it though, as nothing we have beats the relational model for CRUD, and there are so many great learning tools online, for example: https://sqlbolt.com/
Demystifying Database Performance for Developers
It sounds like their habits are influenced by your environment.
Just tie the habit to a new productive habit. Make it work for you.

Example 1: start learning a new natural language, and also switch all your social media feeds to only provide content in that language. You'll either lose interest in learning the language and start withdrawing from social media, or your unbreakable habit will sustain your new language learning habit.

Example 2: I listen to a lot of music. I don't feel right unless it's running in the background. So I tried learning french and listen to only french pop. It worked for a few months, but then I hit the problem of not being able to pick up spoken (not written) french and parse its grammar while also trying to pick up the phonetics of native speakers. But I then learned about creole and its more flexible and simpler grammars and phonetics. I was able to start thinking in the language using french vocabulary. So I pivoted my habit to learning Haitian Creole and listening to Haitian music.
Casey streams every day, usually with very few viewers. This drama fell into his lap, a perfect package-wrapped gift from the Microsoft team. What you're saying is like accusing NPR of profiting from a war of famine or something.
I'm similar in that I've jumped between embedded, web dev, etc etc.. through my career, and it was always easy to learn new things.

I think it was actually the newness of the things that made me interested and kept me focussed on them enough to break through and make changes.

The JS world has left me feeling similarly fatigued when every couple of years there is a new variation on what seems to be the same old concepts, with very little conceptually different enough to make it feel like I'm learning something of value.

Maybe deep inside your brain it knows this latest thing you're going to learn is likely to be quickly deprecated, and it just can't bring the dopamine levels in your brain up high enough to keep you focussed and interested.

Definitely it can be burnout, but I wonder also if it could be ADHD linked? Inability to focus on something you have to focus on for your livelihood will absolutely lead to anxiety and depression.

Switching to a different field (Cybersecurity) and writing EBPF tracing stuff really helped restore my confidence that I really enjoy writing software.

A change of scenery can really help, and there are so many interesting new things to choose from out there.
We "she'll be righted" the reef for so long that it's now "ah she's cactus. Ah well. No worries."
They represent a trillion dollar enterprise, they have to consider how they they interact with their customers, behaving professionally when faced with criticism especially in a public forum shouldnt be something they need to be taught to do. Instead they acted like they were still in Middle school. If something like this happened at a company I worked for their manager would be having a word with them right now.