skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe that a simple human being has not evolved to be constantly bombarded with every global problem imaginable. In the past you only worried about your direct environment that caused enough problems on its own. Now the thing is, the whole world has more or less become our direct environment and I'm not surprised mental problems our spiraling out of control as a result of it.
I'll share a controversial opinion: I think computers were always boring, even if you worked for Sun Microsystems, yes even in 1981. In 1981, the Intel 8086 had been on the market for 3 years, and the 68000 had been on the market for 2 years. There were probably a hundred startup companies trying to make a workstation to compete with Sun. If you went to work for one of those companies, you crashed and burned or were acquired, and got to watch the project you worked so hard on become abandoned.
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> Are you suggesting that the average person should read Supreme Court decisions?

The country would be a better place if more people did.

Supreme court decisions are phenomenally well written. They usually begin with a clear, short, and accessible statement of the case and the relevant principle(s) before they summarize their decision. I find that they describe the issues surrounding the cases with great compassion for all the major arguments. And the dissents are usually equally informative.

Reading decisions has dramatically increased my appreciation of the nuance that goes into the decisions of the court and the operation of our country. Even for cases where I disagreed with the judgement with both before and after reading the decision, I gained a much greater perspective of alternative views. ... and a feeling that even when I strongly believe we're doing the wrong thing that we're trying so hard to do the right thing that eventually we'll get it right somehow.

For several years I read at least the beginning of every decision and dissent -- there aren't that many. I stopped only because I became crunched for time, and I'm thankful that your post reminded me of this gap from my life now that I have the time to pick up the practice again.
Seems like they don't have much of their notifications in order either.

I haven't heard _anything_ from Heroku on this, my colleague has been getting updates since this started...

We are both admins of our companies account.
A well-balanced mix of sales, statistics and insurance probably:)
The next time someone tells you crypto currencies have no worth because of something related to crypto, show them this article and point out humans assign worth to things arbitrarily and without discernable reason and the problem is regulation that doesn't account for that
My first job interview out of university, I was asked how to have separate independent database servers, each able to read/write to the same status field, synchronised between them over an unreliable network, with consistent and atomic updates being written by any of the servers.

Having covered this only a year previously, my answer was that CAP theory stated that this was theoretically impossible. However, their particular actual problem was slightly more relaxed than requiring full consistency, atomicity, and partition-tolerance. The different servers could only perform limited kinds of status transition - there was no transition that could be performed on more than one server, and status transitions were mostly one-way - most of them couldn't be undone. Also, the field only had to be eventually-consistent, and updates didn't need to be ordered. So, I offered them a way to cheat by splitting the status field up into essentially a log of operations, which naturally resolved the conflicts.

I got the job.
> What about kids who didn’t have a yard where they could play?

> Those whose parents lost their jobs?

If you acknowledge that, you should also acknowledge that heir only window to the outside World was a screen where some a*hole from Dubai whose only purpose was selling themselves and the things they were dressing to their "followers" for money, was saying all day that "we're gonna be fine" and then we didn't, "we are gonna come out better" and then we didn't and they interiorized the idea that they will never make it, because they missed the train, they are only teenagers but social networks taught them that you go big or go home at the age of 13.

No matter how much support they get from families, their validation nowadays comes from social networks, their peers and who their peers follow or what trend is popular ATM.

Compare that to my father born in 1941, in fascist Italy, his father lost in the Russian campaign, his house occupied by nazi, met his father at the age of 6 and lost him soon after for an undiagnosed infection, lived through 3 World pandemics, in 1957 during the Asian flu lost his sister aged 18, started working at the age of 6, lived through political turmoil of the 60s (my father was a socialist), terrorism of the 70s, oil crisis in 1973, heroin epidemic of the 80s, AIDS pandemic (he worked in an hospital), war on former Yugoslavia in the 90s, two Gulf wars etc. etc.

What saved him?

He could only look at himself and his own life, if it somewhat improved he could notice, if it somewhat got worse, he could hope things could change for the better, as they did so many times before.

Imagine putting him in front of IG and what could have happened.
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Yeah, its true that they are using MSSQL.

Based on link you provided, I calculated that 40gb memory would be $290 and 80gb $570 per month (in UK).

So price seems still quite steep, considering that same specs on-site would be ~$2000 one off. (8 months return on investment).

Then for this server, I honestly don't believe its easier to do maintenance in cloud, as you need to do lots of initial configuration there (be it IAM, permissions, firewall etc. ) compared to have it just in local network
I find looking at example nested json objects for each entity useful containing all the joins. This is how you interact with the data anyway on the frontend. I’ll usually design a db this way.
There is nothing wrong with using killing robots to defend your country. Once you are attacked and your family is in danger of rape and murder you will ask the gov to use any means available. Would you prefer them to use artisanal swords? Its the new dawn, the danger is real, there is no place for conspiracies ( that's probably when skynet will be created, oh well everyone wants to survive now not later in ideal future)
Top 12% sure is impressive, but I'd caveat that this probably isn't very representative for the average person asking themselves that question. This seems to have been done by someone who already had experience with ML projects and with Kaggle specifically, and who just decided to challenge themself with this additional constraint. Also, the average person looking for a side project might not have the perseverance to stick with a challenge like this for 60 days, but might rather be tempted to pour in a lot of hours over a few long nights and weekends.

So my learning from this is: yeah, you can get a respectable Kaggle result with one hour a day, but only if you're already a semi-professional Kaggler to begin with.
3 comments on HN can look like a crowd. It is still 3 people. Even a busy thread might be a few tens of people.

There are too many good people out there who don't have interesting public github repos. It isn't a decisive signal although it might help a resume stand out from the crowd.
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Losing weight is not about CICO. Of course you need more calories out than in. Saying that is like saying “To climb a mointain, make sure every day you ascend more meters than you descend”. How useful is that piece of wisdom? The rule of thumb is that for each 1 kilometer of additional elevation, you need to ascend 1000 more meters than you descend.
For example G20 in Hamburg, a couple of years ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAtZThq2BLw.

But I don't think this is the kind of extremism they meant. There is a worrying trend, especially in the US, to try and block whatever the other side is doing, just because it's the other side that's doing it. People retreat into their filter bubbles and have increasingly less contact to real people with differing opinions. The divide between urban and rural opinions is steadily growing.
I tend to upvote the occasional post such as this for the simple reason that I sometimes just like to increase the diversity of content.

In this case I think this also has the potential for some very HN-ish dicussion. Rabbits and foxes is a classic CS topic after all! Ecology and population dynamics leads to some interesting maths.

Plus - bunnies.
I'd almost believe this before I started my PhD.

In reality, I think the most common academic/"nerd" game, by a long shot is "acquire as much useless/non-actionable/niche knowledge as possible, so that you can rub other peoples' noses in the fact that they don't possess said knowledge".

With very few exceptions, it's not "the long game", a "good fight" or anything else worth valorising - it's lonely, miserable fucks who are mad that other people are happy.
I think some of this is related to America being a nation of immigrants. Many of us have language barriers with our own parents. We don't always look like our teachers. Nobody explains to us how the world works. We just need to figure it out.
Dilbert has always criticized dominant corporate culture - is that possible today?
I don't want employers to run the world. Creativity is essential.
A place I stayed just a week ago in Fiji is listed for $1500 a day while we got same place randomly for $400… That said Fiji is still recovering from Covid - in places like Hawaii you’d struggle to get anything!
intelligence := ability to build models [only exists relative to $domain, but training the brain to perform well in one domain translates to enhanced capability in others; see link between iq and affinity to music etc.]. the speed of cognition is basically a symptom of how well your brain is trained to perform a task in some domain; someone deeply versed in theoretical physics, doing objectively hard mathematical work in his daily life, may be very slow at other cognitive tasks, if the neuro-pathways of the different tasks/domains are not aligned. It's complicated, mashing the entire concept of "cognitive ability" into a single, one-dimensional term is not really doing the topic justice.

We're just used to it, because groups need to converge on the simplest, most accessible abstraction of the idea (of cognitive ability, in this case). Truth is, "intelligence" as a broad term doesn't make that much sense.
Rabbits like carrot leaves, not the part of the carrot we eat.

The stereotype of Bugs Bunny munching on the end of a carrot comes from farmers complaining about rabbits destroying their carrots. Cartoonists misinterpreted this either accidentally or intentionally for better visuals.

(Humans can eat carrot greens too, though most people find other leafy vegetables tastier and easier to prepare).
"Tell me you don't work at FAANG/MAAMON without saying you don't work at FAANG/MAAMON".

Google/Meta/Amazon are the last bastions of sanity. They use stable technology that works. And they keep taking more and more of the total software market as a result. The methods of avoiding this kind of buzzword-driven development are increasingly only extant within big tech. Other companies make due with perpetual-junior developers and people who can't hack it at big tech. These companies will never develop an engineering culture, and they'll never break away from the "CTO heard about web3, and now we all must use web3, somehow" dynamic.
Yes, I misinterpreted it as Kegel and had a very confusing first read of the article.
To counter your anecdata with mine:

Born in 1982, lost the last remaining grandparent when I was 12. Lost my father five years ago, luckily my mother is still in good health.
So then, whats is the difference to run OpenConnect and then connecting to it via activating CiscoVPN on the phone/mobile device?

I used that while I was in China as this allowed me to have my own personal VPN.
>What they do know is what TikTok is, and what it means to be excluded from a Whatsapp group, and to spend hours each day wondering how they should reply to a perceived slight on some Discord channel.

>I successfully forbid FB, Instagram, Snapchat..

If exclusion is what you believe is causing them to be unhappy then forcing them to be excluded seems like an almost sadistic (though likely just misguided) response. I definitely hated when my parents did things like that.
It certainly is, but there are similar obvious bad ideas in regular notation.

If you've typeset music manually, or written out nice parts by hand, you know that you need to take stem direction into account when spacing note heads. Notes with opposite stem direction will seem closer, or further apart, than they actually are. Optical illusions aren't a great feature of a notation system.

Five lines is also a bad optical choice, because it's actually very difficult to count 5 or higher parallel lines at a glance. I remember my piano teacher, who was a very strong sight reader, played a Bach fugue for me. However, the score had been annotated with a line showing the figure part ("dux", "comes" etc.) and as it happened that line was spaced exactly like a staff line. He'd played three measures before going, "wait, that doesn't sound right" and realizing he'd been playing on a six-line staff!
Maybe. Even a job that doesn't generate saleable value can give someone experience, teach them technical and social skills that have real-world application.
> Difficult to get a competent Electrician if he is in Thailand in the middle of nowhere.

OK fine, but what exactly is the poster expecting from the HN community ?

Nobody competent should be giving the guy advice without a site inspection.
I was told that as well 40-45 years ago, and yet, here we are 40+ years later and lo-and-behold it is still paying benefits.
Not so long ago I learned that my contracting company's been billing my presence €800 day to my client (or €100-125/h), as I was looking for further explanations on a "you cost too much" remark that I've got. (for non-French people here, IT contracting companies are very secretive about their TJMs especially to their employees)

Thing is my take-home is nowhere close to that. And to negociate for a regular increase is almost a herculean task. I got one after long talks and it just got eaten up by inflation.

I think we all need a wake-up call here in France to stop being exploited. One thing for sure is that if I ever go back to do IT contracting in France it's to work as freelance or at least do a "portage salarial"
I don't need to eat the whole apple to know it's rotten. Using your judgement saves a lot of time. Your way (an infinite loop of "trying to understand" with no actual conclusion) just leaves you open to being repeatedly bitten by the same dog.
How does a company like Salesforce mess this up for such an extended period of time? I understand that companies can make mistakes early on in a critical incident but this has been going on for weeks?!
I've been having 1 meal a day for several years now (since well before the pandemic), and my weight has stayed pretty much constant throughout.

The tricky part for me wasn't getting enough calories, but ensuring I'm getting a good amount and a good variety of nutrients.

I try to eat healthy meals most of the time, but even a handful of "cheat" meals per week to indulge my cravings for tasty, non-healthy food can seriously throw off my overall nutrition profile for the week, since I only get 7 of them.

I've been trying to balance for that by drinking a bottle of Soylent after every unhealthy meal, basically as a nutritional supplement.
If you understand the other games out there, you may find you are playing the wrong one. Hard to decide that if you don't know all the games.
Unfortunately the same technology can be used to attack people. The world would maybe be a safer place if weapons technology hadn't evolved from sticks and stones.
Meh, once again with this fasting fad. There's no evidence at this point that fasting is superior to continuous caloric restriction. There's also no evidence that any of the touted health benefits of intermittent-fasting are special to this method of weight loss -- any of them can be achieved by a regular caloric restriction diets. Most of the health benefits are due to weight loss / fat loss.

Longer fasts (over 16 hours, IIRC) are also catabolic to muscle mass, so they're not even recommended for people who have optimal training plans.

One meal per day is also not enough as only a certain amount of the consumed protein is going to be used for muscle protein synthesis so it's optimal to spread the consumption across multiple meals.

If you lift (and you should!), you should strive for 1.4-1.8g/kg of protein per day, try to hit the leucine threshold per meal (even though this is just a hypothesis!), and use calorie cycling to consume more of the protein around the workout window (anabolic window -- it's not been debunked!!!). Try not to go below 50g fat per day, and do whatever you please as far as carbs go :). I'm personally not a fan of keto as it's too restrictive.
Carrots are great for rabbits! Just not the same part that humans like, but the other part that we usually throw away.
My facvorite was when the forum background image had the logged-in user encoded into it
selfies taken everywhere all the time just to show one’s face…

Ironically, most selfies don't (accurately) show one's face. Digitally "enhancing" photos is the norm now, so much so that most selfies have become caricatures to me.
Definitely the point. Brad plays football and doesn't realize he is watching baseball.
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What does one have to do with the other? React may have helped you with your career but that doesn't mean it can't be a monstruosity
Oof. Is that really why he got canned. I'd always assumed Gundotra just made too many enemies during the period where L&S empowered him to do whatever it takes to win in social, and when he didn't win, he had burned too many bridges to stay. Lying about adoption is something I didn't hear before.
You're a true inventor with a perfect grasp of the principles, that's basically how circuit breakers work! The challenge is to predict the future: sense how high the voltage pulse will rise, before it overloads. The speed of light is hard to exceed, at least as we currently understand. The charge will look for a shorter path, so if it can find a way around the long cable, the lightning will probably strike there instead.

Now here's one for the engineers. We can tell the future. Musicians change tempo before singing the next verse. ADS-B data tells us when there's a plane coming. Could a "smart" surge protector include a measure of ground noise, to sense local charge differentials, and guess that the next spike is probably lightning rather than a typical mains arc? More sensors yes, but increasing protection only when expected would possibly improve the feedback loop.
It doesn't really have to do with a law (which is a large part of the issue, the dysfunction of congress forces these controversies).

It's about unenumerated rights and interpretation of liberty under the 14th Amendment.

> nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

So in the past the court said liberty includes a right to privacy, which also includes things like having a right to buy and use contraceptives (Griswold v. Connecticut).
This was extended to include women having a right to an abortion, with some qualifiers (the right was not unlimited, it said states did have some interest in protecting both the mother's health and fetus health).

The current court decision says that, while those other unenumerated rights have been found, they're different because they don't involve an "unborn human being".[1]

Thus they imply that a few cells (under some state laws this would be from the moment of fertilization) have rights that supersede (or at least conflict) with an actual person's right to have their liberty protected from the State.

The Louisiana state legislature has a bill introduced right now that seems to make abortion homicide, both for the mother who receives the abortion and anyone who administers it. [2][3]

[1] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/21835435/scotus-initi...

[2] https://www.legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1276214

[3] https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legisl...
Seems to be big enough to handle 30-40 km/h, but hard to judge from just the pictures. Obviously depending on the amount of traffic, the suitable speed might be lower/higher. Is the speed limit higher than that?
I have had colleagues (in academia) asking me to correct their unindented (or very badly indented code) in Perl. You couldn't actually do that ion Python.