skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If mindfulness is practiced with the goal to “ignore” feelings (as stated in the text) then the negative outcomes observed are expected. However, the much better (and more “authentic”) practice is to be with the emotions, to feel them completely, and to see whether they have messages. But yeah, that might be less of a “quick fix”, as being with uncomfortable emotions can be challenging - but also more rewarding in the long term - for oneself as well as others around oneself.
That would be a very interesting series.

Engineering is all about comprise and sacrifice to get a product working within the constraints (price, weight, volume, time to market, project risk, regulatory compliance, reliability, etc), so these stories would exist for everything.

Except Juicero, that thing was engineered to death: the only thing they (well...the VCs) skimped on was the market research and common sense.
This ain’t pretty, but it works:

[
“foo”,
...(cond1 ? [bar] : []),
...(cond2 ? baz : []),
]

---

Edit: note to self: read the link before commenting.
I was interested but all I see on your profile is “A deceased arachnid, with beans”. Have you already taken it down?

Throwaway because my current employer would see me.
Regarding the example of instead of hi.html just name the file hi and use the nginx Config “default_type text/html” —- is there an equivalent to this for other webservers (Eg Caddy etc) ? Perhaps it would be cleaner to just create a directory called hi with and index.html?
Himitsu = secret
https://sr.ht/~sircmpwn/himitsu/
I have a pro grade CRT and a few others, including an amber relic from the early days.

The N64 could output a composite signal, which looks great on the high end CRT. A NES can output composite, Genesis, SNES, all could. Pro CRT displays have great circuits and fine pitch tubes. SD content looks amazing.

The consumer grade sets had composite and better inputs growing more common in the late 80's, early 90's. They look good.

It was fun to get pro gear and look at what we all could have been watching! I had a consumer set that I tuned to peak capability and the tube being normal pitch was it's only real limitation. Really, it means 80 column text was hard. Gaming looked very good.

The NES had its modulator external to the unit. It did RF right at the TV for best performance. One could get composite right out of the system and that is what my kids gamed on.

Using high end gear with retro computing and gaming is a great experience! Recommended.
I have been using this for around a year and it has been great. I've been upgrading it regularly and so far nothing broke. I use a local self hosted mysql dB.

I did make 1 small change- ad block was blocking the upload being called and I renamed the api so that ublock does not block it anymore :)
It's meant for beginners, but I'm very partial to Eloquent JavaScript (I personally think it's one of the best programming books, period. And definitely one of the best JavaScript books)

https://eloquentjavascript.net/11_async.html

Full book: https://eloquentjavascript.net/
But not in math books that are supposed to be non-political.
Yet these adjusted figures more of less reinforce the thesis of the original theory. Algeria and Poland, more conservative countries, actually had higher adjusted representation of women in STEM. Luxembourg has fewer. This is important nuance in statistics, but it looks like it's reinforcing the thesis that more equal societies see greater gender disparities in employment.
I try to get most really worthwhile things accomplished without the internet, so I feel I owe it to myself to waste a little time on the web when I do feel like it.
> Those laws were a consequence of industrial action by unions.

You didn’t read my message, because this is what I already said. Unions helped push it into law. The unions are all but dead in the US, but weekends are still here because it is a law. What value do the unions provide now?
For what it's worth, the Tesla Semi also has much better visibility than conventional semi trucks.
After the couple of economically/resourcesensible plastics are sorted out, the remaining plastic waste should be incinerated for electricity production. Plenty of other solid waste could also be incinerated.

As long as you do an ok job of emissions control, you're probably saving fuel by not tranporting the plastic waste as far, and by reducing the amount of other fuels you need to transport because the trash fire power plant offsets some demand. May be hard to modulate output power though, so might not be great for grid stability.
basically. They're both read as "spread"
> When databases were shared by many apps, it made sense to think of them as their own services. When each database is built and run to service exactly one app, that makes less sense, plus it's also easier to push everything onto the devs (as above).

I think this is a really good point. The move towards microservices architectures means smaller and smaller databases. But more importantly, the data is distributed, so a lot of query complexity moves to services and the data is effectively modelled in a nosql style.

I wonder if newsql databases will bring back the database-as-service paradigm. At some point the costs of running hundreds of tiny databases is going to catch up to companies and the prospect of having a single critical instance to care and worry about is going to look attractive. Maybe we will see the return of the DBA in a new avatar over here.
Yes, short is always good, I recently got http://moty.ar
Same here, I somehow managed to get lucky enough to register https://yuv.al
When you think about it : a company selling computing power deliberately restrain its product’s computing power just to avoid running out-of-stock because somehow people discovered they can sell some database entry created by wasting the most precious and vital resource we can gather in limited supply (energy) from sources that are changing our only planet to a cooking oven.

What a time to be alive.

I’m really amazed at how we as a species are so impressively intelligent but also so mindblowingly dumb at the same time.

But I’m not surprised : if you look at our species history : we were and are always just fighting our own stupidity.
SeaweedFS and YDB
Why do words need to be censored from word-guessing games just because they're related to a current news topic?
Switching jobs has a very low cost now as well. It’s not 2009 anymore.
What is assholish cycling?
I'm sure there will come a reckoning at some point that results in the bar being lifted... much like we can no longer run restaurants out of our houses with no oversight from a governing health and hygiene entity.
On another point, the standards of quality in developing countries where wages are lower are not that great.

For a person in one of these countries, its normal for things to not work. The electricity goes down, the internet goes down. Maybe a government website goes down for an hour each night under heavy load.

We actually have it quite good in the developed world in that we expect most things we rely on to work. An important government website going down for an hour is unacceptable.

Because these things are considered more expected and normal and this type of mindset can creep into the mind of an engineer. If their code breaks or has a lot of bugs, its not much different to what they are used to with the services they rely on every day.

Lets say your orders stop processing for an hour because the engineer didn't follow standards and write tests? You might loose more than you gained in wage savings
They’re painted with paint that only needs to last weeks, at most. Depending on the exact choice of materials, you might see off-gassing, buckling, the paint flaking off, yellowing, fading, etc. It will all happen on a different timeline. I know old Disney cels could often last a long time, other studios used materials that were comparatively less archival.
My test cases are at https://github.com/rcarmo/sushy/tree/master/pages
70 Years of Computing
It's because the left pixel is checked before the right pixel (the settling behaviour section). This is common in games where you handle movement input (left, right arrow keys) - if you press both of them you'll always go one way, because that way is checked first for movement.
So do people, which are the ones that run companies. What’s your point?
I too value getting lost while traveling sometimes, but that's for me to do in my own time, not when trying to honor commitments made with others.
That Nginx config is so beautiful compared to Apache .htaccess configuration for the same result.
Could it create a gap between NVidia and AMD GPU prices ?

It could be a win-win for both of the actors and for gamers (not for humanity’s future but at least we could have some games)
That seems ungenerous. There's no evidence of impropriety. Twain outlived his wife and two of his three daughters, and characterized the "aquarium club" as "surrogate granddaughters". Twain's only actual granddaughter was born a few months after his death in 1910, and since he celebrated children in works like Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, the idea of the "aquarium club" consoling the embittered old man with a dose of childhood optimism seems plausible.
Of the 9 previous times this was posted this month, here are the five with comments, and either a pull quote or my summary of the discussion.

1 comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299834 ("The way it is described in the article highlights a subtle problem - the ability to change requirements as you go", followed by a discussion of that tangent.)

1 comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31145030 ("doesn't match my understanding of the history")

2 comments at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30988096 (both concerning the high number of re-posts)

1 comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30967432 ("Neat historical overview followed by bizzare conclusions")

1 comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30963468 ("Sigh. Another article on "Agile" that makes it read like "SCRUM" == Agile (Sprint, Stand-Up are Scrum terms, not Agile).")
> My life feels like playing a third person video game with the FOV slider turned to 360 degrees. Every sensation comes discretely where I can see the beginning and end. 1 second is a really long time, enough room to fit 1000s of sensations, bounded only by your speed of perception.

That sounds absolutely terrifying to me. [1]

All these articles about the downsides of meditation and the above statement just keep pushing me away from it. I enjoy guided meditation with a licensed therapist, but unguided meditation by myself feels more and more unnatural.

1: Aside: I have enjoyed enhanced senses under strong drugs, but I also enjoy spending most of my life sober with unheightened perception. There is a reason why our brain is filtering out most sensory signals. I would not want 360 view and to fit thousands of sensations during my normal day.
https://dvd.qa/horse checking in!
>No entity is that perfect.

I think people are suggesting not perfection, but a higher standard and thus increased likelihood of it being correct and requiring a higher standard for proving it incorrect or biased.

Do you have an organization that, if they publish something even if it runs counter to your own opinions, you assume that it is fair and likely to be correct?
Fly.io does, haven't tried it myself though. Link is for postgres but I think it'll work for just about anything, the free tier is just 3gb of disk space and a small compute node.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/
I'm not aiming to replace Google Photos specifically, but you might want to try PhotoStructure: I'm the author.

I wrote it to sweep all the photos and videos from 30+ HDDs I've accumulated from prior servers and backups and laptops into one neat deduplicated pile, free from invalid or corrupt or bitrotted copies.

There's a fast web-based front end that uses random sampling and hierarchical tagging to find stuff quickly, and to make browsing feel serendipitous.

ML-powered search is coming in a future release. Something like CLIP is looking to be the most promising currently, rather than auto-tagging and then indexing those tags.

Lots more details are here: https://photostructure.com/faq/why-photostructure/

Regardless of using PhotoStructure or not: if you self-host (anything!), please be sure to figure out a backup strategy for your data. I wrote this article to help: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/
> The fact of the matter is being rich provides opportunities and advantages being middle class doesn't and definitely not being poor, and there is little evidence to suggest that this corrects itself after a few generations. The fact is historically poor populations tend to stay that way, with those who escape being outliers.

There are a massive number of examples of this being untrue in America. Jewish Americans, Cubans, Irish, Asian Americans, Poles - all these groups started out poor, and regarded as something other than and lesser to "white" people, and now have at least the same incomes and often more.
I've not read the book, but IIUC _The Four Hour Workweek_ has as its central idea that you can outsource most of your actual work to other people while accruing most of the wealth those others are creating.

Not exactly a mark of great compassion or kindness, if that's actually what's presented.
You would think! But during my years as a cloud consultant I was parachuted into a problem project. I observed a large well paid team doing weird shit like archiving all their data to keep their database fast.

The database was 10gb RDS with no indexes.
Ya, the AppCD for OpenJDK is what I was trying last time, I think on JDK 11, and frankly I couldn't figure it out, like you have to run with a command, dump something to some path, then re-run with specifying the same path and I don't know it didn't seem it was working last time and it was pretty cumbersome.
> For the fully loaded cost of one really good developer in the Bay Area (400k) you can get four equally good developers anywhere in Europe

I think the 'equally good' is the part that I am really unsure of. From personal experience, the difference in competence of my coworkers when I moved from a medium-sized US city to the Bay Area was massive, and I had been working at one of the better/well-respected employers in my old geography.

There's also some research I've seen that supports this on a global level -- see eg https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1814646116
My alma mater, University of Chicago, is currently clocking in at a staggering $85k.

https://financialaid.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/costs

That said, they offer free tuition for families making less than $125k.
I'm not sure there is such a thing.
Alright! Do you have an area of particular interest? Add new materials? Improve performance? Polish the details? Something else?
>Is it really?

Yes. It’s fucking terrible. That pace isn’t acceptable for things with significantly more at stake (buying a house, getting married, donating an organ). Google just abused its position as a desirable place to work while I was there to take time to hire candidates.
I am not aware of any benchmarks with rocksdb (LSM) or lmdb (b-tree), but theoretically it will be much faster at the cost of extra RAM

- In Bitcask, reads have at most single seek. Writes are just append

- LSM - writes are just append, but reads are slower. Like in rocksdb, it has to check multiple files for the key

- B Tree - both read/writes require multiple seeks

Bitcask is that middle ground gives best of both, but takes up more RAM since it has to store all the keys.

Riak also provides a memory calculator - https://docs.riak.com/riak/kv/latest/setup/planning/bitcask-...
I'm still trying to assemble a way to put together the pieces to not only return to tmux sessions after detaching, but after detaching and the underlying server reboots. Playing around with CRIU, but trying to make it all automagic with nested PIDs, restore the screens and shell history buffers just how I left them, and implement the common use case of automatically re-establishing ssh connections remains a challenge.
The "They’re enough" is ofcourse a little silly. Yes there are thousands of combinations if your short url contains any character. But his example is about words and that will leave you with less combinations.

But I like the essence of the post.
> So humans being imperfect, stupid creatures negates anything else this person may have to say?

Humans are just naked apes, no need to judge that harshly.

Having sex and drinking alcohol is fine in my mind, since i don't believe in religious morals.

Cognitive dissonance makes it possible to preach one thing and do another. We call it hypocrisy no?
that's the most bizarre way of thinking about it, that I'd almost think I had the idea myself. luckily, I grew up in this world, and am familiar with equipment that does this properly. phew.

you failed to mention the major hit in quality of videoing a CRT screen with a webcam. also, hope that webcam supports genlock as well as the CRT, otherwise, your h/v sync will never match.

and i thought i could come up with some zanny ideas. this one though, boy, i don't know.
I'm hoping not much, because after two years relying on my aged iGPU I am so ready to get back to a beefier graphics card.
Doesn't every browser also come with this feature when playing (for example) a youtube video? Seems like the horse has left the barn.
Someone has to work inside the cloud providers to support the managed instances, no? :)
Google is way worse than the rest of FAANG though. The Facebook recruiters would explicitly warn you that if you wanted to wait for a Google offer to not even start with Facebook until you passed the interviews and were waiting on team matching.
I think the risk is low, for the following reasons:

1. Many (if not most) companies still prefer even WFH jobs to be in the same or nearby time zones.

2. There are jobs that cannot be outsourced to other countries for legal reasons, e.g. if you have govt contracts, some in healthcare, etc.

3. If your company doesn't already have a legal entity in the other country, then managing payroll is a bit of a hassle.

If your company has not already embraced a globally fully remote culture, I'd say the chances of your job being outsourced are pretty low.
Of those, the only one I found surprising was yubikey.

My favorite type of loanword is ones that native speakers don't know is a loanword. Fun fact: the "honcho" from "head honcho" is from 班長, "hancho", squad leader.
As a kid, I actually had an Olivetti 8088 before I got my C64, and when I got that.. Well, it blew my mind on many levels, not only were there great games, but the computer booted right into a programming language! It cemented in my mind, the concept that computers were first and foremost meant to be programmed by their users.
Knowing this helped me immensly as I moved back to the PC, DOS and Windows didn't expose this so clearly to my 10 year old brain, but the C64 had shown me that it must be possible, that there must be something "behind" the GUI, and it kept my interest in finding out what it was,and how to do it.
I said “common”, not “universal”. I accept that there will be edge cases but that doesn’t mean it is an uncommon term.

Though it does sound like you operate in a different domain. I’ve generally heard the term in relation to sysadmin and related fields. While there’s nothing stopping an electrical engineer nor inventors from having a home lab I’ve generally heard them talk about their environment in more physical terms (eg soldering station) whereas a home lab (in computing context) is often just a rack in a cupboard. So it’s more of an ethereal space. This is all hugely generally speaking, of course. But it might go some what into explaining why you hadn’t heard of the term before.
I would have expected something about a super user with the 'su' url.

So short urls like this don't make sense if they are not explicit and you don't have a corresponding lookup table
But impeach a majority of them? Impossible in reality.
Nice work, Jason. I enjoyed a lot a talk [1] at GDC by Petri Purho (Nolla Games and before that Kloonigames) that explains the "Falling Everything Engine" used in their game Noita (that I would love to play on my mac...). Highly recommended if you want to dive deeper into the topic.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prXuyMCgbTc "Exploring the Tech and Design of Noita"
How to figure out what to do with your life?
Formula 1 is the fastest growing sport – Case study
If you denied today that Germans set up a rollercoaster with tiny knives that sliced people along the track that led to a fiery pit where a bear and eagle were trained to pluck out eyes and maul those in the car before being set aflame in a secret pit, you'd get similar accusations of anti Semitism and subsequent depersoning. Yes, I'm mixing up my stories, I know. But there were survivors of these very atrocities and I absolutely do not mean to dismiss their struggles.
If you enjoy old books, the documentary The Booksellers was enjoyable. Saw it on Kanopy through local library card.
It seems an ungenerous viewpoint of the world that holds one only enjoys the company of a child not their own for purposes of pedophilia, or the company of young women because one is doing them.
In the entire state all I know is people on massive amounts of meds who are constantly getting into levels of misery I wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole.

All I can do is ask why that state, and not all the others I know people in?

Even on here I had some comment thread which went on a TANGENT like 50 messages talking about how messed up it is there lately.
If you want more performance, falling sand simulators can further be made parallel by implementing them using Margolus Neighbourhoods, as in Falling Turnip: https://github.com/tranma/falling-turnip

The idea is that a single iteration divides the world into 2x2 squares and then applies effects sequentially within each square, but not between the squares. This means each square can be processed independently. In the next iteration, the division into squares shifts right and down by one cell each direction. This does mean you need more steps than in a sequential implementation, but I found it to be quite a principled approach to parallelizing cellular automata when I first read about it. One interesting side effect of this design is that falling particles end up being separated by blank space, as shown here: https://futhark-lang.org/static/falling-sand-2016.12.04.webm I wonder if that is fixable. (Although at larger scale it's not particularly visible: https://sigkill.dk/junk/diving-beet.webm)
> I suspect it’s a combination of higher image quality plus higher build quality meaning more are likely to still be functioning (as opposed to, say, N64-era consumer TVs).

I bet it has a lot more to do with them being avaible for cheap now because NOBODY cares except retro nerds. Back when they were actively being used, they were only in the realms of professional use as they were so damn expensive. Sony's professional monitors have average in the price range of $1000 per inch. Of course these are going to look good for retro gaming, they have way more resolution than the normal consumers had access.
...minor Star Wars nerd here:

It's a pressure chamber. He uses it so he can take off his pressure suit / armor for a bit without dying.

IIRC it wasn't about meditation at all.
Living in a country, where there basically is no college tuition in the US sense and scale, this sounds all so alien to me. There's nothing "utopian" about it. From my perspective, it's more of an ideological problem than anything else.
While not explicitly written as such, this looks like a great how-to for Rust cross-compilation. Judging by the styling of the article, it was written in Markdown, correct? Also. bearing in mind the guide above, how hard is setting up Rust cross-compilation and am I better off compiling code directly on a Raspberry Pi 4 as opposed to doing so on a x86_64 machine for the rPi4?