skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't have a huge amount of evidence for this (I suspect you do not for your claim either), but I would guess that yes, it does make people happier.

The stuff I own is not keeping up with the neighbours, it's stuff that is meaningful to my hobbies. I have a cupboard full of board games because that makes me happy. My friend has a cupboard full of kitchen equipment because that makes them happy. My other friend has a basement with a home gym, my other friend has a mountain of books, and another friend has lovely furniture.

Which all implies that we're not really trying to keep up with each other, because if we were, we'd now be competing in completely different races. And even when I meet people with a similar interest to me (e.g. board games), the wealth and variety of the medium means that we'll probably still have very different interests within the world of board gaming.

So it logically seems to me that, if anything, the era of social competition is waning because people are more willing to accept that they want different things to their neighbours.
ah hell, you're the one who made my computer crash trying to open that and make me panic? damn you man
One of the tricks up my sleeve is figuring out that sometimes the new guy is the only person who can get Mr Grumpy to change his mind.

There's one phenomenon where some people don't re-evaluate their position until they've encountered the same issue with multiple people. Sending new people to ask often works better than going yourself for the third time. You're just a repeat, not a new data point.

And then there's a form of the Curse of Knowledge, where the resistant person has heard all of the arguments and (circular?) reasoning from their coworkers and doesn't buy any of it. And then someone asks the question in plain English, with no conceptual or relationship biases. Either the way they ask it makes the person realize they're being unreasonable, or they dissect the problem along a new axis that suggests a way to escape the deadlock. Words and questions can push us toward some connections in our brains, and away from others. Rephrasing is sometimes all it takes to reframe a problem, and the more inured you are to the project jargon the harder it is to rephrase things.
I feel a bit that way about my life’s accumulation of books. I suspect that the vast majority will end up getting donated to the library book sale after I die (plenty of worn and ancient paperbacks). I have made a point of pre-segregating the books that will likely have a notable resale value, but those are not many. Perhaps when I’m older but not too old I may spend some time trying to connect some of the specialized sub-collections with individual collectors who will treasure them as I did.
Oh good, you are becoming self-aware
Yes as the above commenters say the copyright holders (their enforcers really) don't have access to the private trackers swarm and will be unable to report your IP address.
Copyrights, patents, censorship and other kinds of monopolies on information are to human civilization as plaques are to an Alzheimer's-afflicted brain.
This was recently an issue with the celery docs site too. When the primary authors step away from the code the infra isn’t always handed over.
GitHub issue: https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6140
I have a similar method: I keep all cables in a set of small boxes. All USB cables go into one box, networking into another etc. I don't allow the boxes to overflow.

This does three things:

1. Makes it easy to find the right cable or to establish definitively that I don't have one.

2. Limits the volume of cables I keep. Say some gadget comes with a micro-USB cable, but the USB box is full. I either already know that I don't need any more micro-USB cables and recycle it right away, or check the box and find another USB cable to recycle to make space. (On extremely rare occasions I decide that the box is too small and either upgrade to a bigger one or split the category up into subcategories. I haven't needed to do this for a very long time.)

3. Makes explicit the process of thinking "Do I need to keep this thing?" instead of automatically storing it away.

I use the same method for chargers, mains extension leads and adapters etc.
This sounds like poor navigation skills to me. You should be able to find out roughly where on the map you are purely by dead reckoning.

So maybe if we by "productivity" mean "can get away without acquiring useful skills" then sure, "productivity" has definitely gone up.
The same new cars that need the entire transmission replaced if any one thing goes wrong in it? Compared to those poorly built old cars where you could blow a gasket and just put a new one in?
What things do you do at home that you would count as productivity? I'd say dishwasher and microwave would be much more common today than in the 80s. Clothes washing machine probably not more common but today's would be brighter, beepier, more economical on power and water and with better chemical detergents. Power Showers compared to waiting for an immersion heater to heat a hot water tank, maybe, high power transistors seem to be more of a thing than in the past. Portable Li-Ion power tools could improve DIY productivity for people who do that kind of thing. Battery portable vacuum cleaners and Roombas?

Is that about it? You can't "productivity" sleeping or oven baking or raising children or relaxing or socialising or a lot of household living experiences. You can productivity your paper work, insurance, banking, but that's screen based. Once you've got clothes from a hand wash to a machine there isn't much pressure for it to be very fast compared to kinda slow, since you aren't hanging around waiting.
From https://github.com/psf/requests/issues/6140:

> The domain is still owned by Kenneth and the maintainers haven't had access to it in quite some time.

and:

> For those looking for alternatives, https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ should be returning docs correctly again. This has been the "official" location for some time as we lack controls on the python-requests domains. I'll update again once we receive a response from Kenneth.
There's also quite a bit more people who travel by airplane today than in the 1930s. This adds complexity in trafficking, which works to slow things down, rather than speed things up. The fact that overall trip times are marginally faster, despite added traffic volume & complexity, largely explains things here.

But despite this, I mostly agree with the broader premise.
The "job description coming soon!" doesn't inspire a ton of confidence (https://jobs.lever.co/fractal-is/1952f298-7008-44e2-891d-567...)
Video version: "How do engineers make road signs look the same?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVkzCbFLA9k
This ones not the best but it works. I would recommend zipping everything and then using that as a single file. (file size limit is ~2GB fyi)
https://github.com/Quadmium/PEncode
I started this side project originally to answer that same question: https://www.dbaasreview.com/

Someone else mentioned Fly.io, have a look at Render too.
My dad was born at the beginning of the Great Depression. He told me once about being unable to buy thread, not because they didn't have the money, but because there was no thread to buy - all the thread factories had closed. You had to re-use thread.

Now imagine that that was all you had known for your entire life up to that point. And you had no idea that it would ever be different. That would shape you.

My dad was a hoarder, at least partly because of that. When he saw something that he could possibly use in some way, he kept it.

My dad died earlier this month. I'm getting to clean up the mess. It's not fun. I don't like it. I find it rather depressing that he spent so much effort collecting so much that has so little value. But I can understand why he did.
Unless the farmer is a moron, IPM is how most farmers try to use pesticides. Pesticides and chemical applications can be very expensive. Farmers try to use the least possible amount they can for purely economic reasons. My wife's grandfather was using IPM back in the 70s. Farming is competitive. If your costs are too high, you eventually go bankrupt during bad years. For the most part IPM is the rule, not the exception. Purely limited by the farmer's ability to understand pest cycles.
I see, so is it routing requests to a single instance or is it routing it to the nearest instance to the user? How will it scale if there are lot of users in a particular city?
Is this not quite expensive?
Everybody should keep a spiral bound atlas in their car. The dependence we are all discussion on GPS will be _really_ painful in the event of a crisis when your cell service stops working and you can't find your way home from 2 miles away.
Ghost of PL-480 Returns as India Avoids the Wheat Trap All over Again
This surely meant "All arrays of Objects"
My dad is getting older and even though he doesn't say it I can tell he's contemplating his own mortality. He recently asked me if I'd like to take the old Vic-20, C-64 and Apple 2e off his hands. We have a lot of very fond memories we made together with that technology and it played a part of who I am today. But frankly I don't have the room nor do I have the time to do anything with that stuff. It'd just sit in a box in my garage.
Look up "permaculture" and "regenerative agriculture"
https://permies.com/f/120/soil
https://www.thesurvivalpodcast.com/?s=soil
This is really really exciting! I hope it enables more products built on top of full VMs with fast UX/DX.

I just wish I knew about this earlier because from what I read, I think we at Devbook [1] built pretty similar service for our product. We are using Docker to "describe" the VM's environment, our booting times are in the similar numbers, we are using Nomad for orchestration, and we are also using Firecracker :). We basically had to build are own serverless platform for VMs. I need to compare our current pricing to Fly's.

[1] https://usedevbook.com
Plundervolt (2019)
I haven't tried using shm on Fly, but I don't see why they'd not work.

You could already run multiple processes in a guest vm [0] or run multiple guests vms on the same host [1]. If the guest kernel Fly boots your app into doesn't have required modules, I guess you could consider requesting (nerd-sniping 'em) specifically for those, like so: https://twitter.com/dave_universetf/status/14262218974072422...

[0] https://fly.io/docs/app-guides/multiple-processes/

[1] https://community.fly.io/t/2316
Thanks, these are the numbers that people care about -- Nobody wants to take a job at a company that's just going to be hitting layoffs in 6-12 months, as many will do. I'll keep an eye on you guys and see how things fare over the next 18 months. Customer growth is slowing (15-20% YoY) so most of that revenue growth was from upselling and price increases, which is a a lemon you can only squeeze so many times.
Object Storage is high on their roadmap, says an internal source.
Yeah I mean if you look at the IPO of YC backed businesses they are all down on average -70% from its previous ATH. Now ask yourself, how much of a run way would non-IPO businesses sustained by cheap capital has left.

People aren't joining YC to build a sustainable business. They are doing it for a shot at selling their shares on secondary market if they can't IPO, or dumping it on retailers through direct listing

The good news is that these failing startups will end up generating a ton of businesses for those that had been financially stable and conservative. Those are the ones to look at.
> how many of those leads can or will even be contacted in the salesperson/company's lifetime?

that's why you also have software to do it more efficiently - may be even automated ways of contacting the lead. AKA, spam.

But it does increase sales.
There must be something going on with the tunnels in Brisbane in google maps. I recently looked up directions to a restaurant in the valley and they were leading me to the clem 7 directly beneath it.
I have been through seven bear markets since the late 1989s. Sometimes I capitulated and sold. But not the most recent two.
Because they're using energy making an enzyme that only produces a positive impact on fitness in the event plastic is the best food source in the area. In all other cases, a leaner genome that isn't wasting energy on a useless enzyme is reproducing faster.

Even if plastic is heavily concentrated in the environment, if plastic isn't very energetically favorable to decompose, the environment will ALSO need to have a dearth of other available resources in order for the enzyme to provide a fitness benefit.
Scaleway unfortunately have the worst network of the above mentioned services :(
The only real advance for the customer (if you don't count voiceprint authentication, natural language IVR, agents having all your customer details ready as the call connects saving lots of tedious dictation).

On the business side, you have real-time load metrics to feed your automatic workforce management, rerouting of calls based on staffing and load, highly accurate transcription and sentiment analysis that's always on (even when you think you're on hold, always mute your phone), the accessibility of enterprise-grade contact centres to SMB, and about a dozen other things that weren't possible 20 years ago.
And if you would like a full IBM compatible computer you can get one for $17:

http://www.fabglib.org/

https://hackaday.com/2021/07/28/emulating-the-ibm-pc-on-an-e...

https://au.banggood.com/LILYGO-TTGO-VGA32-V1_4-Controller-PS...
How would that skill be useful to me? I’ve never needed it in my entire life. You sound like a Luddite.
A Tesla is a fucking space ship compared to the cars people had in the 50s...
Alternative strategy, buy a few dozen bags of uncle bens instant rice and a dozen Psilocybin spore syringes for like ~$100. Grow a few tubs full of mushrooms and sell them online and get paid in Monero.

Cash out a small portion of the profits (~$200) and double up your production. Do that a few dozen times. When you got around $50,000 in profit exchange the Monero to ADA/DOGE/SHIB and hold for 2-3x.
Nonprofit will use big data to fight voter suppression in the midterms elections
Production code that checks if a debugger is attached should be illegal.

Ideally there would be a way to get the debugger to lie to the process that a debugger is indeed not attached. Sure, maybe there's a reason today why you actually need to know a debugger isn't attached but at least give future-developers an escape hatch if they need it.
I'm in violent agreement with this post.

The biggest issue with making everything your job is that it hides the problems growing in the company. If there's a gap that needs to be filled, if you fill that gap, you're increasing your workload, and the work is being covered, so management may not even know they need to hire to cover it. At some point you'll be doing so much gap work that you'll burn out, leaving all those gaps uncovered.

Obviously you shouldn't be saying "That's not my job", but that's not the point of the post. The point of the post is that you should point that gap out to your management, so they can close it. They may ask you to help cover it, until it's hired for. They may find another team to cover it. They may do nothing, in which case either the work isn't considered high enough priority to cover, or they're not good managers.

Don't be a hero for the sake of being a hero. Be the glue that binds everyone together.
For some reason you've just reminded me just how much archeologists love midden heaps. I guess pretty much everyone gets to be an archeologist of sort at one time in life.
Btw, “sparks joy” was invented for the English translation. The Japanese was IIRC “tokimeki”, so I’d say that is a clever localization but is too specific about the kind of emotion sparked.

Kondo’s Japanese books also have a lot more specific advice about trash disposal in Japan, which can be difficult, leading to hoarding because you don’t want to figure out how to do it.

Japan has some high productivity systems for sure, but in things like trash and childcare they’ve instead chosen to have very complicated processes you have to get just right, and instead of improving them they just have all of society shame you if you ever get any of it wrong.
Unfortunately for your timeline Python was already in wide use before F# was released (2005). You'd need .NET and F# to have been invented a little earlier for that to work out.
Apple didn’t end up on a BSD kernel. They started on Mach (from NeXT) and then made it more performant with XNU by not being so pedantic about microkernels.

BSD is just a supported kernel ABI.

Edit: I just found these docs, so I suppose it’s a bit more complicated that I’m stating, I.e. there are portions of the FreeBSD kernel directly in macOS https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Da...
I think its an interesting idea if I can prioritize my time and set when I’m available and know say 1 week in advance when I’ll be interviewing someone based on my skill set it should be something that’s doable. I also think performing the first level interview as if it were a phone interview for 15 min is one type of interview. Another would be a more comprehensive interview of 1/2 hour and an even more comprehensive one at an hour where the candidate is getting a real taste of scenario based interviewing and the pressures applied. If you have a package that can offer at a minimum two 15 min interviews with one 20 min and one 60 min that would be good to start. As an interviewer I think it important to have a price point close to an hourly rate taking one’s salary dividing by the hours worked in a year (2080) which should give a range of say $60 per hour up to $200 per hour, to be fair to the interviewer. You can have folks prove their income with a W2 and then offer them more per hour.
There are lots of cool options, depending on what you want to do with it.

If you're interested in rigorously proving how calculus works, starting from the structure of the real numbers, I hear nothing but fantastic things about Spivak. I've not worked much of it myself, but the exercises seem very well chosen from the sections I've read. It exists in an interesting space between a calculus textbook and an introduction to real analysis, and you'll see stuff like the intermediate value theorem proven rigorously. If you want to practice computational applications, you may have to supplement it with some other exercises and material, from what I've heard, though. Apostol also exists in the same space as Spivak, and was (possibly still is) the calculus textbook of choice at Caltech.

For a more applied approach in line with the general content of the enormous undergrad omnitext, this seems cool: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-18-001-calculus-online-textb...

Dover and Springer have some pretty neat slim volumes that occupy the 'less rigor/intended for applications' side, though the names and authors escape me right now.

(Edit: Morris Kline was the Dover book I was thinking of, and I've heard good things about Serge Lang's introductory calculus book.)

(Second Edit: Kline doesn't seem particularly slim at 900ish pages, but it is well-liked. Let's go with 'comparatively slim.' In my defense, most Dover books ARE comparatively concise.)
You wouldn't happen to live in Stubbville where the people train leaves from?

But seriously, that's awesome what you did. You did the hard work so those other 20 people could benefit.
The IRS doesn’t care. They’re federal.
Financial tightening capitulates. One or both of major monetary and fiscal stimulus. My bet is on both together which is exactly what caused the last two years of craziness and our current inflation.
I once deleted a 15TB database by temporarily shutting off an AWS i3en instance.

Nobody told i3en's have "ephemeral storage" that gets wiped on shutdown.
You should offer more details about the role you're seeking. All SWE jobs and industries are not the same. Being a web programmer is not the same as being a systems programmer, career wise. You might get better advice with more info.

Some of us have lived through multiple recessions. You'll do fine. What you might have to accept is that the FANG compensation that we've gotten used to could be reduced for quite a while. No one can really say how deep this recession will go or how it will affect SWEs. I would be defensive though. Get a job soon, even if its not your dream job, and start building experience while accumulating savings.

Long term you'll be fine, but don't be complacent.
I usually create some small scraping script for my daily life.

- Getting all comic's image and converting to e-book for my Kindle.

- Surveying info for buying new house.

- Helping my wife in collecting data for her new writing.

- Transferring all my Facebook fanpage post to my personal blog

And I did enjoyed my journey in scraping thing to make my life easier and full of joy.
Tech people may not be immune this time. There are already hiring freezes and layoffs.
Last tech employment slowdown was after dot.bomb in 2001. Surplus of web developers. College computer science enrollments even dropped.
I have another lost interview with Dave Cutler that Microsoft took down from their website about ten years ago. I can find and post it, if there is interest.
> It is factually correct since just Verizon's cell coverage is something like 70% of the US land area.

2/3rds isn't what I would call a vast majority and the coverage for the western states is much lower than that. If you only include places where boondocking is legal, I think the coverage drops significantly below 50%.

It is certainly feasible and can be satifying to only boondock in areas where you can get cell coverage, which I think was the point you were trying to make.
Would whoever is downvoting care to defend the article's claims? Maybe this one:

> the timescale for light to cross an atomic nucleus is a factor of 100,000 shorter than the time to cross an atom, and so if there are any physical effects that preferentially affect these longer timescales as compared to shorter ones, the difference between atomic and nuclear clocks could reveal them.

Because that claim is nonsense. It is very, very, very difficult to resolve discrepancies between two measurements, one of which is 10^4 times more accurate (the article's number, repeated multiple times). It just disappears into the uncertainty of the less accurate measurement. So you need to improve the less accurate measurement, but you can't do that because the way you gained your accuracy was also the way you gained your signal. Yes, this can be worked with, but it's not something nuclear clocks will ever do alone.

My main thesis, that nuclear clocks do not serve any market between the current cesium/rubidium standards and the national metrology labs' best, still stands.
This is really really cool, but... incoming rant

So much of the Javascript tooling is reinvention of XML technologies - XML Schemas and XForms have been around for decades, and were standardised long ago. XForms supported data bindings, data schemas, conditional rendering and more - and this is a poor facsimile of all of that.

For some reason, web development schismed and decided that XML was "old" and Javascript and JSON were the way forward. But in their wake through so much knowledge and technology under the bus.
I wonder how far back these traditions go? People didn’t have the ability to generate junk until recently. Even the concept of generations is post-WW2.
Nieman misses the mark here. They are worried about some other fight - "authentic" vs "inauthentic". That's fine but not the issue at question.
We used to come together on social media. Now we come apart