skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get this if one of your parents was a bad painter and filled the house with huge framed canvases. Otherwise, I'm just looking for stuff I want, and anything that I know was meant for posterity and few people would care about (my father updates a family tree, for example.) After that, call a professional and sell the lot to them i.e. the thing that these people mention not doing.

You may "lose" your parents if you don't have all of their stuff (I'm not sure what that means, but the article keeps saying it), but luckily, the odds are you won't have to live without them for more than another 20-30 years.

If that stuff outlived your parents, that means that it served its purpose well. Let somebody else buy it off ebay from an estate liquidator so it will create more happiness in the world, rather than hoarding it, which is the impulse I really suspect these situations are feeding.

I have brought up in hypotheticals to anyone who might be lumbered with them after my untimely passing the best ways to liquidate a lot of board games without getting pennies on the dollar. My only actual worry about my (physical) estate is that my heirs may get ripped off while dumping it.
Have you seen SMR spinning disks? You can get them today in host-managed flavors.
Huge kudos! Plus great idea to throw "Stardust Memories" and "Space Debris" in there as examples -- they're the best of the best the demoscene has/had to offer!
"Implement bandwidth limiting" https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3065

Going on six years now. You can use external tools (like "trickle") or your OS knobs.
I love that I can find this kind of narrowcasting book in pop-sci Kindle. I hate that it costs me $25 to buy it. I know that in times past, that would have been below my pain threshold, and this is not just "but digital is free" -I would have hoped by now the % of the kindle was enough to an author in return, and cents-in-the-dollar to amazon at scale was enough for amazon, but no: amazon want 50%+ of the list in clear profit, and the author gets 5% or worse, after all other costs.

Looks like a great book. I won't be buying it soon.
Yes. And, sometimes when the standard is so low, it's impossible to convince anyone that it is broken. Specially when you indicate the effort to fix things.

Sometimes 'struggling by' is the modus operandi. What comes with this is the toxic culture, high staff turnover and disrespect of anything new by the people who have suffered through it all for a long time.
Shouldn’t take nearly that long. Get another quote from a professional with a warehouse so they can work from there. Or schedule an estate sale as soon as legally able.
You don't need a shower when you get to work on a regular bike, either. You just need to slow down and budget more time for your commute.

That's it.

Slow down.

I have given this advice to multiple people who were new to bike commuting and every single one looked at me like I was a Martian. A week later they said "You were right!"

I've biked in one hundred degree weather and arrived in barely a light sweat. Yes, I put on hiking shorts which were passable, and the lightest athletic shirt I owned, but I didn't need a shower.

I just budgeted a bunch of extra time that morning, and barely pressed the pedals, whereas usually I'd be pedaling decently hard the entire way, even down hills. Because I was expending virtually no effort - biking is more efficient than walking - and had a ~10mph breeze - I was comfortable.

It helps that I eat a decently varied diet so I don't have horrific BO, use soaps that aren't loaded with shitty artificial scents and chemicals, and wash my clothing with no softener and "free" detergent that lacks any sort of perfume.
Thanks. That is great advice. This is no cash cow, but it is useful to my little company and a small group of users.
That podcast is over two and a half hours long so I didn’t listen to find out exactly what points they make about this, but presumably the strategy was because at the time cyclists not being treated like cars didn’t mean “bike lanes everywhere” but rather “bikes banned on city streets”
The USA is pretty good at extraditing people who committed crimes outside its borders when it serves their national interests.
Silent is relative. With no factual basis I posit that these devices emit RF, and could be tracked if we understood how against the background noise of other RF emitters.

Square law may say "nope: not a problem" or, that its a known and contained problem.

Apparently the SAS used (ICE) bikes to good effect in the iraq/kuwait wars, behind the lines. Bikes are cool, ever since post D-Day arnhem landings. [0] I am less sure the pedal-bike troops thing lasted (WW1? pre-WW1?)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welbike
Good luck with that when if you’re going to be prosecuted for a felony or not depends on said meatspace location.
I could not agree more. I’m a few years from the financial independence I need to pursue this fully, but my life dream is to build a large neighborhood / small town exclusively for bikes and pedestrians (minimal car access for deliveries etc worked in following Dutch safety standards).
This article seems to be advocating sticking your head in the ground when something goes wrong

There’s a world of a difference between telling others “that’s not my job” for tasks that have nothing to do with you, and owning the success of your own projects

And it feels like this author is conflating the two concepts

If there’s a dependency of yours that’s not working the way you need it to, it doesn’t mean you can simply go home free. At the very least you have to fill in the communication gap of informing management of the blockers.

If need be, then you have to own driving the call to either add more resources to your own project (to compensate for the bad dependency) or push forward the call to nix your project since it apparently has a high chance of failure

And if none of those attempts pan out, _then_ you can try to move on to a different place where you can actually be effective. But know that you’ll face this same type of challenges in your new role as well!

There’s no easy escape: if you took a position of leadership, then it’s definitely your job to lead
They do belong on roads. Paved roads were created for bicycles. The law classifies them as road vehicles.

You are required to know the vehicle code in order to qualify for a drivers license. Right of way precedence is one of them. Being "pissed off" because another citizen is exercising their rights within the law isn't an excuse to harm them without repercussions.
Neither of those apply to enterprise customers.
No, all developers would not push for React, and anyone coming into a web project for the first time suggesting a rewrite in React smacks of bootcamp-era ignorance. There are legit apps where React is indeed the best-suited tool for the task, but that number is surprisingly low. React has become the new "nobody got fired for choosing IBM" and has become just as problematic in our industry. Many projects would be better off with other tools/frameworks or actually just vanilla JavaScript.
Bikes are not ride-able for lots of people with disabilities, but trikes reduce that number dramatically, yes. Rehab hospitals often have fleets of recumbent or regular trikes because nearly everyone can use them, and they can be hand-pedaled.
And if you had enough data. There are 365 days in a year, but only 100 or so years of temperature records. So there are plenty of days that have not had their "chance" as it were to set a record for that date. (For example in my city today's high was set over 130 years ago.)

It also ignores heat islands as cities get larger.
>rather than outputting voltage corresponding to logical 0 or 1, they will go into a meta-stable or astable output mode that is not a valid output voltage

It sounds like you could easily avoid this. You can use a microprocessor and lead in analog input on one pin and then set an output pin based off that. You will always output a valid voltage. Sensors have noise anyways so it's not a big deal if the output is slightly wrong.
This is all true, but "cheap" is a tricky term because you have to actively look for it. People picking over stuff to catalog and resell is a valuable service. Like you said, families just want it gone, but even if they wanted top dollar, parting out a collection take a lot of time.
Exactly, if you want a house empty you can make it empty just about as soon as you would like. The only question is who pays and how much. As you say - if it is junk you will pay some, if there are some things of obvious value you can come out ahead.
The pricing does not seem to be competitive with services like Cloudflare, given that you also charged for bandwidth. A little disappointing since I was considering using them for some of my projects. I hope there will be features in the future to give them a more competitive advantage. Otherwise, I love it!
A key value store has simple CRUD primitives, does a file system?
Agree. I'm a very levelheaded, defensive driver, and I never actually do anything to harm bicyclists, but they make my blood boil every time I get stuck behind them.
Modern societies seem incredibly averse to allowing recessions take their natural course these days.

There has been unprecedented money printing in tough times that doesn't revert to mean before the next economic crisis comes along. This results in huge misallocation of resources and a lot of long term negative consequences all to avoid short term pain.

At some point the developed governments on Earth will have their hand forced rather than playing god with the economic cycle.
Sometimes during zoom meeting I pretend to crush the heads of my co workers
I wasn't trying to communicate level of success, just economic context and the fact that jobs are available there.

But since you ask: $57M ARR, 117% NRR, 97% YoY growth, 51 NPS, named a best place to work in [insert regional business journal] for the last 4 years in a row, customers really love us, and employees really love working here.

I don't know how reliable Glassdoor is considered to be these days, but we're rated 4.8 stars by employees, 97% recommend to a friend, and 92% approve of the CEO.

Your comment seems rather cynical, but I hope to at least demonstrate that there do exist good VC-backed startups.

Oh, and we're hiring! If anyone wants to know where this is, my email is in my profile.
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This article seems to be advocating sticking your head in the ground when something goes wrong

Yeah, sometimes all you can do is raise awareness. And if the ongoing issue is going to affect your deliverables, then you better be raising awareness!

Saying “that’s not my job” isn’t for anyone in a leadership permission
Better than being insecure by design, I would think.
I can't say for today, but back in the 90's I spent some time in California (I'm from Toronto) on a mainframe course. The reason was that I had to basically rent time on a mainframe in order to do any of the exercises, and understandably nobody was willing to open a terminal to their mainframe across the Internet "for educational purposes only".

I then worked a bit with IBM (in Poughkeepsie, NY) getting Linux on MVS working securely before it was released as a product, and I haven't touched a mainframe since. </background>

The Unix world and mainframe world are so different that you couldn't really just throw an emulator on a Linux box and be able to get anywhere professionally with it. Even the lingo is not compatible. There is next to nothing from the Unix world that you could apply to mainframes. You will have insurmountable gaps in your knowledge without full immersion. Talk to a mainframer about buffer overflows, and you'll realize right away that you are on completely different planets.

AFAIK there are still no full MVS emulators for Linux because of the sheer mountain of "stuff" that would need to go into it. You can certainly learn the scripting languages with emulators, though. So there is that. But your lingo and even understanding of how things connect would still suffer greatly if you think of the concepts from a Unix/Linux point of view. They are not compatible.

Having said all that, because there is Linux on MVS, in theory you should be able to use it as a familiar terminal. But then your only access is through getmvs which still keeps you much too distant from the iron to call it mainframe experience. And it is unlikely anyone's going to open up a terminal to the Internet, as it was for me back then, too. There is way too high a financial risk involved.

Things may have changed since then, but mainframes really don't change very much even across decades. I think getting Linux running in a VM was probably shocking to the entire mainframe world when it was first released. Banks gobbled it up though, so it was quite a smart move.

I believe cloud computing has totally taken over and removed any benefit there was in that particular area now, though.

My expectation is that you'd still need to rent mainframe time slices, and go full immersion if you want to get "Mainframe" on your resume. Otherwise you might have to lower your bar a little, and stick to some of the batch processing languages instead.
e-bikes are an albatross if you have to carry them up stairs.
My take away, but the author goes into a bit of detail on this.
Damn that is a nice looking phone, actually. I hate typing on virtual keyboards; going back to something with buttons would be amazing
I’d suggest you grab some old economics texts. The current era is dominated by some truly bizarre, propaganda-level disinformation and concentrated markets. Infant formula got monopolized. As did meat production.

My suggestion stays https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Crash,_1929

“The lesson of 1929 was that laissez faire economics and political economy concentrates market power and the market downturns don’t always right themselves” (paraphrasing)

There was a ton of stuff put in place after the Great Depression which was then undone through decades of corporate “influence.”

I don’t know that what we’re headed for will be 1929 level bad. I’m not suggesting that. But that’s a great book to start enlightening yourself. The highly complex mortgage backed securities that led to 2007/2008 were never undone. The ARM loans which ballooned and kicked off the fulcrum of defaults and thus collapse from suddenly worthless securities were never addressed. And this time the international situation is far more developed and intertwined.

There absolutely are things that can be done to relieve a lot of this though. Tariffs can be rolled back. That would lower many prices.

My big wish would be corporations to learn to not cut quite so many corners that they become fragile to supply shocks. For people to seek out energy sources without huge social and environmental externalities. For people to choose to buy local first/where possible. For people to be open to growing local production like manufacturing of physical goods. Etc.

Edit-and “buy local” includes hiring local labor. And paying local taxes-corporations benefit from things like road works and other local services.
I'm hesitant to blame Forester for the GP's question. Yes, Forester was against bike lanes, but he still championed for equal treatment that would result in the courts actually taking car-bike collisions seriously.

The sad fact is most Americans view biking as a "hobby" and not a viable mode of transportation. So bikes don't belong on the road [0]. The politicians who make the laws, the police who enforce them, the judges who would oversee any trials, and the media who reports on this deaths all suffer from this "windshield perspective". They prioritize cars above all.

It's only recently with a new generation of urban planners are we finally seeing improvements in infrastructure and policy.

[0] - see this comment for a perfect example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31500161
> “Priceless heirlooms” weren’t of interest to anyone.

Well, it's true. They are priceless, as in worthless.

Those are usually things like furniture that could be valuable to someone in the area, but the cost of moving them is enough to make it worthless.
A low unemployment recession is not a terrible thing.
I have used AWS CDK for IaC and for the most part, it works great. It also has escape hatches for constructs that are not yet implemented in the CDK API that you could fall back on CloudFormation templates or whip out a custom resource, if you are so inclined.

For the most part, the constructs provided out of the box has good defaults and the documentation helps. The aws-cdk support team is also responsive on issues/bugs reported.

This is just based on my experience and I started off as a total noob on AWS.
Take their point of view: why do they need to do any of those things? What is in it for them?
IME the vast majority of startups actually pay terribly, because they can lure a bunch of inexperienced people in with the prospect of making buck in the longer term. I'm sure there are startups which pay well, but I suspect they are a small minority, working on things which are even less likely than normal to become a unicorn.
I do this with cloud VMs these days: it's particularly useful when there's third party code in the mix. The theory is that your uptime represents a known tested amount of operation (roughly), and as such everytime you go beyond that in production but not testing, you're getting into unknown space - systems are too complicated to validate everything (see the classic patriot missile system bug [1]).

So, you should never deploy anything to production which won't be rebooted more frequently then you reboot it in testing. In practice, you should probably reboot much more frequently - as frequently as possible - to keep the delta between "known good" and "mutated" as small as possible.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIM-104_Patriot#Failure_at_Dha...
> thought that her hairstyle was very offensive

Telling others they don’t like how others look is right near the top on the scale of offensiveness. I had a partner who had had dreads for 25 years. I’m wasn’t a huge fan of her dreads because although I like the look, hers were somewhat annoying for me (scratchy, dread babies, me getting tangled). That said, I would hope I never tell any other person how to look. Hilarious when she was working, and someone would treat her badly due to their assumptions or prejudices, only to discover to their detriment she was very senior staff!

Dreadlocks are usually called dreads in NZ. My previous link mentions that some people call them locks, which seems inapproprate to me: kind of a confusing whitewashing denial of history.
The pedal bit seems unimportant, I feel like the only relevant distinction is the actual top speed.
Not only Putin but large portion of his propagandists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incitement_to_genocide
My grandparents and great grandparents are dead, so they don't have to live with the embarrassment of having their descendent reduced to being "the sort of person who buys his own furniture," but that's progress. I am keeping some of it, and we all do a purge every few years just in case, but I find it's the photographs that are the hardest to destroy. Something that meant so much to someone else. Like tears in rain, I suppose.
Completely wrong, in aggregate. Vehicle longevity and reliability have significantly increased over that time period. However, when an unproven new car is compared to an old car that has already survived for a long time, it’s possible you may be right.
My take is the population growth differences that accounts for the premise of the article.

The 1950's parents for the first time had extra stuff more so than previous generations with the rise of consumerism, but they also had larger families where the parents of the 1980's took stuff off their parents hands. Garage sales for sure.

Today, the trend is smaller families while the things of the 80's tend not to transfer as well.

This trend will likely continue to be even worse as fast consumerism + innovation makes many items not last more than a few years.
There's a subset of MTB riders who only bomb downhills and take a shuttle back to the top. An e-bike cuts out that middle man.
I didn't watch any KITH growing up (although I've watched it lately). However, there some weird similarity between their intro song, and the intro song to The Daily Show that often makes me feel vaguely nostalgic. Da Da dadada da-da da-da.
I think Australia is the option to take in that situation. The American Dream is to build something huge out of nothing, sell it for a billion dollars, and poorly compensate the non dreamers who worked hard to make it happen.
Oh man, stamps, for the past 10 years I’ve bought “discount” stamps off eBay. Basically buying 45cent or whatever stamps for 25 cents or less and plastering my packages like the… never mind.

Obviously this is the lossy side of stamp collecting, but man, to take a haircut like that after preserving something for 20 or 30 years.
I've never heard someone in woodworking call finished wood "treated". That would be really odd, given that treated wood is a specific term of art.

Plainly oiled wood is pretty normal, and isn't going to do anything to protect against rot (because it doesn't need to indoors).
It's a good listen; it's been a few months since I heard it at this point, but the long and short of it is that vehicular cycling could be sensible as a compromise step if your starting point is complete, hopeless addiction to the car. Forester, though, thought of it as a set of prescriptions for how cycling should be done, and was influential in advocating to the DOT against dedicated cycling infrastructure.
I once heard someone use the term “therapeutic reboot” for when computers get into a bad operating state. It really stuck with me.
I feel like these days, stuff is incredibly cheap and therefore it's very easy to accumulate a huge amount of it. Sure, we have out sentimental items and useful tools we use everyday. But a huge amount goes un-used, sitting in boxes, closets, attics and garages waiting to be thrown away.

I try to "live small". My apartment is relatively small. I'm still wearing clothes from high-school. I still the knife, fork and spoon I bought when I moved out on my own. When something breaks I mend it, replace it or turn it into something new. I'm not a hardcore minimalist, far from it. But there is great joy in having enough.
No I do not. Motorists in this country are quite literally insane, whether I am sharing the road with them in a bicycle or a car. It’s so bad I can barely even cross the street as a pedestrian- even when I’m clearly with my children!
Maybe you aren’t as level headed as you think you are.
> amortizing across a batch size of 1000

This put the problem outside of L2 and thus is not a fair comparison, especially if your problem is small enough to fit in L1.

In addition, XLA does a poor job in optimizing for CPU cache reuse, so I'm not surprised that directly transcoded C++ code would be much faster than XLA.

However, TensorFlow code can directly run on GPU. SymForce cannot.