skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sort of depends on what you're looking for. To me, the best value of a meetup or conference is meeting individuals and having one-on-one or small group conversations, as well as being able to hang out with people after an event. When I've hosted meetups, I usually get together a group of people to hang out at a pub down the street after the event. It's both fun and good for networking. Fake "meetups" will never ever fulfill that. Can a fake "meetup" work for honest discussion? Yeah, I've even hosted ones like that. It doesn't mean I think they're optimal that way. A fake "meetup" still necessitates that everyone participates in a single conversation and that not everyone gets enough of a word in.

I really don't have anything against virtual meetups. I'm really more against the idea that they are equivalent or superior.
Racism and classism is an equally convincing explanation.
> I can't fathom what goes into the mind of a designer

Don't underestimate the damage an overly eager and naive developer can do.

Or, (maybe more likely in this case?) a CMS author who's been given a little bit too much power?
As a sibling said: "Strip malls are generally one story buildings with tons of parking."

Car culture and low density zoning sucks. We should be mixed zoning these units with multiple stories of residential on top of the commercial space and pushing the storefront up to the road. If absolutely necessary to accommodate motor vehicles, put a multistory garage behind the storefronts (downtown San Mateo is an example of this), but otherwise infrastructure for walking, biking, and and accessible transit should be emphasized. Finally, strip mall architecture is typically of an ugly cookie-cutter design.
From their README:

> ReadySet is licensed under the BSL 1.1 license, converting to the open-source Apache 2.0 license after 4 years. The ReadySet team is hard at work getting the codebase ready to be hosted on Github.
This tracks for me.

I worked for a supplier for AMAT/Intel/Samsung etc. and was basically on-call 24/7. I had to carry two laptops with me at all times (my personal one and a work one).

I didn't care because I was young, and well compensated, but they decided that they'd cut my pay by a third by converting me to a salaried employee. The unpaid overtime (previously paid as a contractor) lost its luster quickly. Once I realized I was subsidizing bad management because I was filling the gaps left by often intentional shortcuts taken-- for free, I bailed. That took... two months I think.
Not all dining halls are all-you-can-eat buffets. Plenty charge you per item.
Do you really need an answer? Go get your haircut for free at a school where people are training. ;) They’re pretty good for the price.

You can only cut someone’s hair about once every six weeks, and you can’t undo a mistake. That person has to walk around with your mistake for weeks.

— my wife
I'm skeptical about most people being wired differently. Almost anyone can greatly increase their ability to stay focused and disciplined. Those are learned skills and mainly a matter of building good habits. But sometimes people need to fail hard first due to lack of focus and discipline in order to gain the motivation necessary to improve.

https://davidgoggins.com/book/
Thank you for the nice words and that you took the time to explain how and why you found it useful.

Well, that was a use case I hadn't thought of :)
I have a git repository for scripts which has no other place to go. There the scripts are placed in a flat structure (no subdirectories).
There is nothing more annoying than a Customer Support Chinese Room of Kafka, where tickets are transferred around only to take us back to square one each time.

And if plausible deniability from senior management would just add insult to injury, plausibly, claiming that things are taken seriously when things are obviously being neglected is just gaslighting.
That's the problem - the self help books often have good actionable advice just like the diet books do; but it can be summed up in a few paragraphs. Most of the book is often trying to convince someone it's worth doing, or providing ways to get around procrastination, etc that might prevent it.

But as you've shown, often a good mentor can do just as well, or better.
Confession: I'm nearly 40 damn years old, and I still second-guess month numbers enough that I usually just count starting from January, ticking them off on my fingers, and going through them one by one, to reach the one I need.
auto stands for 'automatic', because such variables are automatically allocated for each function invocation. In C it became redundant because base types were added, and so the base type could start the definition (auto was still permitted with default base type of int until C99 I think). auto in B is a bit like 'let', it starts a declaration, along with 'extrn'.
"Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach."
That’s false. Both OVH and Scaleway have object storage, good public cloud infrastructure and managed K8S at very interesting prices (I don’t know about Hetzner). I use them everyday and don’t understand why people keep paying 10x that for AWS Azure or GCP.
The wealthiest man in the world; who owns both SpaceX and Tesla; offered to buy Twitter and then reneged, kicking off at least one lawsuit alleging stock price manipulation; is bucking the work-from-home trend; whose tweets can move the crypto market - which is currently tanking - by themselves; and is in general a constant source of controversy.

Are you surprised that it’s being covered live or that it’s being covered at all?
I've become a lot more willing to burn my karma on here as of late. Not because I want to, per se, but what's the point of getting it if you can't spend it occasionally when you really have something you need to say?
1000+ page bills that include a lot of stuff is an outcome of the political negotiation needed to get enough votes. A 10 page bill is exactly the kind of law that will face stiff opposition because you have to make major concessions to get votes from both Republicans and the more conservative Democrats who are ideologically closer to Republicans on this issue.

US Democrats did write legislation for the issue and did try to get it passed. They even chose an approach originally developed by conservative representatives to try to appeal to conservatives traditionally opposed to government funded/managed healthcare. It's now known as Obamacare and it passed with the slimmest majority then Congress subsequently tried to repeal, deauthorize, defund, or otherwise destroy it like a 100 times [1].

You could just as easily say that if the majority of citizens actually wanted to fix this problem, they would vote out anyone who voted against a conclusive bill. But doesn't happen because voters actually approve of these politicians anyway. You can spend all your money on publicizing "who voted against this healthcare bill" and accomplish exactly nothing, anyone who cares can easily find out anyway.

But sure, it's always rich people's fault.

[1] https://howmanytimeshasthehousevotedtorepealobamacare.com/
I think it's probably too late for this and you're better off bracing for the inevitable conflict.
Apple’s Metaverse Snub Highlights AR/VR Tech Woes
Private Markets Will Pump the Oil
It sounds like the kind of conversation a scientist and an AI would have in science fiction.

Which it would have had plenty of examples of in the training data.
Thanks! And yeah! It sounds super unnatural when even the tiniest pauses are cut out.
Obvs I can’t prevent anyone from using it that way, but I set the defaults to leave a good 1/2 second of space on either side of each cut, and to leave in any silent chunks that are around 1/2sec or so.

Personally I think of the silence as a heuristic - it’s the gap between re-takes, so if I cut at those points and then delete the bad takes, it saves a ton of time.

This makes me think an interesting workflow to support might be something like, set the settings tight to get all the cuts, then delete the bad takes, then bring the pauses back.
This is a really bad idea. Bot detection is an incredibly complex problem, and simple rules like this are more likely to catch humans than (motivated) bad actors.
Volunteers work for free also usually there are too few of them (there can be lots of "volunteers" but only few are contributing, so they are overworked).
This is brilliant. I thought I can't be manipulated easily. But after watching the video, I think I could have joined such a cult at some point. It basically boils down to giving love and attention to people who didn't get any and made to feel like a looser in their life before, specially by parents.
Not that I've found, and there isn't much consumer choice since so much is built around the employer-provided model. You've got one for-profit entity making decisions about the offerings of another for-profit entity, and either one would happily fire you (either as a patient or as an employee) for making costs go up.

The closest US equivalents to the NZ elective insurance is probably the Medicare Supplement plans. Non-profits like AARP (a major US lobbying group / non-profit for retired people who use Medicare) sell their branding rights to for-profit companies like UHC. So even if you go through a non-profit, the actual operator of the insurance plan is a for-profit.
>didn't browse the internet very much

I see it other way

Internet allows you to discuss everything you want with various people from your industry

I think it allows you to become better not only faster, but also makes you more aware of different perspectives

Why wouldn't you want to do so?
During the excavations to build 30 St Mary Axe- better known as "the Gherkin"- in London, the grave of a young girl from Roman Londinium was found.

She was reburied with something approximating Roman funeral rites, and the new grave is marked with an inscription including the traditional Roman phrase "Dis Manibus" (To the Spirits of the Underworld) [0].

[0]https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/tomb-of-the-unknown-lond...
This is amusing:

> “We do not have an adequate level of control and explainability over how our systems use data, and thus we can’t confidently make controlled policy changes or external commitments such as ‘we will not use X data for Y purpose.’ ” Facebook engineers on the ad and business product team wrote in a 2021 privacy overview that was leaked to Vice.
Encouraging to hear it gets better, I have a 13 month old and feeling quite slow witted lately.
How Layoffs Work: Behind the Scenes
When it comes to names, I prefer not to be too pedantic. Names are for people to communicate with other people, and most humans naturally and successfully cope with irrationality all the time. A more concise, accurate name is always better to start out with when possible, but it isn't always easy. We can all just agree to call it Wine, and appreciate it running crappy productivity software and 20 year old games on our modern Linux computers.
It's intentionally being let down as part of a wider strategy, here are Doctors and people close to the issue. https://youtu.be/897tkuD6g38

"It is the design of the legislation and a culmination for US corporations to dominate the system".
>How about forbidding all tips, and fixing the economy to ensure that this money goes into the hand of all employees -

How about de-taxing and de-regulating the other economy?

Why is it the tipped workers who have to make the compromise? They're not exactly on top of the world to begin with.
My guess is that a big reason why you do this is because your backend is in Java. And that I can agree with - having a single language across both the front and backends provides huge benefits to team productivity, primarily that frontend and backend teams are much less "siloed" in their respective languages.

But that said, if starting from scratch, I think a Node/TS backend and a TS frontend is a much, much better choice.
I've seen 30-second videos with a cut after each sentence. It's incredibly jarring.

If you can't give a 30-second spiel in one cut, then you keep trying until you do. Alternatively, you splice in some other graphic or video to hide when a cut happens.
Thinking Like a Scientist Will Make You Happier
> Many of my peers had middle-class parents working normal jobs who just loved unconditionally + put effort forward... the difference between them and those who had less than ideal upbringings is typically vast.

Do you mean their career success, or their personalities in general?
There are people who are "wired differently" but as with many things, there's majority who insist they are and it's the source of their failings don't actually have a major issue.

It's a similar thing with dieting, the number of people who have gone to the trouble of actually counting every calorie they eat, restricting themselves to a certain amount to lose weight, and not lost weight is pretty small. But the number who tell themselves that they've done it is much higher.
> Uhh, mining and uranium enrichment and transportation all require fossil fuels, and more fossil fuel energy than a fueled nuclear produces in electrical energy.

Incorrect. Nuclear power actually has the second lowest net CO2 emissions per energy source, second only to hydroelectricity. Less than solar and wind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life-cycle_greenhouse_gas_emis...
>Real science is based on humility and doubt, not arrogance and gate keeping.

1: No, real science is based on evidence and falsification.

2: I find your gatekeeping statement about science not being about gatekeeping interesting.
I'm just confused why people looking for open platforms are going for .NET at all
Absolute BS, VCs knew years ago that all of this would come crashing down at some point but still raised insane funds because they could live off of the fees and knew that were other clowns down the line ready to mark up their deals. There's a reason why they were all rushing their juiced up donkeys on the public market through direct listings and SPACs in 2020, and it's because it was their only chance to dump them on retail investors before everything crashed.

None of these VCs will be giving up their tahoe homes or rushing back to the office because of this downturn.
Im not judjing btw. Everything has its tradeoffs.

Im just pointing out why there’s no big hitech market there hence no demand for own local AWS.
Alternatively, you just edit out the silences. What's the problem?
> The Meta Pixel “hashed” those personal details—obscuring them through a form of cryptography—before sending them to Facebook. But that hashing doesn’t prevent Facebook from using the data. In fact, Meta explicitly uses the hashed information to link pixel data to Facebook profiles.

Anyone know what they are talking about? (and getting wrong in some way one way or another).
Yes, Marc was more privileged than boomers or silent generation. I will concede that. Somehow I don't think that was the point of the original comment.
Damn I thought he'd be working on like, cat Ecstasy or something.
If you look at the word count and movie runtime of LOTR, then compare it to the word count of The Hobbit, you'll find that a similar treatment of The Hobbit would result in probably around 90 minutes of film.

There are complications with that assessment, but 90 minutes would fit quite well with the fact that it's supposed to be a children's story. The Rankin Bass animated version left out a few key plot points (particularly the arkenstone subplot) that could be recovered with a 90 minute runtime. I could also see the possibility of having a 2 hour extended edition
I never understood why if they have a cap to at least increase it as population increases. Also we need to give more medical decisions over to advance level (but not doctors) levels of people like Physicians Assistants and Nurse Practitioners.
To a degree. The issue here is that the trademarked name of Commodore has had so many owners over the years, that no-one really knows who owns all the IP.
I think they have serious problems, but FISA courts oversee warrants for wiretapping foreign spies, not extrajudicial murder of dissidents.
I don't think this is a crank theory, it was put forward by real scientists, not random members of the general public. It looks to me like the consensus leans heavily towards it not being correct but it's not a crazy idea.

I'm getting the sense that this has maybe become politicized for some reason? Why?
Are you looking into spreading the dataflow even more down to the clients ?
Think realtime subscription for complex queries over structured data.
> In Louisiana more people pass the bar exam than pass the florist licensing exam.

I'm not surprised considering the different requirements to take those exams.

To be allowed to take the bar exam in Louisiana you have to be a graduate of a law school accredited by the American Bar Association. That takes 3 years and costs a lot of money.

Before actually taking the bar exam, most graduates then take a third party bar exam prep course for somewhere in the $2k to $4k range, which is an intense course focusing on just passing the bar exam.

To be allowed to take the retail florist license exam in Louisiana, it appears that all you have to do is make an appointment and pay a $114 exam fee. There don't seem to be in education or training requirements, although they do recommend the book "Flowers: Creative Design" [1] as a reference.

I'd expect then that a lot higher percentage of unprepared people take the florist exam than take the bar exam. If the bar exam was open to anyone who showed up and paid $114 the pass rate would certainly plummet.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Flowers-Creative-James-Johnson-Jr/dp/...
Environment is tough. I see IKEA to blame here, but as long as there will be customer for cheaper goods who don’t care much about where the wood comes from, or how all of that is fabricated, it won’t change much. Other smaller makers have the same conundrum when they source their wood from bigger entities who will either hide where it actually comes from, and/or give plausible deniability. That’s where I see having everyone hypothetically switch to smaller furniture makers wouldn’t be enough, we’d need a lot more to make actual progress.

A bit the same way so many corporations are “carbon neutral” through offset, even if it’s a scam under most of these.

IKEA using it’s position to do something could be a realistic solution, I just don’t know if there is much hope in that regard.

The coffee scene could be a exemple where traceability helps a lot to improve the market (as a consumer there are options to do the right thing for non crazy prices), while the global picture stays grim as the most sold coffee will always be the unmarked super market value pack.

Worker protection: same as for Amazon, I wish they rapidly advance their robotization programs. In the meantime I strongly support more regulation, and would like security and social policies baked into the prices, especially as I don’t think there would be that much actual impact. Just as wish more companies across the board get unions.
You'd be better off banning known "cloud" IP ranges than this (and I think even that protection is questionable).
I noticed vendor lock in. He answered "we only lock the easy bits", which is already a weird idea. Like saying we are only not transparent on the small spending on our IRS declaration.

I then question the easy part by asking, tongue in chick, to tell me how I can do the same with FOSS easily. It's freedom I am talking about, not price. Indeed, the proprietary work in question is available without payment already.
https://commodore.inc/ This is the company and I do not see them selling any retro PCs. They sell an Android tablet that is almost certaintly a chinese knock off and some "retro-inspired" games.
Berec identifies new dynamics on competition in internet ecosystem
Do you wake up at circa 2am? It might be cortisol…

Walking, and especialy long walks in a forrest help a lot..

https://youtu.be/g3XjFOU1EyQ

https://youtu.be/L2fKo_dbXS0

https://youtu.be/CXg7OONSTIE

https://youtu.be/_tqi3ABznwc

https://youtu.be/5hIiixbdx2w
Notice that the author means “paragraph “ when he or she says “chapter”.
Another "obvious" trick is to narrow the playing field but animate the rest, and then safe cycles by a combination of bands that requires less updates and sprites. E.g. Pole Position is a classic example, where the graphics covers most of the screen, but only about half actually has gameplay. The rest consists of a very narrow band of mountains, and a couple of bands of clouds. I haven't looked at what they did for Pole Position, but that pattern of the actual gameplay being constrained to a much smaller portion of the screen than what looks like the playing area is pretty common.
> Simple science: you need a control group.

While controlled experiments are the ideal for hypothesis testing, as someone who does stats for a living it's worth point out observational studies do exist.

Entire fields, such as anthropology, depend entirely on observational statistics. The field has also come a tremendously long way in recent years with lots of very useful tools coming out of the Bayesian community (applying proper priors, multi-level modeling, inference on more complex models) and the causal inference community.

McElreath's Statistical Rethinking is a great text that deals mostly with what I would consider the current state of the art in observational techniques. Highly recommended if isn't already on your bookshelf.
Here I'll save you the trouble of trying to find the video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eviSykqSUUw&list=PLabw4gCouT...
You can do process substitution by piping into the psub command ;)
Maybe if they can just focus on making their video servers work sometime in the next decade.
So nobody learns? This is the proverbial boy who calls wolf, but for 30 years. Why don't they learn?
I would disagree based on what their motivation was.

Borderline perhaps.
It's publicly funded, but the government still pays the money to private for-profit companies.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7756069/

"For-Profit Hospitals Have Thrived Because of Generous Public Reimbursement Schemes"

In 2014, 11.1% of all UK hospitals were for-profit.
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Same. Shepard's Tone can refer to either perceptually-rising or falling tones.
There's no information on the page to express what the service actually does. It only asks me to login using a google or apple ID. I'd like some description of value first.
Just from the headline I thought something similar - developing something around catnip or valerian, which is kind of an interesting idea but probably already done.
An alternative that still requires 10000 hours of classroom time, plus 840 hours of apprenticeship time. at 40 hrs/week that's 46 weeks - basically an entire year. To cut hair.
From p. 74:

> Overall, the gap for most AMD-based processors closed almost immediately when we controlled for NUMA nodes – in other words, when we only considered runs where each instance showed all vCPUs running across a single NUMA node. When we did this, the performance gap dropped from 22% to 1%, which is smaller than our margin of error.

How does one avoid machines with vCPUs across multiple NUMA nodes? Do you just spin the machine up, run `lscpu | grep 'NUMA node(s)'` and kill the machine if the value reported is anything but 1 and try to spin a VM again?
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Sounds like they didn't re-do the QuestDB benchmark with same change to the indexes, and so their claim is that Clickhouse is 27x faster with a specific index than QuestDB without that index. Which is not a fair comparison.

Also, the tone of the post sounds really arrogant. They try to hide it a bit, I feel, but it just seeps through.