skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a first edition "Understand? Good. Play!" (A book of translations of quotes from Hatsumi Masaaki, GM of Bujinkan Budo Taijutsu...

At one point it was hard to get and were selling for $700 - they are now $50.

Had a friend find a bunch of $100 bills in a used book in Salvation Army in SF...
Alpine Linux is reducing dependencies on Busybox
Building a real-time video review platform with Flutter and Stream Feeds
> Given the possibility that some findings might lead to the need for medication, are you going to have MDs or PAs or whoever on staff who can prescribe those?

Yes, for when we enter the diagnostics phase of our tests, we will be working with MDs and PAs who can prescribe medication.

> For metabolites found in very low concentrations where draw-to-draw variance is high, how do you deal with that when a person is only sending you one sample at a time?

We will have a reference cohort in place to which your measurements will be compared. Thus, even for a single measurement, we can make statements about values that are out of range. The most benefit will come from longitudinal sampling, where we can see how your blood metabolite levels move over time.

> Is there ever going to be any effort to have this payable by health insurance?

Yes, it’s on our roadmap. We’re also now working on having our tests HSA/FSA eligible.

> Are you doing anything with the feedback data? As in, someone sends you a sample, you tell them to make a behavioral change, does your advice change if future samples don't show a positive intervention effect? How do you know if patients comply with your recommendations?

We are. And you’re exactly on point in that if the interventions have 0 effects on a person, it will be omitted in subsequent reports. Though, we usually see effects on the metabolome with interventions and it becomes a matter of adjusting them. Which ties into our recommendations getting better and better for a person as they continue testing and acting on those recommendations. In terms of how we know if a person complies with recommendations, based on our database, we know of metabolic patterns that would indicate compliance,

> Are you going to offer genetic testing so, say, someone with high LDL or whatever can know if that's due to diet or they just lost the genetic lottery and nothing but statins can possibly help them?

Currently not, but one feature that we will be implementing soon would be the ability to upload genetic information and we’ll integrate that into our analysis.

> I think LDL is not a metabolite but since your "what's measured" page ends with "more published below" and then there is nothing below, I'm not sure what the full extent is of what you're testing for.

We were not sure where LDL was coming from here? Regarding our webpage, the “more published below” refers to the Nature Medicine paper, we cite further down on the page. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01266-0

> If not LDL, presumably something you're testing for can have many sources, including genetic propensity, diet, and other environmental factors. How do you determine which of those is most causally relevant before prescribing an intervention?

That’s a good question and will be decided case by case. As an example, if your glucose levels are elevated and you have diabetes, it doesn't really matter why that happened, the consequences are the same. But indeed, there are special cases especially of genetic variants that need special attention. We will work on those and present the data accordingly in the reports.
Thanks, I'm playing with that on my MS-DOS VM now.
The problem is that it also has second-class bools (other stuff service as booleans).

First class bools alone being logic-checked, is a better design.
The solution to receiving webhooks in unknown order is to ignore the payload and refetch the resource. Yet naively implemented, this still leaves race conditions on the recipient end: if two webhooks can come in at once, you have to make sure you process them serially, since your refetch or database write could complete in arbitrary order.

That's non-trivial engineering to foist upon every recipient of your webhooks.

I like the idea of the /events pull-based endpoint, which keeps engineering much simpler on for recipient: https://blog.sequin.io/events-not-webhooks/
Always needing to be "productive" or busy can be a sign that you're avoiding something else in your life. The classic example is the workaholic who is hiding from the reality that he doesn't like spending time with his spouse or family. Instead of confronting and solving that problem, he runs away from it by working 60 hour weeks.
I don't think it matters much whether it's in their wheelhouse or not or whether they succeed or not. What matters is that transitioning away from the social graph is abandoning their moat, the very thing that keeps them a monopoly in social media. Once that's gone it'll be a level playing field and they are unlikely to survive for long.
SoundCloud to cut 1 in 5 employees worldwide
I switched from TextMate to Emacs 15 years ago. Nowadays I'm slowly switching to Kate :).
No, I think it will likely be over by then, because the era of easy money is ending:

> If [St. Louis Federal Reserve President James] Bullard has his way, the rate will continue rising to a range of 3.75%-4% by the end of the year. After starting 2022 near zero, the rate has now come up to a range of 2.25%-2.5%.[1]

While at the same time, fiscal policy is tightening. The "slightly" overgenerous Covid aid is over and the President is likely to get only a fraction of his $3.5 trillion dollar dream program.

And eventually OPEC will probably increase oil production, as Biden asked them to [2]; or Biden will change his stance on increasing US production. (BTW, Russia hasn't been removed from the market. Their exports have only fallen about 15% since the invasion [3], which is easily compensated for. The fact that producers haven't increased production has a lot to do with Biden.)

But a return to sound fiscal policy and practical oil policy won't reverse the damage of two years of inflation and slow or negative growth.

1: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/03/feds-bullard-sees-more-inter...

2: https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/energy/joe-biden-saudi-trip-o...

3: https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russian-O...
Schrödinger's productivity.
I like to read about lots of things. Urban planning, manufacturing, arts, culture, movies, politics, etc etc.

Am I a manufacturer? Do I make oil paintings? Do I direct movies? Am I an elected officiel? No. I’m in tech, doing programming and sysadmin things. I’m a small cog in the whole scheme of things. Still interesting to read about what’s going on in other fields. Nothing wrong with that IMHO.
U.K. to pull paper bank notes, transition to polymer from October 1
There is a large list of things you can query, like for example the number of available queues and then the types of commands supported by each queue. I think this can be considered as a hardware detail. It's like querying the execution ports of your CPU.
Interestingly I’ve just been discussing this problem with a bunch of maker friends on YouTube. The recommendation system is so broken that we are working on ways to directly reach our audience. First attempt is a newsletter - https://makernews.substack.com
I second godot: easy to develop with, easy to make GUIs (or complex text-based layouts).
The exported "executables" are pretty small and performance is acceptable for small mobile based projects.
Try Forvo:

"Forvo is the largest pronunciation reference online. Our goal is to compile native speaker pronunciations for all the words that exist in the world, including names."

https://forvo.com/faq/
Wow, how things have changed. I've been here since back when Google could do no wrong. Now they're a poster child for shady surveillance capitalism.

Same with Elon Musk. I remember him being compared to a comic book hero. Now he's an alt-right racist (if you are a leftist) or an evil globalist technocrat (if you are a rightist).
A lot of older books that are now out of print often run many hundreds of dollars, if not more. For example, I've been trying to find a complete unabridged edition of Fraser's Golden Bough, which isn't that niche - you'll find it cited somewhere in any work on mythology- and it seems to run in the high-hundreds to low thousands. A quick look shows a first edition selling for 12k all by itself.

Similarly, I'm looking for the complete Collected Works of Carl Jung, and that's got a hefty price too. Maybe one day. :)

I'm sure both of these examples are sitting in some old man's study and are getting sold for nothing at estate sales, if they aren't just thrown in a dumpster or pulped after being donated to a library that can't get rid of them either. But nobody is indexing estate sales.
I can't see how this is relevant to the discussion. There is no mention of GPU instances in the first place.
Yeah, but depending on where you are career wise you probably want to avoid letting your skills atrophy too much. That'd be my main concern. But if I wasn't worried about that, and the money was ok, then yeah. Rest and vest.
I think a "good pipeline to prod" with sufficient automated tests to ensure nothing is broken is the exception not the rule. Even in places that think/say they have a "good pipeline to prod". It's something that takes a shocking amount of engineering effort to do well, and tons of discipline to maintain.
You jest but didn't the guy who wrote "The Martian" do it one blog post at a time?
I've worked with Visual Studio, and Eclipse, and NetBeans for a few years.

Then tried Emacs while learning Clojure, and after a few to and fro, stuck with it.

This was before Visual Studio Code (or Atom) became a thing, though.
Try to build a network of personal in-person relationships who you then contact ad-hoc by WhatsAp, email,etc. As a start reach out to other technical managers to get advise on a specific topic and see if there's a chemistry. If not try someone else. I'm happy to chat.
> You can go as far back as to the tao te ching, meditations, or even the bible.

The Tao Te Ching with the adjonction of its commentaries is a book on Confucian moral and ethic. The Meditations is a journal and also mostly a book about ethics. I think linking them to modern self-help books is somewhat disingenuous.

I deeply believe that if people actually stopped reading self-help books and read books about ethics instead the world would definitely be a far better place. “How to live a life worth living?” is after all a far more interesting question than “How to do the most of your life?”.
>Used textbooks have been preferred by students for precisely for this reason

Same as good class hand notes from students, that get (or used to get) photocopied and handed down through the years to new students...
Methane Leaks Speed Up Climate Change
Well Larry Page has said he doesn't believe in customer support (like at all). So this is a value that flows from the top.
Nice work, a great gift to us all. I originally started "Designing
Sound" as a website full of easily clickable and runnable Pd
patches. In some ways publication with MIT forced me to shoehorn a
much richer experience into a standard textbook format. To that extent
I remain disappointed with how "web" technologies turned out for
education. In the end I had to take down the site in the face of
leaching parasites that linked to the material in such a way as to
saddle me with the bandwidth burden while freeloading as "meta
educational" sites. 15 years later I am resolved to make my next text,
after "Ethics for Hackers", be a more permanent free resource taking
account of lessons learned.
Ask HN: Quant finance dev ops stack?
Looking for folks in quant finance who use a lot of similar tools to talk about what their dev ops stack is.
> “Find SSL Certs”

So we’re promoting secrets being saved within a container image artifact? Ummmm?
I remember this song.
At my school the savvy students wouldn't buy their books until after the first session of a course anyway, since the professors would often, in that first meeting, explain that some books listed in the syllabus as required were actually optional, or that they'd support some set of older editions of a book than the syllabus listed ("it lists the 5th edition, but it's OK if you get the 4th, and if all you can get ahold of is the 3rd, see me after class and we'll get something sorted out—but nothing older than that").
As a teen, it was incredibly exciting to find a VA prescription blank dated 1940s in a first edition of Otto Fenichel's The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis that I picked up at a thrift store.
You're right. That makes me very sad.
This song has the best advise I've ever heard. Every single line. I remember hearing it when it first came out, and I remember thinking of it many times throughout my life.
Idk with the amount of books referenced and the definitive fact the some of them were resold at least indicates a good chance of making thousands of dollars, otherwise It’s logical to assume if the effort has not been worth it the author would have commented as such.
> Its traditional to clears the window before showing anything on Win32. Clearing the window happens so fast that you shouldn't see a flicker

That is not due to speed but due to Windows API being smart with clipping regions/rectangles to only allow pixel updates in damaged regions (e.g. uncovered parts of a window as you move it). Note that nowadays this only happens inside windows as toplevel windows are composed via DWM in an offscreen buffer. Windows also tries to doublebuffer window drawing updates to avoid flickering. However in Win7 (with DWM -aka Aero mode- disabled) and earlier you'd be able to see flickering by, e.g. resizing windows with complex UIs.

Also the "tradition" here isn't to clear the window but to invalidate the regions that were damaged so that the next update (which does clear the window) only affects the damaged regions instead of the entire window. This was most common during the 90s and early 2000s though, at some point computers and memory were fast and big enough to do double buffering during paint events (which in some cases you still need to do when working with GDI) to avoid visible flickering - and nowadays most common flickering issues are solved by Windows themselves doing it via composition.

> even as the mouse moves over your window (each pixel your mouse cursor moves, Win32API will clear the window to its background, redraw the window (erasing the old mouse pointer), and draw the mouse pointer in the new location.

This is what Windows did until Windows 3.1 (and you could see the cursor flickering when, e.g. a control drew itself while the cursor was over it) but with Windows 95 the system composed the mouse cursor to avoid that flickering. However nowadays (and for a long time now actually) the mouse cursor is drawn by the GPU as a separate hardware plane on top of the screen contents. All Windows do in that case is to send the cursor image to the GPU and set the registers that specify the plane (cursor) position whenever the mouse moves - no drawing takes place.
There is a joke:

Boss is stepping outside of brand new BMW - good morning Joe, you see that brand new BMW, if you keep working hard and make more hours I will get new one next year!
Finally, an innovation in dating site profiles!
Or the noise specific to that camera sensor.
Does YouTube organic discovery work for anyone besides toddlers? I can't remember a time I was suggested or autoplayed a video that I actually was interested in.
Yeah. "growing" = numerator. "shrinking" = denominator.

It's nice because they're inverses - if you shrink by 30x, then grow by 30x, you're back where you started, whereas a 97% decrease in size followed by a 97% increase in size leaves you at ~6% of the original size.
I moved a few years ago and decided to sell a lot of books. I scanned the bar codes for about 50 and tried to sell them on Amzn. For my technical books, I learned that not matter how valuable the books were to me, they were worthless. However, I had some really valuable gems. One was a thick book of old Japanese lithographs, the explicit kind called "shunga". I sincerely don't know how I came to possess this book, but I sold it for $250. Another was self published by an old friend about his experience in the Seattle of the late 60s, which sold for $500.
Screencasts for Android Developers
I'm incredibly lucky that I can talk to my father, who's also in the business and has had a long and varied career.

When he's not available, though, a rubber duck will do. Explaining it to a rubber duck, or even better a friend who has no context into your system. Explaining things simply, just by forcing you to think about them and break them into simple components, helps a lot.
aka "with sufficiently clever software you can turn innocent and charming children's drawings into nightmare fuel!"
The U.S. Army Is Building the Metaverse
Nick Clegg, is better known in the UK as a previous deputy prime minister, so it's not particularly unusual that he would move to his home country given the chance:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Clegg

Looks like Alex Schultz is also originally from London.
A 1920 byte (80x24x1-byte each) character window shouldn't be having performance problems on modern systems (ie: seeing blank-characters or whatever) when a 1080 x 1920 x 4-byte == 8MB desktop completes any execution faster than the eye can see on 30 year old hardware (blank, redraw, scale, etc. etc.)

Something, somewhere, is flushing the screen and waiting for V-Sync, or something like that. You can write a 2D Canvas or even 3D world (involving the reupload of entire geometries each frame) that executes faster in Javascript compared to this 80x24x1 byte TUI window.
The one about microservices is incredible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ
Recently I read HPMOR and this paragraph was one of many delights there:

The cold in the room seemed to deepen. “A sixth-year Gryffindor cast a curse at one of my more promising students, a sixth-year Slytherin.”

Harry swallowed. “What...sort of curse?”

And the fury on Professor Quirrell’s face was no longer contained. “Why bother to ask an unimportant question like that, Mr Potter? Our friend the sixth-year Gryffindor did not think it was important!”

“Are you serious?” Harry said before he could stop himself.

“No, I’m in a terrible mood today for no particular reason. Yes I’m serious, you fool! He didn’t know. He actually didn’t know. I didn’t believe it until the Aurors confirmed it under Veritaserum. He is in his sixth year at Hogwarts and he cast a high-level Dark curse without knowing what it did.”

“You don’t mean,” Harry said, “that he was mistaken about what it did, that he somehow read the wrong spell description—”

“All he knew was that it was meant to be directed at an enemy. He knew that was all he knew.”

And that had been enough to cast the spell. “I do not understand how anything with that small a brain could walk upright.”

“Indeed, Mr Potter,” said Professor Quirrell.

There was a pause. Professor Quirrell leaned forward and picked up the silver inkwell from his desk, turning it around in his hands, staring at it as though wondering how he could go about torturing an inkwell to death.

“Was the sixth-year Slytherin seriously hurt?” said Harry.

“Yes.”

“Was the sixth-year Gryffindor raised by Muggles?”

“Yes.”

“Is Dumbledore refusing to expel him because the poor boy didn’t know?”

Professor Quirrell’s hands whitened on the inkwell. “Do you have a point, Mr Potter, or are you just stating the obvious?”

“Professor Quirrell,” said Harry gravely, “all the Muggle-raised students in Hogwarts need a safety lecture in which they are told the things so ridiculously obvious that no wizardborn would ever think to mention them. Don’t cast curses if you don’t know what they do, if you discover something dangerous don’t tell the world about it, don’t brew high-level potions without supervision in a bathroom, the reason why there are underage magic laws, all the basics.”
We probably won't know until this one is over.
The biggest issue with the whole productivity porn thing is that it's fundamentally 'midwit' activity. Genuinely novel work, by definition cuts through existing things, brushes them away and produces something that is new. Tending to your knowledge gardens and note taking tools and reading blogs and whatnot is just busywork.

People who built real things generally do so because they have the will to do it, not because they have 500 pages of investment advice collected on Notion.
Imagine if your car dealer could restrict which roads you could drive on until you paid it off. Or if Best Buy restricted your internet usage to a limited number of websites until you paid it off.
Signs Parents Won't Be Sending Their Kids Back to School This Fall (2021)
"See a doctor" is not a silver bullet. I have pretty severe chronic upper back pain that I have repeatedly brought to my doctor's attention at Stanford Med. I've only ever gotten "I dunno, maybe see a PT" as a response. No imaging referrals, no diagnosis, just a tacit admission that my issue is hard to diagnose or treat, and therefore uninteresting.

I've gone to a series of physical therapists. They all offered me extremely generic regimens of stretches and exercises that had little impact on my pain. None of them suggested any particular diagnosis or escalation options. Just... it's not working? Well, how about you pay for a few more sessions?

Edit: I have long ago bought all the desk jockey ergonomic accessories -- a standing desk, a split keyboard, a floor mat, a balance board, an ergo mouse, long walks twice a day. They made no difference.
Everybody want to replace SSRI with LSD and psilocybin.

A business opportunity.
and you would do better to relocate the farms to water sources than the people. Growing crops in the desert is dumb.
Thanks for sharing. I understand what you mean and I'm currently doing something similar...again. What I (often) lack is the steps needed to go from a more complex long term project to MVW/MVD tasks and then sustaining that in the long run.
I'm currently looking into ways of hacking this, this being the dopamine cycle.
I learned programming in various IDEs. Visual C++ 6, Code::Blocks etc ... Moved to Vim somehow when learning Linux, and eventually Emacs because I was programming a lot in Racket and it was just nicer there. This all predates Visual Studio Code.

The thing is you won't feel any benefit of using Vim/Emacs over Visual Studio Code unless you put LOT OF TIME configuring it. I didn't use any of the configuration framework like Spacemacs, and built my config over the years (adapted bunch of stuff from Centaur Emacs as it was super simple to copy things from there). But once you get it, it almost feels like an extension of you which I never feel on the other IDEs. And now with LSP clients on Emacs, bunch of basic things for programmning almost work out of box, it has never been easier.

I've a feeling you can probably get there by configuring Visual Studio Code too, but it does feel as inviting to be hacked as say Emacs.
The most recent one, "Leadership Sync", pops into my head in pretty much every meeting I've had in the last two weeks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RAMRukKqQg
Welp, extrauterine clones, here we come! I'd like to give mine some life advice to have a better life than I did, please.