skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like and agree with the take that OP should look for opportunities that put them in a flow state. I'll give an example from my own experience.

I'm not a naturally great programmer. I mean, I'm not bad - I get the job done. But I know that there are plenty of folks out there for which it comes much more easily.

However - programming very consistently puts me into a flow state. My workdays pass quickly (in a good way), and for the most part I enjoy what I do. As a result I've found myself learning and growing at a consistent rate over the years.

Am I going to be the best programmer in the world? Absolutely not. But I found a career that I enjoy on a day to day basis, and I can well provide for my family.

I think a lot of people, including myself, waste way too much time trying to find the magic spot in the ven diagram between their genetic ability and a career in which they will end up a virtuoso rockstar. For most people, I think this is a waste of time. The key thing is: I don't think you have to be great at something in order for it to be a good conduit for focus.

Try things, if you stumble on something that engages your focus and passes the time, do that thing more. Especially if it pays.
Is it really skilled? I feel like it's just throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. You have an idea, write a prompt, and then edit and re-run that prompt repeatedly until you accidentally get what you want.
It’s actually quite useful for laptops.

Checksums if the mobile hardware is damaged, snapshots if you delete something in your daily driver, native encryption if laptop is stolen, backup of work data via ZFS send if you have a ZFS server, compression to use limited disk space in laptops, errors can be fixed with copies=2, etc.
I moved to a Hetzner dedicated instance with cloudflare in front. Rails Postgres memcached all run on docker.

Vs

Heroku with cloudflare in front Postgres from heroku and memcached with an add on.

1. Very little. I put the app in docker a long time ago for local development but still used heroku for prod. I dumped my db and imported it into a docker run db on Hetzner. One thing to note: I did not expose the db to the internet. The app connects to the db over a docker network.

2. I do DevOps for a living.

3. It did not add to my learning.

4. $30/month for a large Hetzner dedicated instance and $12 for S3 (backups) vs $25 for the app (I added 2 more for 8 hours a day during busy season) and $25 for a job runner and whatever they were charging for DB. My total cost now is $42/month and on Heroku it was around $120 during busy season and $100 during non busy season.

5. Rails Postgres memcached and delayed job. I had to expand my app tier during busy season by up to 3 instances (winter). With my load testing the Hetzner instance handles much more than the 3 instances ever did in my load testing.

6. I added db dump cron jobs along with restic backups to S3.
> Now they added some very very cheap plans as well which is fantastic for them

Can you share a link to their new plans? The pricing listed on their old page (https://www.heroku.com/pricing) still showing $7/mo as their cheapest option and it's already an overkill for my applications. In comparison, the cheapest option on fly.io is $1.94/mo (https://fly.io/docs/about/pricing/).

Note: I know $7 is the maximum cost, but by default their hobby tier app will not sleep, so I guess it still costs $7/mo to run in the end?

Thanks!
> I also don’t see the e-waste argument. I haven’t had a cable outlive a device.

My old Nokia Micro-B cables outlived their bundled devices by a factor of… 3x or so? And I only took those out of use because I don't have a lot of stuff that still uses Micro-B.

Actually, I don't think I've ever managed to break a USB cable yet. What on earth are you doing to the things?!
I've seen some people use () and other syntax on the stable diffusion subreddit. I've been trying to find a guide for the syntax but haven't had much luck with Google. Is there a resource for this?
Problem with UML is the same that this article, soo long and boring, times now need fast and easy.
In some sense img2img can already do this, I have seen enough artists trying to leverage img2img in their creative process (as opposed to txt2img, which really seems only useful for ideation).
I can‘t seem find the source for that, unfortunately, but I remember stumbling upon that when reading up on the ”simulated wear“ model for ebook loans.
1. Move all limbs

2. Follow the music's rythm

3. Don't touch anyone else

4. Don't spill your drink
Your girlfriend won't resell it or share it with insurance or government agencies as easily.
The hospital never offered surgery to "children". Chaya Raichik aka "Libs of TikTok" lied.
Not sure if you’re defending the former or attacking the latter...
It seems to me that this is very loose use of the term 'engineering'
I mean I have to be honest here and there is a pretty good chance Trump isn't smart enough to realize the mannerisms he is mocking are in any way related to common disabilities.
> First, market forces already standardized on two main standards.

EU sat down the manufacturers and told them that if they don't come to an agreement the EU will make the choice for them. Most of them came to an agreement. So you are right, market forces did make manufacturers to standardize on two main standards. That force is named EU.

> Is USB-C really the end-game of charging connectors?

No, and EU has no illusions that it is.

> Does a phone necessarily need a charging connector at all and might there not be advantages to not having one?

No, and the EU doesn't think that it does.

> As an aside, ewaste will increase in the short term, of course, as people will have to throw out their lighting stuff and buy USB-C stuff. (Don’t worry, it’s not a lot — small problem, remember.)

This is just stupid fearmongering. People won't have to throw their lightning stuff.
Meta uses something very much like this in production. It’s open sourced at https://glean.software/
It feels like you're defining "fun" or "enjoyable" differently than most people would.

Most people don't find their "fun" activities enjoyable all the time. Running can be fun, but it also is tiring and sucks sometimes. Practicing a musical instrument isn't the most enjoyable, but playing in a band and nailing songs is. Lifting isn't "fun," but excelling at a sport is.

Point being that not liking the boring parts of an activity, but still finding the activity as a whole satisfying, is something that most people would consider to be an activity you enjoy.
Agreed. "Arts and Sciences" covers it. What part of technology and mathematics are not already part of science? (Signed, Department of Redundancy Dept.)
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Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, who coined the term ‘flow’, has a whole philosophy on life detailed in:

Flow

The Evolving Self

There’s the ‘awakening’ thing you can do, which might give a fresh perspective:

The Mind Illuminated - Culadasa

Seeing That Frees - Rob Burbea

Right Concentration - Leigh Brasington
The interesting bit that seems to be forgotten was that the US Govt went after Xerox for monopoly reasons [0]. That is how much profit they made picking one of the many technologies that came out of PARC. If they had picked multiple maybe they wouldn't have been as successful? Its really hard for a company to excel in multiple different physical product lines.

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/13/archives/xerox-monopoly-o...
> Why do people think it is a good thing to have this enforced by law is beyond me.

It's because consumers have rights too. Standardising something actually fosters competition (healthy capitalism), increases profit (as standardising something often leads to lower manufacturing costs) while reducing costs for consumers (due to increased competition). It also reduces waste which is good for the environment.

> I don't see any win besides a minor convenience.

You will, when you have to buy another USB-C cable for your iDevice. I recently had to, for an iPad Air, and I was able to buy a good quality replacement USB-C cable (of similar spec) from Samsung for Rs. 750 (around $10) rather than paying Apple an exorbitant Rs. 2000 (around $20+). (Past experience with Apple cables has taught me that the higher price charged by Apple is no guarantee of better quality, and other non-Apple cables from reputed companies are often cheaper, more durable and last longer than Apple's).
> market economies

One particular market economy is well ahead of the others in the experiment to erode democracy. In the marketplace, truth, fact, lies, and propaganda are all just information.

But democracy depends on education and instruction. These two critical types of information are undermined by for-profit purveyors of falsehood. The dysfunctional cycle is complete when people themselves crave the lies and propaganda more than they want the truth and facts.

Belief is repeatedly rewarded; critical thinking becomes an ancient habit that only the signatories of the constitution appear to have exercised.
A LOT of less waste maybe ?

It is very inconvenient and a hassle to have 5 different cables for 5 different devices. It is a waste of space, materials... The economic gains by volume continent wide should not be underestimated.
I‘m curious about your reasons to decide against Kubernetes and instead opt for plain VMs + Packer, especially when already familiar with the platform.
Yes, a big finally! I love my Apple device (personal iPhone 12 mini, work iPhone 8, Apple TV 4K with new remote, iPad Air, ...) but the lightning connection should obviously have been retired a few years ago.
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Art history is literally full of transformation of prior works, technology is clearly transformative (if you understand it), copyright law clearly allows for it, and indexing publicly available data is also legal — there’s no reasonable basis for debating the topic being illegal or unethical.
I had a PCMCIA card as a 33.6Kbps modem.
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> frankly your first post did nothing to indicate you knew that was what the underlying argument of the piece was about

The title of the piece is "Paul McCartney's freakish memory." I don't believe anyone was confused about the author's argument.

> unless you dispute the text you wrote is somehow falsified I'm not sure how my response could be described as arguing a straw man. You wrote something, I quoted it, I pointed out that the first few minutes of reading described a feat of memory you did not address.

You are correct that I did not address it, so it is a straw man because it wasn't my argument. You attacked an argument that was not mine.

> If anything I'd say you were arguing a straw man by only focusing on the musical arguments for McCartney's memory made in the article

I only argued against the essence of the piece, that McCartney's memory is not anything more than exhibiting ordinary abilities of someone who is literate (in the loser sense) in music in the same way it is ordinary that someone that is literate (in the narrow sense) can read. I ignored the irrelevant anecdote about his memory because it was only relayed to support the argument that Paul McCartney is a good musician because he has good memory, and because that portion was not well-supported nor even clear that is what occurred, that he remembered the woman and recognized those must have been her children. It was a ridiculous notion on its face and more easily explained by coincidence using Occam's Razor. The same is true of McCartney's composition of She's Leaving Home, that it is more easily explained by the author seeing connections after the fact rather than McCartney consciously contriving the piece for those outrageously specific reasons.

> But whether they were well supported or not you just didn't address them at all!

It is not required to address every single point in order to defeat the author's fundamental argument.
I dare to say that MVS and its successors (OS/390, z/OS) are also, in some ways, microkernels. Sadly, I am not an OS expert to make a proper comparison.

But I think one of the main mechanisms is basically non-kernel services install their own system calls (SVCs) and this SVC will schedule a light-weight thread (SRB) in the requestor's address space.

There was an older book that described how to create a simple OS along similar lines to MVS, but I don't remember the name.
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A unikernel is sort of the opposite of a microkernel. Instead of the minimum running in kernel space, the whole thing including the traditionally user code runs in kernel space.
As an avid player I can confirm that all commands would execute. So if you were next to a vendor, you'd see the buy menu, but also if a criminal was nearby they'd have the guards summoned on them at the same time.
It'll depend on your personal factors, but the median salary at FAANGs is nuts at $220-250k. Let's say you are an average FAANG person in Washington state and are paid a bit less than the median with 200K as your starting point. That's probably going to be in the 150K take home range. Save 70% of that at $105K your first year, and it only speeds up from there since the salaries reach 300k-400K in just a few years. This is just the raw salary, and if you take into account all the FAANG perks, generous healthcare package, stocks, social capital, connections, even the free food, etc. it just snowballs like crazy unless your priorities revolve around conspicuous consumption.

Based on the 4% rule, you can then determine how much you need to retire, sell your house (because you'll have a mortgage instead of rent at those salaries) bounce to a lower COL area and then enjoy the rest of your life. You don't even need to stop working if you don't want to, but can downshift to part time and earn much more than the median full-time salary. If you are a SWE you'll have offers, many of them remote.
They should call it aceehknrsw.
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It's true. Lots of amateur musicians can do that to some degree. Of-course results vary, but it's common.

I'm probably "not even an amateur", whatever that means, and with popular music I can usually play a song (the chords) after hearing it once. Pop music is oftentimes 4-5 chords picked from a well known set of ~7 progressions, without any scale change. I'm not able to hear-play more complex harmonics s.a Jazz, or things like Queen which are not totally trivial.
There is some evidence, mostly fMRI-based as far as I'm aware, of slow (~10s period) fluctuations between functional coupling of brain regions on a macroscopic level. The associated networks are often referred to as resting state or default-mode networks. See e.g. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3596417/ I am not aware of 15-40s period transitions that are "accompanied by transitions of levels of consciousness", but would be interested in case anyone knows what these refer to.
That's not what we're talking about though.
I think I agree, but couldn't the same be said about Mozart or Bach writing a symphony? They have an idea, write a score, then iterate on it until they accidentally get something that sounds good.
I don't think it's doing any discourse. I think it just reposts TikTok videos.
Not sure if it exists in your country, but all over Europe there are "Civic Centers" that host various cultural events, activities and curses where you can meet people from all walks of life. Great place to meet people with the same interests as you and usually hosts relatively cheap events as it's meant to be attend-able for all people.
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Lately I have been successfully working with start-ups in the US (references available on request) and am interested in expanding my collaboration with this type of client globally.

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My working style is decidedly collaborative and friendly, but you can count on me to take the lead, stay on topic, present the trade-offs in clear language when a call needs to be made, and deliver on time and on budget.

Do you have an ongoing or planned project that you could use assistance with?

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if you like pipes and a more functional style:

seq 5 | xargs -n1 <...>
I don't go to church, but I interpret the silliness less literally.

For instance, replace God and Jesus with the Superego and Id respectively. You'd be surprised at how much sense some quotes make.

But religion is so vague, it's almost mad-lib. And some parts will still be complete nonsense or primitive statecraft memes.

Sharing this with other church-goers might not be well received, also.
Those servers still had moderation. Very different from "no moderation".
> Why do we call this result the Free Will theorem? It is usually tacitly assumed that experimenters have sufficient free will to choose the settings of their apparatus in a way that is not determined by past history. […]

> We consider experimenters A and B performing the pair of experiments described in the TWIN axiom on separated twinned particles a and b, and assert that the responses of a and b cannot be functions of all the information available to them.

I don’t get it — this sounds like they assumed their conclusion.

There’s also a couple places they make strong assumptions about information geometry I’m not sure I agree with — namely, if you want to refute modern Bohm-inspired models, you need to account for radically non-Euclidean spacetime. (Where you have a much harder time with “space like separated”.)

> FIN is not experimentally verifiable directly, even in principle (unlike SPIN and TWIN3).Its real justification is that it follows from relativity and what we call “effective causality,” that effects cannot precede their causes. […]

> Not all information in the universe is accessible to a particle a. In the light of FIN, information that is space–like separated from a is not accessible to a. The information that is accessible to a is the information in the past light cone of a.
The Tendency Towards Solving Wicked Problems Reductively (2019) [pdf]
Depends on your definition of "children".
Agree with sibling commenters here critiquing this for being an oversimplification- nature vs nurture is not a binary.

But even aside from the core of the argument, I find your phraseology oddly formulaic. It's ironic you're accusing the OP of having a "fixed mindset" when so much of your contributed "opinion" is clearly copypasted from books. I'd suggest opening your own mindset to forming a worldview of your own rather than following growth gurus so blindly.
> Even if you have your clean energy sources the economics are not there yet.

This is patently untrue. The only thing holding wind back is ever more byzantine regulations coming largely from fossil fuels and nuclear. In any country south of lithuania (about 90% of people) solar or solar storage is also more viable than nuclear.

> Unfortunately we do need to be realistic and stop nuclear shaming.

Realism involves doing the thing that lowers emissions fastest with the smallest amount of resources.

For almost any country with <50% penetration this is wind and solar. Many countries can have a mix with up to 80% for less than nuclear.

Even for countries without hydro or good sunlight having whatever already exists (or gas if it replaces coal) fill the remainder is far more emissions prevented far sooner. If you have a funded commitment for those 80% renewables, by all means plan nuclear for the rest, but unless you do you're just helping fossil fuels stay on.

And when 4 day storage or electrolysis becomes viable that can be phased out too.

Then there is the absolute certainty that -- the millisecond let the likes of chevron or shell or anyone similar run nuclear plants -- we'll have some idiot manager order the 5 or 6 colossally stupid things you have to do in sequence to get another chernobyl (or significantly worse) in the name of cost saving or pumping up some kpi.
I’m sure this is well thought out and is probably a good template for other organizations that have reached the point of scale where cost optimization of the workload is needed.

But, the first step I would take to control AWS costs is to complain to your account manager. Internet egress private discounts in AWS are extreme and an open secret. I’d start there before introducing infra tech debt.
This is actually a brilliant insight, thank you!

Would that not require that even small companies get audited and thus their code inspected?

I can totally see it for the european giants but I am wondering how this thing can even be detected and also not be denied by saying "we use provider X what and thus their TOS" until the problem is eventually deported.