skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Cloud computing really still it "somebody else's computer."

> That's the definition of 'the cloud'. Unless you run it locally in which case it's your computer.

Forget the stupid framing of idiotic marketers in the early 00s and go back to the original “cloud” definition (that engineers were still using in those ‘00s but was distorted for a buck).

The term was introduced (by Vince Cerf perhaps) in the original Internet protocol papers, literally with a picture of a cloud with devices at the edge. It was one of the revolutionary paridigms of IP: you push a packet into the cloud (network) but don’t need to / can’t look into it and the network worries about how to route the picket — on a per-packet basis! You don’t say “the cloud is other peoples’ routers”.

Today’s approach to remote computing requires developers to know too much about the remote environment. It’s like the bad old days of having to know the route to connect to another host.
Most people on coffee do not need it.
Previous discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33226515
A very incomplete list of wikis which have tried to leave wikia/fandom:

http://awa.shoutwiki.com/wiki/Forked_wikis
Podman: New Packaging for Debian/Ubuntu
> There's not a whole lot of offline development happening anymore.

luckily that's not the case everywhere.
> pushing all kinds of stuff via doctors

And also pushing directly to the consumer via commercial advertising, which is very unusual.

Not sure which way is right though. Maybe people have a right to know about which drugs are available, unscreened by a doctor who may not have your best interests in mind (for example they have to meet a budget, or they have religious opinions.)
Lex Fridman interviewed Penrose on this topic recently (2020) and Penrose delivered a very accessible walkthrough of his historical and current thoughts on the topic.

https://youtu.be/orMtwOz6Db0?t=2654 (Deep-link half-way through to his discussion on microtubules)
Ask HN: Recommend me a Blender course
Finally, I want to dedicate some time to learn Blender.

I'm primarily interested in modeling but will need an intro to Blender concepts, philosophy, and UI idiosyncrasies.

I have some professional experience in CAD and Finite Element Analysis modeling, so I'm not a complete noob in that respect. Blender is sufficiently different from everything I know, though I feel my experience is more of a hindrance than a benefit.

Now, the plan is to just go with the flow and do things the Blender way.

Does anyone know a course that teaches the basics and enough basic modeling to get started?

- Paid courses are OK

- Video is preferred

- Language must be English or German

It should be less than 8 hours long; shorter and high info density is better. Most courses are dragged ridiculously on platforms that pay creators by course length (Udemy, AFAIK), and I don't have time for that.

Any tips and hints would be greatly appreciated!
I'm so sick of the idea that the post ww3 world would suck.
Haven't you noobs played Minecraft? The best stage of development is when you're still punching trees
The churn required to keep up with frequent updates to many dependencies can work for some projects, but I would argue only for projects with continuous funding. If a project is only funded every couple of years and has many dependencies, odds are, the next time it is funded, there will be an inordinate amount of work to patch/update the code. For such projects, fewer or no dependencies may be better.
The solution to this problem is to use a public R2 bucket with caching enabled. Block all requests to non-existent files with firewall. Now you don't even have to block those browsers from India!
That's true, and there may be valid reasons to remove a library and reimplement that 10% yourself such as for performance, stability or educational reasons. However if the library is performing as expected, does not using 90% of it make it any less valuable? If the problem has been solved in a satisfactory way and remaking it doesn't bring benefit or solve a problem then it seems wasteful to spend the human time to do so
I know for a fact that consciousness is an emergent property of binary logic.

Just keep writing bigger and more complex software and one day --- pooff! By some magic neither planned nor understood, the binary logic playback device (aka a "computer") will jump the fence at the reservation for inanimate objects and start writing it's own software.

I know it's true because people make movies about it --- and lots of people on the internet *believe* this is how it works. If enough people *believe*, over time it becomes real. No logic or proof required, this is just how religions work.

A hammer *can* drive it's own nails --- you just have to believe hard enough.
Full stack ZITADEL integration with NextJS
Excel certainly has it's place and is great as an interchange format and prototyping platform for domain specialists. I agree that it's unjustly derided by snobbish programmers. Converting to and from CSV is cheaply implemented and can do wonder as human interface to a system since "non programmers" know how to deal with that.

The problems start when it is pushed beyond its limits, sheets can become undocumented mess of cell spaghetti which users still expect to scale up and grow new features indefinitely. It's hard to determine for Excel coders when they are past that cost/benefit tipover point and move up to a more robust set of programming tools.
a. On Windows 10 and up, if you enter "python", it will take you to the Windows Store and offer you a free download of Python. (Which is irritating if you've just gone to the trouble of installing Python from python.org, but might please some.)
b. the Windows scripting host supports Javascript and VBScript. Neither has a REPL, to be sure.
> Sometimes I wish HN had a rule against posting things about mental health

Don't stop at mental health; basically any discussion outside of programming is a disaster AFAICT. It doesn't get cleaned up because the participants don't realize how bad it is. I avoid anything close to economics. I only checked the comments here to see if there was a non-paywalled version.
For what we've been reading this last years, it's not like antidepressants are worthless, it's like antidepressants aren't doing what we think are doing.

The "depression is lack of serotonin" theories seem to have less and less base every day, but SSRIs don't only act on serotonin (just review their side effects).

I've done, mostly, vortioxetine and sertraline. For some of us, some SSRIs or SNRIs work. Some don't. Probably it's not because of the serotonin. They have weirdly different effects depending on the person. But there's something going on that we still don't understand. Both because we don't understand the whole mechanism of depression, nor WTF the SSRIs and SNRIs are doing in our mind and body.

At least in my humble opinion.
July 2016 and 303 days for me. Great app!
Sure, but there are many ways to make wheels, are your wheels 1.8m or 2m apart, what material, etc.? You may pass it off as a lark but stuff like this matters - to city builders, chariot makers, train track designers, and so on.

You can go full NIH and reinvent the stone and finish about twelve years post end of universe or you can standardize and say ok, lets reuse some code.

And if everyone reuses same code you can get into problems - common vulnerabilities.
https://github.com/cvxgrp/cvxpylayers ?
> it's batshit insane.

Just like the great pyramid of Ghiza seemed to the Egyptians.

Only, several orders of magnitude more insane. In its 170km x 200m x 500m = 17B m^3 volume you can fit over 6000 great pyramids of 2.6M m^3 each.

If it does ever get built, its ruins will make a suitable 8th wonder of the world.

Meanwhile, construction on another mega project, the kilometer tall Kingdom/Jeddah Tower, has stopped since 2018 [1].

[1] https://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/civil/jeddah-t...
I've known several families that had kids in the Yu Ying Chinese immersion charter school in Washington, DC. One's kids are still in it, more have moved to other charter schools or to private schools. I've never asked the movers why.
Because web apps can actually opens up the flexibility of a classical computer system again. For strategic purposes Apples support here is minimal.

Still not optimal, but certainly far better for education, not only because of the price and because you don't make yourself dependent on a single manufacturer or at least to a lesser degree.

Largest problem is the lack of education of teachers though.
You make some good points, but...

> They're not allowed to have social in-person contact with any of their peers

I don't think any companies with remote work policies enforce a 'no in-person contact' policy.

> they must login to show activity on their computer every 15 minutes or else be fired

I don't think most companies have this policy.

> An amazing centralized place where you can take frequent breaks to have social interaction with your peers.

Those companies with strict policies on activity monitoring for home workers are unlikely to allow 'frequent' breaks. The few short breaks you have are mostly spent in the toilet, or queuing to buy coffee.

> Need to get in touch with Bill? Just stroll over to his desk.

Have we asked Bill how he feels about this :D

> We'll even feed you for free, and you can play ping-pong on your breaks, [and we'll give you a] standing desk!

Relatively few companies do this.

Your framing is heavily subjective and seems to contrast the best, employee-friendly companies' in-person benefits with the worst micromanaging companies' remote work drawbacks.

OP's framing is less subjective. Although the number of hours, the paid vs. unpaid lunch break, and the ugliness of the building do vary, the principles are broadly more objective.
neat, I can trace mine to Kant
Long time ago I ran into a "catastrophic failure" in Word, which sounds quite serious.
You don’t pay per packet even though a huge amount of computation is done on devices between you and the machine you’re connecting to in order to transmit each one.

See my comment about tollbooths above.
So the whole revolution was based on a lie!

Interestingly, lots of revolutions are, and don't always lead to what most supporters intended. I once heard that the Belgian independence from Netherland in the 1830s was driven largely by French influence, while many Flemish just wanted a more liberal government and better representation, and not actual independence.
Can someone explain why FSharp has dotnet-sdk 2.1 while CSharp has dotnet-sdk 6.0? This has never made sense to me.
request.json is converting the request payload from a str to a dict. json.dumps converts it back to a str.
BlueBleed: Microsoft have had some sort of breach due to a misconfigured system
Yes, they even compare with TMC in the specification:

https://gitlab.com/traffxml/traff/raw/master/TraFF%20Specifi...

> The approach chosen is essentially based upon the following principles:

> • Use the TMC data model as a starting point
I’ve never been on antidepressants but I had a period in my life where I went through a long depression. Inevitably I came to accept I was depressed because my body was telling me something in my life just wasn’t right, and I suspected what it was but didn’t really make an effort to do something about it. Once I made necessary changes things started getting better with time and eventually I got back to normal. However, if I had been on meds I doubt I would have had this sort of introspection and probably would not have bothered changing anything as long as I felt good. I think a lot of people are resistant to real change and antidepressants just help them cope indefinitely.
The advantage of ammonia is in the transportation and refueling. If you can refuel a car in the same amount of time that it would take to refuel it with gasoline, then it is a huge plus as it would allow a single fuel station to fuel many more vehicles in the same amount of time.. for instance, in the time it would take to fuel a EV to even 20% charge, you could conceivably fuel dozens of vehicles with ammonia.

That apart, for fast charging or even standard charging you need a reasonably heavily power load from the grid - if you have even 4-5 vehicles charging simultaneously. This would require big changes in the electricity distribution infrastructure.. something which is not required if you continue to use the existing infrastructure used to take fuel to the fuel stations.

Consider that you could easily fully refuel an 18-wheeler in a few minutes time with just a low powered pump.. which is not really possible if the 18-wheeler was a pure EV.
This free course has a good quality and involves very good information on FOSS
https://www.coursera.org/learn/open-source-software-developm...

Also this book thought me a lot on how to think about FOSS from the ground up to the point of having a good contribution, a lot of good answers here were familiar to me because of this book.
https://pragprog.com/titles/vbopens/forge-your-future-with-o...
+1 for sertraline.

One caveat is that you should ideally use them to get out of a funk and then discontinue if possible.

At all times get a psych you who trust.
> Be careful what you pimp

These aren't drugs you can just ask for (in the UK) at least and the parent wasn't "pimping". Undermining someone's account of their positive experience using therapeutic drugs because of your own bias shows an astounding lack of compassion..

Getting help, help that often involves therapeutic drugs to bootstrap other life changes _is_ taking responsibility.

Your comment neatly sums up the toxic attitude of "I don't understand it so it must be bad".

Put your ego aside and listen to people living with seriously debilitating neurological issues that you fortunately do not.
Reading this, it's hard for me to imagine a time when Japan would have been, pardon the phrase, a backward country where "automobile and motorcycle engine repairs were done on dirty floors".

When I visited Korea a decade or so ago, I saw a lot of tiny scooter/motorcycle repair shops that might have resembled the description above. (Lots of janky scooters too that appeared to have a lot more miles on them than their manufacturers intended). I imagined that perhaps Korea is where Japan was some decades prior.

While watching the Kurosawa film High and Low (1963) I thought I could sense a little more of the scrappiness of that earlier Japan.
For a moment I thought there must be some faulty entanglement in my own brain, but now I think you actually meant to post your comment under a completely different story that's currently on the front page :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33272536
Oh trust, my friends are amazing and great. But doesn't stop the always present anxiety of everything collapsing and going wrong. Worked on some CBT to also help me manage it, but medicine has been a really great solution for me, in my opinion. And honestly, I feel like my anxiety has gotten worse as I've aged, I wasn't anxious at all like this in college and I'm now 30.
November 2015 here with an also slightly terrifying 222d 17h!
What's different about next-gen transistors
Clearly I'm referring to how the idea of epicycles themselves are viewed by the general population.
This might be why every single car I have ever bought has been from Craigslist (or a local equivalent), private-party, cash or cashier's check. Except for the one I bought from ebay which wasn't too different. But I've never had a new car.
That’s part of the problem though, isn’t it?

Because they certainly want to serve some huge amount of traffic for free while they attempt to become the next abusive monopoly platform.

They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too.
It reminds me of Sean Carrols Hilbert Space Fundamentalism.

Sean M. Carroll: Reality as a Vector in Hilbert Space

https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.09780
Jailer, Database Relational Data Tool
Jailer is a tool for database subsetting and relational data browsing.

https://github.com/Wisser/Jailer

It creates small slices from your database and lets you navigate through your database following the relationships.Ideal for creating small samples of test data or for local problem analysis with relevant production data.

The Subsetter creates small slices from your database (consistent and referentially intact) as SQL (topologically sorted), DbUnit records or XML. Ideal for creating small samples of test data or for local problem analysis with relevant production data.

The Data Browser lets you navigate through your database following the relationships (foreign key-based or user-defined) between tables.

Features

Exports consistent and referentially intact row-sets from your productive database and imports the data into your development and test environment.

Improves database performance by removing and archiving obsolete data without violating integrity.

Generates topologically sorted SQL-DML, hierarchically structured XML and DbUnit datasets.

Data Browsing. Navigate bidirectionally through the database by following foreign-key-based or user-defined relationships.

SQL Console with code completion, syntax highlighting and database metadata visualization.

A demo database is included with which you can get a first impression without any configuration effort.
Just another +1. Also for me the "activation dose" was 15mg, and I spent almost a year taking 10mg a day thinking it didn't work, before moving to 15mg and my life changed.

For anyone else with anxiety issues, silexan[0] and l-theanine[1] are cheap and worth a look-in

0: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/lavenders-game-silexan...
1: https://examine.com/supplements/theanine/
In the UK you can absolutely make a complaint to the ICO, and in theory, they have teeth. In practice, they refuse to use them. But I guess it's worth a try anyway?
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I started my career in simpler times. Developers would produce a zip and handed it over to an admin guy. Dev and Infra/Ops clearly separated. No CI, sometimes not even a build step.

I understand the power and flexibility of the cloud but the critical issue is the dependency on super humans. Consider a FE or mobile app developer. They already greatly struggle just to keep up with development in their field. Next, you add this massive toolset on top of it, ever-changing and non-standardized.

A required skillset overload, if you will. Spotify concluded the same internally. They have an army of developers and realized that you can't expect every single one of them to be such "superhuman". They internally built an abstraction on top of these services/tools, to make them more accessible and easy to use.
Even a 4-spoke rail cross will require more rail than having all rail along the perimeter, and only speeds up the connection between opposites by pi/2.
This is how it's already done on Devuan.

https://www.devuan.org/os/init-freedom

https://www.devuan.org/os/documentation/install-guides/chima... (older screenshot)
Moving esim between devices - not so great experience
Sounds like they'd probably be in for at least $500/mo on this which doesn't seem like a lot if you're serving the amount of data EasyList is doing, but is a lot if your previous hosting costs were "free".
Are successful authors creative geniuses or literary labourers
I don't know for the US worker, they seems to be able to take any abuse and ask for more free market in their ass.
But that stuff would not fly in places where workers have some leverage and can influence policies. ( Or let's be more real : influence policies roll-out and eventually stopping them for a few years )
Single-Threaded Async Rust
There are also other reasons birth month could be related to psychiatric disease that sound more pseudoscience-y at first. There's good reason to believe that infection at the wrong time of pregnancy can increase risk of Schizophrenia for example, meaning that the alignment of cold and flu season could affect disease rates by birth month.

I agree the comment was probably just being sarcastic, but I think it's worth noting that there could be a more biological component to an effect like this, doesn't need to be a societal environment/diagnosis rate thing to be plausible.

It's interesting reading about a lot of pseudoscience as you go through scientific training, because obviously you have an immediate negative reaction to it. But I've started to notice that more often than not there is some underlying grain of truth that is taken to an extreme and/or given a ridiculous explanation. This in turn dampens real research on the potentially interesting line of questioning.
Besides the equivalence, computable functions are about more than just decision problems. Computable functions are a subset of N -> N. I suppose the confusion is that undecidability (very similar to uncomputability) regards decision problems of the form N -> Bool. This class of functions is also what P vs NP, and general complexity theory tends to focus on.

But the question "is this function computable" is sensible to ask for any function N -> N.
New York wants to ban the sharing of violent crime videos online
Interestingly my experience is a mix of your and the parent comment.

I'm born towards the end of the year, and where I'm from (Afroeurasia) there isn't a strict year based cutoff. So I had Jan-born peers almost 2 years older, and folks a year younger.

Fortunately I was always fairly bright despite probably spending a solid 30% of my time daydreaming. I could catch up quickly... until it started getting harder in high school. Uni and grad school hit me, and I finally got dx'ed some time back (still in grad school).

I think I have been lucky that in school, most teachers were fairly nice intelligent people, and I was always the good, quiet kid who'd ask good questions (because I'm interested in everything). Having a good structure at home also majorly helped.

But in retrospect? Anybody spending hours every day daydreaming... yeah, screen them for ADHD, that was kinda obvious.
John Mearsheimer may be conservative. But he's not far right.

And Kissinger is Kissinger.
It is not the same, but not that different either. There is a gap of 150 years and a lot of technological development between the relatively simple Tipu Sultan bamboo rockets that rained on the British in 1799 and ICBMs that can carry a nuclear warhead across the globe, but it is not really a difference of kind. They are both solid-propellant rockets working on the same principle. It is possible that future genetic and epigenetic manipulation will be much more subtle than whatever we can do today.

Or perhaps you are addressing the categories. Well, "health" is, to some degree, socially defined. As is "disease".

There were times when homosexuality was classified as a disease. Not that distant times. Alan Turing (in)famously committed suicide because of that.
As of now, scientists working in the longevity field are pushing for aging itself to be redefined as a disease.

Parents of heavily intellectually disabled kids would probably agree to any reasonably safe treatment that would help their kids, if such treatment existed. Not having enough general intelligence is a big obstacle in everyday life. HN gets an audience of mostly smart people; most of them cannot even begin to understand how cognitivelly loaded is contemporary world.
Technically not healthcare, but close: Pharmacy. That being said, my sisters a nurse and she's frequently the only one for a ward during the nightshifts. In case of emergencies she'd need to call on staff from other wards.
I do note that everyone (including myself) who's promoting Lexapro on this thread is talking about the positive effects it had on their anxiety