skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Masquerade ball

Finishing off an evaluation of a candidate for Google Summer of Code

Some open source work (maintenance/discussions) - I'm in a bit of a rut this month, but want my annual Hacktoberfest shirt.

Some contract work

Decluttering (books)

Been trying to get through reading Ulysses, realistically will go out for a coffee and get <10 pages done at best

Might start the complaint process with customer services over a small item

Might win an auction on eBay and have to deal with updating payment details
I don’t know about B2C, but any dollar not spent finding product market fit will put your business at risk.

If you can, focus on low cost / high yield tactics:

- social media
- SEO-driven content
- newsletters
- partnerships with highly visible friends in the industry
What blood type are you?

I’m an O and get bit a lot, wife is an A and hardly ever gets itchy bites.
Machiavellian principles like "it's better to be feared than loved" seem to be quite applicable to any level of management, not just the C-suite.
I'm 50. Diagnosed with MS at 40. Symptoms began around 19. Still working full time but live never knowing for how much longer.

MS sucks.

Things I have found helpful for me, ymmv:
cando-ms
Ocrevus
Ampyra
Eliminate processed foods, eat lots of fruits/veggies
Exercise the parts of the body that can still move
John Kabat -Zinn, mindfulness meditation for pain management
Sleep
Get outdoors a few minutes every day
Participate in clinical trials
Meet with others fighting MS who still hold on to hope, and can still laugh and cry

Things I believe that may not be true
EBV virus/mononucleosis plays a significant role in my MS
Still unknown, but there is interesting science on this. I tried to qualify for a study on ATA188, which kills EBV infected immune cells, but did not qualify.

I wish you well.
I probably going to get quartered here but I am one of those users. I have basic understanding of css, but prefer to use Tailwind because I can't be arsed to write css. I detest css and consider the worst part of web dev.

I don't think people who made css were webdevs at heart but typographists or artists, and as a result css feel unnecessary convoluted.
Meiko Computing Surface (1986)
Well as long as you’re not sure that’s good enough for me. I retract what I said.
I realize you're being catty, but the stigma towards in-office work isn't towards people who enjoy it, it's towards the idea that everyone _must_ enjoy it.

COVID proved that many businesses can survive a hybrid or even remote-only environment easily. Being told that employees must come back to office or altering the salaries/benefits of employees who chose remote work is what people are against.

If people want to be in office, let them. And for those who remote is more convenient, let them.
The Age of Anonymous Email Is Nearly Over
Sure, or "we made a mistake changing things, let's put them back". It just depends on the timescales you consider when determining the status quo.
not remove, but rather replace. put the BQE underground.
> await result1;

> await result2;

> await result3;

Not really, you only have *1* request in flight.

And you're waiting for them sequentially.

You need asyncio.gather ( https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio-task.html#asyncio.... ) if you want to run tasks concurrently.

results = await asyncio.gather(result1, result2, result3)
Fair points, though I'd say lying under oath is illegal even if you're in high office.

You've reminded me about what happened to Maurice McCabe though.

Summing up from memory: he gave detailed evidence about widespread systematic corruption at the highest levels and below in the Irish police.

Shortly after, he was accused of stealing a pedo priest's hard drive from evidence. Accusations, later found completely untrue, were made by a garda of him doing bad things to young people.

Shortly after, a "copy and paste error" in a Tusla (Irish child services) database accused him of molesting a Garda's underage daughter at a birthday party.

After a huge fight involving many years of horrific struggle, multiple Garda Commissioners and a Minister for Justice resigned over the series of incidents. McCabe received a 5 million euro settlement. But for many years, the vast majority of the Irish media refused to touch his story; and even after it all came out they continued to report on it in the most twisted way possible. For example, they never mention, when discussing the "copy paste error", that this was in fact the third attempt to smear McCabe in this way.

(A brief timeline of the saga: https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-20442857.html)

Stupid isn't the word you're looking for - it's 'complicit'.
I’m doing ok on ocrelizumab ( 3rd year just done) and had a good innings with natalizumab before that. In the UK I’m not eligible for HSCT unless I relapse on ocrelizumab. That may change of course.

I’m not sure whether HSCT is right for me given that it has some pretty big downsides. My latent symptoms are well controlled at the moment and don’t affect my quality of life too much. If I had to manage a thyroid disorder as a result of HSCT I’m not sure that would be an improvement for me.
Not sure you read the article. It's about Carboxylic acids, not about microbes in the body. Also the article tells that a change in the diet didn't have any noticeable effect on participants, and finally that the level of attractiveness remains the same for the whole life.
> Besides, at the end of the day everything boils down to a single number

This is about as silly as dating app profiles that cut off at 6'.
I'm A and I get totally obliterated by mosquitos
Here we go again!

Let's have another 500+ comments thread full of subjective opinions. I am sure this time everyone will agree on one universal truth and we'll all hold hands. /s

Companies are free to try and enforce whatever they like. The job market will respond accordingly and a new balance will be found.

That being said, such measures are only leading to more and more segregation (tinfoil hat: maybe that's the actual goal here?). I don't enjoy the idea of a society even further segregated but hey, I am not judging either side for preferring to work in an office or at home. Work where you like, as long as you actually have a choice and your livelihood is not threatened.

And that is the key element that always flies out the window even at the start of every WFH / WFO discussion: give people a choice.

If you can't do that then you're more or less declaring war on one of the sides and then don't get surprised at the repercussions (whatever they might be; I am not implying anything in particular).
this is complete bullshit. we've discovered much more complex geometry than the pyramid. we don't have to cram our understanding of society and organizations into such a primitive metaphor. it's also not advisable to call your audience sociopaths, losers and clueless.
I was affected when they blocked non-major browsers. In my case, KDE's Falkon.

The workaround that worked for me was to log in first with another account that didn't had 2FA (my uni's gmail account, at university they use Google services) and then add my other account - with the downside that I could not make it the main account anylonger, as now Google doesn't let you sign out on a per-account basis but from all accounts at once.
I’m not sure if i totally buy this. It sounds legit, but THAT much of an increase?! I don’t know. I’m skeptical. If it’s so much more than any existing computer can transmit…how valid is the test data, i mean, really?

Even if they got only a third of that performance in reality, it’s still a game changer. But I’m nonetheless skeptical.
I mean I think it’s a foolish and selfish decision to have children in the face of coming climate change, but if you’re going to have them you should do it in a city rather than the suburbs. Stick ‘em on a bus make ‘em walk, whatever.
Unfortunately reforming governments and cultures isn't something we know much about.

Too hard to do experiments.

Innovating cheaper infrastructure is at least somewhat actionable.
Not sure if rust vs go would be the best example here. Rust vs Java would be a better one — go has a very primitive GC in comparison, and java does optimize hot loops to a higher degree, so a naive code base would be very hard to beat in a lower level language.
Consult a doctor. These symptoms are similar to depression. If you live a area with less sunlight test Vitamin D tested.

Also, becoming a father is a big change and you need to be mentally prepared for it and mind went into defence mode (depression).

Something you can try at home

1. Eat more fruits and vegetables. More varied diet helps in Vitamin and nutrition deficiency.

2. Go out on walks.

3. Do not take media to bed. Buy a good reading lamp + physical book or a kindle/remarkable.

4. Put your phone in Grayscale mode.

5. Go to a vacation. Even booking a hotel in same city for a Weekend will give you much needed break.
I could see that. Or having onsite full time clarification be less (20 hours instead of 32).
Stack Overflow for Teams is getting its own domain
I remember watching it as a kid and realizing that cartoons could be not good... is it better several decades later?
Logitech G Cloud Review Round-Up
The price point and limited appeal of cloud gaming as it stands today seem to hold this one back.
> I think people’s need to frame seemingly every issue and even their entire worldview as liberal vs conservative is the biggest problem in politics.

I don't know if that was addressed to me for speaking of conservative political movements or to the conservatives, but it is not a label that I pin on an unwilling recipient; I am referring to a self-described conservative movement.
Very hard. Add AMD's Puma micro architecture to the list (2014).

Intel's Puma processors were first released in 2012. Ruby's Puma is from 2011.
A schoolfriend was in a coma for a while after a sports injury[1]. He told us how his parents brought a bottle of lucozade for him to have if he woke up and after they left he heard staff discussing how since he was never going to wake up they would just drink it themselves.

[1] Rugby scrum collapse
I appreciate it because of how well it captures the look of a real world location. I've seen a lot of games attempt to capture the spirit of a real place and not get nearly as close as this.

I agree it's not an example of massive improvement technically, but I think it's pretty good work that pushes incremental improvements in a forward direction.
> ORC is Nim’s all-new cycle collector based on ARC. It can be considered a full-blown GC since it includes a local tracing phase (contrary to most other tracing GCs which do global tracing). ORC is what you should use when working with Nim’s async because it contains cycles that need to be dealt with.

From that blog post. Nim is great but it's more Go and less Rust...
Regarding camera movement, not completely sure what would be required for a VR-like experience. But I can watch bodycam videos like https://youtu.be/0RGLSTXu7Ws?t=75 (police action, end of a high-speed chase) and never think that it seems artificial. The camera body movement is fairly subtle, but feels aligned with the way I expect the carriers' body to move.
This seems to be answered reasonably-well: "The findings, which may come as no surprise to many workers, are significant in that they are first time the Surgeon General has explicitly linked job factors such as low wages, discrimination, harassment, overwork, long commutes and other factors to chronic physical health conditions like heart disease and cancer. Work-related stress can also lead to mental health conditions including depression and anxiety, according to the report."
Eventually people are going to just disappear into these amazing worlds and spend as little time in meatspace as possible.
> If the same is required in institutions of higher learning

Can you give an example? At my colleges there were no rules about "stiff etiquette"
> Russian state of it's arsenal is likely going to be worse

Up until recently Russia was sending up American astronauts on Soyuz rockets to the ISS because they had a reliable system (based on the R7 ICBM) and we didn't.

> and the actual ability of the US to intercept is likely going to be better.

Intercepting ICBMs is orders of magnitudes more difficult than intercepting theater weapons like scuds because of the velocities involved.

This simulation was of 10% of each nations arsenal. If Russia launches 20% of their arsenal then it should make up for any amount of failure (and interception is likely to be negligible).

Worries me that we have so much motivated thinking trying to discount the risks of nuclear war these days. That's how you wind up in a nuclear war just like the one suggested here.
I don't need to be able to lift 200 lbs to pull 200 lbs...
Sincerely: fix your culture. All of this is possible in many developed countries. It's uniquely an American thing to believe children are in danger of everything.
That's fair, there is value (to someone) in showing how the sausage is made.

That said, the diagnostics exhibited here are the exact things I'd do, as a person who visits Redis once maybe every two years.

They're not exactly groundbreaking, and I was hoping to find revelations here; not basics.

Looking at what the cluster as a whole is doing, and a specific node, and trying to move it. Amazing.
Rack 3 has better support for web servers like Falcon[0] that are designed to take advantage of async or blocking vs non-blocking IO throughout the stack.

Maybe the same for Puma?

[0]: https://github.com/socketry/falcon
Ahh. See:

https://digitalcommons.law.scu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...

There are some good snippets, but I’m on my phone. The whole thing is worth a read though.
Dilbert isn’t for kids… it’s for people who have spent time in a bureaucratic office setting.
DDT is a decent example... A major chemical insecticide that was used /everywhere/ in huge quantities, and was shown eventually to be terrible for all kinds of non-insect populations (like birds) with a tendency to linger in the environment for decades.

These days we have a great many more choices of insecticides, and major declines in insect biomass and animal populations. Nailing down the culprit(s) is much harder because while there's a huge amount of spraying, there are far more chemicals to choose from. (The neonicotonoid family of insecticides seems like the best candidate, though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonicotinoid )

and, btw, here's the insect decline follow-up study: https://www.dw.com/en/munich-study-confirms-severe-decline-i...
67% decline in ten years is TERRIFYING. Let's keep in mind that the SDG's include studying and preventing the potential impending collapse of the biosphere...
This type of thing does not necessarily mean that the person doing the framing is going to be the one replacing the job role. It doesn't even have to be done from an employee in the company. It could be done for any number of reasons. Someone from a competitor does it so that their company gets the benefit vs personal benefit. So so many other possibilities.

In these situations, the person that filled the role is not guilty of anything.
The premise of the essay is that a truly Clueless would never do that; that's Sociopath behavior. That said, they are just archetypes, and to the extent we take them as valid at all, every real human will have some mix of the traits. (Even the characters in The Office do -- as I recall Angela is referred to as both a Sociopath and a Loser in different chapters of the essay.)
Just like having a baby does not magically solve marriage issues, it does not magically cure the root causes of depression.

You might be temporarily applying lipstick to a pig which will gain you a bit of time, but it's not like it magically fixes any of the underlying issues.

If anything, it eventually loads far more stress onto you, making depression and burnout worse.
Right, agree with you.

But I'm looking for something slightly different, i.e. whether there are any benchmarks on average marketing allocations for seed or series A rounds in the US early stage market (ideally average but even vertical-specific would be great).

Similarly to how there are standard benchmarks for other variables like dilution, round size, salaries, etc. (assuming the company has early PMF).

Ideally some kind of data set, but even just practitioner views would be fantastic.

Perhaps this is just too deal-dependent to generalize, which I would also understand.
Thank you very much. That seems rough. For whatever it's worth, I need to share this, as I had stumbled upon this person who recovered from UC with a meat-only diet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JX7LzKEMTpU.

I'm getting more into the eastern tradition, I think the mind can heal and can cause disease in an of itself. I need to delve deeper into it.
Is there any evidence that Harvard educated politicians or business leaders behave more ethically than their peers from less prestigious schools?
It's not that it's not possible but rather we've simply been so lazy that we don't have the right heuristics.

No; I don't have the answer. I'm not an economist nor an admissions expert. But I've qualified and hired software engineers over the years and my process never focuses on a score or outcome of an assessment.
Funny, I had the exact opposite experience using Tailwind: my design tools gave me measurements in pixels or rems, and I had to do math to convert them into Tailwind units.
Well that's exactly my point. There is great educational infrastructure in America, so all else being equal Americans have astounding opportunities to become highly paid knowledge workers and the American society will produce many of these individuals. However, that does not make the typical competent American dev that much smarter than the mass of competent employees elsewhere. What will cause the discrepancy in salary is that there is much more money swirling into America per capita, and that immigrating to the US is very difficult. This becomes obvious if you consider the salary difference between Canadians and Americans, despite them being nearly identical in many relevant respects other than the amount of capital involved in their respective countries.

If you combine that with the multiple reasons that might lead an American company in hiring American talent or at least talent based in America, you end up in a situation where you want a portion of America-based employees even though you have to pay them more, but if any individual employee leaves the territory the reason to pay them American market rates erodes away, even if they have the American nationality. They no longer meet the need that led the company to paying those prices in the first place. Keep in mind that if that need didn't exist, and salary was the sole consideration, they would have more than enough great devs around the world to never have to hire in America to begin with.

The nomadic employee has fewer cards in hand because they want to live in a different country and also have a near American salary, which leads to a compromise where their salary is decreased. If they start to make too much trouble to the point where starting the hiring process anew is worth it, they can be replaced by an equally intelligent and capable local dev who will quietly accept the salary in question.
Dogs aren’t carnivores either. That first sentence makes me question the rest of this
An Industrial-Strength Audio Search Algorithm (2003) [pdf]
Wouldn't simulated environment cause similar anxiety effects? Like I'm very scared of snakes IRL, I'm confident i won't enjoy looking at them in VR either
Well, it is not a blanket statement, it’s just the generic truth (pun not intended) based on decades of evolution of programming languages and a relatively expensive mistake for Java, which would have been a perfect opportunity to learn from.

Sure, it is seldom missed as an end user, but as a library user it is essential. That’s why map and the like had to be hard coded into the language, and why concurrent versions couldn’t be implemented for a long time in the language, the same way it was done for Java forever.
If a government starts subsidizing on-site work, what’s to stop corporations from demanding that all their employees go back to the office? How would you prove a job can be done at home?

If someone dislikes working from home (say, fresh grads in need of in-person guidance) but are forced to do it, do you believe a government needs to penalize them?

Should people who avoid traveling due to carbon footprint be penalized?

If an enterpreneur opens up a small office at their home, should they also be penalized?

Do you believe tradesmen are generally underpaid at the moment?
9-5 tradesmen jobs aren't fair for those of us who work irregular shift patterns and travel lots for work.
Off-topic but are there any aretext users? How does it fare?
If you're concerned about net misery, you probably should have refrained from posting like this.
I would layer the 80-20 rule on top of this principle. For the 20% that get 80% of sh*t done, this doesn't apply imho. But for the other 80% it seems pretty accurate.
This looks Amazing, but one thing I found jarring was the animations. It feels like game developers haven’t improved how NPCs walk since GTA 3. I don’t know if it’s because every NPC has the same gate or something but it’s odd.
So the most popular open-source Postman alternatives seem to be

HoppScotch (47.7k stars, 2019, Vue): https://github.com/hoppscotch/hoppscotch

Insomnia (24.2k stars, 2017, React): https://github.com/Kong/insomnia

Restfox (405 stars, 2022, Vue): https://github.com/flawiddsouza/Restfox

bruno (30 stars, 2022, Tauri, Electron, Next): https://github.com/usebruno/bruno

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You can find more here: https://alternativeto.net/software/postman/
Only if you wish to collect tasks where you schedule them, accumulate the results and don't need to limit concurrency.
I like the choice. If I need to collaborate in person is fastest.

If I need to focus the ability to go to the bathroom or grab coffee without being interrupted and mindlessly do a task while still focusing on the coding problem is unparalleled.

I have a reasonable commute so I don't mind going in every day. My productivity has noticably dropped since I've gone back unfortunately.
I suspect this happens A LOT.

This wasn't "recorded" because the victim is a very private person; but I was part of a team that caught the prosecution in a little podunk town attempting to either interfere or plant evidence on a server DURING trial.

We absolutely caught them red-handed. Perhaps it could have been made into a bigger issue, but it's kind of like, it's a small town no one cares about -- the judge is obviously one of "them"," and the victim REALLY doesn't want to be caught up in big news stuff, so we're all opting to be quiet about it.
Jeez, imagine if the guy didn't have the support of his employer.
you and Oarch both get the idea, its not a pattern for butterfly wings, its a pattern. the pattern is conserved across species, and reused to direct morphogenesis.
I mean, what do you mean by a "real company"?

It was independent—not owned by any larger parent—until it was bought by Verizon in 2016.

It wasn't particularly "hip and up-and-coming" past the early 2000s, but it was still operating, independent, and profitable for years after the dot-bomb.
He's not predicting the internet. He's predicting increasing customizations of products. Alvin Toffler continues McLuhan's themes in his book Future Shock [1], which was also not about the internet.

Someone who did predict the internet was Paul Otlet in 1934 [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Shock

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSyfZkVgasI