skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I wonder if there's a "neurodiversity" thing that makes some people more enthusiastic than others. (And of course it's the time of year when people start reporting seasonal affective disorder.)

Once I wondered if my interest levels are affected by how well I'm sleeping. That got me interested in the physical things that affect your mood -- and how serious exercise could flood your brain with generally-uplifting biochemicals. (Though it can also bring you down if you don't also eat enough protein and carbohydrates to fully rejuvenate.)

The last piece of the puzzle is mental -- some people try meditation, but even listening to extremely calming music can have an impact. People have tried "gratefulness" lists or a conscientious positivity practice. Someone once advised me to just do something nice for someone else, and then savor that feeling of having been helpful. (More or less that feeling you get when you see a tiny kitten or a cute animal in the zoo -- and you spontaneously start wishing them well.)

The other thing that causes low-curiosity is burnout. (Just getting out of the house, taking a trip, seeing some people can sometimes help.) Working less, changing fields to a different challenge. Changing cities, changing countries....
As a careerlong DevOps guy, I’ve heard many times that “if your job title has DevOps in it, your company is doing DevOps wrong” – overwhelmingly from people with “DevOps” in their job title, delivered with a mordant laugh.
Doesn't this prove the value to users of a centralized platform over a federated platform?

The centralized platform made it very easy to find people. Now people who are moving to a federated platform miss the value of centralization, so they are writing a tool that will leverage that value and import it into the federated platform.

Maybe if Mastodon was a centralized Twitter-style platform it would be more usable, and more popular.
Thanks. See caveat in profile :P
No, that's when you thought you were making a reversible decision but events played out in a way that made it irreversible.
I didn't mention it, but in my early University years, ennui was me; and I just couldn't find any course I could see that was worth committing to. Then I did, and a bad choice as it happened, but also a solution 'cause it led to better choices of things worth doing. Not the same situation, I know, but I just wanted to note that you have plenty of company, it's just that nobody posts on their Facebook status: "Ennui: Day 1,546; God, oh God, when will it end..."
> Threatening the democracy of a country

This would quickly become the primary political prison method. And you already don't trust the justice system ("I doubt he deserves this extreme a punishment") so why would you trust the justice system to correctly determine "threats to democracy"?
I think you might have your age ranges a bit off.
Sure, let's try to reduce the crime rate. Let's also not just ignore crimes and refuse to imprison people for them.
I have a Nikon FE with a 50mm prime, it's great. Would you mind sharing how do you process and scan you photos?
Risk management reveals risks such as: "the vendor disappeared", "the vendor hacked us", "someone hacked us through the vendor", "the vendor is no longer providing support".

Those are all risks associated with using a vendor, regardless of whether or not you are paying for the software. If your business relies on it, it should manage those risks (insurance, escrow, business processes, paying for support, etc).

The project disappearing/bankruptcy is only the easiest to point to.
The first season was good, then it quickly degenerates into nazi porn and finally into a bad version of Rick&Morty
>I HATE the medical system.

A teeny nitpick, it's never the system, its always collectively the people, and common people at that. I have toyed with the idea of getting a medical degree but it's a lot of time, effort and money, to get over the issues you correctly pointed out, but it appears that searching and finding a doc that is disgruntled with the 'system' and who might be co-operative with things that I need is higher.
Living in echo chambers is what society is. Family groups, friend groups, social groups - the choosing who you talk to, who you spend time with, what you listen to is basic freedom. It's what makes people happy.

Social Media is one of the first antipatterns here, showing down interactions with hated people down everyones throats. Basically, every person needs to constantly, every day suffer their annoying uncle at thanksgiving. No wonder it's causing mental health issues.
UNICOR makes 61 million a year. Not exactly big business.
I know about LLVM, but MLIR? Is the same?

And for the look of it, look like is not something that is viable to do without using C++?
devops or sre might as well be a euphemism for sysadmin that can write a little python
“Lots of middle class people cannot afford to even buy a house. Something most of their parents managed to do at a young age.”

This one thing seems to be something of an obsession. How much did it cost their parents to have a child at 40? Or to cure prostate cancer?
That's not at all what's happening. Older versions of Adobe software will still have the Pantone swatches.

Of course an issue here is that at some point in future you won't be able to install older Adobe products, specially on macOS.
RedLetterMedia does a fine grained overview[0] of Picard, where they brutally dunk on the show over the course of hours of commentary. I wholeheartedly agree with their takes too which is sad, because I really enjoyed Star Trek as well

[0]: https://youtube.com/watch?v=hfQdf93e63I&list=PLXiyyhCy2ANpZx...
Telling people to think is only a personal attack if they prefer not to.
DS9 is perhaps not the show to hold up to prove violence is never the answer. In the Pale Moonlight for example is quite explicit.

I agree overall Picard was a thematic and narrative mess and Discovery needs someone who can stick the landing they're missing in the last two episodes of every season. But Roddenberry isn't god; some of his future was good in the 70s but naive or trite even by the 80s and regressive by the 90s; and some of it was never good to begin with.
> You also seem to be able to predict the future ("you're on the wrong side of history"). Again, that's fine (I'll take some stock tips if you can make those predictions too). I just disagree.

It's not hard, since we see other countries already in the "future" where it's working. You're free to disagree and turn a blind eye. I'm hoping that the people reading will see that this kind of attitude about being resolute that the horrors we inflict on our prisoners both innocent and guilty are good, is itself its own kind of horror. That this attitude will perpetuate the suffering of our fellow Americans.

Edit: you dont want my stock tips
Couldn't the pivoting of wing mounted weapons stations be driven by the airflow over the mounted weapon, rather than mechanically?
> It takes me way more time than a fast cashier.

Only if you don't count the time waiting in line before it's your turn. Consider this analogy: you have a single-threaded task that takes 30 seconds to complete on CPU X, which has 4 cores, or 1 minute to complete on CPU Y, which has 24 cores. If your task is the only one running, then CPU X will finish it faster, but if there are 20 other tasks that also need to run, then CPU Y will finish yours faster.
I feel the other reason is that Tesla has not figured out a way to put Radar into their ML pipeline. If you take the Range-Doppler Map from the radar as the 'pixel' map, that data is inherently very dependent on the scenario and the radar sensor intrinsic parameters. This variability in what the radar sees in the RD space is what makes this a challenge for ML/AI pipelines.
If Tesla were to 'fuse' information from these sensors in the object track level - I believe they will be less susceptible to this variability.
Since Unix was written as an effort to recapture the good parts of Multics after Bell Labs pulled out, and the people working on Unix for the first several years had also been working on Multics before that, I don't think Multics is a good example of "Basic concepts were painstaking reinvented and re-engineered all the time under different circumstances. … die in isolation and obscurity, whose architectures left no influence." The people who worked on Unix for its first decade were intimately familiar with Multics, and Multics was well-documented publicly at the time, unlike certain other systems from the 01960s. The research literature in subsequent years frequently compared and contrasted systems designs with Multics's design.

Even some of the Multics features that weren't in Unix in its first decade, like ACLs, memory-mapped files, process accounting, shared libraries, and SMP support, got added to Unix later.

All this is to say that, to the extent that later systems rejected Multics's design decisions, they did it consciously, not out of ignorance. It's easy to look back at the things Multics attempted, like strong security, and believe that it achieved them, and consequently that more recent systems designs represent backsliding. In many cases, though (like that one!) it did not, and later systems designs solve unanticipated problems that arose from the Multics design choices.

A lot of DSP, speech codec, and even TCP/IP work in later decades was guided by NSA people who were familiar with the SIGSALY history, even if they didn't tell the uncleared people they were working with. See https://ee.stanford.edu/~gray/lpcip/ for a detailed history of speech protocols. In other cases, like the DES, the NSA people deliberately sabotaged the resulting work.

I do agree that preserving historical materials is important.
Well, the charitable interpretation would be that you're paying for their extra support costs.
You could also switch to a water conserving mist shower and reduce the amount of heated water used for the shower.

You could also reclaim the water from the shower for use in the toilet by turning the supply to the toilet off and manually transferring it to the toilet tank.

There are lots of things you could do to save resources but most things are not done and are not going to be done because it is inconvenient and takes time, and time is money.

Edit: now that you have me thinking about this idea, it would be possible to have a container in the bathroom attached to a plug that has a hand pump and a tube going to the drain that could be used to reclaim and hold the water that could be higher than the toilet supply and the pressure from it could be used to have it self fill the toilet tank. The container could be highly conductive material like stainless steel and it could be relatively sealed to avoid humidity issues. This would of course be a vector for illness in some cases.
12. Learn DevOps
What is Scrum?
Ways To Learn About Scrum
Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Phases & Models
The Beginner's Guide to Agile in Jira: Course description
Learn SAFe
Learn Automation Testing

Well. That list is certainly something. But whatever it is, it's not DevOps. It's like "certified agile"? Which is also not agile.
img2img seems to be broken for me, as it's just generating things entirely based on the prompt. Examples here: https://i.imgur.com/bEn94Zg.png
It doesn't matter.

We should take steps to prevent it, and the discussions are useful, but once someone is provably willing and capable of committing violent offenses, they have forfeited most forms of sympathy.
Wait and see what happens.

The fundamental incentives for Twitter as a business have not changed. It is a free service that needs to convert user engagement into advertising dollars. Unless Twitter moves to a paid model, that will always be true no matter who owns it. And if Twitter fails, any potential replacement will need to deal with the same incentives and solve the same problems Twitter did.
People forget that anyone (let alone criminals) will use everything available to improve their situation; criminals in prison are well known to abuse every process available to them for their own ends.

And that includes crying about how horrible everything is. Every guard and convict knows the ones that do it, and when it's real and when it's faked.

But nobody "outside" can admit that happens.
> As your spouse proudly holds the baby up you raise the camera to your eye.

How did you just happen to have the camera with the right lense right at the moment? For truly spur of the moment, have to use whatever you have at hand and not worry about tech, usually a cell phone.

> The viewfinder seems a little dim in the room light

On the other hand if you have a little more time, just click live button and tap viewscreen to focus (or get a camera with electronic viewfinder that brightens things up for you, though good ones are expensive). In time sensitive situations, larger F stop is your friend because your main subject is likely to be reasonably focused. Might get noise from high ISO, but these days noise removal / shadow brightening is pretty powerful in post-processing providing you shoot RAW.

> There is a difference of approximately 3.5 stops between f/1.8, the typical maximum aperture for an entry-level 50mm lens, and f/5.6, the typical maximum aperture at the portrait end of a “consumer” zoom. This is a huge difference in practice.

I love a couple of old manual lenses I have, but these require careful scene planning to ensure focus is on the correct thing and background is far away to be properly blurred, the opposite of "kid is smiling" situation in the article. For those, I keep 18-135 lens on by default so I can shoot a large group of friends from short distance or a bird on the tree at short notice.
I am a principal engineer for a major autonomous vehicle company. You can break this statement down into two components:

Adding more sensors slows his team now more than it improves system performance

I'll take his word on this. It is a lot of work to incorporate multiple sensors.

All necessary information is already in the pixel-space.

I hate to disagree with someone as distinguished as Karpathy, but this is simply not what I have observed from all of that data that we have access to. Given my knowledge of the various stacks deployed today, I would never ever ever get into a vehicle using a vision only stack and expect it to perform in some of the challenging environments encountered during testing.
And... they're still just as expensive as XS4ALL was. It's nice the option exists for people willing to pay the premium, though.
>I wouldn’t go so far as to call them stupid

When I think about the workplace, I've usually interpret this version of stupid as a way of saying that there is a type of personality where the compulsion to do something completely overrides asking themselves if that thing should be done in the first place. The end result is exactly what you said - shotgun frantic activity because everything needs to be done and everything is a top priority. They are not stupid per se, but they create an astonishing amount of stupid and wasteful activity.

Unfortunately there are people who really are just stupid as well. I'm sure in the Armed forces that can have deathly consequences.
I use:

- google search console: to monitor any dramatic SEO changes. I don’t monitor ranks, just clicks through from organic results.

- honeybadger.io for errors and uptime. Free tier.

- plausible.io for analytics

Some of my projects are repo / dev related. So I monitor their GitHub repos, and those of competitors. I built a tool to monitor repo growth/stats. Kind of like plausible but for a repo: https://RepoRanks.com
Marten: a Crystal web framework
> Wouldn't these points also apply to the internet itself? Large monopolies in infrastructure, having to teach people what domains are, diplomatic conflicts between nations over access to information/infrastructure, prolific spam and scams, etc.

Yes, many similar problems have indeed arisen, but the point is that they are being solved by many private actors, and not by regulation.

Email spam is solved by spam filtering. To the extent that spam filtering isn’t adequate, communications simply move away from email to other messaging services that have better permission models. To the extent that messaging services are not private enough, communications shift to E2E encryption. To the extent that domains are confusing, people shift to search and apps. The list goes on.

Phone spam however, continues unabated.
It will be easy to switch to another platform and there will be tools to help as this post indicates. 4chan users are having fun saying the N word on Twitter and Le Bron James is complaining about it. And this is only day 2. I certainly think people should be able to exercise free speech, but that doesn't mean I have to listen to it. I can go somewhere else if Twitter gets too depressing.
One case is the definition of 'not systemic'.
Thanks! It’s very much a first pass but surprisingly effective.

I have a few ideas to improve quality. Fine tuning for example
Not really, no. Imagine the reversed situation: Everyone is on Mastodon, and now this cool new thing called "Twitter" comes along and some people are switching to it. "find everyones Twitter account and follow it" would still be a useful thing to have, over manually checking for every single person you follow if they have an account, if they maybe have an account with a different username, ... and following those you find.
Once imported, what would be the benefit of the centralized system? This just sounds like overcoming the barrier that the centralized system put up.
Ask HN: What's the ONE book I should read about software engineering?
I'm a twenty something, mostly self taught software engineer/dev(started as a kid), a bit of a jack of all trades, but mostly doing fullstack JS development for a startup right now.

Mostly have a hacker mindset I guess, resourceful, autonomous, able to find messy quick fixes to huge problems, I guess I could code pretty much anything that is actually feasible, but I'm not really the kind of guy who could write Fizzbuzz Enterprise Edition without loosing my mind.

This can create some tensions with management.

I don't have much time right now, if I had to read ONE book about software engineering, what would you suggest?

My mid/long term goal would be freelancing/bootstrapping/entrepreneurship
> Are some people just evil?

Probably it is part genetic and part environmental, just like most other human traits.

By the way, the fact that many criminals were abused in childhood has many possible explanations, and it is not obvious which one of them is correct. For example:

* Maybe child abuse causes people to become criminals.

* Maybe there is much more child abuse than we imagine, so a majority of criminals was abused, but also a majority of non-criminals was abused.

* Psychopathy is heritable, which means that most psychopaths also had a psychopath parent, and that is why they were abused.
Cultivate your curiosity and find ways to help decent people in need. If you must have a benchmark, growing the quantity of those who will miss you when you’re gone seems like a reasonable default.

YMMV. Worked for me.
IIRC (it's been a while since I watched it) RLM's take is very different than the parent's "great actors like Stewart, Spiner or De Lancie" - RLM places a significant amount of Picard's failure on Stewart being given far too much latitude to chew scenery and bounce around heroically.

Edit to reply to both replies below:

Go read up on Stewart's influence on e.g. Starship Mine or Captain's Holiday - he never cared about maintaining (at least what OP says is) the spirit/lore of TNG.

Is it really surprising that the guy who loved Starship Mine would, when given more creative reign, push something like Picard? It ain't coming (only) from the writers... Chabon for sure can do the genre-heavy psychodrama just fine.
I agree with you about Discovery and (ugh) Picard. But calling those THE new shows? What about Strange New Worlds? I love SNW because it's very much in the spirit of TOS and TNG.

And while I wouldn't say Lower Decks /respects/ the spirit of early Trek, it certainly shows an awareness of the utopian philosophy!
I'm listening to the book right now and only saw the movie once, over a decade ago. My synthesis was very much my own based on my current reading, not on the movie interpretation.

There's definitely a critique of science-for-profit, but I think that that is in the context of the wider critique of man's hubris in general.

I read Malcolm's comments throughout the book as embodying the primary theme. It's not just "life finds a way" (although that quote is in there), it's that we think we can control things but in the end our attempts fall apart because there will always be some variables that remain outside of our control. The chaotic and unpredictable nature of the world is why it all falls apart, starting with the misidentification of the dinosaur as a lizard because the guy who could have known better was on vacation.

This is best evidenced to me in Nedry's death: in the moments leading up to his death he's monologuing in his head about how he had everything planned out and everything was going perfectly except for this stupid storm! The storm itself is a reference to earlier in the book when Malcolm talks about how it's impossible to predict the weather over more than a few days. The point is that no matter how hard we work, we will never be able to understand nature well enough to control it completely. Not just life, but the whole universe.

Nedry was killed by a dinosaur, but only because he couldn't control the weather.
It occurred to me to try this for the first time last week and the extra cleaning thing swung it for me too, which is a pity as there's a good 40 pence worth of heat in that water at current prices. Not sure the wife was going to be too pleased with my used bathwater hanging around all day anyway. Also, probably not a very good idea for anyone with young children in the house.
Or maybe if a distributed platform embraces some additional centralization (it already does some), it becomes more like the decentralized platform everybody wants, and keeps the best aspects of the federated approach for those who mainly want those...

It's not so important to force any dichotomous perspectives on the whole here, as the situation has a lot of nuance to it in the details.
> What you call "righteous punishment" is just revenge. You want revenge. It is a natural response to being wronged. But that is not justice.

Says you.
But did it even do anything in the first place? Because if the temperature wasn't measurably raised, it's not even worth considering the 'how to deal with humidity' question that people are discussing.
A good way of reusing the heat from a shower is to have a heat exchanger to the cold pipe coming in. This has the advantage of also meshing nearly perfectly when you want to heat water.
> Only if you are completely clueless on what marginalization means, which by the rest of your comment, it appears you are.

It would make for a more substantive discussion if you explained why you disagree with my comment - could you elaborate further?
If you really wanted to do this and remove the moisture problem you could probably cover your tub full off water with a plastic sheet to cool off.
A replacement could be just a protocol.

If you signed your message with "This is a reply to msg 33398198 by Timja. Signed: twblalock", then nobody could take this converstion away from us again. I could copy it and put it on any server. Owned by myself or run by some service provider. And it would always be clear to everybody that this conversation really took place between the two of us.
Counterpoint: Crichton's Airframe is a great book that illustrates how journalists reporting on complex subjects they don't understand can cause great harm regardless of their intent or convictions.