skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, just steer clear of hardcore churches and you'll be good. Mormon, Jehovah's Witness, Catholic, Orthodox, Baptist are going to be too intense for a first-time churchgoer, but plenty of other Protestant churches are very liberal. Hell my Lutheran church in Massachusetts even had a gay minister. There are so many liberal protestant sects it will make your head spin, to the point that recommending someone try going to church these days (especially with all the polarizing, isolating events of the last decade) is probably solid advice if they're seeking community.
> It's good to see that schools in the US are taking it more seriously than they used to.

It's nothing but lip service. Bullying is largely the result of several quite obvious system design flaws. 30 kids to one adult is going to result in a Lord of the Flies culture, and that culture will get worse as you scale to additional 30+ classrooms.

Further, actually paying attention to the emotional state of a child and nurturing it carefully at the times it needs that would be hard to pull off in a group of _five_ kids.

But at all costs, we need every mom and dad in the country working all the time to maximize the size of our economy (and help the rich keep getting richer). We need conforming, beaten down worker bees who've been trained to drag out of bed and go where dictated all day long to fill all the jobs that keep the economy humming.

So any changes in the favor of nurturing kids reasonably (not even optimally, just reasonably) just aren't in the cards. But we can make some nice posters about it.
There was one in my hometown, in a different industry. One thing I heard about it was that decision making was extremely painful.
This is awesome! Thank you!

Any chance for a Firefox extension?

You mention a Slack workspace. How do I find that? (I don't use Slack outside of work much)
How about trucks that literally emit black smoke? Plenty of them in NYC
I do see a lot of Model 3s, that's true. One time I got 3 3s in a single day :) Drivers seem to generally like it, although 2 of the 3 had put up sun shades from the insides because the glass roof was heating the car up too much.

The Model 3 as shown on the website starts around $45k even after the recent price drops. That's a lot of money over a Prius to get back in fuel, and given how efficient light hybrids already are (the Model 3 weighs 600lbs more than the Prius, probably largely due to its batteries) I'm not sure there's much more in terms of fuel efficiency you can get.

Especially because the market clearing price for ride share cars doesn't seem to be new Priuses (Priae?), but those that only cost $5-10k used.

I have my doubts that EVs will ever get that cheap, old Teslas certainly don't seem to be currently.
What types of autism? High functioning? Severe?

My eldest had high school friends diagnosed with autism who seemed higher functioning than either of my children.
Is there a randomized controlled trial of rejecting the darkness?
If OracleDB is fast and web scale I will use it. Is it web scale?

Does OracleDB support sharding? Shards are the secret ingredient in the web scale sauce. They just work.
> It rarely gets any traffic and almost all my downloads come from the App Store itself.

This almost seems like a self-fulfilling prophecy. Perhaps a bit more love will get it some more traffic.
Friendships do involve a lot of time grinding, but is it just time the force that forms a friendship? Or what you see actually comes the other way around, meaning that people who "bond well" tend to spend more time together?

While indeed time is important, it does not mean that merely spending time with somebody creates a friendship between you. It is more the quality of the time than time itself and, sadly, often our lives do not make quality easy to find. Especially regarding "hobbies and interests", personally I have found that relationships formed just through them tend to be more superficial and lasting less than relationships which are formed in a multitude of contexts and circumstances rather than simply spending time on one interest. They are good ways to meet new people, but for me an analogue of watching football together 2 or 10 hours per week and not other common context has never really worked out.

I like the approach of this blog post bellow on this. I think that especially the part of sharing life struggles together to be quite important.

https://billmei.net/blog/friendship
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No such thing as unlimited exponential growth in the real world.
Interesting to read this just as I join a new company and am using slack "professionally" for the first time (on an all-remote team). My thoughts so far have been basically the polar opposite of this post. I was previously in a FAANG where the only tool was the internal messaging platform, which in my opinion, left a lot to be desired. Slack search has been miles better, and has enabled me to get up to speed way more quickly by finding posts from months/years before I joined that are exactly relevant to what I was looking for. Nobody uses it to bug me, and in fact most of the "work" takes place off-slack in GH issues/comments, Jira, etc, but integrates with slack nicely. There is no expectation of immediate response from my manager or anyone else.

It seems like most of the article complaints are cultural, more than they are about the platform itself. Obviously it's still early days for my usage, but strictly evaluating the tool itself, it seems pretty solid. Definitely better than "unnamed but awful FAANG-specific tool".
> He's still going to die within the usual human lifespan limits, just like the rest of us.

I'm not so sure.

For millennia people tried and failed to fly through the air like birds. In the late nineteenth century so many people had tried and failed, it seemed like a law of nature that humans were destined to remain earth-bound. Then suddenly, miraculously, we figured it out.

I think it will be the same with the 'usual human lifespan limit' of 120 years. At some point we will figure it out, and a group of humans will have a longevity distribution whose right tail extends to 150 years. Bryan Johnson may already be in that group.
Really interesting.

Just a point : being nationalized by Cuba or the USSR in 2022 probably have better outcomes than being under the cusp of any Atos VP. The company will survive by bloodsucking on French and European contracts they do not deserve (but they will manage to respond to the exact hidden specs), then will sell the contract to crosoft or any of their daddies for play money.

Sorry for the serious people working there.

I might be wrong, but I've worked with Atos for 5 years, they are the worst. But their VP have friends in high places.
Will do! I will post a link later today.
I'm not sure if that's the intent, but "ne Lua" literally means "not Lua" in most Slavic languages.
I did a lot of clicking through on this and couldn't find this out, but if the source of the data is at all based on the number of students that get IEPs based on something like autism, then I can tell you that "advocates" and licensed attorneys in special ed can work this. Not saying that's what happened here, or that it would alone explain 500%.
Transitioning from IC to Engineering Manager: my main two challenges
Noticed this on a lot of items too. I've had a lot of cans from S&S come busted or expired protein shakes and getting support is really difficult recently. They've also removed the option to return to Whole Foods and instead I have to pack it myself and give to ups.

If only they had a team of delivery people driving around that could pick up returns...
This is very neat. I find myself wishing for a Fennel conversion…
That's the point. There have always been lots of ways for employees to communicate, Slack is one with a permanent record owned by the licensing company.

It's funny to read people on HN bagging on Slack. My first experience of it was as a middle manager moving to Silicon Valley where everyone expected you to use it, along with JIRA. I used to like to use kanban boards and -- I know this sounds ridiculous -- waterfall charts. It's like these things become fads and then everyone decides they are terrible.
You get insurance taken out of your paycheck pre-tax. You get a tax rebate for the interest you pay on mortgages and student loans.

That's why I would want them to be exempt from any federal VAT.
Highly encourage exploring Flutter as well, at least for new platforms. Lottie animations would pair nicely, as would any future goal of expanding to web or desktop.
I'm not sure of the speed, but F5 load balancers run a custom version of TCL to process requests. [1]

Been that way for a long time, so I imagine it has been pretty optimized over the decades.

https://techdocs.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals...
1 - Same as a CNG or LPG station

2 - Same as a CNG or LPG station

3 - Either via pipelines or tanker trucks. The former is cheaper, although for more remote stations the latter is more practical

4 - Yes

5 - Same as a CNG or LPG station

6 - Here is an example: https://www.press.bmwgroup.com/global/article/detail/T037181...
DataDog asked OpenTelemetry contributor to kill pull request
His app is backed by the NIHR - I am sure that helps.
Does it fully support types?

Edit:

Oh, it seems to, that's big. For comparison, Hibernate, the Java mammoth ORM, as far as I know, never fully moved to Java 5 generics (released 18 years ago).

Also dataclasses and enums. Also big, since there used to be a lot of duplication in configuration, SQLAlchemy doing its thing and the rest of the codebase just using now standard Python 3 features.

Cool!
Forcing legislators' communication to be public will just push them to hide more in ways that makes it harder to find and track. It will only punish honest legislators while doing nothing to stop dishonest legislators. It's exactly the same incentive scenario as guns, drugs, and regulations.
For what it's worth, I didn't like reading this article. Something about it seems wrong.
If you liked through, you'd see it was "without intellectual disability." I couldn't find what the data itself was based on, but as I commented above, this is often an approach parents with lawyers use to get accommodations when they don't quite fit into another category.
If this is disproportionately a phenomenon of higher income ZIP codes, that's what I'd look at first.
"slack empowers your worst people to overwhelm your best."

Damn straight
What exactly do you find odd about it?

I'm one of those rare people that can't do any sort of deep breathing exercises or meditation without ending up in a manic state due to a severe anxiety disorder.
Given I'm going to take a completely different approach that doesn't use anything proprietary, and non-competes aren't enforceable in California, I'd assume this is ok?
Good to know, trying their 800 number support now (suggested by another comment)
The DB connection to Supabase can be made where ever you want it to be. It’s just JavaScript.

In Node, a “module” is generally scoped to a file. So you make a db.ts file and export the instance you create and it functions basically as a singleton. One DB connection per user per session. SvelteKit let’s you choose where to put that. The first place you import it is when it instantiates.

Auth in SvelteKit is trickier than it should be, but there’s a really good technique that I recommend you follow: https://www.captaincodeman.com/re-creating-the-sveltekit-ses...

I believe he uses firebase in his example. But don’t just copy paste, try to understand what is actually happening and why he had to do this workaround. Once you understand how SSR actually works, things get a lot easier.

Stores are a way of storing state on the client side, but to do SSR Svelte has to use stores on its “backend”. The key thing to understand is that stores that are used for SSR are server wide and persistent so you can’t store user specific data in them. There’s a special spot for that kind of state called events.locals.

It’s probably the trickiest area of SvelteKit IMO. I hope they make it better.
I'm not denying that burning fossil fuels contributes to climate change. I'm arguing that in terms of peoples personal vehicles, the vast majority of particulate polution (3 orders of magnitude more) comes from the tire dust rather than the tailpipe. Tire dust is basically microplastics. It gets into your lungs and sticks around, and is also associated with reduced life expectancy and poor health. It's a significant source of PM2.5, which is estimated to be responsible for 95% of the global public health impact from air pollution. It also of course damages ecosystems when it runs off into our watersheds.

https://jalopnik.com/tire-dust-is-the-ddt-of-our-generation-...

That's true that taking a vehicle and replacing it with an EV makes a lot of sense and would reduce pollution, but to me that depends on them being equal weights. Usually EVs are substantially heavier than equivalent ICE cars, so this would mean we trade one form of emissions (less tailpipe emissions) for another (more tire dust). I'm not sure if that would pencil out to be overall better, considering the tailpipe emissions from a modern (last 25 years we will call it) are responsible for so little of the particulate pollution to begin with, and adding on another 1000lbs to a given car frame represents a massive proportional increase in weight. I wonder if larger cars mean wider or larger tires, and what that might do for particulate generation as well?

Maybe one solution is to have "urban cars" running off of powered catenaries and very small batteries, rather than larger and heavier battery packs, almost like a trollybus.
Link to exact comment: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-co...
It seems like all the car companies are weak in software except Tesla, which is more of a software company that happens to also do hardware (cars).

Not sure how Oliver Blume was an improvement. They are just going with what they know vs. what they need.
Corollary from your anecdote: "crunch time works, but not for long".

I suppose crunch time is >100% efficiency (extra hours), so that's why your CTOs plan lasted way longer than crunch time ever should.

Looking back, how much earlier would you have had to pull back efficiency to avoid the later issues? Would a month have been fine? Maybe two?
This is really a great way to sabotage your competitor.
Have a bunch of friend and family buy a product and flood Galaxus with bogus returns and warranty claims.
We'll see how it works.
I really like slack (the Searchable Log of All Communication and Knowledge). Of course it’s not a substitute for everything, especially writing and whiteboarding, but it’s a good way to exchange information and it’s automatically stored and searchable. Actually the worst thing about slack is that so many convos, like direct messages and private groups, are not publicly searchable.

Also, credit to their engineers that they haven’t had a breach yet. I cannot tell you the number of times i’ve received passwords in a slack channel.
I have the same MTHFR mutation. Deplin really helped with some serious short-memory issues. Can’t speak for the depression aspect since I’m bipolar. Too much noise to signal.

Over the counter should be identical. I only prefer the prescription because it’s regulated and less likely to be fake. :)
An analogy series I'm writing about computer networks, the idea is to help people introduce computer networks to people in a friendly way. https://memo.mx/posts/understanding-computer-networks-by-ana...
The last year considered by the study was 2016.
It’s like hallway and ad hoc conversations: a great to get a quick answer, less great as a part of formal business process.

But yes, using it for either secret or formal purposes is going to disappoint.
Now hold on a second. You seem very certain of "individual", what it is, and what it is not. I am not so sure that we're not actually creating an individual here or at least parts of an individual as snapshots of qualia and being able to recall or "hallucinate" them. Does no amount of mimicry bring a program closer to an individual? What if we made a really clever model that learns on the fly via constant streams of qualia and adapts as best as it can and it could do all of the things you could do, maybe not very well, or only to the same level as a service animal; is that any closer to an individual? I believe it is way more of a spectrum than the binary "will never be an individual".

Regardless of the details of how a brain is a conscious, it can be reduced to its constituent pieces or nuts and bolts, so to speak. Everything from the electrochemical potentials within neurons to the encoded chemical information in the form of DNA and RNA that spontaneously replicates and orchestrates a maddening array of complexities, we can partially explain. Even if our explanation is basically parts in a bucket, that's enough to paint a future where humanity understands enough of those processes to replicate consciousness without actually understanding why it works. Perhaps we don't need to understand the emergent properties, but merely discover them like the standard model in physics. We equally can't explain /why/ the fundamental physics constants are the way they are, but we can use them to do extraordinary things.
It's no substitute for proper documentation, but it is very useful to be able to find and link to the conversation that led to creating a ticket, considering how often a critical detail gets left out of a ticket description.

What I wish Slack offered is the ability to move existing messages into threads, close those threads, and give them an explicit conclusion. Webforums gave their moderators the power to do that; I think any participant in a Slack channel should be able to at least propose doing that, but alas Slack doesn't give that power to anyone!
The same author did a kit review of the Gondor armor from the movies, and was (broadly) quite positive about it: https://acoup.blog/2020/01/10/collections-gondor-heavy-infan...

His observations seem to mesh closely with yours; he mentions in particular that the Gondor armour seems to have been constructed "properly", and hangs correctly (regardless of what the materials used were).

It seems that the LotR movies did a significantly better job on the armour than the RoP show has. Which is a little surprising given their enormous budget, but I guess they had different priorities (and fair enough, of course; I'd be surprised if that sort of thing is even noticed by one viewer in a hundred).
We use Nomad at $JOB and it's been great. We're a small startup with one senior site reliability engineer doing pretty much all the infra work and I (~CTO) chip in when I can be useful, though when we adopted Nomad it was just me working on infra.

I looked into Kubernetes (I haven't worked with it at all before) and there just seemed so much complexity to handle things I didn't need that it was too much to learn for the benefit. Once I found Nomad it was a lot simpler, but it has everything we need and that's stayed true as we've grown.

I'd definitely strongly recommend it if you're wanting an orchestration system and don't need the complexity Kubernetes brings.
as a russian, when I read "Yandex was planning to relocate completely to an EU country" I feel that it's obvious that it's not possible for it to relocate completely. Yet, I cannot explain why...

allegedly the fear of government is so big that in the beginning of the war management in internal meetings said something like "If we publish real news about the war then it will be our 5 minutes of glory, and then the company will cease to exist"
If you read the article, you’d see that the timeframe is between 2000-2016. Thus, no connection to Covid.
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Of course! I would love to help to make this product better in any way I can. If you are interested, please email me at gabriel dot ethan @ gmail
I think an interesting observation here is that the very thing that makes it difficult to get adoption of this product/data is the thing that makes the product/data valuable. Without the naive/narrative/entertainment bettors it would be more difficult to find an edge.

Presumably there is a very small, niche population that would find this information very valuable. Funnily enough, those that do find it valuable are unlikely to share it - if they're acting in their own self interest they don't want other sophisticated bettors to enter the market and inadvertently help the bookies set the line more accurately.
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My wife is 5'10" and she said she hated how all the tall guys wanted to date the short girls, leaving the tall girls with shorter guys than them
Problem at my work is that we have data retention policies on Slack. So we treat it as a great source of info, but then messages simply expire after long enough.. still need documentation as well
If you do this you’ll get your Amazon account banned. Chargebacks are instabans on most services. If you get the wrong item unless you’re highly frugal losing access to all of Amazon usually isn’t worth this.

This advice is very dangerous as many people wouldn’t want to be ToS banned from Amazon over random items unless they’re worth a lot.
Here's more information on the fine-tuning process: https://beta.openai.com/docs/guides/fine-tuning

In terms of where it's incorporated in the code, the fine-tuned model id is stored in an environmental variable called `process.env.OPENAI_MODEL_ID` which then gets passed to the completion endpoint
if you chargeback on amazon, you'll be lucky to ever order anything on amazon again.
If you want blazing fast and very scalable performance, you have to do that. Multiple independent contexts in the kernels can have a reference on certain objects and manipulate them concurrently with relaxed consistency. It would be very impractical to hard-protect certain parts of those objects and guarantee serial consistency. For scalability and performance reasons, certain data structures, objects or certain parts of certain objects could be accessed in a inherently racy manner, but guaranteeing correctness in the existence of races is extremely hard. Any attempt for modularisation, message passing or serial consistency would make your kernel look like a joke compared to Linux. It would make the interaction between subsystems easy but would not provide the opportunity for very fast low latency execution.
I Recently Sold a Company on MicroAcquire AMA
I recently did an interview with Acquire.com on my experience buying and selling a company on their website.

One tip I share in the interview is how to properly value a company.

Most of the time, we value companies based on a multiple of revenue. Eg If a company makes 10k/year and we give it a 3x multiple, then the company is worth 30k.

However, for smaller companies this is actually a mistake because it doesn’t account for the value of the IP itself. Especially at low revenues, the code and IP are worth far more than the revenue it generates.

So the proper way to value a company, especially if it doesn’t make that much money, is to ask these two questions:

1) How much would you pay for this company if it made 0 revenue?
2) Then add on the revenue multiple on top of your answer to 1).

And that’s the real value of the company.

In full transparency, I didn't make much on the acquisition, maybe $15k from the acquisition + revenue which I had to split with a partner and to cover some costs. But it was still an experience.

If you have any more questions on buying and selling companies, I’ll answer them below.

My full interview is here: https://acquire.com/blog/how-to-buy-and-sell-a-saas-business...