skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say it's not necessarily isolation, but lack of opportunity. Presumably the higher up you are, the less transport links and settlements there are, so geographically you now have less opportunities within a commutable distance. When I say "opportunity" I mean it in a very general sense - it could be social opportunity, dating opportunity, work opportunity, hobby opportunity whatever. When you're deep in the hole of depression, by definition you have lost hope of things improving, which would indicate a dearth of opportunity or novel experiences that could change your mindset.

I'd say that cities can feel extremely lonely, because you can see all these people all around you but you can't connect with any of them so you kind of feel disconnected or unwanted which heightens the feeling of loneliness. Wheres if you are in a rural location, you might be lonely for lack of people but feel that if you were to find some people that you would get on with them well. Tying this back to the original point, I think if you can take advantage of the huge variety of opportunities the city offers you can easily overcome "city loneliness" whereas "rural loneliness" is much harder to overcome - if you don't get on with the small set of people nearby or don't enjoy any of the small hobby groups available, you're shit out of luck in terms of social interaction and will have to either move, hope someone new moves nearby, attempt to start your own hobby club or get used to your own company.
Add refactoring, migrations and testing to all the reasons you mentioned, and it quickly becomes an adapted case of Greenspun's Tenth Rule for ORMs.
> One doesn't need to use the menus, one can use the keyboard commands. The UI provides several ways to interact: key commands, interactive command line and menus.
> Genera comes with a Scribe-based markup language and formatter.

You mean, the humanity has not gone too far away when it comes to computer-human interaction back from those days? :-). Just kidding; that sounds like they were quite modern back in 80's. I saw the other video on YT about their graphics software and hardware. While it looks relatively simple compared to modern image editors, modellers, fx and animation packages, it still feels like they had all the right ideas. What do you think put them out of the business? Just the economy or some other more technical reason?

> The new emulator for the Mac & Linux is many times faster and runs silent on something like a MacBook.

Yeah I saw another video, and saw "machdd" or something similar on the modeline somewhere, so I assumed you made it on a mac.

> lacks emulation of the console hardware (graphics hardware)

That explains why all the demos are black and white.

I don't have so much time to install and configure virtual machines and programs, but one beautiful day I'll try it, just for the curiosity; I have seen the repo on GH.
Usage determines definition, not the OSI.

At the end of the day, Pure Open Source™ modulo one very narrowly defined prohibited use is good enough for everyone except product managers at large public cloud companies and people who want to argue about ideological purity. It provides all of the same benefits.
Same here. SQL is arguably the best language for writing queries. That's what it was designed for.
Their mathematical analysis is for sure beyond my understanding, but on some level, I'm surprised this is surprising. While baby steps may be the norm in gradient descent, there are plenty of there optimization techniques that embrace larger step sizes. Some, like simulated annealing, explicitly model changes in step size over time. Others, like genetic algorithms with crossover let the balance between exploration (big steps) vs exploitation (small steps) emerge more organically.

In fact, applying the idea of "no free lunch in search and optimization" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_free_lunch_in_search_and_op...), you'd kind of expect this result: sometimes big steps good, sometimes big steps bad.
Amazing article! I love the approach and description of data gathering, data prep and analysis.

I believe you should edit the text to read "Data Engineer" in the first numbered item:
"I argue from data that the Data Scientist role is poorly differentiated and I speculate that its responsibilities are being eroded by better specified roles such as ML Engineer and Data [Engineer]."
Regardless of where the burden of proof lies, telling someone who nearly lost a parent this year that they are a horrible human being for expressing their gratitude in a way you disapprove of isn't going to convince anyone of anything.
And I don't think that you will make the world any better by being mean to other people.
It sounds just as unfair to me.

If some kid finds a way to get results effortlessly, if it is honest, it should be praised. Results are what matter in the end, and I think clever shortcuts are as praiseworthy as hard work. Later in life, people don't get paid for effort. And hard work is an ability too, not everyone is "wired" for hard work (ex: ADHD).
"Already" betrays a misunderstanding of how this process works. Fares are likely to increase, not decrease.
> the impermanence of all things in life seems pointless and makes me sad

Wouldn't impermanence itself be impermanent then so we won't need be bothered by it too much?
There's 2 things at play:

1) Our planet's natural resources. And

2) The means of production - tools & machinery that turn those resources into useful items.

Difference comes from who owns those.

For 1), imho best is if that's a common resource, and taking from it regarded as damage that warrants compensation. You want to dig something out of the earth, occupy some land, or cut some trees? Fine, but compensate society for the loss of those resources (as in: taxes). You want to pollute some waters, even if society is compensated generously? Don't complain if society says "No!" & ties your hands.

Resources ideally common across the globe. Split up between nations? Not ideal, but so be it.

Any other method is worse. In this context, benevolent dictators don't exist.

Note that resources could be managed by assigning 'owners' to them. Like Native Americans owning the natural areas they live/depend on. Which seems to work well from what I've read. Ownership in this context read as stewardship / manager.

About 2), there's 3 models:

a) Mostly owned by big, faceless corporations, backed by wealthy investors that comprise a small % of the population. This model has benefits, but also many downsides.

b) Owned by the state. When / wherever tried, it appears to go hand in hand with autocratic regimes / dictators, bureaucracy, curtailing free press, inefficiency, and generally bad outcomes. Maybe "state owned" and "autocratic regime" gravitate towards or enforce each other? Maybe historical examples were just bad luck, poorly executed, or tried @ the wrong time? Who knows.

c) Owned by citizens, or SMALL groups of those. Like small family business, or company with a few dozen workers each owning equal share in the company.

Imho this model hasn't been tried enough. More experiments welcome.

And d) no private ownership, period. This seems to work only in small / simple societies. Not globalized complex ones like ours.

Of course the above is just irrelevant blurb given historic causes & the status quo we're dealing with irl...
Admiralcloudberg is, you know, never really a pick-me-up story kind of place, but this one is particularly grim.

Among many other things, a reminder that software upgrades need to be carefully planned, with an assumption that other stuff might go wrong while the system is offline.
Kentucky school system closes after first day: ‘transportation disaster’
> If your sink is leaking, you might call a plumber to fix it.

> But you don't really pay the plumber for putting a new gasket in.

> In fact, you don't care about the gasket, you care about not having you sink leaking.

I care about the gasket. If I want the sink to not leak then one way is to not use the tap/faucet. There are countless ways to fix the problem of your sink leaking, but only very few that you really want. Knowing your problem is important so that you don't waste time and money on charlatans. I care about the damned gasket.
> Did it get thrown out?

No. He pleaded guilty to "sending a communication of an indecent or offensive nature" and was fined accordingly.

At the end of the day what he said was indecent and therefore is illegal in the UK. Perhaps he could have fought it, but I believe he would have needed to argue that a reasonable person wouldn't find his comments indecent, and that would probably be difficult.

The larger point here is that anyone who gives an opinion online here in the UK is at risk of something similar happening. It depends less on the opinion and far more on the subjective nature of what is and isn't offensive. For example I could say some highly offensive things, but so long as I say them about Nigel Farage or Piers Morgan I'd be unlikely to be charged. I'd argue these laws are very subjectively policed and typically used to against people with political opinions that are not considered "acceptable". For example, it's often used against feminists who argue in favour of women-only spaces since this is considered transphobic and hateful by some.
Getting granular data like this on a large scale can be rather difficult.

Even knowing things like where the final act was committed (at home, not at home, etc) would be super useful, but that data is hard to come by i'm sure, especially at scale.
really makes u tink huh
Related:

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25568766 - Dec 2020 (131 comments)

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20167686 - June 2019 (238 comments)

The world in which IPv6 was a good design - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14986324 - Aug 2017 (191 comments)
The inconsistency of elixir is what turned me away from it. The author points that out as something to live with, that’s fine.

But it’s annoying for me. It reminds me of my time dealing with ruby and rails, and I absolutely hated the billions of ways to do one thing with ”cute” helpers.

These days I just pick Go or TS for backend. Go for most things but especially anything performance critical or real time, and TS for anything else that just needs to get done really fast and is just IO bound.

Go has only most just one or max 2-3 ways to do something.

TS takes the best parts of js and makes them shine brighter.

I also don’t see the value of live view. Is it really that superior to just putting together an API or ws connection, and having web/mobile clients consume it? It just sounds like over engineering to be cool to send actual view code instead of a bit of json that updates the UI in place.

Would love to discuss further and see if I’m wrong.
The figure 1 makes it look like an awful lot like there is no pattern at all for the vast majority of counties, and then the few with the very highest suicide rates are all very high altitude. They also mention this, but I'm not sure country is a great way to measure this. Death Valley and Mt Whitney, the lowest and highest altitude points in the contiguous states, are in the same county. Might also want to remove Vegas, which is high altitude and high suicide, but obviously for unrelated reasons.
Perhaps there’s some economic FOMO too. You can find coastal (sea level) town with the same population density and median incomes as mountain towns, but the former feels much more connected and accessible than the later. Even a large city like Denver has a remoteness about it… it’s either an 8+ hour drive to the next big city or you have to fly. Compared to west coast, east coast, gulf coast cities and counties, it might as well be an island.
I mean… no? That makes no sense. You can’t just say “hypothesis: something random”, that’s not how anything works. :)
Why would the be an issue? I have written plenty of tests for SQL code an it is no harder than writing tests for e.g. Ruby or Python code. Especially if you have an ORM involved.
Hopefully it also raises alarms about corrupt cops and Qualified Immunity.
Related ongoing thread:

The world in which IPv6 was a good design (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37116487 - Aug 2023 (134 comments)
Yea, the remedy for this isn't an email to support. It's a letter to their legal from your legal.
He used to advise undergrads, many of whom didn't know how famous he was
Except for the half the time that it can't even guess the location from the already-embedded GPS data.
https://rsf.org/en/who-are-we

>when was the last time someone using controversial anti -government free speech in the US made a difference?

I think it's the wrong question. The question of free speech isn't whether your speech is going to make a difference. It's whether you're allowed to express views in public without retaliation from the government. Anyone who wants to publish their controversial anti-government opinions in the United States can safely make a website or a print magazine. That doesn't mean anybody else is compelled to take their opinions seriously.

The same can't be said for Russia. We can look at the level of criticism of Trump that was tolerated during his presidency, and compare it to the level of criticism of Putin that is tolerated. It's clear that Trump was unable to silence his critics, even though he wanted to, while Putin can very easily throw his critics and political opponents in prison.

If we go a little farther back in history, the Pentagon Papers are a good example. The New York Times and the Washington Post were able to publish the Pentagon Papers despite the Nixon administration's attempts to silence and prosecute them. This had a significant effect on the public perception of the Vietnam War. It's hard to imagine anything similar happening in Russia around the war in Ukraine.
> "will often": no, not at all. Could occasionally. You're not helping your argument by overstating this. The courts are not stuffed with people being fined for saying things that are "mildly offensive".

Yes, sorry – you're right. It happens occasionally. If you're willing to take the risk generally speaking you can be offensive and get away with it.
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See "inventor's notebook": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inventor%27s_notebook - some good examples of famous notebook habits are linked to from there (Einstein and Tesla and Edison and da Vinci are all mentioned).
Maybe write a program that plays the game for you. It could be called You're the Operating System Operating System.
Or you use something much simpler and more light weight, like query builders or a tool that generates code from sql queries.

This approach is more bottom up. You end up with uni directional data flow, better separation of concerns, data coupling instead of object dependencies and better performance right out of the bat.

The cost? In my experience just some basic familiarity with SQL.
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Probably not at the level that the commentator was referring to, but in New Orleans in 2019 an elected sheriff, Randy Smith, had a man arrested after he criticized his office's handling of a murder investigation. This was despite the DA explicitly telling them that the criminal defamation law they were trying to use was ruled unconstitutional when applying it to criticism of public officials.

https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/crime/us-court-of-appeals...
I'm not saying this is acceptable in any way... But there IS something you can try to get resolved fairly quickly if it ever happens again.

Be sure to claim domain ownership in the Google search console. If there is a flag of some sort, it will show up there. And you can address it there.

I worked for a financial services company where this happened. The public-facing .com domain was set up first, before I got there. Later, I added the .net domain behind zero trust to serve as our entry point for internal apps. Google marked the .net as a phishing domain. Verifying ownership of both under the same google search console account and then contesting the flag got it removed.
Not sure I see how it's relevant here, since we're granting that the spy agency in this case has every right to gather evidence. The point is that they don't get to unilaterally decide if that evidence constitutes a crime, which is what the original comment suggested.
"without using ORMs"

...

Proceeds to create an ad-hoc ORM.
Been using Pair Networks' service pairdomains.com for years

Never an issue
I think they kept those factors separate. From the abstract:

> Although there was a negative correlation between county altitude and all-cause mortality (r = −0.31, p < 0.001), there was a strong positive correlation between altitude and suicide rate (r = 0.50, p < 0.001).
We live in a world of imperfect knowledge. We look for patterns to try to determine cause/effect. The beginning process for this is to point out correlations and then further investigate. It’s not possible to account for all variables when it comes to things like suicide. It is possible and worthwhile to try to study the phenomenon as best we can.
unless you buy an off-the-shelf product/solution, you're in effect buying a service of some sort and the low-level/technical implementation is just detail (coding, plumbing, rebuilding car engine etc).

p.s. to me the OP read like a Cover Letter for a job application :)
I'd expect that difference to be driven by sunlight amount rather than by temperature.

Cold is easier to deal with than dark and gloomy when I go to work and dark and gloomy when I come home.
Suicide is not like cancer vs. heart disease where one replaces another.
Older people do slightly less suicides.

Suicide rates are up in absolute sense.
I guess it could justify killing more of the "Toxteth monkey" lot.

These kind of restrictions are quite common re the holocaust and jew killing for fairly obvious reasons.
Toy Story 3 on the Wii was an integral part of me bonding with my siblings as I was back from college on breaks. We really looked forward to it, and spent...hours, just noodling around in the game. It was so fun, and so ridiculously silly.

Mostly because of the hilarious local multiplayer (whether intentional or not -- but the shooter level _was_ pretty fantastic in a household not allowed to play online or non-cartoon shooter games)! Also, the very meme-able voice acting (Buzz Lightyear's iconic "hough-hoiuuuuuuuuuuuuooough" comes to mind. We would go around our day in the house and randomly do our best impression of it to make each other laugh. Sometimes it would start a bizarre stream of disconnected favorite pet quotes from the game between us. Near the peak of sibling bonding, almost as good as the moment one of us beat Super Monkey Ball 1's expert level 7 after midnight during a college break -- more than a cumulative decade of work off and on went into that. We absolutely involuntarily broke the quiet hours rule in the house when it happened. Top 5-10 moments of my life, I think.)

In any case, all that to say, this work is important as there are always people that find these things valuable. Everyone has a story, strange as it is. I'm really glad that attention is being brought to these titles, and once my siblings work through me being trans enough for us to be together, I think we might have a chance at sitting down and reliving some of the good old days together, ala emulator.

Fingers crossed! <3 :))))
I find this type of writing compelling, so if you write a blog I think you would get people to read it. One thing I've seen after the fact is the schism between media and evidence which adds an extra dimension here with the air traffic controller's story. The post mortem investigation usually takes a long time, and by then the media has completely moved on. Reminds me of the Boeing MCAS incidents, which interestingly I had a few airline industry friends, and internally according to them almost incidents were due inadequate training of pilots, but no one would say that since there is a nationalistic aspect to it.
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Who said there are no immigrants? Every new year is a record immigration year. Also for housing prices.

The whole "we need even more immigrants" is wage suppression propaganda. Many of the big German business crying wolf have had record sales, only beeing kneecapped by the disappearance of cheap Russian gas and are trying to compensate it with cheaper labor.
psDooM is what you need: a FPS to frag system processes

https://psdoom.sourceforge.net/
Experienced coders will understand this and often respond to a question with a code change rather than an answer. And junior coders pick it up quickly with mentoring.
That's not a counterpoint, it's just a self-inflated way of patting yourself on the back while doing nothing.
Critical bit:

> However, while these insights may change how researchers think about gradient descent, they likely won’t change how the technique is currently used. Grimmer’s paper focused only on smooth functions, which have no sharp kinks, and convex functions, which are shaped like a bowl and only have one optimal value at the bottom. These kinds of functions are fundamental to theory but less relevant in practice; the optimization programs machine learning researchers use are usually much more complicated...

And machine learning is by no means the only area in which the "real world" curves subject to optimization have, ah, "problematic" shapes.
Perhaps, yes. At some point it becomes an argument over words: is it conservative if you're so radical no proposal is considered good enough, so you default to rejecting everything? Is there even such a thing as radical conservatism or is that a contradiction?
I totally agree. In 2014, I wrote a blog post on a similar subject too.

Original post in Turkish:
https://www.phpr.org/neden-blog-yazmalisiniz/

English translation:
https://www-phpr-org.translate.goog/neden-blog-yazmalisiniz/...
We seem to be jumping to the conclusion that these journalists are innocent.

Just, Devil's Advocate.

Or, I guess, "Founder's Advocate"?

But isn't that what we're supposed to do here in the US?

I mean, you know, Constitutionally speaking?
Eh it's all just Lies and Statistics. It's like how 'non drinkers' die earlier than those who lightly drink. But no one who reports it writes the next sentence to explain that, non drinkers include people who don't drink to manage chronic health conditions and thus skew things with their ill health making it seem like alcohol is required to be healthy.

I suspect in the future death by choice, in a palliative setting may go up. Though with the current waves of deregulation, maybe we're headed for more industrial accidents.

But as for the article. Places that are high up, are cold and isolated and people are social beings.
Though iirc a good number of those non-answers started with something like "Have I not told you" which at least implies he does answer them we just don't have a record of it.

Anyway though I don't think it's "meant" to be humorous but I do enjoy all his different disses when asked questions. "Don't you know the scriptures??", "were you not listening you jackass" type answers.
The author is unaware of, or has ignored, Mobile IP [1]. There are implementation of it available.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_IP
I think there are job where you very much need this mentality and then there are jobs where you don't have to bother much with the non-technical.

Maybe the later are harder to find on demand, but there are plenty there.

There are benefits and tradeoffs each way. I think the most important thing is to know what kind of person you are and what you want, and move towards finding work where you can be mostly actualized in that.
In the US, I would assume generally positive. The mountain west gets more sun than the northeast or northwest.