skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My client is in the middle of migrating their Snowflake data to Databricks Unity Catalog.

To this day, I still do not understand why they love Databricks so much. It just looks like a Jupyter notebook to me. I know, it has Spark. So?

I’m trying to learn more so I can build something better, maybe.
Thanks for this! Do you (or does anyone) have any suggested resources for transitioning out of powerlifting into something more maintenance/lifestyle?

I got a good base of coaching in high school and later in life came back to lifting through Starting Strength. Recently I’ve gotten a lot out of Stronglifts 5x5 and a modest garage barbell setup to reach kind of a local maxima. I could keep going with it, and it would be nice to continue taking advantage of the simplicity of that program to stay in shape (or move to madcow, or something similar) but there’s no value to me in getting any bigger/stronger - I’d rather “diversify” a bit into other activities and avoid the injuries that come with heavy weights, but I would like to maintain what I’ve got.

I’m not sure if the answer is simply “just stop increasing weights” or if there’s something better I can do that would further reduce chance of injury, conserve energy for other activities, save time etc.
Conferences are generally so expensive that early bird vs not is no longer the question at the forefront, but rather the sheer largeness of the number. Also early birds tend to save money on flights and conferences.
Exactly. I made the switch from MacOS and couldn't be happier. The fun thing is that with Linux these days you have the option of a powerful workstation that you can upgrade be it laptop or desktop, can do gaming, and is private. The next thing for me is to "decloud" - meaning remove any and all online services that are not mission critical.
Yup. Getting hit up by people who definitely just pasted my name into a text snippet, or by an email campaign -- I don't think it's worth it.
I use glassdoor and LinkedIn to do that.
It's funny (in a bad way) that all this telemetry and optimization somehow optimizes for basically antisocial behavior. If I translate what you write into plain language: "every time we upset people by deliberately altering the interface, they are forced to rediscover things and they might start using some new bullshit we want to push".

Imagine if your local supermarket regularly reshuffled all the wares because this would force the customers to rediscover the location of everything again. This is the kind of thing that is being pushed? How do we stop this? To me this seems like a complete and utter resignation of human decision-making and empathy to machine driven metrics. "Computers says that my doohickey metric went up by 30% this month, I'll get a nice bonus".
FSF != FSFE.
https://archive.is/XmBcG
> The placement of the tongue is exactly between those two letters.

That is not the origin of the digraph "th" (and also I would suggest picking up an introductory textbook of phonetics, because you’re way off). The digraph comes from the fact that in Classical Greek the unvoiced dental stop denoted by the letter theta was pronounced with aspiration, but in Latin the native dental stop denoted by the letter T was pronounced without aspiration. Therefore, when the Romans had to represent Greek words with theta in their own alphabet, they added an H after the T to mark the aspiration.
If you've never interacted with them, reply. I always do. But judge them on how the conversation continues.

If they ghost you after promising X, Y, Z, then I don't interact with them again. They aren't reliable.

"In successful case, you'll interact with them for a new job and never hear back again (they got you a dream job)."

Clearly if they landed you your dream job they didn't ghost you in the middle of the process, right? They must have followed through? Communicated professionally?
I'm a lifetime computer user and software engineer with a half bricked laptop caused by Windows 11. Windows wanted me to create a Microsoft account and somehow me not doing that resulted in a boot loop. I installed Linux on it and work around the Windows partition. I did lose a lot of data that's technically accessible, but too lazy.
Ctrl-O is incredibly useful. Go back to an earlier command, press Ctrl-O repeatedly, and you re-run a series of commands. That doesn't work if some of them were deleted as duplicates.
Forgeries, identity theft, and invasions of privacy. Hard pass.
The problem is you can’t go into a “healing tube” like from sci-fi movies and get fixed. Medical workers are real people with their own wants and opinions on their compensation, just as we are as technologists. It’s so funny that everyone on HN expects to make tons of money for little effort, but when doctors and nurses want to be paid huge bucks society balks.

America’s model is where the UK, Canada, and other subsidized healthcare systems are going. Our doctors make way more, but there is recognition that every doctor is not a replaceable cog - the good ones build up names and reputations for themselves. We have quietly built a large system of cheaper options including tele health, urgent care, and primary care (like CVS Minute Clinic) while enabling nurse practitioners to handle ever more procedures and tests. This is how the system will have to scale given the increasing safety net and huge immigration inflows.

Medical care costs money. I’d rather have choice and options than pretend it’s free, which it isn’t.
I want to add to this. I'm also a Starting Strength alumni, moved on to the advanced programs and last stopped at 5/3/1.

One thing I learned: When I was peak-ego my DL/SQ/BP was ~1300lbs. I remember actively thinking the people on the machines and especially the "Smith" machine were wasting time.

Then after awhile, I switched gyms and noticed the biggest/oldest guys were not olympic lifting, they were all on machines. I got to talking to them and they said the same thing, they weren't chasing power numbers, they wanted to stay safe and the machines allowed them to do that.

You can still get injured on a leg press machine, but it offers most of the advantages without the huge risk of 350lbs dropping on your neck.
Your personal opinion of how esoteric or weird this is is besides the point - there are fundamentally incompatible interpretations where I can bet that switching will be breaking and potentially dangerous for some out there.
Elon Musk admits X ‘may fail’ after glitch deletes Twitter photos
Ignore completely. I never got a job through referral in 25 years of working in this industry. The only times I almost got a job like that, the pay was horrible.

Sure, that could have helped but I never had trouble going through the HR funnel, so my experience might not be good advice.
I use ignoreboth -- it's not about saving disk and memory, it's about making the history more useful for searching. The ignorespace also helps avoid getting credentials saved to disk you don't want saved and is even more useful these days than it was in the past because we're no longer on multiuser systems where you really want to keep credentials out of commandlines entirely.
Many companies start with recruiters though, so you may need to start with a recruiter if you want to get in. It is easy to call a recruiter and ask for someone on a 6 month contract, at the end of 6 months you either know they are good and hire them (and they know you are good), or you know they are bad and close the contract finding a new person. Hacker News regularly has articles about hiring, but nobody gives evidence their hiring process is actually any good - they just state what they do and why they believe in it - but this looks like a religious belief not something verified by any form of rigor.
And Android ROM stuff. All the vendor-specific ROM flashing apps are Windows only and I don't have the balls to run it via Wine. Sadly not even macOS (my main system) is an option.
There's also PaSh: https://github.com/binpash/pash
I've found about 50% of the time they go into the hard sell if you respond at all so I don't unless I'm looking for a job.
This is essentially the same as telling folks to stop driving because eventually you'll be in an accident running your life.

Lifting should always be taken seriously and "your muscles misfiring" is not a legitimate excuse for a lapse in judgment and lifting more then you should.
Setec astronomy
Not only has the US unilaterally introduced these requirements already 15 years ago, but there are still 3 EU countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus and Romania) that are not even in the Visa Waiver Program - so I think some "retaliation" is in order...
My pet peeve: "information wants to be free" just means the universe tends towards entropy. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, once information has been distributed it will take energy to "undistribute" it. Trying to extend this to "information wants to be encrypted" is both stupid and inaccurate - people want things to be encrypted, but the plaintext "wants to be free" as much as any other data.
I use Ubuntu at work and at home. It's a great experience and I am so happy to not have my OS controlled by Microsoft. (Or Apple, but those are for different reasons.)
Swapping to a spinner made that memory borderline worthless, compared to modern SSD swap speeds, I'd guess is a better comparison.
Some debian zealots do not understand: they say debian has the sysvinit alternatives which are available. It is some lack of perspective or it is hypocritical since they perfectly know how important being the "default" is. Devuan is no-systemd by default, and yes, it does matter a lot, namely the software stack has been tested/debugged to be consistent and working without systemd.
Some countries don’t let you “change visa” without returning home.

So if you’re in Germany on a tourist or student visa, and decide to get married, you have to fly home and apply for a marriage visa or whatever it is.

Other countries let you basically “update the visa online” or at the embassy.
Your local supermarket almost certainly does do that for that reason.
You totally can know up-front. My colleague's Linkedin bio clearly states "Not interested in contract work.", once in a blue moon he'll get a recruiter that actually read his profile!
I'd like to point out a case that the author has politely left out: that some conference organizers truly believe that if you were a good researcher then you would have moved to North America and/or Europe. And viceversa.

I know plenty of researchers from South America for whom COVID was a godsend as it allowed them to attend three virtual conferences for the price of one and where their virtual experience didn't make them feel like second class citizens. Those same researchers are now getting visa appointments for the US scheduled months after the end of the conferences.
Oh wow, I did not know about this one. It looks like the advanced maze for expert users. Pro, paid version.
Bait & switch all the time, talk about high pay then low-ball you in the end.
Two questions out of curiosity:

* Do you also reject Church's more formal proof?

* Do you more generally reject the rule of the excluded middle and would you generally think of yourself as a Constructivist?
The same goes for Afrikaans to some extent, i.e. many words in it are a more purist version of Dutch, whereas Dutch itself adopted some loan word: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Afrikaans_and_Du...
I launched my 25th product and made $149
The History Behind Assemblyline
Here in the UK recruiters get a lot of flak but the reality is that they are the oil that keeps the machine running. It's in their own interest to get you a higher pay and to sell your profile as they get comissions. Often they do the heavy lifting in that regard. Then all you need to do is provide the skill and work. However the UK is undergoing a severe drought in terms of jobs and contracts and they are the first to tell you this.
The US isn’t known for workers’ rights overall, but tech workers in the US have great benefits and make 2+ times as much as tech workers in the EU do.
There are usually linux alternatives. Heimdall is a pretty good alternative to Odin
As an organizer you need your speakers confirmed 2-3 months out so that you can announce them

I don't think I've ever been to conference where all the speakers were announced more than a couple of day before the conference, and certainly way after last registration. Also I've never gone to a conference specifically because I wanted to see any of the speakers.

Do people choose which conferences to go to based on the main speakers?
> The next thing for me is to "decloud" - meaning remove any and all online services that are not mission critical.

These are often useful, so the better option is to host your own privacy-respecting versions of these tools.
Which is one of several good reasons to never shop in person.
You're assuming the region in question will undergo desensitization rather than reinforcement learning. That may or may not be the case.
I wouldn’t recommend using it, if it’s really looping. At some point you notice the loop point and wait till it happens.
I would argue that the inline way of annotating things in XML is actually ok-ish if one absolutely needs human edit-ability, but otherwise bad design.

{text: "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.",
annotations: [{tag: "sometag", ranges: [{from: 12, to: 26}]},
{tag: "sometothertag", ranges: [{from: 21, to: 39}]}

Note that this also removes the limitation that annotations have to be consecutive.
Though I agree with your point, I would advise against this. Instead I would advise someone to master body weight exercises. Pull ups, push ups, hand stands, etc.

Master motor control, balance and ability to control your own weight. The problem with lifting is no matter how good your form is, injuries are inevitable and made worse due to the extra resistance.
Many people who shut down their Facebook accounts now post the same crappy posts on LinkedIn...
This may be an actual answer to the problem. If you show "someprefix" as an example, then give users a helpful error message if they actually type in "someprefix". Something like "Dear user, someprefix is only an example, please replace this with a name appropriate to your business."
>open source it may be. free it is not. paying an expert to correctly deploy an open source solution takes time and money. oh you want it maintained?

Funny. I heard this same kind of argument used against replacing oracle with postgres. It reminds me of Microsoft's "TCO" PR offensive back when they were public about how much they loathed open source competition.

Thing is that it wasnt just a straw man (nobody that needs to be convinced is under any illusions that software has to be maintained), Oracle was also way more expensive to maintain ON top of being expensive to run.

They had their hooks into that organization pretty good though and once that happens technology choices become highly political - which experts are you going to fire and which ones are you going to hire?

The oracle lot obviously didnt want it to be them that get managed out.
https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io
I'm no sci-fi writer, so surely someone who is could come up with something better. But basically the development of a wizard could be applied to a gunslinger as well.

In the beginning, character has zero skills, they miss shots and not able to succeed in any battles.

The character learns to control their breathing, emotions, posture, aiming and so on, to become more proficient. They learn how to "quick draw" in order to shot by instinct, learn how to do tactical reloads and so on. Different guns also have different strengths, some better in close combat and so on. Just like a wizard has different potions, the guns have different ammunition. Some ammunition could have "special" effects, like exploding on impact, EMPs or whatever.

Crucially, the character learns that patience, strategy, and emotional control is the most important, just like a wizard would.

This is just what I could come up with as I wrote the comment, so again, surely someone proficient in writing sci-fi/fantasy could come up with something much greater. But it's not hard to imagine it's not impossible to have character growth with someone who wields a pistol.
A random string may look suspicious and the goal of this is to avoid suspicion
Maybe this is a silly question, but what advantage do you get from checking that huge file into VC instead of just installing parallel ahead of time on the CI images?
Lidar on a chip puts self-driving cars in the fast lane
Cryptome is closing until Julian Assange is freed
I don't expect them to actually do it, it's just a way to end the conversation on a positive note. They're going to add you to the spam db whatever you say.
You can extract your data from the Windows partition and then delete it entirely from the Linux side.
Meh. I've had the exact same issue with a VW Passat.

It was also a known issue in car circles. There was a bit in the door mechanism that collected condensed water and it either froze the door shut or it wouldn't close.

I had to drive a good 50km with the driver's door belted to my thigh so it wouldn't flap open in corners... Finally the interior temp got high enough so the tiny bit of ice melted and the door stayed shut.

The only sorta-solution to this would've been to completely dismantle the door and heavily lubricate the mechanism with a petroleum-based substance that kept the water out.
Sure you can. This is one of the first things I do on a new install:

https://www.tenforums.com/browsers-email/167957-truly-blank-...

Edit: I have a regedit file with the value "about:blank" and it just takes a double click.
My rough experience has been that internal recruiters are the best to work with, independent third party recruiters should be ignored 100% of the time, and outside recruiters are a very mixed bag, with the early careers ones more polite but sloppy compared to the efficiency of highly experienced ones who border on sociopathic in their behavior.
I love a lot of things in their Edge browser, but man if the first ten minutes with it aren't spent disabling and removing stuff. Seems crazy to have browsers throw MSN news feeds at you in 2023 but here we are.
JSON Schemas are great.

These are actually what IntelliJ uses to validate all sorts of config files behind the scenes.

For work, we even do code generation off of the Meltano (ETL tool) spec and use it to validate reads and writes to the file (which we edit at application runtime) to catch errors as close to when they actually occur.
> You can't just set about:blank as an empty tab page any more.

For Microsoft Edge, both on my personal computers and work computer about:blank is my home page and new tab page. (Home: Edge version 115.0.1901.203; Windows Pro 22H2)

Under the "When Edge starts" setting, I select "Open these pages:" and add "about:blank"
> SH code is completely portable

Not exactly.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11376975/is-there-a-mini...
I didn't know Kris, but I'm so sorry for a loss that has impacted a lot of people I do know.

Reading her last blog post is hauntingly ironic. She describes making a major change in how she directs get her energy, with climbing cited as more representative of her values. And then she died climbing only weeks later.

I wish that she had more time to live in her new outlook. I also hope that her impact continues to resonate. RIP.

https://krisnova.net/posts/ego-death/
You might wanna check out Chronophoto for just guessing the time.

https://www.chronophoto.app/
You kind of can tell. Not 100%, but enough to be useful.

One recruiter asked if I wanted a job. I said no. He asked if I knew anyone else who did. I gave him a name. He said, "Oh, he works for X? I recruit for them; I can't present a person from there for somewhere else." I was really impressed. A recruiter with ethics? I made a note - next time I need a job, call this guy.

Sometimes you can tell by the way they talk to you. When you say, for example, "I mostly do embedded software", do they know what that is? Do they know that they should stop sending you web front end jobs?

As I said, not 100%. But if I can deal with the best 20% of recruiters (with an occasional mistake thrown in), that's still good enough.
One of the first things that some reading on psychology gives you is the realisation that the “real self” is an illusion. You’re a bundle of competing drives and narratives. Even you don’t know why you do stuff most of the time, and you make up justifications after the fact. So if one way of looking at things makes you stay home and cry, while another leads to going out and making the world a better place, maybe training yourself to pick the latter interpretation is a good thing.
I always get wrist pain from push ups also so I had to stop doing them
Wasn't the DMCA takedown of youtube-dl also caused by an example in documentation where they used a youtube link to some big name vevo artist?
Xargs is a nearly drop in replacement and probably already installed by default in most distros. You may need the -n 1 (one file per) and -P to parallelize.

xargs -n 1 -P 8
"\0" is not a valid JSON string escape sequence.

However, "\u0000" is.
> Because the same thing is true for movies. A theater ticket is going to be $10 regardless of whether the movie is 75 mins or 180 mins. Might as well squeeze more showings out.

Interesting – in Germany a small supplement for "over-length" movies was (or still is?) a commonplace thing.
Thank you for the thoughts! My injuries have all been professionally rehabbed, some of them by MDs who treat competitive lifters. I didn't give up easily. :-)

But to take an example, there's not much you can do to rehab a partial TFCC tear in your 40s. There just isn't enough blood flow. I could get surgery, but my TFCC is already better than 90% of surgical outcomes.

It rarely affects me in daily life, but I can't train wide grip bench presses without immobilizing the wrist with a steel brace.

Once you hit 40, you can still get strong. But sooner or later, a doctor's going to sit down with you and say, "There's nothing I can do to fix this that won't make things worse."

But as another doctor told me, "Look, you have a choice. As you age, you can spend too much time talking to your orthopedic surgeon, or too much time talking to your cardiologist." Physical activity is essential, but it comes at a price. Staying as injury-free as you can manage is everything.
The "I thought everyone could" stream of comments remind me of the Feynman story were he can count and read at the same time, while others can't (or something to that effect).

Reading a Feynman story is always fun to me, so here in his own words (I think I have the correct clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cj4y0EUlU-Y

Or read it somewhere: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/richard-feynman-thinking-diff....
When have you last physically given someone something written?
Another classic example of "sampling method matters" is that the average arrival time between trains is longer for passengers than the train operator. (Because a randomly selected passenger is more likely to be one of the many waiting for a delayed train, than one who happened to get on an earlier train.)
Yes. You can make it work on desktop. Not really an option on the server of course.

I was indirectly pointing out how Linux on the Desktop is never really going to happen for normal people while the kernel devs ignore obvious desktop requirements like this.

Windows solved this problem over 20 years ago.