skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Nobody I know is leaving a $70k a year job to take a sabbatical.

I took my first sabbatical at 25, with only a few years in the industry, making a lot less and I think $35k in the bank. Everyone told me I was crazy putting a gap in my CV, spending savings, etc. but I did anyway.

It was easily the best two years of my life, I travelled South America and Asia without a care in the world until the money was gone. Then I went back to work without an issue and have continued taking long periods off throughout my career. These days I'm a remote contractor, and even though I can and do work from anywhere I regularly still take months off at a time. I have a lot of savings too and a fully paid house in a country I love.

My point is that we create the anxiety for ourselves. A different lifestyle is possible if you make certain choices.
I think it depends on what intuitions you start out with.

If you teach yourself programming as a kid like I have, and get to know about object-oriented programming very early on, normalization is more intuitive. "of course the addresses go in a separate table from the users, just as you'd have an `address` object instead of just putting all the fields inside `User`."

If you start out using Excel a lot, and learn programming much later, the Excel way probably seems right at first. "Of course there's going to be a table with customer information, one row per customer, with separate fields for street, city, zipcode etc."
Very broad question.. company events are good for morale. You spend most of your days with your coworkers… it’s nice to have an opportunity to kick back and relax with them on the company’s dime. My employer is doing the party during office hours.
Avocations can turn into a nice revenue stream if the stars align. But online content almost certainly requires that you really work at it and think about what you need to do to boost revenue in ways that might not happen organically.
> At the time it was humiliating to be in my late 30s scrubbing pots and pans for the minimum wage

I’m not sure if this is part of America’s “temporarily embarrassed millionaire” syndrome, but I don’t see anything wrong doing dishes for 8-12 hours straight to feed your family… unless this is actually the norm in thinking and maybe it’s just my poor blue collar upbringing?
The "natural medicines" subtitle should have given it up. The definition of "natural" is as diffuse as it gets; everything is technically natural, so obviously "natural" becomes a proxy for "whatever the author likes today". In fact, watch he apply the "natural" adjective to DMSO:

> DMSO was a naturally occurring supplement

Mentions of "natural" like this usually mean objectivity is not in the room.

I also find it funny that he perfectly exemplifies why the need for blind studies:

> It had a worse effect in the food when they knew it was in the food, because it became repugnant to them.

Then proceeds to bash against "RCT fundamentalists". Obviously, we should decide on natural medicines by their taste.
Hopefully their engine SDK has 'correct' elf/linux binary generation built in:

- static libgcc/libstdc++ by default

- glibc ABI selection (see GNU binutils ld documentation, "VERSION" sub-section (2nd part of the page). This is the annoying part.

- libdl-ing all video game core system interface shared libs (vulkan,libasound, libxkbcommon, legacy x11/GL?, wayland code is statically linked), with proper fallbacks.
In my case it was on the weekend.
Is it Mac only? Is it just a chrome skin?
> That's what I'm thinking too. But if that's true, it means Ukraine has a real fighting chance to put them on their knees.

Which may depend on continued US support from the newly elected administration.
No one cares about this except marketing people.
Librebooting the ThinkPad T480
haha, I don't want to express disrespect to The Ancients, but I'm bewildered at the entire 3NF/BCNF thing, couldn't they just patch 3NF already by including the BCNF fix? Why do we need to bother with "3NF-but-not-BCNF" as a separate concept?

> a lot of things published on the relational model just didn’t have formal rigor, but people interpreted it as such.

I wonder if you may have something that substantiates this claim? I agree that relational theory doesn't look very complicated in principle, and it doesn't seem to be very "productive" as a theory. Compared to group theory, for example.
Used Access but preferred Approach back in the day and Retool definitely gives me back that RAD tool vibe.

As uplifting as it is, its limits make it just as easy to paint yourself into a corner.
I don't understand that comment. What do you mean "let's hope" if I can easily store a text content of configuration or log into a column?
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/t480.html
Playing games turns me into a person who makes sense
Maybe with the vast amount of upcoming AI generated content people will finally be forced to realize a thing that was true all along but we seem to have forgotten over the past 25 years.

Nothing on the screen is real. It's just pixels on a screen.
Ahh true, object oriented approach certainly helps making sense, and I assumed it by default. I'll think about that.
> it's hard to comprehend why Russia was unable to do anything at all

Easy. Because russia is all talk and no do. If you punch russia in the face it folds in half.
The concept of unconditional love is unknown to many cultures.

In the Netherlands children are a selfless act they are not a pension fund for their parents.
Is this South African also a US citizen? I think that matters.
The tech bosses who poured $394.1M into US election
to add to wikipedia’s biases - https://www.jns.org/wikipedias-anti-israel-propaganda-mocks-...
So, what, if Al Queda shot up a Boeing facility that would all be fine then? And so was the attack on the Pentagon?
> However, Turkey to the north is really not keen on the Kurds having any territory, so they'll do whatever they can to frustrate this.

Could it work that if the Kurds have their own 'official' region (either country, or province with-in another country) Turkey (Türkiye) would simply throw money at people to move to it?

If there aren't any Kurds living with Turkey's borders, would that be a win for Turkey?
> and travel, 4 or 6 months in each location.

At least have a plan first and make sure you understand visas. I have fiends who sold up everything and moved to Switzerland only to be turned back at the airport because they didn’t know they couldn’t just move their life there unemployed
Everyone seems so focused on writing email with AI when I think the biggest opportunity is helping people read and search email. I have an inbox with 300 unread emails. Which ones require an action from me? Which ones can I safely ignore? Can you re-write responses and allow me to review and click to send?
I've been using this for years; love it
> You shoud see a flat background with one large copy of the letter π floating a little above the background (closer to you).

To me these all look like they're reversed from what this says, like they're further away from me behind the flat part.
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> if you know how to

That’s a big if. I worked on a shell based tool for a couple years and eventually accumulated the know-how and toolset to write reliable code; but nobody else could contribute as the learning curve was too great.

I switched to Ruby for all new tools and never looked back. Performance is rarely a concern in this territory, and you can always offload heavy work to another process.
Ah, okay, yes, sorry, thank you!
So? If its use becomes widespread it won't matter.
This had always happened. Metallica is a great example of music that was once underground becoming huge and popular.

What changed is there is no new "underground" culture to take the place of what had become popular and mainstream.

Witch house in 2009 or so I think was the last gasp of the underground before shortly running out of air.

Now young people just doomscroll tiktok instead.
> They still thought they were going to have a renaissance with 386 PS/2 systems for goodness sakes.

Yeah but...

If OS/2 1.x had been a 386 OS and delivered on the promise: great DOS compatibility, multitasking including of DOS apps, and built-in networking, with a passable GUI based on Windows 2...

I think it could have been a hit.

I was there, supporting this stuff in production back then.

DOS was a PITA and getting networking working on DOS and still having enough of that all-important first 640kB of RAM left to run anything was hard. I was a master of it. My skills at it landed me several jobs.

NT made all that disappear. RAM was just RAM, each DOS session got all of a virtual instance's RAM dedicated just to it -- and a network drive looked like a local drive. It was like black magic. It was amazing.

Big drives, with a solid filesystem. Long file names. TCP/IP in the box, as standard.

NT 3.1 was amazing stuff, but that was in 1993 and you needed a £5000 PC with 32MB to run it.

OS/2 2.0 delivered this, smaller and faster, in a quarter of the RAM, the year before...

It was amazing. It was a phase shift in the industry. But the networking was extra, TCP/IP was extra, etc. etc.

And it was late. I just wrote about the beta of MICROSOFT OS/2 2.0:

https://www.theregister.com/2024/03/11/trying_ms_prerelease_...

This stuff was ready in 1990.

But if IBM hadn't screwed the project in 1985 or so, OS/2 1.0 could have done that in 1987 or so.

Before Linux (1991), before Windows 3 (1990), before 386BSD (1989).

It could have been the amazing thing that the hype promised. The tech was there and it worked. It could have been got ready in the 1980s.

A PC industry controlled by IBM would be no better than one controlled by Microsoft and it would have been more expensive.

But we all suffered years more of the crap of DOS and DOS memory management and Windows 3.x, because IBM fscked up.

I don't know what would have happened.

Maybe it would have forced the Unix folks to adopt Arm 20 or 30 years earlier and make RISC boxes that were cheaper and cooler-running than x86? Maybe those expensive IBM OS/2 x86 machines would have forced BSD onto Arm and what happened 25Y later with Apple kit happened a generation before with Acorn kit.

I am 100% not saying it would have been a better world... but it would have been a much more different one than the closed narrow imaginations today portray.
Yes but one core per chiplet or maybe an entire chiplet is not used. I can speculate why it's set aside but some official information or even a more educated guess would have been very informative.
With Intel outsourcing more and more fab work, and you have ARM slowly taking over, they’re slowly becoming middlemen architecture design consultants. Going to get worse as the market starts buying less and less of it too
Def not what really happened, since the arrangement down there more closely resembles macabre interior decorations than any reasonable funerary arrangements. The catacombs are the result of Paris being built on top of numerous underground tunnels that have existed at least since the Roman era but were massively expanded in medieval times.
That very strongly depends on which issues are important to you and which aren't. The more nuanced your opinions about any given topic, the harder it is to take anything useful away from a summary. Political platforms as summaries tend to be too broad in my opinion, e.g. reduce this or that or improve this or that, but without saying on account of what. In politics, everything is a trade off and if you want to increase spend on something then that money has to come from somewhere else, whether that's increased taxes, reduced spending on some other topic, or etc. Saying they want to increase the spend on something without saying how they're gonna get there is not useful.
I believe this depends on if you focus "beyond" or "in front" of the image
Wow aren't you projecting big time here? People have different goals and priorities, such as enjoying life while young.
Consider whaling, by killer apes.
That applies to Quebec only. Is OP in Quebec?
You underestimate what kids are capable of.

Computers are particularly easy for that age group to learn about, all you really need is internet access to read articles or possibly (pirated) ebooks, and your own computer to experiment on. A lot of kids have both.

Other industries aren't like that, some require expensive and uncommon equipment (biology, chemistry, now AI), some are a lot more dangerous (electronics, DIY), some require interactions with other people to practice (law, medicine, foreign languages), and nobody treats kids seriously enough to interact with them in that way, some have legal restrictions (medicine, driving cars) etc.

It also helps that, to a clueless parent, a kid learning to code is indistinguishable from a kid using their computer to play games, and plenty of kids do that.

Society doesn't let kids get a real programming job, even if they're perfectly capable of doing so, so hacking is often the next best thing. The fact that it's "cool" and that you can do it to impress your peers doesn't help either.

Incidentally, this is also why kids are such good drug dealers.
> journalist who has professional ethics

More like journalist who has to follow the editorial guidelines imposed by a billionaire owner more interested in protecting his interests than letting the public know the truth

> Especially if yours is a reasonable and polite voice. The guy who screams murder daily, spreads blood-boiling fake news and constantly causes controversy is gonna beat you by miles.

That is just a result of the economic incentives of social media. Monetization is based on the amount of views/followers, which are driven by rage bait content. The solution to this issue is rooted in economics.
Given that it's been available in Chrome for 7 years, if there were any security and privacy concerns we should be able to point to at least one abuse of this API right?
Mac keyboard layout configuration with hidutil
I'm going through a very similar thing for 2 years now. All I can say is that I don't wanna work for a company anymore, specially a FANG like setup.

I have some friends who work, sometimes they work remotely from my studio and when they do zoom meetings, oh man, ugh...
Do you accept interest on your bank account deposits?
Yup. Windows 95 first release did not support it. In only appeared with Windows 95 OSR2 a year later, alongside FAT32.

In 1996 I got an IBM Pentium PC to review at PC Pro and it had these weird little rectangular ports on the back, with no pins, and a trident logo. I called IBM and asked what they were, and after bouncing around a dozen people until I got a techie, he told me they were "this new Intel thing" called a "unversal serial bus". I asked if it was some debugging kit, and he said no, it's meant to be this universal I/O standard.

Then I got another long game of phone tag at Intel where nobody press-facing had ever heard of it.

But nobody had any drivers for it, and there was nothing to plug into it, so it never even became a story.

I can't remember now if I even wrote about it, but probably it was a passing mention. If so, I think I probably gave it the first coverage in the world.
You are right, now that I think about it, I was using php prior to their implementation of object oriented.

So I had no objects, the users were entities in my head, I had to keep track of their data, so a multi column entry in a database made totally sense to me at the time.
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Sorry… another question - what would you recommend these days for a home machine in an office (i.e not a loud and hot rack but something for a quiet but hugely beefy workstation that’s not $9k per CPU)? Preferably more cores the better since my workload scales horizontally quite well (that’s why I looked at Ampere in the first place a while ago and almost did pull the trigger)
There are two interesting POVs in this comments section:

1. Elections are the voters’ will. The voters’ will is being undermined.

2. Elections are votes + campaigning and there are laws around both. The campaigning laws may have been violated.

I find myself more in the second camp but I’ll acknowledge two challenges it has:

1. The mere act of questioning the result destroys faith in government.

2.The new government gets influence over the investigation as to whether it broke laws while campaigning
Thank you, the first three paragraphs with examples are very useful to think about.
It would take a really long time to count all the issues caused by dangling references to nonexistent rows I had to deal with in my career.

So yes - classical enforced FKs are still important - even if practice became „modern” (whatever that means )
For this reason, I have added framebuffer support in https://exaequos.com.
As long as qutebrowser still works, I'll stay loyal. Designed for vim keys first and foremost + python config is plenty for me.
Transitions and dynamics during human wakefulness and non-REM sleep (2019)
I've been using a tool called Fabrk AI to build agents that have tools that integrate with any service that has Oauth. I've hooked it up to github, slack and gmail for now.

I write issues in a repo and the agent pulls it down, creates a branch and writes the code. Works pretty well. Even integrates with e2b.dev and can run code.

This is the template I started with: https://www.fabrk.ai/agent/github-demo
The difference is who won. We cannot have interference and the wrong candidate winning, can we ?
Also, in this case the spotlight is on one candidate only. There were two condidates that had much more spending on TikTok but nobody is looking at the source of those funds.
so much this.. probably once a year I remember that nyxt would be really cool to use, but then I see it still doesn't support adblock on youtube and thus forget it again.
Oh ok I see why now.
I eschewed this by using getters (the reference part of weakref is being used when one doesn't want to use explicit getters).

Unlike reactish frameworks, I do not track dependencies but my reactive model is different and more fine-grained/lower-level. It's not needed.
Yes, the free plan includes all features for two weeks to give you a full experience. After that, basic stats remain free, but premium features require an upgrade.
I mean Gates made up the infamous apocryphal story that he was flying for fun, careless about IBM and whatnot. Not that he wasn't actually on a plane (coming back from a business meeting).

Gates told that story to reporters. That is fact. There's plenty of info on the internet, starting from Kildall' Wikipedia page and its sources. You don't have to dig that hard.

I'm sure Gary Kildall had his faults or negligence about the deal gone wrong with IBM. That's a complicated story. But still, he was haunted his whole life by the silly "went flying" story. And that's one thing that Bill Gates did to him.
Great points, thank you! The app already includes stats and progress tracking, and we’re working on features like Apple Watch notifications for pacing and effort guidance. Heart rate trends and VO2 Max estimates are definitely on our radar for future updates
> with enough C and somewhere to sit you can move the earth

Love this.
This entire thread makes me think you guys over there in the north-American continent are living in literal hell. And I'm not even saying this from a "first world" European country. I'm saying this from a so-called "shithole" country at the bottom of Africa, South Africa to be precise. The last thing I had to worry about wrt my medical was whether or not I was using all my "benefits". The deductible (or excess) is basically peanuts (or zero) for most things, and I have so far in my entire adult life never had to pay a deductible. I get a doctor's appointment at a moments notice, ER rooms are practically empty and really just 24-hour doctor's rooms with access to hospital equipment, pay for nothing out of my pocket, they cover all my meds, they cover my entire hospital stay, I wait for at-most weeks for certain specialists (that are all leaving the country btw, due to government), and never worry that medical bills will bankrupt me.

Of course, as with most things, government in South Africa is basically jealous of private medical insurance here and is trying to destroy it because public healthcare is a failure here. We really need to add a third item to this list: Nothing in life is certain, except for death, taxes and the government fucking up everything it touches.
sounds interesting, will try it out
Depends what sort of solution you want.

There's regular single primary/n replica replication built in. There's no built in automatic failover.

There's also Group replication built in. This can be either single primary/n replica with automatic election of a new primary during a failure, or it can be multi-primary.

Then there's Galera, which is similar to the multi-primary mode of Group replication.
What's curious is that in the US there are many IT trade certifications (e.g. A+) and many engineering certifications (Professional Engineer) but software engineering falls into a weird gap. I think IEEE offers some certificates but they don't seem especially valuable.
What partnership with Cambridge Analytica?

Like if you look into what that company actually did all the data stuff was a smokescreen for their speciality of getting your opponents caught in compromising positions.

Fundamentally, neither the Big 5 traits nor friend data is particularly useful for ad targeting (internally neither approach was successful).

Can you please be specific about the manipulation of elections?

I presume we're talking about Myanmar and the genocide. Personally I generally place responsibility for bad actions on the people engaging in genocide rather than the communication mechanisms involved. Should we have banned radio after the Rwandan genocide?

Hitler used radio very effectively, should we have banned that?
I like having individual files too as they can be independently managed by source control, linted, etc. And I've certainly been known to have a Makefile that's simply:

all:
@ls -1 tasks

% :: tasks/%
@./$<

And then fill my `tasks/` directory with individual executables.
Also not stopping to think of further scenarios like shipping addresses. Like what if customer wants to store multiple addresses for shipping. How many of those they need? Is 10 enough? Do I now need street1 through street10?
Thanks for your question! Our approach is different but dynamically adapting to your progress and availability is a feature we are implementing!. You also don’t need a target time upfront, we focus on structured phases and progression that suit all levels, especially beginners.
Every single time I tried it in the past, I failed. I never got them to work for me.
Why bringing virtual keyboard into the picture, we aren't talking about tablets and phones.
Workerqueue.ts
That escalated quickly! I think biology has probably shaped us to worry about different things. As you say, I think it's probably that women look for a mate that can provide a good environment for raising kids. There's also the status aspect. Men are also status sensitive but it seems like they are much more willing to sacrifice status short term in order to focus on work and earning money long term, while women want a nice house etc no matter what, and it's up to the man to provide.
This definitely published before Silicon Valley aired.
Wikis are a git repo that you can clone.

https://docs.github.com/en/communities/documenting-your-proj...
Thank you for sharing your experience! It sounds familiar and is exactly what we wanted to address. Our plans focus on personalized pacing and progression, so you’re not overextending too quickly. It’s designed to adapt to your fitness level and build up gradually over time. Thanks for comment what you think!!