jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
If you fall into a positive feedback loop where your mental responses to a particular goal starts to negatively affect your ability to complete it, step back for a moment then chop the goal down into chunks.

With technical books, I get those post-it flags and place a green one at the end of the chapter that I'm reading. In the chapter itself, I place purple flags at intervals of about 20 pages. Now I peg my attention to the amount of pages in those small intervals (rather than staring at some huge tome) and it relieves a huge amount of emotional burden because the goal is more clearly defined and realistic.

I read one of those chunks a day or ever other day. As I read, I highlight all the relevant info in the subsections with two different colors (one for "concepts" and the other for "practical application of the concept").

This method works great for me because going back to read the highlighted area indulges that "fast food" information intake and solidifies my understanding of what I'm reading.
Doing it every other day also takes a lot of load off of the mind. A pot of coffee gets filled drop by drop.
Oh I'm sure that eating those things is bad for your teeth if you don't brush them, simply because the bacteria grow on that kind of stuff (actually I already said this). I'm just saying that the studies sound unscientific; he sounds like he's trying to prove a point.
Many of these business cards are impractical because they are too large or to small or too thick or you cannot write anything on them.
I've witnessed something similar. During the 2008 Olympics, I studied abroad in Beijing and was pretty fortunate to stay at the BNU campus where they hosted the training complex for the U.S. Olympians. I saw with my own eyes a 5 story training complex built from the ground up in two weeks.

They did it in day/night shifts. One team worked day while one team worked night. At around the 12 hour mark they would switch off. They wore no helmets or masks and worked quite rapidly. There was maybe one or two hours when the building was not being worked on.

In the end, the product was impressive and sturdy. The building looked slick and I know for sure our athletes liked it. I saw the swim, fencing, and basketball teams walk in and out of it.
Well, yes, but the people giving it one star appear to not understand that they weren't the target audience. That's the point.
I do agree there is plenty of counter-productive hype against the scanners, as I am certain not each and every TSA employees will maintain their own personal stash of images of scanned passengers (as such hype would have us believe).

Still, the effort and money going into operating these scanners, along with TSA's not especially subtle opinion that the scanners should be made legally compulsory (whether the law support them or not), prompts me ask whether this circus would just motivate would-be terrorists to find alternate attack vectors.

As of yet, I've not read any news suggesting that anything meaningful is being done to improve security on air cargo, or even to better guard against bombing attacks at the airport security checkpoints themselves. Indeed, the scanners and the controversy they're stirring seem to make the latter an even greater risk.
Sounds similar the story about a week ago where are professor is being disciplined for recommending that a grad student's degree be revoked, because the student did not meet the requirements.

Robin Hanson from OvercomingBias says it best: School isn't about learning:

http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/09/politics-isnt-a.html
I've heard a GPU synth can be smaller. Not familiar with them enough to know exactly why.
Started on a pdp-8/E in 1973 with its staggering 4k of 12-bit memory. "Going to college to program" might have meant going to where the machines were as most of them were on the large size... We had to descend on the college computer centre, which drove the adults nuts. Rugrats running about, fixing their programs for them. Times were different then, but the graduate-to-hacker test was to start with blank paper and end up with a working program. It was too big and too slow, but at the end the new hacker was enlightened.
Hopefully a low number of new cases and deaths will make the vaccine passport idea go away.
This is for sure not a duplicate and should be restored to it's rightful spot.

Edit: Also, you cannot post on the other link for some reason?
PGP has one of the worst metadata stories in all of secure messaging.
Hasn't this always been true? Universities have always offered plenty of degrees in fields that are hard if not impossible to find good paying jobs in.
There are subscriptions for various levels of support, from $50/mo for 12 hour response time to $15k/mo for 15 minute response time.

http://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/
I posted a comment on this page when it was originally published, pointing out that his analogy to political science misses the mark - it's not democratization, it's full on marxism. The means of production (and distribution) have rather suddenly become accessible to the workers.

This guy's rant is just another example of someone in the traditional music industry not quite getting it.
Yes, final sign-off on these deals can be a slow and tortuous process. But it still seems impetuous and somewhat risky to make announcements based on a final sign-of that has not yet happened, no matter how secure your feel in the likely hood of that final sign-off happening. Unless, of course a separate agreement was made that if the deal did fall through at that late stage the halting party would compensate the other in some meaningful way.
No, presumably if you're in a highrise, you are not running a retail business and your employees can work from home. It's an impact, but not a material one.

A better analogy would be setting up a retail shop on a busy street where every now and then, the police completely close off the street, and when you ask them why they've done it, they tell you that it's none of your concern.

Yet, people still continue to open shops on this street, that is, until the customers start going somewhere else.
> No-one with any technical expertise would think that Dropbox was incapable of reading stored files.

I did. That is exactly what they made me think.
Islamic ritual slaughter explicitly does not involve blunt force or death from falling. The animal is killed not by hacking, sawing or jumping at its throat, but by making a single clean cut at it with a non-serrated blade, which is not to be shown to the animal.

I'm really not trying to make a true scotsman argument here, but unnecessarily brutal treatment of animals is prevalent through the whole meat industry and sadly can't be pinned down to a particular religious practice or tradition.

I personally believe that this is an inherent problem of the industry. I think that repetitively performing these jobs hundreds of times a day requires that you have absolutely no emotional investment in the animals. Add to that otherwise stressful conditions, and you have to take care not to develop sadistic tendencies and loathing of the animals.

> If you actually believe that which you're saying, you'd have no problem slaughtering your dog.

I'd have a problem slaughtering my dog, but that's besides the point. I just don't believe that it would somehow be less humane than slaughtering some other animal. In fact, if I were to slaughter my dog, I'd probably take extra care to do it in the most humane way possible.
Singapore is authoritarian and corrupt but look at what happened to Anwar Ibrahim in Malaysia.
Well, that's not strictly true.

If by "aid" you mean the video, well, the Pali Canon (the oldest known buddhist meditation writings) talk about kasinas, which are visual meditation objects, though they're not especially popular these days.

And of the "Three Jewels" that support buddhist practice, one is the sangha, which can be translated as community, so it's not always true that meditation should be a solitary practice either..

I think guided meditations like this may be useful for beginners, though that being said, I think no stimuli may be better in the long-run than even soothing stimuli.
That link only got me the first page (on mobile Safari). This link has entire pdf: http://www.realtechsupport.org/UB/NP/Numeracy_BabylonianAlgo...
Yeah, kLabz's haxe-react is the one I've used in the past because kLabz seems to be active keeping it updated and I've been very happy with it (although I think the readme doesn't do it justice)

My work at the moment is WebGL-heavy and DOM-light, so I haven't needed DOM frameworks much, however the next time I do I'm curious to try haxe 'coconut'[0] which is a react-like ui library written for haxe

I think when building a web app that involves assembling components from libraries and frameworks, TypeScript is a strong choice because there's so much material out there to work with, all designed for TS. Whereas if you're building something for the web with few dependencies and primarily in-house code, haxe starts looking more attractive

I'd love to see haxe get to a point where it can frictionlessly integrate with TS codebases so it can become an attractive choice for any frontend work but it's not there yet. Lots happening in this direction however; maybe in a few versions time.

[0] https://lib.haxe.org/p/coconut.ui
Neat website, the simplicity is nice.
The essay begins with a thought-terminating cliche in the third paragraph:

>This is someone who repeatedly speaks admiringly of Charles Murray, puts Nick Land, Razib Khan, and various other fashy types on his blogroll, and openly advocates eugenics.

>The claim that he’s troublingly invested in racist bullshit is straightforward and, frankly, uninteresting; anyone trying to dispute it has a disingenuous agenda most likely involving racist bullshit.

Ironically enough, the essay throws an accusation of "tedious Gish gallop working its way through a host of minor claims" into the mix, also in the same third out of 100-odd paragraphs. Thank you for providing a morning chuckle.
NVENC/NVDEC are not CUDA, they are API's for accessing the fixed function hardware on Nvidia GPUs. Same with AMF, just for the AMD fixed function hardware. VAAPI/VDPAU/DX*/others in the chart with the exception of OpenCL are OS or cross platform APIs used for abstracting over access to fixed function video decode from many vendors without needing to target each vendor individually. Again, nobody is using any of these APIs for GPGPU for video encode/decode, it performs horribly.

The only GPGPU library in that chart is OpenCL, used for accelerating custom video filter effects like blur. The table says OpenCL is supported on Linux, Windows, Mac, and Android devices (with GPUs capable of GPGPU) for Intel, AMD, and Nvidia. The Pi isn't supported because the GPU isn't capable enough. That leaves the only capable platform not covered by that could be as iOS (walled garden reasons). I.e. I'm not seeing the gap you keep referring to for GPGPU APIs, just a task (video coding) that doesn't work well on general purpose hardware.

As for ZLUDA, why is it needed then? CUDA was and is extremely popular as Nvidia has been at the forefront of GPGPU (hardware and software) for over a decade pushing CUDA along the way. OpenCL didn't even get comparable until 5 years after CUDA kicked off. As a result there is a large amount of CUDA code out there that people don't want to rewrite just to make it portable. Hence projects like ZLUDA for Intel which does it transparently and ROCm from AMD which helps automate the porting of code.
I've tried to hide / report things in the feed but it keeps feeding me the same BS I don't want. So yeah, they show what they want us to see.
That may be true. But now he’s German (perhaps) and really ought to be treated as such.

Or I may be talking from a hopelessly American perspective where immigrants ideally integrate and cut ties with their old counties.
In my case, it was just me, the pilot, and 3 tanks of fuel. The pilot ended up breaking a couple ribs on the fuel tank, but outside of that and some bruises on us each, we were okay.
Probably they are still cooling down the reactors, as least somewhat. The effect is called "decay heat" and does take quite some time to completely dissipate for reactors of that scale.

However there is also a lot of groundwater leaking into the basement/reactor complex apparently, which then needs to be pumped back out.
If they denied you water for 18 hours, you have a lawsuit. Get hold of a lawyer.

What I can't understand is why they were so motivated that they had people doing leg work - they had field agents check you out, go to your apartment. That's a lot of effort in contrast to an electronic trawl of your records.

You must have really scared them. I really wonder what chemical it was that showed up on the sensor...
This article is flat out wrong about the claims it make on ember-data - an optional dependency. It's trivial to pull data via a standard jquery ajax call and use plain old objects rather than first class models.
That's awful. I'm half-Mexican and look like a really tan Jewish man and the treatment I received in the wake of 9/11 (having also been the first time I decided to grow a beard) was awful. I had to show two forms of ID to deposit money and the bank for some reason was rude and ended up refusing to let me deposit my paycheck, several people threatened to beat me up and chased me out of stores, and I wasn't able to make it through security at the airport without a "random" patdown until last year. I'm not even Middle-Eastern, I just KIND OF look it. I can only imagine what others go through.
Internment is a revisionist word to make it sound less harsh. They were concentration camps.
> my closures are executed oh, about 100 times a second (e.g. completely negligible perf hit). This is a seriously flawed benchmark.

Take Node's case where you're accepting HTTP requests. Each request is going to require a new instance, and call into the connection listener. If the connection listener contains all the function declarations for all events attached to the client then you loose the performance you could have had by v8 using a previously optimized function. The benchmark was intentionally made to show worst case. I don't expect every application to magically run 80% faster just because they moved some function declarations around.
If you could provide information useful enough to provide a competitive advantage in investing, why provide it at all? Just invest in the companies yourself and put the millions in your own pocket.

To me, what it looks like (not saying it's true) is that it's a ycombinator shill company the backers of ycombinator are using to pump up other companies. After all, a lot of these companies are successful/bought out because of self fulfilling prophecies: they're successful because people think that they're successful.
The only evidence of short positions given is behind a paywall...

https://theweeklyupdate.substack.com/p/the-bull-market-inten...
I don't disagree with this, but it's lacking important context:

A few extremely wealthy people can cast their influence (via tv/social media/news ad buys) astronomically farther than a vast majority that might contribute $10 or $20 to a political campaign.

So you might have 90% of the industry at one end of the political spectrum, and 5 fabulously wealthy at the other end. And those 5 will set the narrative for what the perception of all of us is. If this weren't true, this article wouldn't have to exist.
I think Uncle Bob got cancelled /s, but politics aside, I don't think he was necessarily wrong about good code documenting itself, but it came with a lot of direction about what then exactly constitutes good code. If people don't bother to hone the skills of good types and methods, well named and with clear responsibilities, of course they're not clearing the bar to drop the comments. Having grown more senior, I believe I have gotten a little better at expressing meaning and intent through the code itself, and I'm surely writing a lot less comments because of it, which seems a win overall.
Wow. The written equivalent of a YouTube conspiracy video. The factual claims aren't facts, e.g., the NYT had nothing to do with the demise of local papers, if you could point to a single cause it would be the loss of classified advertising. And the accusations are outrageous. Far from "all", nobody at all is "being controlled...and enslaved by the evil octopus of the New York Times."

The link below may overgeneralize, but it dissects the piece in some detail.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epd4je/soylent-founders-unhi...
Pushing Democratic rhetoric. They drank their own kool-aid by thinking they were responsible for the 2016 election. Perhaps they were but moving to overtly biased reporting was not the correct solution to that.

Edit: ombudsmen are the solution.
Yes, when I'm looking for work I turn on the looking-for-work thing on linkedin. I'll get 1 maybe 2 generic pings over the next few months for "fullstack dev" (which I'm not - I do server-side or low level software), but that's about it.
"widely believed"? Believed by whom and why? Dodd-Frank is not a secret. There either is a requirement in Dodd-Frank act or not. If there is, you or the persons believing it could just quote the relevant text.

According to Vlad from Robinhood, as said in Clubhouse interview with E. Musk, there is discretionary (i.e. arbitrary) part of the collateral requirement set by NSCC.

Initially NSCC asked RH for $3 billion in collateral which RH didn't have and they managed to negotiate it down to $700 million, which they did have.

Which begs the question: if $3 billion was required by Dodd-Frank, then did NSCC commit securities fraud by agreeing to lower it to $700 million?

And if $700 million was enough to satisfy Dodd-Frank, then why did they ask for $3 billion initially?

And what if $500 would be enough? Or $200 million?

Or maybe Dodd-Frank doesn't dictate collateral requirements on an individual stock at all?
Yes.

https://github.com/racket/racket/wiki/Organizations-using-Ra...

Besides of course all the Racket pages/systems (home page, package system, continuous integration system etc).

E-commerce is also possible.

https://defn.io/2019/08/20/racket-ecommerce/
"matchacha.ro, a small e-commerce site selling Japanese green tea"

If you are into quilting, then https://www.youpatch.com/
uses Racket.
> why doesn’t the do while tight loop result in 100% cpu usage?

The main loop tries to read characters using the getchar() function, which in turn pokes them out of a buffer inside the "stdin" FILE struct.

If the buffer is empty, somewhere inside the libc, it calls the read() system call on the standard input file descriptor to get more.

If the kernel doesn't have any more data to return, the system call blocks. I.e. the kernel marks the thread as waiting for I/O and no longer schedules it. Once the kernel has data, the thread is scheduled again and the read() system call returns.

And before the obvious follow up question comes: If all programs are blocking on I/O and the kernel doesn't have any threads to schedule, it schedules an "idle thread" that spends its time slice throttling down the CPU. The CPU usage that process monitor programs are displaying is basically the amount of time a CPU core is running something that isn't the idle thread.
Listing someone's claims is not the same as an endorsement of them. I find the article quite neutral and well-written. Writers cannot and should not speculate on why a jury may have decided claims were deficient because juries don't supply justifications for their verdicts, although jurors may choose to give interviews afterwards.
Having sat on one case: More difficult than one might anticipate.
That makes sense. I think I was using Sublime as well -- I experimented with making the world's hackiest syntax highlighting file to show embedded Pollen commands. (IIRC, Sublime was unamused with the notion of ".html.pmd" as a single extension.)
The Phantom Tollbooth is one of my favorites, I loved it as a kid, and I think it gave me a great appreciation for puns and etymologies and logic.
Drive in it.
I do agree that if, as seems to be the case, Teslas are designed for upgradability, that is a key difference. However I still maintain that from a purely financial perspective it's cheaper to maintain an old car than buy a new one, especially when you account for depreciation. You can keep an old car going almost indefinitely if you do the maintenance. Most people don't WANT to keep their old car forever though, and I don't see any clear reason why Teslas will be any different in that regard.
I much enjoyed this old TED talk on the Intelligence of Crows by Joshua Klein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXQAgzfwuNQ
Isn't this done automatically now in Firefox? As in, you don't need to even install the containers add-on as Facebook and related properties are automatically opened in a default Facebook container?
When I looked at 0 and 1 they don’t seem to have anything to support the notion that nobody has anywhere to go, in fact they seem to indicate the opposite - that Amazon may pay less than similar jobs in the same area. 0 seems to indicate that counties should not give Amazon incentive to bring fulfillment centers there because they aren’t worth it to the local economy, while 1 says Amazon pays less than similar jobs in the area.
Erlang is great, and I got used to the punctuation, but it's kind of a pain when you're moving code around.

Oh, now this is the last thing, gotta take off the ; or replace a , with a .

At least when I was starting out, I'd have loved a more C-like syntax with {} and consistently semicolons. Of course, Elixir came and just got rid of most punctuation, which I like less.

Anyway, it's consistent and after a couple weeks of messing it up, I can consistently see where the mistake is from the compiler error; after several years, I still sometimes mess it up, but oh well. I can't recall having messed up the punctuation so much that it still compiled but wasn't what I meant, so it's almost always quick to recover.
Thanks for the article! How did I not see this before?
Didn't know that POSIX has obsoleted -a and -o either.
I guess I have some shell scripts to rewrite, heh.
Wow, I have an incredibly similar experience. I made a PHP news script called "CzarNews" back in 2003 that was widely downloaded and used, and is still used on many sites today.

I too am now a bit embarrassed by the amateurish-ness of the code, and the security vulnerabilities within it. Previous versions of it back when I was actively working on it even hit Secuina security advisory lists under "high" and "severe" categories and led to my server getting hacked through a remote file include vulnerability (thanks PHP3/4 register_globals + allow_url_include INI settings on by default!). I learned a lot about PHP (in)security that summer, and had many angry users to deal with. Your experience surely can't be worse than that.

In addition, I too have NOT put the code on my GitHub account, because it's nothing like the code I produce today, and I don't want people to get the wrong idea about what kind of code I produce. I have never thought about just owning it and wearing it as some sort of badge of honor though - this thread has made me re-think that. It might be interesting to highlight its success and the lessons I learned through the process.
Having done passion projects for 15 years, the elephant in the room is: Do you have dependents and do they support you? At some point in time, your worthless obsession will feel like selfishness to your dependents and yourself. Its a material world after all. This is a great article, but a reality check will be helpful!
As a self-employed contractor in Poland I can get away with retaining ~75% of the sum of my net invoices(sans sales tax, which is transparent B2B) as take-home pay.

For that I get rudimentary health insurance - only really good enough for a hospital stay free of charge.

The tax rate is a flat 19%, so I would wager that the tax wedge is likely smaller in eastern Europe than in the US.