jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I feel part of your dilemma is that you are defining the problem using two scenarios that will appear the same to you without previous experience with it.

Allow me to explain. Let’s suppose you have been assigned to do the task X and we want to determine how you should feel about it. In your dilemma you ponder how to differentiate between something being outside of your skill set or merely being new and you may tell yourself you cannot do it. Both of these are just different ways to react to the same situation if you have not recently tested yourself against doing task X. Have you done it before and recently (since we need to account for change in skills over time) you can objectively know if it is within your skill set or not. Otherwise, this is an unknown and only after truly tackling it can you objectively know if you can or cannot do task X.

Herein lies the role of anxiety, because in reality we cannot always try everything just to see what we can and cannot do because there are real world consequences to this that make it not worthwhile to test every aspect of your abilities. So when presented with a task, you have described two ways anxiety can filter out for you your comfort level:
1. Feeling anxiety because you have reason to believe it is outside your skill set based on previous experiences.

2. Feeling anxiety because you have not attempted it before, so whether you can or cannot do it is an unknown (which is a hook Imposter Syndrome can use to get itself reeling).

These are not the only ways of anxiety can have a role in this scenario, but it outlines where the anxiety can come from. For your question about a mental model, differentiating between the two could by asking yourself the question, “What about task X makes me feel anxious?” If part of task X includes some aspect you failed at before this falls closer to what you call “real” anxiety and if it is just the fear of the unknown it is closer to what you are calling “fake” anxiety (to be clear, as like others commenting here I do not agree with these terms as all anxiety is a real emotion you are feeling). However, in the case of the latter it being an unknown still means it may or may not be outside your skill set, so as mentioned above you cannot objectively know this until after trying it. Short of this, that is where your judgement skills and honesty towards yourself would play a factor in how comfortable you feel on taking on task X given unknowns.
Edit: formatting
The mysql behavior terrifies me because eventually you're going to end up with something you didn't expect and it's going to be a pain in the butt to track it down.
They’re great for denormalisation, which is often an appropriate trade off.
Interesting. Relevant to the same story, it appears the Biden administration is pulling support for Saudi Arabia's offensive in Yemen. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/2/4/biden-to-announce-a-...

I wonder, since this comes hot on the heels of a peace deal between Israel and Saudi Arabia, whether the US is in the process of pulling support for its client states in the region.
If your moral system means you need deep thoughtful comments to decide whether or not you should do business with someone who murders journalists, you have a right shit moral system.
That wouldn't be "without authorization" then.
"first hand"
Then, second hand.
Agreed, that is a significant cause. However, that must coincide with a updated monetization model for the platforms to account for the inevitable drop in user engagement. This free platforms model is a hot mess.
> To date, no court has tried evidence,

From a quick search, multiple courts have judged on merit, and found no compelling evidence provided.
I don’t agree. The President was just caught red handed asking Georgia to make up votes for him, and he caused an attack on the US Congress. People are actually dead because of the things he said — inciting an overthrow of the government.

Even our allied governments are saying he caused the riots. You can’t say the entire world is wrong, every single human being is deep state.
For this and a few other problems I ran into with Signal early in its lifespan -- problems that burned not just me but people I persuaded to adopt it -- I'll never put my neck out for this software again.

Reliability and a lack of surprises are the absolute most important features for the 21st century extension of the good ol' Plain Old Telephone Service, and it's sad and frustrating that anyone delivered chat software without getting that first.
Try using the 'old' subdomain:

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/kt91qk/signal_p...

It's a lot faster for me and also more information-dense.
Of course I'm not 100% sure of that, but there is a long sequence of events between smashing a window and getting to that outcome, unlike bashing a guy's face in with a crowbar where the consequence is guaranteed within milliseconds. The two acts are not equal and attempts to equate them are either idiotic or in bad faith.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/policy-2020...

Biden famously has refused to rule it out despite being asked repeatedly since winning the nomination.
Okay, so the solution to calm these crazy people down is for twitter to ban Trump and then post his tweets that supposedly call for violence on their blog, so the Streisand effect will kick in and even more people will see it? I think that at this point you have to ask yourself whether twitter's goal is actually stopping the violence and not provoking it.
Real censorship means that the government prosecutes you for speech, no matter where or how or to whom are you saying it. That was happening in parts of Europe from 1945 to 1990. This what is happening in USA right now is nowhere near that. It's just free market. If you're banned from a certain platform you can reach your audience in another way. No one is censoring your speech. It's just a certain company not wanting to serve a particular user. If it was actual censorship then you wouldn't be able to even print it on paper and distribute in your neighborhood.

Free speech != guaranteed access to a company providing access to a big audience
Another similar effort:

https://github.com/Spark-Innovations/SC4

(Disclosure: SC4 is my project.)
That's true. I mean, I mean the best dumpster diving is in rich neighbourhoods. Food banks also dry up in hard times. I lived in Nelson BC for a time when most people there were on welfare (it was at about 80%) and the food bank only had apples from the harvest and those decorative gourds so I got them and tried to cook them ( I was house sitting a Doukabor cabin for a Buddhist couple ) and even ate a few bowls of what was THE MOST BITTER thing I ever had even with a zillion sugar packets. But lets be real, what happens when the dumpsters dry out is folks steal. That's why it's safer to have a social net, for everyone.
Totally agree. Anything that touches multiple owner territory gets ugly pretty fast. You end up with a variety of Cell objects, Rc::weak pointers, etc. Again it's possible but not trivial to figure out.

Now I wish I read that resource before writing the library, as I would have saved a considerable amount of time (~30h / 2k lines of rust). Just using raw pointers (NonNull) everywhere meant comments like this [0] but was far more elegant and understandable overall.

It was spooky seeing rust segfault before everything was ironed out + valgrind + miri tested. But it's also really nice to have the borrow checker figure out sketchy lifetime extensions / iterator invalidation for you.

[0] https://github.com/dpbriggs/convenient-skiplist/blob/d781954...
Ok, but the problem is that part of the speed that Erlang is giving up in this benchmark is something you get back, with interest, if you make a more complex system, in terms of programmer time and program complexity. I suppose it's like comparing C with Python. C is simply faster, but you're making a tradeoff because it's slower to code with, generally.
I also use invert Y, as does one of my friends. Other friends, the same age, don't. Honestly, I think it's purely conditioning, I don't see any reason why either would objectively be better. You could probably "reprogram" your brain to use the other setting, although it would probably take a while to equal your previous skill.

It's probably a combination of the fact that we played 3D games (flight sims, Descent, etc.) before the mouselook FPS was invented, and we grew up on Joysticks before 3D games with mouse control became the norm. Those friends who don't use inverted Y got into games later than us.
No, the force is EXACTLY zero, not just very small.
Ho ho ho, try 3 sets of 10 with even 5 kilos, then tell me that :-)
What do you mean? Some girls tried to play you and you responded (correctly) by cutting them off. What does this have to do with infatuation?
I'm going to set up a PC for my five year old son, and have it boot into the shell only, no GUI. I know he'll love having it do addition and subtraction for him, but I bet he might want to start asking it questions, like "how many legs does a spider have?"

Is there a CLI program out there which does text-only Q&A via some web service?
Yeah, but the idea that a single atom of hydrogen was a threat hadn't occurred to me, and this was the real eye opener. Even though I've seen Star Trek and understood that deflector dishes were supposed to move "tiny bits" of matter from the ship's path.
>http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/c...

Wow, that guy really is a dick.
Videos of the libretto W100:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUmRHbtc68
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIxw19VXECc
I rather enjoyed this reply:

> To be fair, Marak is from New York. This, I'm told, is how they talk out there.
My good old trick to mitigate that is:

touch /-@

I also always do it in my home directory:

touch ~/-@

That's the first thing I do on a new host.

When accidentally running rm -f *, the command expands to -@ first, which is not a valid option and makes the command fail before doing any harm

rm: illegal option -- @
usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dPRrvW] file ...
That would be my guess too, although the package maintainer confirmed it on (presumably) a fresh install. I can't find a candidate rm command anywhere in the SRPM, so maybe an upstream file got merged into distrib somehow? I don't have access to an RHEL system to try it out, and can't find the distrib RPM yet to check.
This is massive because this law (section 66A) has been used extensively in the past to enforce internet censorship due to it's vague wording on 'objectionable' material. At different times, pastebin, github, youtube, facebook ..etc links have been blocked due to silly application of this law. Worse still people have been charged and jailed for just sharing or liking articles on FB or twitter. Good riddance for something that shouldn't have existed in the first place. There still is some hope for my country.
Cool! Got your email and will follow up tomorrow! It would be great to see the DX7 put to good use.
Of course how could I have not mentioned the blockchain? Thank you!

Part of the trick with blockchain is validation. Everyone is not going to keep a full node, not even close, and just delegating trust is not the answer. You want to trust but verify.

I'm not sure what the state-of-the-art is these days for SPV-type verification, but I don't see anything in the current DNSChains response which would allow any kind of independent verification of the returned data.

Edit, also see: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/User:Gmaxwell/namecoin_that_sucks...
It is completely false to suggest that 'political speech writers' and some influence of 'narrative' by state bureaucracies entirely discredits the free press.

'The problem with the press' are their own internal narratives and biases, not any external influence.

The press are generally free to report on what they see, and they do that. It's their opinion that gets in the way.

And ironically, if there are bits they're afraid to report it's definitely not political, it's corporate, for fear of losing advertising revenue.
Even individuals are capable to hold contradicting opinions.

> There are lots of contradictions in people’s strongly held beliefs. Someone might preach self-sufficiency in politics, but coddle their children. An individual might oppose abortion on the grounds that human life is sacred and may still support the death penalty for convicted murders. A person might argue for the freedom of individual expression in the arts but want hateful speech to be regulated.

from https://www.fastcompany.com/3067169/how-your-brain-makes-you...
It is not about Trump himself, but his supporters. If they are taking his election loss like this, how do you suppose they would take forceful removal from office?
~1700 people per day die of heart disease in America and have done so for decades. I think we should shut down the economy until we can get everyone's heart healthy.
Search bubbles by Google and others probably don't help.
The "performing" part isn't about the individuals on the team, but the team as a whole. Every staff changes (adding or removing) slows down the entire team for a period of time.

This isn't also about people not moving and denying them career or personal opportunities, just a consequence of team changes. It's a reaction to the idea that once you add more people to a team or an organization, you will see productivity gains almost immediately. It tells you that actually they will take some time, and often, a LOT more time than you initially thought.
I’m not so sure, as it would be the VP and members of the Cabinet (all Republicans) who would initiate this process. That kind of leadership in support of democracy could help de-escalate this.
The article says it will be opened and used again.
Congress is going to try and reconvene to finish counting the votes tonight.
What is needed are cooking methods and a general sense of what combines well with what and in what proportions. Once you learn those, you can apply them to anything. Recipes are maybe useful for baking, where precise portions matter somewhat more (but you can get away with a lot there too), or for people who want to reproduce some particular food.

But, it's not like you're trying to create a restaurant that may need good reproducibility of outcomes. Most home based cooks just want to feed themselves and their families and have some variability, and for the food to taste reasonably well.

Buying ingredients also gets less frustrating, because you don't need a precise list, just a general idea of what you want to make that day.

There are even books that help you discover taste affinities for ingredients.
Please don't do this here. HN comments need to get more substantive as topics get more controversial.

That takes discipline, but the alternative is trash, so this is a tragedy of the commons issue.
Clarification, I don't want them to self-test, and I agree with you.

I think there's too much hate on that Hydroxycloroquine study and its shortcomings, the risks of testing that are small (though not insignificant and especially not for those with light symptoms) compared to the potential benefits.
Interesting ive been in this situation multiple times with 2 rents as deposit and i always got it back. I mean there is usually written agreement and if you take pictures of the initial state of the place it is fine.
The title is kind of misleading.

> TSMC made every effort to avoid detailing the actual properties of that channel (every related question was met with the tautology: “those who know, know”). [...] We believe TSMC is employing a SiGe channel for the pMOS devices
What would be your expectations from funded projects? % of stock, some reward later,etc?
> It follows British media regulator Ofcom revoking state broadcaster China Global Television Network's (CGTN) licence to broadcast in the UK.

> The commercially-funded BBC World News TV channel broadcasts globally in English. In China it is largely restricted and appears only in international hotels and some diplomatic compounds, meaning most Chinese people cannot view it.
The thing is that fair use is a defense to infringement -- so saying this is fair use implies they would have been infringing if not for that factor.

"I didn't commit murder at all" doesn't have the same relationship to some hypothetical murder, rather it's claiming there's no link there at all.

The analysis does feel like it puts the cart before the horse and possibly ends up implying or easily being argued as implying a statement I think they were trying to avoid opining on absent developments in the lower courts.

I get why they would do that, but it doesn't make it less strange and I would worry that this could be analyzed to say, in effect, that APIs should all be subject to copyright.

It wouldn't even be the first time a Supreme Court ruling one way on IP had been turned on its head, either. That has happened a lot with software patents, for example.
A larger role will be the team you work on. If the team wants to WFH then your set, if that’s what you want. If your team goes into the office they will expect you to do the same. Companies that have a heavy management layer will be more likely to say to get real work done you need to be in the office - just a hunch.

Personally, my team would be half day a week encouraged (the same day for everyone), all else optional.
There are a lot note competitors in the video space. There's nothing like the chromecast audio in its price range
Seems like yet more "let perfect be the enemy of the good" thinking.

If you want a cut-me-off set to $X, and some lag might allow charges to reach X+Y before the cutoff took effect, which is the customer-centric answer:

a) don't offer ANY cap, simply let the customer's out of control charges just keep racking up to catastrophic levels that put them out of business?

b) cut it off as soon as you DO detect it exceeded their cut-me-off threshold even if by that point it has reached X+Y?
> But at least anecdotally the upper management I have talked to in tech companies are saying that WFH has dropped productivity significantly.

Well you need to actually do work to be productive remotely. Upper management doesn't really do anything.
As a tech lead, I totally understand that. I'm way more productive at IC work from home, but I really want to be able to meet with my team in person, at least sometimes.
Then how come the difference between the shasum's of "feedburner" and "flotilla" contains the date of JFK's death on Numa's Calendar? Huh? We're on to you, Twitterati!
Now that I think about it, mashable.com is a great example.
The article is not anti-sex.

Lots of people surf https://news.ycombinator.com/newcomments, I wouldn't read too much into rapid downvotes.
Reminds me of the final frames of this: http://i.imgur.com/6VBhD.jpg

We won't be ruined by what we hate, but what we love. Or even worse and not even with passion - we will be ruined/placated by things just mundane and addictive enough to keep us transfixed to screens.
And entropy-proof electronics.
If your startup fails, then you don't just have your grades for finding a job, do you?
Lately, I've been getting more and more frustrated at my complete lack of time that I can devote to doing what I actually care about: starting up TextMate and programming

Every friday night, my friends and I code from 7pm on. You should gather up a friend or two and do the same thing. You can always party on Saturdays.

If you're curious about why Fridays are a good day:

* you don't feel like doing homework
* you don't feel like going to sleep early
* partying on Saturdays is enough for you
* all the good parties are on Saturday anyway.
* you want to feel productive
I've taken the liberty of collecting source for all of the examples from that page, wrote some simple make files for them, and uploaded them here:

http://www.wikifortio.com/485712/lua_embedding_examples.tar

Another copy (you'll need to uudecode it) is here:

http://paste.pocoo.org/show/306763/
You only wear the wakemate when you're sleeping.

You can identify different phases of sleep (REM, etc.)

And the tagging is indeed the sweetest thing IMO, but you probably need a lot of the data before making a good conclusions. I found that I actually sleep really well when I'm sick or when I'm sleeping on the left side of the bed. Weird stuff like that.
The chat seems to suggest that this isn't actually live. Apparently it is just looping a video of him coding at some point in the past. The "Live Steaming" text will be red, not gray, when he it is actually streaming live.
Note the long-s discussion earlier in this submission.

Maybe life just really fucked back then.
Just watched him type:

"Random random = new Random();"

Too funny.
Maybe my comment came off too strong, but I'd not be surprised (especially given the audience for the WakeMate) if a majority of WakeMate users have a daily intake of caffeine adversely affecting their sleep cycle.

Another way to put it is this is premature optimization for those folks.
Congrats on shipping on a hardware product! The product seems great.
A couple of questions...
The site says the product is scientific. But the first paper I found after a bit of digging points to the use of Actigraphy which seems to be just a method of collecting data (even though you say it is a "clinically proven science").
The second pdf containing the excerpts does not answer the following questions.

The questions

1. Is waking up at the optimal time (light sleep before alarm) shown to reduce daytime grogginess rather than just wake-time grogginess?

2. Is the continued waking up at the optimal time free of any adverse effects in the long run ?
I did some googling to find answers to the above, but couldn't find anything layman readable or substantial. If I have to pay $60 for a product, it is really a pain to do the research myself.

Some excerpts

"subjects were presented a word list 1 min after arousal from different sleep stage ..."

"The most important finding from this study is that sleep inertia reduces decision‐making performance for at least 30 min."

If it makes me feel good just after waking up for an hour or so, then is it really that useful?

(Edit: Read the second pdf)
My money's on the bus in that fight, in any case.
Yeoman is awesome. Use it once, you'll never forget to again.
I've moved completely away from Google. DuckDuckGo for search, here.com for maps, fastmail.com for mail (using my domain, so I'm not locked in), Firefox as browser.

It was not as hard as I expected.

I guess the email was the hardest one do to. I needed to change quite a few addresses for different accounts. I've also put a permanent vacation responder stating that I use new email. It was definitely worth it. And the best: even from usability perspective, I like fastmail.com better than Google.
No, because they severly restrict the field of view, something that is not as big a problem on a closed race track.
My only hope is that they have recoded their not so powerfull search engine and maybe a new design? meeh
Even without that line, it is pretty clear that this text is not meant seriously. Although I personally like that kind of humor very much, I guess this is not true for everyone.
This should be treated not as the act of importation, exportation, reexportation or whatever you call it. It should be treated as the act of the right of freedom of expression?