jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
I was having some health problems that negatively affected my ability to do deep work. After six years of it creeping up on me, I finally got sorted out last year, thankfully.

In that time I built up a whole new set of coping mechanisms that I’m trying to walk back, because I’d almost forgotten the other side of deep work, like accidentally working late (up to and including insomnia), missing meetings, forgetting to exercise or eat. When you can’t work for more than two hours straight, juggling periodic tasks is easy. Almost a consolation prize.
PG wrote about this http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html and was referenced in this NYTimes piece Productivity Isn’t About Time Management. It’s About Attention Management. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/smarter-living/productivi...?
How does this “save big”? Isn’t supermarket ground beef about $5/lb?
Normally it's 250 deaths > 65 years per week, which would make it 36 per day

https://www.epicentro.iss.it/influenza/FluNews18-19#mortalit...
Paradise. When we were yung, we had it tugh...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
Great post. Recently noticed DND is not enough. As you mentioned, you actually have to quit the app in OSX so it's not in your app list when tab switching (with a red notification).
I am also confused by Japan's situation. The one thing that I don't think Japan can fake is the death rate. As long as the death rate does not significantly rise, somehow Japan is keeping control of the virus without the significant changes to life that were necessary in other places.
It's called SARS-Cov-2, not -19
Gotcha. Sorry I misunderstood.
Github for hosting the primary repository as that's where people will likely already have an account. As much as I don't like the closed platform, discord has overtaken IRC, so have a discussion channel there. If things scale to needing a non-realtime channel I'd wager a forum like solution similar to discourse would work nicely. It should be hosted in a way that at least looks like an independent website (i.e. at minimum buy your own domain name). Last, an announcement ML or other way to alert people to updates is a good-to-have.

Once those basics are setup it's a matter of attracting users. First and foremost your software needs to solve a problem that people are encountering. Once there's a reason to use the project, then there need to be incentives to assist in the development. Tell users clearly how they can help and provide some issues in the style of first-timers-only issues. There's going to be a good number of drive by contributions, but if they're handled correctly some of them can turn into repeat contributions. In that vein, issues/PRs/etc need to have prompt responses to keep people interested, they need to point out resources, and otherwise convince the community members they're being heard. Overall growing and cultivating a community is a ton of work.

For context I've been maintaining a fairly popular open source synthesizer project for over a decade. Feel free to ask more specific questions and I should be able to point out some ideas.
> They do that? I was under the impression my target audience(s) mostly shared corporate content.

They really do. Mind, not ALL of them.

If you think about it, writing on LinkedIn is hard, exactly because of the "professional performance" thing. Most people are afraid to get caught out as clueless (not saying they are, just imposter syndrome). BTW, that's why they share corporate guff: it's associating yourself with a brand you perceive as "strong". The majority of any segment is going to be like that. But the minority of any segment is actually there talking. And that's all you need, because once you hit on the pain points, you get talking about it as well, and the silent majority, who you don't see LISTENS.

I'll share my own data:
Professionally, I live at the intersection between NLP and financial marketing (pretty small niche!). Marketers don't care about NLP, and NLP practitioners usually don't care about marketing. But marketers have problems that NLP can be used to solve. So the question was how to even have that conversation, and around which pain points. I did an experiment that ran over a year, and I tracked the data, to see how it builds. A year on, I'm amazed at the results.

https://medium.com/skill-strong/how-to-build-an-audience-on-...

> dark patterns everywhere.

Not disputing that, unfortunately.
All the Americans I know who have moved to Australia rave about how much easier their tax is here.
Says no one who has ever raised kids.
The value is in ease of use for some cases.

Or, in other words, what’s the point of having a stable currency if you can’t use it in smart contracts?
Tesla at no point anywhere advertises they have a full self driving car ready to go. FSD optioned onto the car when you purchase is for "future delivery."
For 2d gamedev, I recommend raylib, GMS2, or Godot

If I had to pick one, I'd say go with raylib. Free, open source, lightweight, portable, friendly and helpful Discord community, super helpful and friendly and engaged lead dev, bindings to tons of languages, builds for many platforms, straightforward high-level API that is sufficiently documented by a simple cheatsheet, a great set of related gamedev tools taht are also developed and maintained by the same lead dev, and it's just a (C99) library, not an inverted-control framework. So you just have a while loop in main() that checks for whether the window should be closed and lets you do whatever updates in whatever order you want.

If you ultimately develop commercial indie aspirations, you may want to move to GMS2 as it makes it easier to do things like publish to consoles and integrate Steam APIs. Tons of commercial indie hit have been made and continue to be made with GMS2.

Stay away from Unity....2d is a second-class citizen in Unity.
> I'd suggest FreeTaxUSA.com as an alternative.

LOL I just tried to sign up and they rejected me because my personal email is on a .ch domain:

The Email Address can't be a foreign email address ending with .ch.

Wowwwwww.
I've been using it since 2 weeks now. It's a great keyboard. I was using the redox-wireless before this which is also really good and quite a bit cheaper. but the moonlander helps with my RSI and CTS more than the redox did. Got the white moonlander and a white trackball going now. Great for ergonomics and lessening the strain.

If you can spend the money on it I highly recommend it. If not you can try looking into self-building a redox (I'd recommend non-wireless as the wireless has some quirks atleast mine from falbatech does, falbatech has nice tenting and bamboo casings for split keyboards. You can buy separate parts and kits or buy them pre-built.
That reminds me, somebody borrowed my Galamian and never returned it... I want to read that bit about vowels and consonants again.

I think all of this is about you need to figure out how to practice or learn CUDA or Mandarin or whatever for yourself. My dad's advice on learning math was simple "Stare at the book til something sinks in, do the problems, figure out if the answers in the answer key are right". For some students, that's all they need to be told

What this guy talks about at the bottom of page is similar, i.e. there are people who know the materials and teaching methods that have worked int he past, but the only person who can teach yourself is yourself: http://www.allaboutjazz.com/janek-gwizdala-cooking-up-a-litt...
Feature-wise I like it. Unfortunately, I ran into a show-stopper bug immediately after the upgrade: I turned on FileVault (without really meaning to) and it got stuck during the encryption stage. The progress bar doesn't move and the estimated time remaining keeps increasing until it says "months."

So now every time I turn on my MBA 2011, FileVault kicks into high gear and drains the battery in under an hour, rendering the machine unusable unless it's plugged in. The only solution seems to be to reformat the machine. Yeah right, like I have the time for that.
There are some situations where it makes sense to label data as "too random". Cooked books, election fraud and steganography can sometimes be detected by checking for atypically high randomness levels.

In this context it night make sense to make a game less random as it might make it more realistic.

Also: Wheeeee, I'm in the article :-)
App Shopper is an App Store price monitor site. Developer's site can be found at: http://mindvirusgames.com/
They lost me at "Older entrepreneurs..." Not so much because of the blatant age discrimination, which is probably just the reporter's fault, as much as it was a reminder that what they're doing is kind of pedestrian, and will likely be eclipsed soonish by html 5.
It's an easy mistake to make. I know someone who did this very thing.

It's true that American education does a pitiful job of impressing upon the average citizen that (a) accountants rule the world; (b) you should therefore take a basic accounting class, and/or pay attention to the words in those IRS instructions that the government carefully mails to you every year; and (c) you should talk to an accountant for an hour every few years, unless you can't afford that, in which case you should probably still try to find a way to talk to an accountant, pro bono or something, because they might be able to help.
+1 for natural light.
What's happening in the field of biometrics? Is it ever likely that I'll be asked to speak my name out loud and that'll work as reliably (from the user's perspective) as a password?

I've always thought, perhaps irrationally, that the problem with biometrics is false positives: i.e. letting in someone who isn't you. I misttype my passwords all the time, and I think users would be OK with a "Sorry, can you say that again?"-type message on occasion.

Basically, am I in "where's my flying car" territory?
this would be a great way to spend fu money. pretend to be a small time contractor and then absolutely destroy companies run by sleazy conniving wheeler-dealers who try to short you.
My guess: for those cases when you want to invite someone. You could either tell them "just click yourself through mail.google.com" or send them a ready-made link in one go. Some people may prefer the latter.
Using two-character salts might be as big of a wtf here.
I don't think thinking about "the next big wave" gets you anywhere either. Zuckerberg and Anderson didn't figure out that social networking was going to be big - they invented it instead. When you think about it the basic idea isn't even remarkably clever. However, it turned out keeping track of friends online was really compelling for people. I have to believe this came as a surprise to them as well.

As always, the trick is to think about a problem you're having and to build something to solve it (a cliché at this point). That's certainly what Zuckerberg did with Facebook, which is why it was initially aimed specifically at college students at specific campuses. He was scratching his own itch. The rest of Facebook's story is one of coincidence and evolution.
First, the author doesn't understand what is meant by the expression "killing". It's not a morbid death wish for the company not to exist but simply to supplant their position as pace setter. Yes, IBM, Yahoo and MySpace still exist (and are doing fine in many respects), but what we're talking about is becoming the setting where innovation is going.

Google, similarly, will be killed not by a competitor rising out of nowhere, but by falling into irrelevance.

Be careful. What's the quote? "It's difficult to make predictions, especially about the future."
People said the same of Yahoo in the late 1990's. It had many competitors but wasn't really challenged for the top spot. Google came out of nowhere and relegated its dominance of search.

"Facebook, on the other hand, doesn't have any such flaws." ... "Facebook is as unkillable as Google." ... "You won 't kill Facebook. No one will."

Facebook and Google usurped their predecessors from out of nowhere. They both wouldn't exist if their founders said to themselves, "I'm not going to try to overtake Yahoo/MySpace -- they're unkillable." Your flimsy advice is now recorded to be ridiculed later because you seem not to understand the very nature of technology.

The next leaders get this sort of insipid advice all the time but, luckily for all of us, they aren't listening.
This makes sense for business travellers if you need to get to JFK for a flight at say 6pm on a weekday. Traffic then is easily 1.5 hours and the variability is too high to comfortably rely on it. If it means an extra hour or two of meetings for that consistency in getting to the airport, seems easily worth the cost of a limo to the airport.

As a side note these things are like venture debt - they seem to only work in boom times. Every time there is a tightening in the financial markets these businesses tend to fold, as in US Helicopter, NY Airways, et al. Bubblicious!
Thanks for the info! We will definitely look into that.
This is mostly out of necessity, we're still squashing bugs daily and aren't really ready to accept mass user sign ups yet :)

That being said, we _are_ releasing invites on a fairly regular basis (usually coinciding with new bug fixed versions, in an effort to improve the overall user experience)
It takes a special kind of entrepreneur to knowingly use a list of hacked email addresses to promote their own service.

"Nice Job" hint.io.

It ended up in everyone's spam folders for a reason.
Why would it be odd? When Europeans arrived they imported European agriculture and cuisine, most of which is non-native.

For instance I had pancakes for breakfast this morning. The eggs were from non-native chickens, the milk from non-native cows, the flour from non-native wheat, the canola oil I cooked it in from non-native rapeseed, and the butter I put on it from non-native cows. However all is not lost, I used maple syrup from native maple trees, and put blackberries in it that might have been native. (The baking powder and salt are chemicals that to the best of my knowledge do not come from animals or plants, native or otherwise.)

Edit: When I looked up blackberries I found out that there are several hundred species, and some of the popular ones for cultivation are not native. So I don't know whether that was a native berry.
Same, I'll probably be moving to SF in Jan/Feb. Somebody write an article about SOMA, please :)
Every microwave uplink frequency is listed on the the FCC's ULS site:

https://www.fcc.gov/wireless/systems-utilities/universal-lic...

Usually the uplinks are in the 10+ GHz band, and the antenna (usually looks like a big bass drum on the tower, http://www.steeltowerchn.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Micr...) is pointed towards the station's studios.

So hijacking it would not be trivial. You need to be in the line of site and be able to produce enough power to overwhelm the real signal, which isn't trivial at those frequencies. There's also probably something similar to ATIS to stop unauthorized transmissions.

Here's KIRO uplink from their studio to a tower atop Queen Anne Hill in Seattle. The exact location of the transmitter and receiver are in the locations tab.

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKe...
Then I burned my first CD on Windows 95, ended up with a coaster because I moved the mouse or Windows played a sound, and my "obsolete" Amiga would end up sticking around for another half decade... Amiga simply crashed far less and could do pre-emptive properly. A screen saver or music app didn't ruin CD burning. I ended up finally migrating to Win with Windows 2000 as Win was consistently worse until then -- at everything.

The Win 95 box, bought at insane cost as I spcced top end everything including SCSI and 10k drives became my first FreeBSD server - v2.1 IIRC - within months of (finally) buying into Windows. Kept the subscription to BSD CD releases until they shuttered it to support them...

Granted I was on 040 A3000 and A4000 with 24 bit retargetable graphics by the time of Windows 95, and was no longer earning the living off Amiga by then.
I keep seeing articles showing up on debugging network issues like DNS or something else. Makes me wonder how much engineering effort we are putting in to fight the tool. Have these people considered/investigated other tools like Nomad (hashi corp)? How much value Kube actually adds vs these issue?
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News? You've been doing it a lot, and we're trying for better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Given how many systems don't use proper password hashing algorithms, it's a lot of peoples' choices.

When it's yours, don't fuck it up.
You can't turn hundreds of them on and off in synchrony from your basement.
In fact there's excellent coffee in Ticino.
Have you ever heard the concept of the common antipattern of n+1 queries that the back-end developers try to avoid? What you are suggesting would create that pattern on the front-end too.
I am a medical oncologist in a similar position to you. I agree completely. There is a lot of hype over 'AI' and big data, and plainly ridiculous statements about replacing doctors etc.

The technology is fascinating, and there has been a lot of interesting and clever innovations. But the value add for healthcare is pretty small in the end. The value add for the actual patient is even more miniscule. There is some misunderstanding about what doctors actually do and what patients want doctors to do. Fundamentally, a patient wants to see a doctor that is going to take responsibility for their medical problem, and ideally their health. When this is achieved, the outcomes are usually optimal under constraints, and the clinician and patient are both satisfied. 'AI' as it is known today could never do this. Even if someone unveils superhuman general AI tomorrow, it wouldn't be able to do this.

There are various niche applications of machine learning which employ interesting technology in image interpretation, and this will be a useful addition to the suite of tools already present, particularly where non-specialists need to look at a picture or radiological image, and for screening.

But otherwise I expect that in 20 years time we will still be saying that EMR data is too difficult to deal with, and uptake of machine learning based software will be very low. We still don't have useful automated reporting of electrocardiograms, for example. So even sophisticated curve fitting seems to have trouble fitting these literal curves in a way that impacts clinical care.
I mean, liberal =/= progressives =/= democratic party.

Only in USA the word liberal has this very strange meaning one is forced to add "classical" to clarify its definition.
Trump is a master of equivocating - Michael Cohen said so, and if you listen to the hour-long call he made to Raffensperger, you may notice how good he is at saying things...without really saying them. This is super subjective though (which is why it's effective "Oh, no - s/he must have misunderstood me. I would never ask them to do something illegal").
The people that stormed the capital have been pretty clear about their position here: they plan to continue escalating unless Trump is installed into power for a second term. There's nothing we can do to meet people who think like that halfway; the only course of action which might avert further tragedies is to convince them that they aren't very powerful and won't be able to achieve their goals.
I must apologize if I hurt anyone's feelings whether or not they had something more appropriate to contribute.

I should have put a question mark at the end of my message.

Never was good at grammar to begin with.

I don't know if it's the Democrats or Republicans who are less trustworthy from one day to the next.

Wouldn't want to buy a used car from any one of 'em. Even worse a new car.

Anyway, if Hillary Clinton did something treasonous enough to get locked up it would have happened.

For how long who knows, but what would be equal protection under the law for US citizens to be protected from those who would threaten the sanctity of the US Democracy, especially from a position of power when that position is intended to preseve the work of all those who have come before and served without any doubt of their good intentions for all constituents?

So I'm very, very sorry.

I was completely wrong and I admit it fully.

Nobody's fault but mine.

He was fired two months ago.

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EDIT: almost left off a question mark again.
Doing the right thing is one thing. At times, doing the right thing and expecting it to work out well is where it becomes naïveté.

But that still doesn't make it a fallacious argument.

Sometimes doing the right thing is ineffective. And the aftermath of that crossroads has generally been a place that has not gone well in history.
The US had a very long running court case with Iran over non-delivery of weapons bought by the Shah. In international law, the US was still on the hook. There was a panel of US, Iranian and neutral judges adjudicating it and it looked certain they would eventually find for Iran. The Obama administration made a deal to pay off Iran in order to avoid potentially massive interest payments running since the 1970s.

Iran supports the Houthis in Yemen, therefore Obama funded the Houthis. Presumably the weapons Reagan sold to Iran in the Iran Contra scandal are too out of date to be useful to the Houthis.
By forming an interest group with other shareholders, so that you have enough votes to determine what happens with the companies assets (in an extreme case).

You also have some legal rights as a shareholder. I don't know about the US, but for example in my country there is a LEGAL requirement for companies to maximize shareholder value. Few people seem to know when they blame capitalist greed, when really it is a government law. So you can sue the company if you think they mismanage their assets.

Of course there are ways for companies to rip off shareholders. I think there is an old Philip Greenspun article about it, iirc he mentions buying expensive furniture and artwork for the offices.

I suppose it is part of the due dilligence before investing in a company, to check how they spend their money.
Better put a fuse or GFCI on that.

I remember the Cal ISO rolling blackouts of 2000-2001.
Elvish author here, glad that you like it, and thanks for the plug :)

To save people a search, here's Elvish's homepage: https://elv.sh
>American relationship with "Middle Eastern North Korea" must be destroyed,

Extrapolate that out for half a second please.

When the US, the west etc. cuts ties then the KSAs of the world get driven to the arms of Russia and China and other people who will happily do business with them no matter how many journalists they dice up.

Ok, so you get the Russias and Chinas and all those other people to cut pretty much all business ties with them as well. Congratulations, you've now reduced the number of opinions they care about to zero. That's basically what North Korea is. We can't even hold them accountable for killing a member of their own royal family in broad daylight in a foreign airport. The best we, or anyone can do is threaten military force when they get way out of line (relative to their normal level of "out of line").

It's better to do business with jerks so you at least have some sway when you ask them to "please act civilized and keep that crap under the table" than to cut them to the point where your opinion means nothing to them. It won't win you easy virtue points in the comments but realpolitik isn't about the virtue points.

A couple days ago Canada's PM wouldn't endorse some legislative resolution condemning the Chinese genocide because that would violate a trade deal they signed. Germany is routinely soft of Russia because they need the energy. This approach works.