skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask yourself this question.
Where are you now?

Where will you be tomorrow?

Where will you be in a month?

Where will you be in a year?

Now as yourself where you will be if you made the choice to spend an hour a day on task X.
Where will you be?

Repeat every time you decide to open a new browser tab.
It is a very slippery slope every time you unconsciously go to youtube, forums, etc.
The first step is to become conscious of the time sucking activities.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to buy a laptop with a matte (no-glare) screen?
It seems most manufacturers switched to glossy or anti-glare these days. What happened to good-old matte screens?
Very helpful. Prolog is more of an expert system(my classmate used that for smart navigation for big city traffic when GPS was not available then, not sure how that can be done though). AI is more of neural network nowadays that is learning from some sample data set and then make decisions out of that.
Just read the paper, it's explained. Or read the presentation, it uses pictures.

Basically they run R, a single threaded statistics tool which is setup to hog a core, and in some other cgroup a wildly multithreaded tool. If you have a NUMA system (check with `lstopo`) then it's possible that the scheduler thinks the many tasks in one domain of cores is balanced with just R on one core of another domain. Meaning you can have several (ex: 7 out of 8) cores idle. It has to do with the way hierarchical rebalancing is coded, and that their 8x 8-core AMD machine has a deep hierarchy.
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Rust doesn't require you to track down memory corruption in safe code.
I'm confused about the point being made. If you purchase something online across national boundaries, isn't the company you're buying from subject to different taxes and tariffs than when customers from their own country buy? And in the case of Netflix, don't they have to negotiate different contracts with content owners to sell in different countries? It's not like they're just doing it to be dicks.

Or am I missing something?
ATS claims to support memory safe functional programming without GC. I never used this language, though.

IIRC the idea is that allocating memory or writing something through a pointer returns a magic "cookie" value which certifies that the pointer now points to a block of certain size or data of certain type. This cookie can be bound to a variable like any other value and passed to other code together with the pointer so that the code can know that it's safe to access the pointer.

There are rules - cookies can't be pulled out of thin air or cloned, have to be destroyed during deallocation, etc. All of this is checked during compilation and removed from the final executable.

http://www.ats-lang.org/
It was originally closed as a duplicate, the other question had more detail and mentioned the --no-preserve-root flag.

Now it has also been merged with this question. The helpful replies are still there, but the incentive to use the Stack Exchange sites for other purposes is reduced. I think this was a nice solution in this case.
Can I answer my own question?

Yes! Stack Exchange has always explicitly encouraged users to answer their own questions. If you have a question that you already know the answer to, and you would like to document that knowledge in public so that others (including yourself) can find it later, it's perfectly okay to ask and answer your own question on a Stack Exchange site.

http://stackoverflow.com/help/self-answer
Somebody might have more information on that, but what I observe is that you run into two problems with those matte displays:

1. Touch is hard and expensive.
2. Contrast seems to be not as impressive.

Do you see any parallels to your own observations?
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> I don't think the limiting factor here was the intelligence of the audience, given that he was presenting at the Perimeter Institute.

As the PM, his audience is always far larger than those in the immediate vicinity. Not to mention the gaggle of non-technical journalists who were there.
Well the fact that this is a viral news item implies that this is unexpected.
I don't think the idea has anything to do with guilt. From what I've read about the anti-fap movement, there are two camps (that do overlap). The first camp is made of those that think masturbation is morally wrong (for religious reasons or simply because it leads to easy objectification of others) and those that realize that limiting something with such strong urges can do wonders for your focus and self control (I think because masturbation is such a short-term feeling of gratification). Since OP is asking "how can I focus?" instead of "how can I not go to hell?" the response was more in line with the latter mentality.
But ugh. Suburbs and driving.

If there was a light rail to an urban center and I could get my daily/weekly errands done via walking or cycling, sure.

But the car centric culture of, well, just about everywhere is IMHO grosser than an "urban prison"
As an American I would be far more concerned about a leader who knows little and makes airs of knowing more than an intelligent leader who dumbs themself down... The latter has an outside shot at being wise; the former has an outside shot at being dangerous.
The fact that you're not doing what you're "supposed" to do means there is a conflict that hinders you. In order to get your tasks done you have to dissolve your conflict(s) first.

However, I am afraid this is not straight forward and something no one on the Internet can do for you.

Suggestions like exercise, a healthy diet and meditation are great advice but there is only so much these things can do for you.

I guess your issues are on a subconscious level as it seems that you haven't identified them yourself. It could be anything, really:

Regrets of the past, a lack of social life, low self-esteem, worries about the future that need to be addressed ...

I haven't cracked it myself but it is astonishing how powerful your own body's mechanisms are that keep you from solving your real problems.
Stuff like never feeling you have enough information to get started or even physical pain that makes you believe you have to solve a health problem (that actually isn't really there in the first place) first before you can do anything else.
>>a proper x86 as in the article that can saturate a 1Gbps

"x86" covers a lot of ground. Certainly, in the "about $100" range, your choices in X86 land can't saturate 1Gbps either. The x86 box in the article was $280 total. About the same cost as the logical upgrade to the EdgeRouter Lite...their ER-8, which can saturate 1Gbps, and has 8 ports.
The 21 days rule is a nice trick. Usually by the time 3rd week's finished you realigned enough stuff stably to sustain.

anecdote: in college I would work in any context, the hubris and desire was strong enough to make me forget about everything else. Nowadays I'm very much context sensitive. Being in a library is godsend. A dedicated work spot (could be anything) is also required.

Basically, don't parallelize, linearize, but in a focused manner.
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I disagree. Most other forums do not lock or hide useful threads that are popular, gaining substantive replies, and generating meaningful discussion. In the more traditional moderation perspective, moderators have incentive to keep active discussions alive, because they're usually considered staff and they want to generate traffic. With StackExchange, there is no vested interest from the moderating audience, they just want to click buttons; there is little or no incentive to ask about the macro-level effects a moderation action may have on the site.
The civilian C/A code isn't protected at all. A modern spoofing attack works by initially providing the target with the same GPS signal that the target is already reading. By "same" I mean phase-correct for that target in that position and time. Then the magnitude of the spoof signal is increased such that the target's tracking loops will follow the spoof signal instead of the real signals. Finally, the spoof signal is slewed in either space or time to drive the target's position or time estimate to where the attacker wants it to be.

There are a few anti-spoofing defenses available right now, but they are either expensive or ineffective. If the target has a high-quality inertial navigation system or clocks, then the slew rate available to the attacker is greatly reduced. There are also some defenses related to DGPS, but they require a separate base station and communication side-channel to execute.

Right now, the hardware cost to deploy an advanced attack like that is relatively cheap, and subject to Moore's Law. A GNU Radio USRP could do it right now, for example. The hardware cost to defend against it is expensive, and not getting any better. Changing the signal structure to incorporate cryptographically strong authentication is the only solution I can see to swing the pendulum back the other way.
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It's a very common problem, perhaps especially among programmers: PG talked about primarily working on a computer that had no Internet, RMS talked about using only a computer with no browser, and limited graphical capabilities.

There's a book written about the science behind motivation called The Procrastination Equation by Piers Steel:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Procrastination-Equation-Putting-G...

The following has a pretty good summary:
https://alexvermeer.com/how-we-use-the-procrastination-equat...
Haskell has 3 major problems that are completely distinct in my opinion.

Biggest technical problem: lazy evaluation. Other people have said more than enough here.

Biggest cultural problem: technical oneupmanship and code golf. Haskellers can get so caught up in no-compromises stylistic competition that it makes it hard to get anything done. If you finally finish up something that accomplishes your goals, your teammate is gonna come in and rewrite everything you just wrote so he can feel happy with it too. And then lecture you about how lenses are wonderful and how you need to learn the principle of least power.

Biggest community problem: a small minority of extremely obnoxious and toxic assholes. They raid other communities and make fun of their languages and members. They rant against and mock everything deemed inferior. They treat people like they're idiots for not understanding basic but unfamiliar principles of the language. And nobody ever seems to shut them down, despite the fact that the majority are pretty welcoming.
All species self-regulate. If you feel you're able to provide notable research countering this, please do; happy to admit I'm wrong.

https://www.google.com/search?q=species+self-regulation
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> I believe technical competence is uncorrelated to adminisitrative effectiveness.

I don't. Many Asian nations (including Singapore, China, etc.) are largely governed by engineering majors and I do believe this has been helpful for improving administrative effectiveness. This stands in stark contrast to countries where governance is dominated by either lawyers (the US) or military members (many other developing nations).
Another thing that's nice about the BSDs is that they are whole systems, not different sets of kernel+utilities packed up by third parties.

Generally speaking, that means that there's one canonical way to do something instead of a bunch of different ways like in Linux (think 'ifconfig' vs 'ip'). Of course, FreeBSD ships with three different firewalls[0], so that's not always true.

There are downsides, of course. A freshly-installed BSD has a lot less stuff than a freshly-installed OpenSUSE/Ubuntu/Fedora/etc.

[0] https://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/firewalls.html
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It's funny we make the presumption that the natural way is the best way.
Color accuracy on matte displays is appalling.

Also, my opinion but, it is my understanding that a matte display requires a raised bezel around it (no edge to edge glass) which has a decided aesthetic disadvantage.
I would say that AI eventually went entirely different direction, instead of trying to specify some set of symbolic rules encoding knowledge, we currently throw lots of data at layered neural networks.

So, if prolog has future, it probably is outside of AI research.

I would say, that verifying is one of the places where logic programming never went away. I.e if you ever wanted to write type checker of protocol verification, you might write an embedded prolog first.
See below: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11514827

It's close enough. Netflix refuses to sell you anything when you access it through VPN.
How about make apps show us the data they collect and if they dont they dont get access to the store. Google has an pretty awesome page that lists all that crap they collect on you and you can delete it from there.

On the google store site.. when browsing apps, there should be a tab on every app page, where i can see a sample of what it collects and a declaration of what it does with that data.

after installing the app, in the app manager, i should get a tab where i can see what its grabbing from me.

right now we got strangers going into our bedrooms borrowing something they wont tell us what it is.

and really permissions dont help a lot when it comes to this. Yeah my bookmark dup cleaner has to access my bookmarks to clean.. so i give it the permission, but does it keep them? does it sell them? i dont know permissions arent that detailed. if there was a privacy tab that i could check...then i would know.

People hide nanny cams to watch the nanny. Its because they gave her permission to have access to the house and kid and such.. the cam is like my privacy tab. it makes sure she doesnt abuse the permissions. We KNOW she needs access to the house and kid to do her job.. we just dont want the kid molested. well I dont want my data molested.. So google please give me an app nanny cam.
I find I can get into this mode when I don't believe I'm doing what I am supposed to be doing. I know that sounds weird but a couple of times when I was in a job where the "goal" of the company or the group wasn't in line with what I was trying to do in my own life I would find all sorts of excuses to work on other things. My therapist said that I was self sabotaging my work because my subconscious wanted out but my conscious brain was still feeling duty bound to carry on. That question led me to re-examine my own feelings of what I was doing and why. It helped me to have a neutral third party to talk to, sometimes saying things out loud gave them a different spin than they had when they were inside my head.

One of the core forces of my World Of Warcraft habit was I could spend several hours "getting stuff done that showed results". Understanding that this was a huge motivator for me I went back to journaling progress against my goals and with that visibility got back on track. To this day I think it would be useful to have an AI 'assistant' that would essentially create a quest log for you as you went through your day talking to people.
Netflix blocks stuff because the content owners have managed to negotiate different terms in different countries. They are blocking people because the place where they live requires it. Respecting local laws is not xenophobic.

The messy implementation of distribution rights does not make sense, but companies trying implement new distribution models are not the ones to blame for it.
> It's not like they're just doing it to be dicks.

Whether they intended it or not, what they are doing is xenophobic.
I wanted to make sure this was in the thread. People have given you great tips to help you manage your problem better but maybe you need extra help.

Just be aware that this might be your problem and if it is, medication might do wonders. I'm not saying to jump on that conclusion but make sure you explore it.

If it feels like you just can't get your brain in first gear to start the work, if it feels like you're an old steam locomotive slowly starting to get moving and it takes enormous effort to do it.

The worst part apparently is a mix of high IQ and ADHD which causes people to get a diagnostic at a late age. (early to late twenties or later).
This reminded me of an old story from The Daily WTF:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/Bourne-Into-Oblivion
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It's a little weird that the borders of Arkansas are the only ones preserved in this map. There's no great cultural or economic divide there.
I don't know for sure, but I think it is reasonable to assume Jimmy Carter knows a fair bit about quantum mechanics.
Man! I'd never want to code in language that forces me to manage memory. A boring, solved problem the compiler/run time should handle for me.
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> Respecting local laws is not xenophobic.

If local laws forbid selling merchandise to foreigners - the laws are xenophobic themselves.

> Netflix blocks stuff because the content owners have managed to negotiate different terms in different countries.

They can't use an excuse of content owners' xenophobia for their own execution of xenophobic policy.
The local laws forbid distributing unlicensed content to locals. It isn't US copyright that (hypothetically) prevents Netflix from distributing content in France.
Do you mind sharing more about this AI assistant? I'm very curious about it.
By this logic, crypt(3) creates encrypted (rather than hashed) passwords, because it can be implemented with DES.
If you find yourself needing to read Haskell, feel free to ask others how they pronounce things.
Taken to this extreme (wherein private property is selfish), human life is selfish. In living, you consume resources that no one else can use. As such, arguing that reallocation of your life (e.g. your death or enslavement) is selfish would be ridiculous.
Nobody could watch the clip and thing Trudeau is actually an expert in quantum computing. He was clearly joking about being able to talk about it for ages.

He came across as an intelligent and funny politician who had made the effort to at least develop a modicum of understanding for something he's funding. Nothing more and nothing less.
The fact is there are shills everywhere. It's hard to prove them in all cases. But it is a "big" and important industry for companies to anonymously and without accountability do damage control. There have been articles and AMA's etc. from people who had worked for these firms and it's really disgusting.

So it's not people with tin foil hats speculating that shills might exist - we know shills exist and are pervasive. Given that, we should have a certain non zero belief that any given poster is a shill. Not sure what is the best way to proceed when you know for sure that there are spies around you all the time. That's a bigger discussion. But jumping on people as if we should have to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there's a shill is really counter productive and helping "them" win.
I didn't take the "I could talk about this for ages..." to mean he knew everything about it, merely that this is something he found interesting enough to talk (to people) about for ages.
Please don't become an EMT because you are depressed and feel that your work doesn't matter. This will likely exacerbate the problem given the nature of the work and is bad advice. That's like wanting to be President to get the nuclear launch codes; it's the wrong reason to want it and is not the kind of thing you really want anyway.

You know how when you try acid you need to be in a good frame of mind? Choosing the discipline that involves being present for and tirelessly, mostly-unsuccessfully fighting against routine death is similar. I've learned to keep shop talk to a minimum with those in my family who drive ambulances despite their tales putting my complaints about work into perspective.

That's not a livelihood to approach lightly. Not trying to talk anybody out of it because I respect first responders immensely; just want it for the right reason, to help who you can, not to 'fix' yourself. (I can't see that working and people wash out of that work all the time.)
One of the most sophisticated story i have read so far.
Then it's Netflix who are xenophobes, since using that law they refuse to serve foreigners.

Anyway, this whole mess stems from completely inadequate attempt of translating physical realities into digital space, and hypocritical approach of forbidding others (i.e. customers) to do the same.

No amount of demagogical justification will whitewash such xenophobic practice.
At least in the past, I've heard of people getting lots of low binned / questionable QC'd intel chips for dollars per chip. They basically go for auction to the highest bidder. If you're willing to deal with a high defect rate (Either extensive QC yourself or just don't give a shit), it is a pretty good deal.
Yes, I have noticed this, in myself even.

The only explanation I have is that the general difficulty is slowly going downwards. I was in school in two different countries (France/Germany) and on both sides there were some similarities, a shortage of funding and said funding being dependent on the number of people getting through the system.

So you have this sort of pressure that acts on the difficulty, since if the difficulty is too high less people graduate.

Then you also have the accomplishment of those before us. I remember looking at things from tests a few years ago, I would not have been able to solve that. (They were tests on mechanical forces.) What we were doing was a lot simpler, yet most did not realize this. So you have this idea that those that came before us were 'less smart' because we are acing it without much thought!

Obviously I only have a picture of my immediate surrounding. I've been in school from 2000-2014. Am currently studying. Perhaps someone from earlier or later could give their point of view on that matter?

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On another matter, I really dislike how my current reward system works. Am trying to fix it by eating regularly, something that looks like a sleep schedule, and actually giving a shit about the stuff that I produce.
I 've read this story in so many places. It's "good comedy", and I like the guy, but he used it to gain some popularity points (he seems to be good at that in general). I bet Angela Merkel could easily beat him in anything quantum, but what is the point? We should expect world leaders to have these abilities.
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Well the Trudeau government just earmarked 50 million for five years to the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics.
That's a false analogy since farming potatoes is an existing technology.
I was recalling when Gmail first introduced free storage in Beta. I believe you were only supposed to have one account so that one person couldn't gain multiple GBs of 'free' storage.
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This is also a nice simple and cheap device running OpenWRT ($25) with Wireless N, 2 100 mbit lan and USB: https://revspace.nl/GL-iNet - http://www.gl-inet.com/.

I've got a about 50 deployed, managing them with Ansible, super nice and cheap. USB powered as well.
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It sounds a lot like HabitRPG[1]. I've never tried it though.

[1]: https://github.com/HabitRPG/habitrpg
This.

It drives me crazy that people don't understand Citizens United was about free speech. And most people who say they don't like the ruling reverse positions once I explain exactly what it was about. Stopping a film maker from making or airing a political film seems horrible to me.
I'm having a new logo designed for my software consultancy. I'm not sure if it's clear enough, though. What would you say is the name of the company?
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