skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm wondering if there is a simple trick / way to keep social media around without getting too addicted too it. I can completely 100% relate to this article and am scared by it.

However, I can't just shut my accounts down. The advantages they give me over a life without them are just things that I don't want to miss out. I feel "blessed" of having even the opportunity to use amazing worldwide connected tools like facebook and twitter considering the last 100 years.

I get around very often and make friends and contacts almost everywhere. Some of these connections are not relevant until I am in location X again. Some are old friends in my hometown that I from time to time contact. Some are professional connections. In many cases Facebook is the only viable connection to keep contact with less-frequently contacted people.

Messenger? Doesn't work. Some countries use WhatsApp, some LINE, some KakaoTalk, some Threma and some, well, facebook messenger. Replacing facebook with 6 messaging clients is just not gonna work.

I am currently blocking most websites through a little snitch profile but I can feel the urge to unblock them and just... one more time... check if there is something new. I even catch myself occasionally opening facebook just to see the "connection unsuccessful" message.

From my experience, Pomodoro helps a lot in staying focused. But please, if you have anything to share to get rid of this addiction, share!
What would you have to do in order to learn what was in Crime and Punishment if you didn't read it?
How to Submit Business Data to Factual Manually
So you can dismiss arguments based on the gender and race of those making them?
Yeah, just like Notepad "works" as a text editor. If there's room for improvement, why not improve?
Yeah, this seems odd to me, considering that a reasonably successful software engineer can afford to live pretty much anywhere.
Two Time Capsules in separate buildings.
I create todo lists because I forget what I wanted to do within minutes, or even seconds.

Having a todo list at hand to write these things down means I don't lose them, even if I don't look at them again for weeks or months.

Not sure where you'd put this on a Calendar.
Perhaps there's a middle ground.

I've found that my moods are fairly cyclic. I'm high energy in the a.m., start to trail off in the afternoon and then catch a second wind after dinner. To the extent I'm able I structure my day around these cycles, reserving the high-concentration/creativity tasks for the a.m. and the more mindless/mundane for the afternoon. Evening's a free-for-all depending on whether I still have work to do or not.
This wasn't unique to India but the British army did use what they called a "forlorn hope" as the first wave in attacking a fortress. Most were expected to die, but the survivors were often promoted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forlorn_hope
Great marketing on Linode's part by adding in the Bandwidth to the cost. It is kind of the opposite of Tesla factoring in the rebates and other cost savings in their pricing. Linode is instead inflating competitors pricing assuming maximum bandwidth usage which wouldn't happen in most normal scenarios with a vm that size.
Bottom up, not top down.
Sorry, I am not from the US, so I am unfamiliar with the propaganda that McCarthy (not the Lisp guy, but the other) brought to the US so I might be not a good discussion partner.

Let's just disagree.
Because it's insanely expensive and if we're going to go with the insanely expensive solution we should go with the one that's fully green and has lower start-up costs.
I actually like to solve puzzles, but not the ones people usually call a "puzzle".

Solving a man-made puzzle for me feels completly arbitrary, where either you think the same way the guy who made it and can solve it quickly, or you don't and get stuck forever.

Instead, I prefer to think about nature's puzzles, things that don't work the way I expect them to, or just trying to explain why they do. Usually they're just as arbitrary, but even if you take the wrong path, they're so deep that you'll end up learning a lot either way.
It's a pity Elop killed it, and then sabotaged Nokia with move to Windows Phone. They should have never hired him to begin with. But Nokia's problems started before him. They were torn by internal politics. Instead of pouring all resources into Maemo / Meego, teams were bickering about whether Symbian should get precedence and so on. That was the root of their problems.
I'm not the parent but here's my list.

* Discrete Mathematics

* Linear Algebra

* Combinatorics

* Number Theory

* Introductory Real Analysis or "Calculus 1"

* Probability Theory

* Statistics

This will prepare you to be a general purpose CS professional. Further specialization will likely require some additional high level topics used in your field.
Fermat, the Internet of People and the Person to Person Economy
I remember working all summer when I was a teenager to be able to purchase a phone, I bought Nokia 7210 and my friends who worked with me got the Samsung c100. While the polyphony on their phone was better, mine lasted much longer even tho I treated it badly, both of their phones dies within 2 years, my Nokia is still in my drawer and is even turning on :))
I think you mean that Google killed the goose that laid the golden eggs. But then it turns into a chicken with no head. Make you mind up, man!
In addition to downvoting me, please let me know why.
Is it:
a) You do not agree that fb (and its fake news epidemic) contributed to Trump's victory
b) You do not agree that Trump will increase suffering and/or death
c) You do not feel the above points are worth considering or relevant to the topic at hand
d) Something else?
Some of them sort of did: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jolla
It's more pervasive than AI: The megacorps are hoarding all the world's top technical talent.

The start-up value proposition is fundamentally weaker, at present. The salaries are substantially lower, and IPOs are too scarce (and too dilluted!) to make that lottery ticket appealing. This is to say nothing of the other megacorp benefits in 401k matching, maternity/paternity leave, etc.

The top research labs at the big companies have also adopted many of the start up perks (flexible hours, food services, etc.) so you aren't losing out on lifestyle.
Nokia was an amazing company. The corporate culture was first class. They had some of the most intelligent and hard working people I ever met. The Finns are incredibly talented. There were many folks in the Americas that were absolutely amazing.

What a shame things worked out the way they did.
(Shrug) Put it in Antarctica. It'll be fine for 10,000 years there. No one will stumble across it accidentally, and we can get it back if we need it.

I've never understood why this is considered a problem.
Might one of the nefarious ways that their personal information be used Walmart cutting the hours of known participants?

It'd be pretty inconvenient not to get a full schedule this close to the holidays. I'm sure that's enough to chill some participation.
How about "on the wrong side of science"? This has a strong tendency to end up the same as being on the wrong side of history.
Until I was banned for saying "build the wall" on Twitter.
How many people did these two incidents kill?
Intel Declares War on GPUs at Disputed HPC, AI Border
Actually, my comment said that fair markets will see people try to undercut each other and that the best solution is to reduce or eliminate the fairness by having a union become the only negotiator. Quite the opposite of fair, as individual freedom to negotiate is lost, but it ends up most beneficial for those involved.

Did you actually read my comment? Because it seems like you didn't read my comment.
I've oft thought about creating an organization (kind of like EFF?) that can help programmers when asked to do something unethical. Maybe they could provide re employment assistance or cash to help pay bills while looking for another job.
Not so much that, as much as the only kind of racism being investigated was that of white people.
CAMERA COLLECTION
I can't just shut my accounts down.

Yes, you can.

When I deleted my Facebook account the first thing I noticed is that I did not die.
It's your best interface with the kernel. It's simple and high-performance. It's specifically what you want if you want to pass structured data in-memory to the kernel.

In a strict technical sense, there's nothing you need a syscall for, you can just read/write data (or maybe do an ioctl) on a new device node or something. In fact, OpenAFS supports routing its "syscall" on Linux through ioctls on /proc/fs/openafs/syscall, because Linux makes it deliberately annoying to patch the syscall table from a kernel module so as to make life harder for rootkits.

However, it's simpler to pass data structures if you can use a syscall. It's much higher-performance than opening a file node. And if you expect to run in an environment where you don't know if a particular file will exist (e.g., a chroot), it's useful to use a syscall directly, because that's always available. For instance, getrandom was added in July 2014 partly for this reason, and partly so that if you ran out of file descriptors to open /dev/urandom you could still get randomness.

Here are all the syscalls added in the last two years:

* pkey_mprotect, pkey_alloc, pkey_free: support for a new Intel processor feature, Memory Protection Keys https://lwn.net/Articles/643797/

* preadv2, pwritev2: add a flags argument so you can do a non-blocking preadv or pwritev without opening the file in non-blocking mode https://lwn.net/Articles/670231/

* copy_file_range: copy data between two file descriptors, using filesystem support for efficient copies if possible https://lwn.net/Articles/659523/

* mlock2: add a flags argument so you can mlock memory when it's next accessed https://lwn.net/Articles/650538/

* membarrier: force a memory barrier on all running threads to help with userspace RCU, garbage collection, etc. http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/membarrier.2.html

* userfaultfd: implement userspace paging https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/userfaultfd.txt

* execveat: a version of execve that takes a file descriptor (or a fd and relative path) instead of a string to execute http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/execveat.2.html
Buy a windows desktop then I guess?

The issue I have is that people want desktop power in a laptop. Yes, I'd love to have the latest Nvidia chip in my pencil-thin MacBook but there are trade offs.

The 32gb ram issue. Well, they can design for the 99%, or they can design for the 1%. Their choice is pretty clear. The sales numbers are pretty clear. The vast majority of people don't use even 8gb of ram, let alone 16.

I would like to see a 32gb option, but Intel has not released the chip that Apple needs. That's on Intel.
If you're into the subject matter, there's the History of the Crusades podcast by Sharyn Eastaugh. In depth content, some levity, and I found it to be totally engrossing.
Theoretically, Google could let you "hide" certain posts if you're not logged in.

The thing that killed blogs as they are is that they're too serious. When signing up you need a title, subtitle, and input is optimized for long essays. Facebook is optimized for sign up, write your name, find friends, and post pictures, videos and sometimes text.

Really, if Google+ was Blogger Basic where you sign up, put AdWords, post pics, and it could have taken off.
How Fake News Goes Viral: A Case Study
They are government funded but have exactly nothing to do with governance. They could be privately funded and accomplish the exact same things.
We ought to only read the kind of books that wound and stab us. If
the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head,
what are we reading it for? We need the books that affect us like a
disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved
more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from
everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea
inside us. That is my belief.

Franz Kafka
I really would not like google to make internet great again, please. My opinion they actually already make it worse. I hope people stop using these corporations and found better and more people friendly services. Freedom of speech cannot be decided by Google.
Nintendo Ninja – An FPGA-Based Mario Bros AI [2013]
One wonders how strong the cognitive dissonance must be to think they're doing the "right" thing.
Did this course as a student. Highly suggest reading the text book, quite literally has all the answers and explains everything very well.
Because Google's backdoor makes people feel more comfortable.
I think I like learning this way, but then I remember the time I learned the hard way that Matlab hates when scripts begin with a number, and I question my life choices.
Cool. Maybe I'll be able to post a response on Twitter now without some White Nationalist Trumpette saying racist bs back.
France has a similarly poor showing in virtually every ranking.
> It's a valid concern that one voter only has to worry about their decisions for the next five years, but the rest have to for the next sixty years.

Do you see the hidden assumption here? It is that people vote purely selfishly and don't care about anything that happens after they are dead. As neither of those is remotely true, your proposal makes no sense.
Something tells me you won't find much in the way of discussion about usage of the english language and the phrases in question there?
How data science and rocket science will get humans to Mars
You act as if climate change is not a real issue. While I agree (to a point) that no single person is "shutting down the world economy to stop global warming," that doesn't detract from the capability Trump has---as the president of the second largest carbon-emitting country---to do damage to the world's long-term well-being. There's a lot that can be done to improve the world's environmental situation besides just implementing renewable energy, and by denying that there is a problem, Trump can damage environmental efforts on all fronts. (For more info on that, look at the predicted damage to coastlines due to sea-level rise; it's coming regardless of whether or not it's acknowledged and people can choose to prepare or they can let their kids deal with it.) Not to mention that clean energy is a massively growing industry and there is no need to shut down the world economy to continue to make a positive impact.

As far as I'm concerned, even entertaining the possibility that efforts to counteract climate change are wasteful is a denial of scientific fact and a selfish, careless way to look at a planet that will suffer most immediately during your children or grandchildren's lives.
Makes sense. Thanks once again. :)
I suggest leveraging the meditative process driving has on the brain.

I went through a process where I was trying to be extremely productive every minute of every day.
That meant filling every minute with productive tasks including commute time with Podcasts and educational material.

But you get into this productivity loop without any real productivity.

In the end I found the best use of my drive time is just relax and let your brain run. Enjoy the sights and smells, the air coming through the window. Observe your brain how it notices cars and avoid potential disaster.

If you play it right, you'll have 2 hours per day to just do nothing. Let your brain work freeform while focusing on something simple like deep breaths.
Totally agree that scheduling is not for everyone. I've also read a lot of so called productivity expert saying that you should write down all the things in mind without bothering scheduling them. IMHO, there's no single solution for personal productivity boost but to work hard and figure out the best solution for yourself.
Seems strange to say the public healthcare is bad because of the existence of private healthcare. It's bad due to the fundamentals. Things like:
- it is "free" so it is grossly oversubscribed (basic market forces at work)
- it is taxpayer funded and government run (spending other people's money on other people, the worst way to get value)
- there is no incentive to improve since there is no competition (nobody loses their job and the public system does not go bankrupt and disappear regardless of how much worse it is than the private system)

And those fundamentals are why the private system is so much better. It's not free and consumers are spending their own money on themselves so seek out the best value they can. And the competition between private hospitals is pretty fierce so they are contantly upgrading, innovating, and advertising (including their prices) to attract customers.

It is common here for many of the best doctors to practice in both private and public sectors. My anecdote mentioned the fact that the doctor who did my foot surgery does that.

As for cost, those private hospitals, and there are lots of them, cater primarily to Thais. So plenty of Thais can afford private care. It's not a huge unknown cost going in that is potentially ruinous like in the U.S.

Like you said, in order to exist the private system must be better than the public system. That is the wonderful effect of markets when they are allowed to operate.
This is really cool. How do you get the data?
It's a shame. Maemo was amazing. Their cheap phones like 1100 were also a pleasure to use.

I wish they hadn't hired Elop and done the bizarre bet-it-all to Windows thing.
I use multiple Blackblaze accounts (https://www.backblaze.com/).

My requirements, and why I picked Blackblaze:

1) Work and personal data must be kept separate. (I use multiple Blackblaze accounts.)

2) Backups must be continuous and happen behind the scenes, I must never have to manually trigger a backup.

3) Must be able to restore not just a file, but a file on a specific date (Blackblaze keeps all changes for up to 30 days... wish it was longer but this hasn't caused me any issues yet).

4) Must be secure, encrypted, and support 2FA.

5) Must allow me to access my files from a different computer, or phone.

6) Must be simple enough that my parents can use it with minimal training (I've had my 65 year-old mother on Blackblaze for about a year now... no reason not to keep family safe too).

7) Must be affordable... Blackblaze is like $50 / year per account for unlimited data. It's 1/2 the price of Dropbox, and you don't have to mess with any silly simlinks that break when Apple pushes new software updates...

Bottom line, the people at Blackblaze set out to build a product that does backups right, and for me they are succeeding. I love their product.
Not everyone worships their career.

You can of course get rid of TV, music, theater, art, books, .. out of your life and focus only on your career skills development.

Social media is young generation's way of life. It's such a valuable communication channel for teens. Embrace it. Teach them and yourself how to use it to your benefit in moderation.
I used to run a labor hire company. I still do in a way (consulting), but at a lower volume. I've managed many offshore developers and other contractors. Because the skill continuum is massive, it took me several failed engagements and a long time to get really good at managing people across it. Nowadays, I can't remember the last time I had an unsuccessful project encounter.

There are at least a hundred valuable tips I could give you on how to be a great remote manager but if I had to give one, it would be this:

Be a mastermind. Remember first and foremost that variance is your enemy. Give detailed requirements. Hide information to keep your contractor focused. Avoid abstract directives like the plague. Instead, break off an atomic well-defined piece of work and give it to your remote worker to work on over a short time frame. Either do the integration engineering yourself or give that to a highly trusted, proven lieutenant. Iterate.

To summarize, until a relationship is well developed, imo micromanagement is basically correct.
No, the 4-momentum is conserved as a vector given a reference frame, which means all 4 parts are conserved, which means 3-momentum is conserved. It doesn't "go somewhere".

You seem to be obsessed about conservation of the magnitude of 4-momentum under Lorentz transformations. It's the whole vector I'm talking about, not the magnitude. and change-of-frame is not a necessary part of conservation laws.

The claim that you can observe conversation in one frame but not another is absurd. The laws are affine; they hold in any frame or none.
It's because people are now getting much of their news from social media (often exclusively from social media), and are NOT clicking through to the original source. So they see something that someone in their network reposts, and it is indistinguishable on its face from "real" news, and they believe it.

A lot of people, for instance, believed that story that was going around that the Pope endorsed Trump shortly before the election, or that story that an FBI agent who was investigating Clinton had been found dead along with his wife in a very suspicious apparent murder/suicide.

The site that the Pope story came from said right on its "About" page that it "[...] is a fantasy news website", and "Most articles on wtoe5news.com are satire or pure fantasy". That part doesn't get tweeted or facebooked, though, so quickly gets lost.

The source for the FBI agent murder/suicide was a newspaper that doesn't even exist. All it had was a fairly new website with a handful of fake stories and a bunch of broken links.

It used to be that "fake news" didn't spread far. If the National Enquirer proclaimed that the government was using semen from a captured Bigfoot to artificially inseminate human women in order to try to breed super soldiers, for instance, it would amuse people who say the paper in the checkout line at the supermarket, and a few readers would believe it, and maybe tell their friends in person, but it wouldn't go much farther.

With social media I bet you could get a large number of people to actually believe that there is a Bigfoot semen based super soldier program.

Getting news from social media is the equivalent of in the pre-internet days getting news from idle chat at parties and overheard conversations of the people around you. We all did get news that way back then...but we also subscribed to newspapers and news magazines, and listened to radio and TV news, and would match up what we overheard with those sources, and for the important things could figure out what was likely true.
There's a reason they put a big office in Utah...
What does Facebook offer for all that money that is necessary, though? That is, why is monetization such a big deal for a communications platform? A marketing competition? There's no inherent need to participate in that.
One thing that HN has done is make my comments look ridiculous when I type them out on an iPhone.
rsync to btrfs volume, then take a snapshot. 2 LOC.

I do this to a pen drive on site and to a remote volume.
Uh, nuclear costs about the same as conventional coal [0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source#...
AI can predict the future criminals based on facial features
lots of practical things have value other than money and gold, like ammunition and whiskey.

tennessee, remember?
Probably a dump followed by bowels being open for too long. This is bad for you I've heard. Best to dump n go... and then procrastinate elsewhere.
Kafka: An End or a Beginning?
Freedom of speech site should support nazis same way as black lives matter movement. We need transparent services, not witch hunting twitter services.