skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suffer from this (or at least I think I do -- I get irrationally angry at certain noises). One thing that has surprisingly helped me has been repeated exposure.

I worked for 5 years at a Japanese high school and quite a few of the noises that drive me batty (slurping drinks/soup and .. cutting finger/toe nails, if you can believe it) happen frequently in the teacher's room. High schools in Japan are different from those in the west in that teachers don't get their own class rooms. They have to do all their prep work in a large, cramped, noisy, open-concept office (with no dividers). So I was exposed on all sides.

Some things that really helped me is that I'm a programmer by training, not a teacher. Working as a programmer requires a lot more concentration than working as a teacher. When I was doing my prep work, I could mechanically carry on most of my tasks even when I was absolutely enraged by the environment.

Because I was working on contract, I didn't have to work as much overtime as a regular teacher. This gave me plenty of time to program in the office. At first it was impossible, but over time I was able to work a bit and then just sit there for however long it took for me to calm down. Then I would work a bit more. Eventually, I could calm down quite quickly. These days I'm quite good at recognising when I'm starting to get angry and do whatever it is that calms me down (even I don't really understand what that is, unfortunately).

Not super detailed, but I hope it gives you some hints on things you can try.
That's certainly true but I was mostly meaning to highlight the fact that as these batteries age, and may no longer be suitable for their original purpose, they could still be useful for a whole range of alternative purposes.

As the original battery owner I don't intend to get much for selling a used car battery, but it still seems quite cool to have it be repurposed for some other use.
Sure. With the right abstraction that will be 2 lines of code.
Am I reading this incorrectly? link n2 has:

> (j) Lifeline assistance
Nothing in this section shall affect the collection, distribution, or administration of the Lifeline Assistance Program provided for by the Commission under regulations set forth in section 69.117 of title 47, Code of Federal Regulations, and other related sections of such title.

What makes it relevant to the discussion, then?

With Chevron deference (soon?) gone, perhaps courts will actually adjudicate whether this interpretation is within the framework of the law.
Processing absolutely does remove minerals, along with vitamins and fiber, such as when you make white flour by removing the "bran and germ" of the wheat grain. Most often, one particular part of a food is extracted, potentially subjected to high heats and/or chemical processes in order to alter the taste, consistency, shelf life, or other properties of the substance, and then combined with other such substances.

For example, a cracker might consist of flour, soybean oil (i.e. fat extracted from soybeans by soaking them in chemicals called hexanes and hydrogenated), corn syrup (sugar extracted from corn), and corn starch. The human body needs dozens of micronutrients that are easily found in a bite of a naturally-occurring food but easily absent from an artificial food, especially when the necessary sugars, fats, and starches have been sourced as cheaply and conveniently as possible for manufacturing. This isn't a value judgment, and I love eating processed foods.
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The little-noticed bombshell in Trump's immigration order
It's very interesting being able to drag the different projections around.
True. I assume the meaning is that the site itself has no subjective component.
Indian IT firms are preparing for changes in H1B visa laws for nearly a decade
"Notwithstanding the decline in economic fortunes since 2009" is a rather unsubtle way of attempting to rewrite history and pin the Great Recession of 2007-2009 due to the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008 on Obama. So, no, he's not as reasonable and inline with HN folks as you think.
Pakistan maps out startup ambitions as middle class booms
If you limit it to the stdlib only, I highly doubt that's possible. I am a C++ noob, so I might be wrong.
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That's just a problem with Wikipedia being Wikipedia. That's not a definition. If you read the actual source that's used in that section§, you'll see that what he uses as a definition is the following:

> A shortage is a market condition existing at any price where the quantity supplied is less than the quantity demanded.

He then goes on to talk about how the shortage provides a signal to sellers to move the price closer to equilibrium (upwards, in this case) but that doesn't make it not a shortage.

In questions of definitions, it's also informative to try an alternative source. I propose the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (simply because they have a convenient online glossary): https://www.stlouisfed.org/education/glossary

> Shortage: When the quantity demanded of a good or service exceeds the quantity supplied at a particular price.

I'm not going to update the Wikipedia page because the Definition section needs quite some rewording and citation to make it authoritative and if I just add this in, it will make that part incoherent.

§ Tucker's Economics for Today, which is also wrongly named in that section as Economics Today. In the 7th edition, this is on Page 80
Why was this flagged? WTF is going on at HN?
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+1. I cannot bear it and can only close the page.
That's kind of ridiculous. Leveraging something someone else wrote does not mean you get to disclaim its role.

As an aside, this reminds me of XKCD's `import antigravity`.
If you can get a Thai postpaid sim, TrueMove H have decent price-capped roaming data charges for unlimited data. I've even used it to provide colleagues with wifi in LA & Melbourne on work trips.

For the helmet surely you could take your own if you rent scooters that much?
Carrie Jenkins makes the philosophical case for polyamory
I wonder if some kind of chatbot therapist would help. It would have to be somehow preloaded with actual good things to say. Maybe you could get real therapists to volunteer various answers.

It's not ideal, but many people are in desperate situations. Not everyone can afford $100 an hour for a therapist.

And there's something to be said for someone who just listens. I remember hearing a story decades ago about a man who put an ad in the classifieds: "Will listen without comment for 20 minutes for $20." He got a lot of calls!
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That figure of speech is known as Synecdoche, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche
I think there's another way to attack the problem. I assume that the anger is arising for good reason, that it is (or at least was) helpful to human creatures. So it may be really difficult or impossible to prevent the anger from arising.

But when you meditate, one thing you slowly but deeply learn is that your thoughts are not you. Thoughts that bring you happiness arise even when you didn't ask them to, and you want them to stay forever, but they don't. Thoughts that make you feel bad arise even though you obviously didn't want them to, and you try to make them go away, but they stay as long as they want. But they eventually go.

So over time, as meditation practice develops, it can be as if you build a second mind behind the first mind, and you live in that more quiet mind, watching the first mind, seeing, e.g., wow, OK, there is anger in the mind. But there's a distance because you know it's not you. It's there but it doesn't move you so much.
Why is Lifeline eligible to be funded from the USF?
You're right with respect to the point about the source of the emails.

> Seems like the judge's argument would apply to any user of a service with multiple data centers that regularly replicate (or transfer) data between them.

I find this decision even more onerous than that, which is disturbing on a number of levels, specifically, this excerpt from the conclusion:

under this court's interpretation, Google will gather the
requested undisclosed data on its computers in California,
copy the data in California, and send the data to law
enforcement agents in the United States, who will then conduct
their searches in the United States.

An important note is that this is not simply because the data in question is sharded (and therefore cannot be guaranteed to be wholly present in some single sovereign's jurisdiction - this conclusion is considered ancillary to the SCA warrant extraterritoriality question).
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I threw all of the above plus CNNs at MNIST problem and boosted decision trees outperformed CNNs.

Granted if I tuned both perfectly, CNNs probably would have outperformed but with defaults and a small amount of parameter search, boosting worked best.
A former Secretary of State and Attorney General commissioned the poem from an American poet to raise funds for the American built pedestal, and it wasn't placed on there until years later when her American friend convinced Americans to do so.

So... I don't know what the fuck you think you're talking about.
I think everyone agrees (even if unconsciously) with your feelings. Most players had a defense advantage in movement speed before, but no longer. Reduced security and other implications favor large troops and rush strategies. Which leaves traditional strategies you mentioned less effective. The problem is, war, in the real world almost always has some kind of defensive advantage. So the cohesion of the General narrative was disrupted negatively as this core expectation is broken. My 2 cents even if non-specific, because I think this is the right perspective for highest-level analysis. I don't necessarily feel the new change is bad. But it changes game mechanics to favor play-styles where do not tell a cohesive story.

My example is just anecdotal. I used to play and, in just 300 moves was able to tell a full story. Of how I advanced, beat a certain enemy through an interesting battle. How I went into unknown territory and was surprised by what I found. There really was a cohesive narrative and nice story-telling in the previous version. This is what made the game fun, fundamentally. Mini stories of kingdoms locked in war, with interesting battles.

Now, the stories are not told well. Since I am queuing constantly, I am not even paying attention to where my general is most of the time. I am half-blind charging on my bull hoping I run over a general. And likewise, if I am on the defensive there is nothing to do but hope the huge army does not snake through and hit my general. The sense of a story was largely destroyed.

And that's why I think the game is less fun now, even if it is not so obvious why.
Hello Quovo,

I applied using url, can i get any references
It's quite a surprise that so many prominent companies are getting around the best ad-blockers. Obviously it's a game of cat and mouse, but it seems like nothing much has changed with ad blockers since sites started detecting them and limiting content a couple years ago. Are there any open-source ad blocking projects? Or does that defeat the purpose? I'm not convinced it does.
Any job can be remote if you're in demand and the employer needs you more than they need you.

Find their pain points and negotiate.
It will be physics papers demonstrating stability that should get your hopes up, not signal delivery "blueprints", unfortunately.
So which part of the standard library is geared towards global illumination? I must have glossed over that one.
I don't know why people like white/brown noise so much. I find it very stressful. I hate being around A/C units, fans, airplanes‚ engines and other things that produce incessant white-ish noise. (Noise-canceling earbuds are amazing on airplanes and trains for that reason.)

I just want quiet. While noise-canceling earbuds/headphones don't completely block voices and other loud, irregular background sounds, they do isolate the music and make my surroundings quieter. I don't use the earbuds without music. I find that with noise canceling on and music playing, I can completely zone out — or rather, zone in.
I'm not quite sure how you got that number, as £145 ≈ $181 USD. In any case, here in a US border city I get free access to CBC and PBS which is rather convenient. As I understand it, those on the other side of the river get access to both stations as well, so the local affiliates target both countries. BBC America and BBC World News are only available through cable providers, as far as I recall, though they seem to be included in many cable packages (as is CBC and obviously PBS).
It is up to you. I tried to point you to the best of my ability. Let it be known. Anyways, I would appreciate if you removed the downvotes -- there is no good reason you have downvoted my responses to you.
Couldn't agree more
I like the walls made of spheres! The real Cornell box is about 2 feet cubed IIRC... that would make the units of this scene file something close to centimeters... which would mean the walls are spheres with a diameter of about 1.2 miles.

Last time I saw the box in person, I made sure to leave some fingerprints. :P

> Realistic Ray Tracing, by Peter Shirley
> Almost 100% of smallpt is derived from this book.

FWIW, Peter Shirley distilled all the fun parts of Realistic Ray Tracing into an easy quick e-book available for $3, or free with the trial. "Ray Tracing in One Weekend."

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01B5AODD8/

Blog post about it w/ more code & lots of resources: http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we...
Whatever is already public. You can watch a video about Piper and some other systems on YouTube, and read about other things from Google's own blogs, papers, etc.
So concise. operator% is used as cross product... I love it
I personally wish the code was just written cleanly and idiomatically. I wouldn't mind "300 lines of simple, idiomatic C++". What's the use of making code dense if you're going to reformat it anyway?

(I say this in contrast to something which was explicitly "code golfed", which this code seems not to be.)
Yes, to a large degree. A child born to a stable 2 parent family where both parents have college degrees and earn a high income is much more likely to get into a good school than the child of a single parent who makes $10 an hour at Walmart.

And the children from disadvantaged backgrounds who make it into good schools do it mostly through luck, since intelligence is a byproduct of inheritance and environment. Even work ethic is mostly a learned behavior.
Go study psychology and psychiatry.
What do you think about the fact that the website you linked as a reference is ad-supported? Assuming that you use an ad-blocker, have you contributed money directly to the web site in compensation?

It seems that you got some value from the web site. Is this consistent with "advertising ruins everything"?

Without ads, do you think the web site would exist at all?
Did you know we have so many Canadians on H1B in America?
This is my setup too and it works very well.

It's also worth mentioning that Firefox has built-in tracking protection that can be enabled in all tabs through about:config.

There's also a built-in option to block downloading webfonts.

Overall, Firefox on Android seems to be a lot more privacy focussed than Chrome.
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Besides where to draw the cutoff line between "top" and "non top" conferences of course.
Awesome stuff. I think a bot server is a logical choice and a good one. It will be neat to see what people can come up with.
Excellent. Some more details? What happened afterwards?
Unionization doesn't provide freedom, it provides more structure. Sure it can benefit you as times are hard, but unlike physical labor or hazardous work conditions, the need that you seem to be wanting is not a union. You are looking for ways for the status quo of employees to change from their employers. The ownership and lack of respect many companies have on their employees can create issues.

What if instead you fought for a different system that would put more control in the hands of groups of developers without unions? What if you solidified what it meant to create teams that can stand up for what they believe inside the organizations?

I think teams will end up running most organizations, if many are not already. I read everyday about some team leaving and forming an entire product for another company. Why is this so hard on a massive scale?

Why not create a movement for teams inside companies to change the relation vs external structures like unions.

Forget unions. Build your teams and stand up for what the team believes in, regardless of what company you work for.
A model out-competing another doesn't make it sustainable. Overfishing an area would make it out-compete another that doesn't, but that would be the exact opposite of sustainable.
It's hard to overstate how easy it is to have better prices when you are operating at a loss. They're still in the "fake it till you make it stage" as is evident by their buying from other stores to then ship to consumers.
There was an early chatbot that did something less sophisticated than this, called ELIZA. It mostly repeated back what the user typed in a question form, but the typing of thoughts was cathartic enough for people to use it for long sessions
I don't think it is a problem, and I think that letting people keep what they've earned is only proper.

The real reason this is happening now is that now the way to get rich is not to produce seomthing, but rather to bully people into making you rich. "riches" through pull, not work.

That just shows the moral bankruptcy of our age.
Get them active outdoors (high-intensity exercise creates BDNF [1], which is like miracle-grow for the brain [2]), get them writing (provides an outlet for trapped thoughts cycling around in their head), get them to make something (among other things, it shifts their focus from the past to a future they are actively involved in shaping) [3], and get them physically involved with helping others who are less fortunate (compassionate acts give perspective and help reframe the mind) .

1. Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain-derived_neurotrophic_fac...

2. SPARK: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain http://www.johnratey.com/Books.php

3. "When You Are Depressed, Make Something." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13365430
Future of our industry? Such languages are popular and suited to certain types of projects and solutions certainly. Particularly for systems in computing, and information and data science.

However, for complex representational systems, including both transactional and continuous systems in business, commerce and industry, other languages and paradigms can remain better suited.
I actually went through that exercise if anyone is interested.

It ended up at probably 500 lines at first, and then 800 or so lines because I tried to port it to CUDA. It was mainly an exercise in learning CUDA -- i.e. how is CUDA different than C++? I got something running on my graphics card, but it didn't completely work and I moved onto other things.

I haven't run this code since 2015 but I did have a lot of fun learning from it.

$ wc -l smallpt.cpp
811 smallpt.cpp

Another nice codebase I learned from is tinypy:

http://www.tinypy.org/

It's written in a similarly condensed style. I'm inclined to agree with you at first, but honestly I find that reformatting code helps me get a feel for it! It is a mechanical exercise that reminds you of everything that's there. Going through and renaming functions and types to "your style" seems kinda frivolous but it actually helps IMO.
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Can I get any reference for applying.
Absolutely, but the sort of violence in preindustrial societies tended to be predictable and chronic (like tribal conflicts), whereas the industrial revolution enables total war, genocide, nuclear war, and other industrialized, sudden forms of human butchery.
Thanks for posting the blog. I know Shirley's books but I had not seen the blog.
Be kind to everyone you meet.
That is quite eloquently put. I am reminded of Minsky and his color to this. It is a useful view. To characterize emotions and feelings as subroutines that input to your higher consciousness. Having that distance to say "ok, anger is activating, what is it trying to tell "me"?"

Happy and sad are the same. These feelings arent "you". They are inputs to your "you". When you can observe these feeling you can at times become powerfully separated. But I also like to embrace the holistic integration at times. To be "human" and let it all jumble together. It is quite beautiful and tragic at times.

(Minsky, society of the mind).
Where here was the standard library laid out as the axiomatic atom of line counting?
Studies of lottery winners show regression to the mean over generations. Self-earners do not. What do you think the discrepancy's cause is, given your hypothesis?
Facebook is betting pretty hard on ML via ReasonML (even on the client with BuckleScript), and F# is similar as an ML derivative.

We'll hear about these more and more for sure.
Surely. :) That blog is actually for his e-books. Here's his real blog: http://psgraphics.blogspot.com/
More taxed money is still more money than no money though.
Yep. If anyone is interested, here is a recent result where the electrical structure of a hydrogen molecule was simulated:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.06860
Yes. But it does not change the final result: lineage has a huge influence on financial success.

There's pros and cons on the various ways they can happen, but it does not change the fact that the kid of several generations of successful/influencial/rich/whatever people will do better for themselves on average than someone fleeing a poor country who just came in this one.
The part where it references what someone else wrote is the 'of C++' part. The C++ language standard describes the standard library. The OpenMP enhancements aren't actually required (the code will compile as standard C++).

As such, it's pretty pure C++ really and anyone who writes the language commonly will understand what is meant.
I'm actually gearing up for a RISC-V processor in Fallout 4. All of the design work is done, but building it with the vanilla logic gates (introduced in the Contraptions DLC) actually isn't possible. Luckily I already had a mod with "real" components when Contraptions was announced.

Assuming you weren't joking, how sophisticated is your design? (as in, "is it pipelined?")
"objective" if your goal is to rank people by publication in those conferences.

(1) the difference between the best and worst papers in a venue is wild.
(2) http://blog.mrtz.org/2014/12/15/the-nips-experiment.html
(3) different fields vary dramatically in how many papers they publish

Plus I love how brain dead the word "objective" is. Every thing is objective. What objective function did you choose and does it optimize something that matters? This is a great example of a bad objective applied poorly to something that doesn't matter.

( Don't get me wrong, publication in these conferences is impressive, and depending on career stage I use a heuristic about my expectation of how many good papers you've published (and how good they are) when evaluating resumes, but this is just silly).
There's not a whole lot of benefit to society of inheritances. Inheritances mostly just distorts society and encourages a "fuck you, got mine" attitude

We should certainly be more aggressive about taxing inheritances since we are very far from the point where people will stop working because they have no desire for money.
I cancelled Comcast but am still long on $CMCSA.

It's horseshit.

But, my upside can be donated to a school.
Can help: Medication (SSRIs, SSNRIs), therapy, meditation, exercise, close relationships

Can hurt: lack of sleep, alcohol, stress, traumatic/emotional events