skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not op but I started waking up at 6:00 starting with this year to work on personal projects in the morning for up to an hour. My sleep quality got much better, I'm usually in bed around 23:00, the biggest difference I noticed is that I'm falling asleep in less than 10 minutes after I lie down.

As a side note: I noticed that having proper supply of Magnesium seems to help me a lot to wake up in the mornings.
It's sad that this article stayed at the first positions for so little time. And we are on HN.

But is this HN folks fault?

At the time of my writing "Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist" - who thinks it is as important as this one? - with 470 points less, almost 300 comments less, both posted 6/7 hours ago is six positions above.
It's not just that - it's that from a perspective of a psychiatrist there is no safer drug to get someone out of a deep hole.

The thing is that people should be trying to figure out what was the underlying issue and whether it's possible to fix it. Not many doctors have the motivation to do this infortunately, and many patients don't either.

I've met people with adhd and daytime sleepiness, who spent years on antidepressants. The effect was that they still couldn't focus, but didn't feel depressed because of that, and didn't even know they had problem.
If you have a ~4% stake in a local car dealership you don't have meaningful control. This does not change with a public company outside of a few votes because majority or often super majority rules.
The problem with your argument is that a significant number of HN readers, I among them, work in the Internet interconnect industry.

Network Neutrality didn't go far enough. Most major eyeball networks in the US charge a high fee (should be zero) for interconnecting with content providers. And even after fees have been agreed to, drag their feet on installing the ports or limit port availability.

We should be looking for ways to give NN more teeth, not get rid of it. Without NN, ISPs can expand the war currently being fought via port availability and pricing, to specific content within a port... as well as placing traffic shaping and QoS back on the table (legally).
"Asians do make up a disproportionately high number"

Are you referring to 1st gen Asian Americans? or Anyone from Asia?

One reason why Asian numbers tend to be disproportionate, especially w.r.t Indians and Chinese, is that only those with advanced degrees in STEM education (among Indians and Chinese) can get a temp work visa to US. They dont have access to Diversity lottery or direct International Student to Green Card option (get work auth on Green Card before 36 month OPT expires) that people from other countries get.

So, if you want to look at diversity numbers, it probably makes sense to consider US born people in the work force, instead of all people in the work force.
> Apple can win the "pro's" over by making iPads or MacBooks able to do pro video editing that previously required a $10k windows/linux tower with dual video cards

WAT!?! Imagine editing an 8k, 3D feature film on an iPad Air. The "handheld" device would end up being a 12 lb behemoth with Gilliam-esque cable madness running to a single lightning port and optional (Red) branded oven mitts.

Pro video editing (and FX, hello) requires massive power, storage, and peripherals - the more the better.
April Recap – Burnout and Declining Growth
Well, I think with so many language trying to replace javascript (purescript, coffeescript, livescript, clojurescript, bucklescript, dart, typescript .. probably there is more)

It is impossible that all of them will be popular, plus more general purpose, doesnt really seem to help with popularity ... look at sql or r ... very popular, and very domain specific
> It's looked down on as if "you just can't handle life" so you "just feel sad".

I think that a large part of the problem is just the name, "antidepressant". If they were called Serotonin Stabilizers or something, maybe there wouldn't as much of a stigma.
They were already speaking German and Otto von Bismarck and did lend them a bit of a helping hand, pissing off the French in the process, which pretty much led to both world wars.
You have no limits as long as you're willing to learn. I'd ensure that even though you are self-taught, to ensure you understand the basics of CS like data-structures and algorithms.

Most engineers I've interviewed for engineering positions that were self-taught were very good at building working applications (That's how they learned), but sucked with fundamentals or writing something that is maintainable. I find that without a classical training, that development is unstructured, poorly estimated, barely tested, and brittle to changing requirements.

If you can prove you do not follow the same "gotchas," you'll be employable anywhere you meet their hiring bar.

For engineering, as long as you know what to do, it doesn't matter what your education is. That said, without a 4 year degree many programmers do not learn the "bits and bytes" or the vocabulary / science behind the applications they build.

TLDR - don't limit yourself based on what you think your degree will afford you.
How "valuable" is a viewer of YouTube channel like that versus a viewer of the food network. For example, I've heard that many viewers of various toy unboxing videos are young children. I can't imagine most advertisers want to pay money only to have their ad viewed by somebody with basically no disposable income.

Edit: My comment was not about advertising to children directly. I was using that as an example. I'm not sure if a view on YouTube has the same value as a view in more traditional media (e.g. Television).
Honestly? If you're good with the current approach, why change it.

That said, there's a LOT of repetition in there and while you probably _can_ improve that in this solution, a 'proper' language might be more readable. Again, if you're a C# developer, C#/F# (or even Powershell) scripts are probably ~closer to home~.

That whole script is basically - if I understand it correctly - two unrolled loops. Instead of two loops (logo dimensions, scale) you're duplicating a loooot of lines.

If this is no problem: Cool. Then again, maybe you want to improve this approach in the future?
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That is like 100% not was said. I will re-explain it in simpler terms.

We don't currently have a censorship-resistant way to get Wikipedia to Turkey, at all. IPFS is not it, because there's no reason for Turkey not to censor all of IPFS. There is no alternative to IPFS that Turkey won't censor, either.

If IPFS wants to become it (which is a good goal that we should pursue), it first needs to become used / useful enough that Turkey won't be able to censor all of IPFS without significant economic damage to the country.
Been using Elm for a few months now. Both in small side projects, and in a production app for work.

Many benefits over using js, and basically no downsides apart from the initial learning curve.
And even that could be equal to the learning you have to do every time your team decides to add/use a new foo.js library or framework to the project.

With Elm:

- you are confident about your code
- others ( and your future self ) can actually read it and understand it
- it pushes you to think before you write
- refactoring is a breeze, not a nightmare

I hope I won't have to use js on my next gig.

edit:
Also, I cannot speak highly enough about how helpful the compiler is, and the community in the slack channel. Makes the whole experience a joy.
Econ and politics is rife with semantics, and they're very important, and sometimes central to the conversation.

Either way, I think you're the one making the claims that need substantiation. Years of studying econ hasn't provided me clear evidence that upholds the idea that "economies have goals" other than "economies tend to grow in material wealth" – and even that has subtleties too many to thoroughly discuss on an internet forum.
I don't know. I felt sameway that elm was easier when I was learning Vue with all modern shiny stuff. I had done mostly C#/Java and some old school JS programming but none Haskell likes. It's hard to say which ones was easier since learning experiences were so different. Maybe learning took approximately same time but time was used with JS for googling and brute forcing things. On the other side Elm compiler just said "You probably did this common error ####. Try do ###" so learning was much more efficient since you know instantly what was wrong and why. I can certainly say that learning Elm was much more pleasant one for me.
Maple shuts down
It's certainly a project that spans more than one month. Right now, it's still sort of explanatory: I'm getting to know various states that my mind can apparently enter.
The choice isn't (always) "lay off some workers or go out of business". Instead it's "It's profitable now but it could be even more profitable if we did something that incurred job losses."

For example, Carrier was already very profitable when they decided to outsource to Mexico.

http://www.salon.com/2016/03/22/snapshot_of_a_broken_system_...

"A look at United Technologies’ annual report reveals even more good news: Commercial and industrial products, Carrier’s category, make up over half of UTC’s $56 billion in net sales. Climate, Controls & Security had 3 percent growth in 2015, the highest in the company; it was the only division to increase its profit margin year-over-year. “Organic sales growth at UTC Climate, Controls & Security was driven by the U.S. commercial and residential heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) and transport refrigeration businesses,” according to page 14 of the report. In other words, air conditioners – what the workers are making in Indianapolis – drove the growth of the best-performing facet of United Technologies’ business."
I can understand why people want their Macs to be upgradable, but how is Apple suppose to profit from it? Apple is very much a hardware company, so why would they make a computer that can be upgraded with standard components. Customers would just buy the cheapest option and upgrade with third party stuff.

Sure they are absolutely losing pro customers, but does that really matter when they have the iPhones and high-end laptops? It's only the very high-end professionals that aren't able to make due with an Apple product anymore.
On the other hand, it's easier to wait patiently if you're not using the language yet :-)

I've been watching Elm for some time. I'll wait until it's done. So my reason for not using Elm is: I'd rather be patient.
I'd suggest an s3 bucket to hold the page and images, which does a post to either a lambda function to store the data, or even something like a google forms submission to put it all in an excel file
Intel Inside the Package:Intel's push into multi-chip solutions and 7nm/5nm issues
If there's a difference, it's one that doesn't bring the comment within the guidelines. They don't just ask us not to call people names, they ask us not to call names at all:

> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is idiotic; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Einhorn can do what he wants I'm just not inclined to care.
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A paranormal-focused channel with 470,000 subscribers used to earn $6000 per month!? Wow! I had no idea there was that much money to be made.
Are we sure it's not just a lot of people trying to complain at once? :)

(joke about they should have purchased fastlaneTM brand internet)
Vsauce and other pop sci channels come to mind.
That's a fair cop. Potatoes are merely in the ballpark. (GI spikes for nutrients much more easily gotten from things that won't make me feel like crap? Either way, gimme.)
Kind of similar reasoning that Church services can only be done in Latin/Greek. There is a bit of merit to this from that angle in that when you go from a more expressive language to a less expressive language, you inevitably simply cannot translate or express certain concepts.
And don't let the "Whole Foods" name fool you either, lots of food there isn't healthy at all.
Sounds like you work at my old job. It's amazing how much some companies can talk about how cool they are. No one gives a fuck how many times you can say you are cool, put up or shut up.
Where do you find the resources and time to take on this new education when you're trying to pay a mortgage and feed your family?
What new information would current state fMRI give them?

If I'm not mistaken, a person that is depressed due to environment will have similar fMRI as a person who has messed up biology (not just neurotransmitters btw).

Also, even with acute depression, antidepressants may help to get the patient on track.
> 100% test coverage is an ambiguous term. Is it line coverage, branch coverage

The linked document answers that both repeatedly and at length:

> The SQLite core, including the unix VFS, has 100% branch test coverage under TH3 in its default configuration as measured by gcov.

[follow half a dozen paragraph explaining what they mean precisely by branch coverage]
In part, I think that's Apple's problem right now. 15 years ago, I could imagine Apple somehow building a device that was smaller, more usable and more powerful than any of their rivals. These days, they are just more expensive.
Announcing streamed apps with more power than you could fit in a box! Apple approved, gce tested, NSA blue box
Make that 500 years, and you might get some takers to seal the deal ....
Your evidence is very much anecdotal.
If you have to append "you should remember" to cryptographic instructions, I would argue they are hard.
Except there are going to be far, far fewer of those positions than there are people displaced by automation.
So what industry is going to explode when robotic manufacturing, or driverless vehicles become common? What industry is going to take in all the truck drivers and assembly workers?
Correct - apologies for not being clear... if I own a business and receive a dividend, I pay taxes. So that same income was taxed first at the corporate level and second at the personal level. THe evasion - which I consider to be a stretch here - is that by not paying a dividend it becomes trapped in retained earnings and the government doesn't receive its second piece.

I'm not saying I agree with the view here but the point is technically correct. A $100 of profit for Apple in the us is taxed 40% at corporate level to become $60 and by the time it gets to me it is worth 32
18-49 is a huge range. I know people in their 30s and 40s with cable but no one in their 20s. I'm sure some people do but I would be surprised if it wasn't declining
The FCC calls democracy DDoS.
(See edit below.)

Intuitively what you say makes sense. However, I just ran a simulation in R based on census data (actual county sizes from [1]) and the result is that you do get by-county age differences of up to ~17 years just by chance. These bigger differences do not occur often but the assumptions I made in the simulation are fairly conservative and the true random variation could easily be bigger. So 20 years does not seem absurd.

[1] https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/...

In the spirit of open science, the code for the simulation:

library(tidyverse)

read_csv("co-est2016-alldata.csv") %>%
filter(SUMLEV=="050") %>%
select(county=CTYNAME, pop=POPESTIMATE2016) %>%
group_by(county) %>%
mutate(age = mean(rbinom(pop, 100, 0.7))) ->
d

range(d$age)

ggplot(d, aes(age)) + geom_histogram()

Running the simulation repeatedly yields maximal differences between counties between 16 and 19 years.

EDIT: False alarm. I incorrectly assumed that census data sets uses unique identifiers for counties and that introduced a bug in the simulation. After correcting it, the simulation shows that random variation indeed explains only very small differences in life expectancy of about one year. Corrected simulation code below:

read_csv("co-est2016-alldata.csv") %>%
filter(SUMLEV=="050") %>%
mutate(county_id = 1:n()) %>%
select(county_id, county=CTYNAME, pop=POPESTIMATE2016) %>%
group_by(county_id) %>%
mutate(age = mean(rbinom(pop[1], 100, 0.7))) %>%
ungroup -> d

range(d$age)

Life expectancy as a function of county population: http://imgur.com/a/0LgGZ
I strongly disagree.

When you look at companies, sometimes the boards and management stop acting in the best interest of shareholders. They may be doing this due to self-serving reasons or incompetence, but it doesn't matter.

Activists play an essential role in ensuring companies look out for the best interests of their shareholders.

Here's a good quote about some activist investors in a small public company.

"He said that the benefits of being public outweighed the costs. He had been at a private company and had worked under pressure from private-equity investors. Public markets, he said, enabled Tejon Ranch to operate under much less short-term pressure, and to take a longer-term perspective. We were flabbergasted: Many companies go private or stay private to avoid the short-term pressure that public markets can create. But the fact is, for companies the size of Tejon Ranch—and there are thousands of them, filling the portfolios of mutual funds and pension funds, even though most investors have never heard their name—Bielli is probably right. Because so many investors are passive today, most CEOs can relax, even if their performance is mediocre."

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-04-17/activist-...
While I am pretty certain there were analogues of it 40 years ago (1977), the idea of a "lifestyle coach" and similar professions would seem a bit out there back then.
The Programmer’S Price (American Chronicles) (2014)
Is the next big thing local? The unique value of Peerit
Profession: "Software Engineer Team Lead"

[5:45] Wakeup

[6:15] Make breakfast

[7:00] Out the door

[7:30] Drop wife off at work

[7:40] Drop dog off at day care

[8:00] Arrive at work

[8:45] All office standup, not useful

[9:15] Team standup

[9:30] Coffee

[10:00] Meetings or code

[11:30] Lunch

[12:00] Meetings or code

[4:30] Leave office

[4:45] Pick up dog

[5:00] Pickup wife

[6:00] Get home, start dinner

[9 or 10] bed time
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Oblique Kushner reference?
Transcendendal excremeditation.
Echo chambers and filter bubbles: Underresearched and overhyped
I work in subsecond latency domain. Can you elaborate what do you want to achieve in the sub-second: Does the ingestion have to be subsecond? or the entire cycle of ingestion and data available into redis/DDB needs to be done in sub-second?
One Major Reason VueJS greater than React
You don't think advertisers want to market to children? I hope this was sarcasm and I'm just missing the joke.

Have you walked down the cereal aisle in a grocery store?
Keeping all external state in a db like abstraction, and having any component, regardless of view tree depth, be able to query against it for data that it needs, and have it update when that data changes, is the way to go, and it's the future.

Applications developed this way are very easy to change and update. Deleting a completely self contained component, not having to update the parent by removing the wiring of the data, is a blessing.
Just curious, which book did you read?
But you didn't say that. Your comment was unsubstantive (like many of your previous ones) and inflammatory. I don't know exactly what you meant by "welfare clones" but it does give the suspicion of incivility.
I see what you are saying, however the best classical performers are well-known for their own personal characteristics they impart to the music they perform.

Perhaps a violin in an orchestra is supposed to do what they're told, but they are told what to do by the conductor, who himself interprets a composition in the way he wants. And the best conductors are known for their brilliant interpretations, not their fidelity to the composer's intent.

Perhaps classical music has this reputation because there are a lot of really terribly uncreative musicians who would sound awful if given rein to improvise within looser constraints. I have met many musicians who are excellent ordertakers but not what I would call "musical" outside of that.
EDIT: The paper I am referring to is http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67... Also, it's not like I don't acknowledge the positive effects of cannabis. Just seems like it's best to discuss both the pros and cons of the drug, especially if the conclusions from different researches seem confounding.

I thought it was ~proven~ (EDIT: suggested) to lower IQ and the size of the brain for adults with regular use? It seems like the research is very much unclear.
yes but I would argue that product endorsements and advertising to young impressionable minds is extremely valuable.

The example I'd like to highlight is the success Apple gained through placing Macs everywhere in education. Students almost certainly cannot afford these machines but everyone has one and that's better marketing than anything else.
They can claim wrong assumptions about GPUs, etc. but the "form over function" of the Mac Pro redesign was obvious from the start. It is even extended to their infuriating web site: there are so many animations, endless scrolling while being fed painfully little information about the product, and no obvious link to something simple and useful like a white paper to communicate the important details about the machine.

They have always assumed that people would be lured in by the interesting design and they make the real details hard to find. That is clueless.

The top of the line product page should have stats front and center.
Red necks with pre-electronic cars and an improvised EMP device are running around hijacking self driving beer trucks.

I was thinking it would be kind of Fast & Furious style.

Fast & Furious!? Go back further! Smokey & the Bandit! That's exactly the sort of thing they would do, if someone with a TARDIS plonked the Snowman and Bandit into the 21st century!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokey_and_the_Bandit
I'm not the OP of the comment you're responding to but...

I think it is unethical to take away the livelihood of someone if the only reason you are doing it is to add even more zeros to your already fat bank account.
"If the President had picked me to predict which country [in postwar Europe] would recover first, I would say, 'Bring me the records of maintenance.' The nation with the best maintenance will recover first. Maintenance is something very, very specifically Western. They haven't got it in Russia. If I got in there in the warehouse, let's say, and I saw that the broom had a special nail, I would say, 'This is the nail of immortality.'" - Eric Hoffer
Good explanation!!!
A minor nit: Burning gas for heating is not 100% efficient, unless you really want to die of carbon monoxide poisoning. Combustion gasses are exhausted to the atmosphere. Heat is transferred via a heat exchanger into the recirculated internal air of the house.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_heating