skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
ITT: A whole lot of people who don't like to talk about what is usually people's favorite subject...themselves.

Now I am off to find a random person to describe my ideal tech stack to before fixing their computer.
I've been working two full-time jobs for more than a year now while maintaining a bi-phasic sleep schedule.

Think what you wish, but sitting there in pain for a few minutes while my life ends (by my own accord) doesn't seem all that difficult comparatively.

I take on very hard tasks daily, and sustain work on them for a lot longer than three minutes.

Don't make me challenge you to a vipassana, friendo.
Yes. Handing out code to everyone (open source) can provide many benefits, but there's no benefit to handing it over only to agents you do not expect to cooperate (foreign governments, or governments in general).
I wonder if they could eventually add some "spider-sense" sensors to the headset and then a voice in your headset that says a person is approaching or whatever.
Considering they equate estimations of hours on tickets w/ hours you work and bill, all hope is lost. A dev shop should know better. The fact that they don't is disheartening, and makes me think management level is not run anyone w/ software dev experience.

The cynic in me says that you should just pad hours on ticket estimations to encompass ancillary tasks and bill for 40 hours while working the same as you do. It's a bit dishonest, but you may end up with happier management, and a happier you.
Don't we get that with monitors now?
This is one reason I'm hopeful for a not-killer-robots future. I think there's a chance strong AI will have to evolve over a non-trivial amount of time (as opposed to an afternoon's super-singularity), and a strong evolutionary pressure will be "don't scare the humans."
Didn’t know that, cool!

I’m not American so not that clued up on the specifics.
Yes, it can absolutely be done, but you'll need to build your own infrastructure. You just run the playbook locally using "-c local -i localhost,". Obviously, you'll have to figure out how to set variables and get the execution results back to the master.

It also means if any of your servers is compromised, the attacker will be in possession of your whole playbook.
Uber wash & fold?
Note that it's a willow tree, so the vandal and workers may have "just" unintentionally coppiced it. Far from killing the tree, some of the oldest trees in the world are coppiced. Coppicing is supposed to happen in winter, but it's possible this tree could survive.

Looking at the "before" picture, the tree might itself be a spray formed when an older tree was cut.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coppicing
I used Nightmare (https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare) to automate logging into my 401(k) provider's website and fetching my current balance (no public tickers for the funds). It uploads that number somewhere and then I fetch that somewhere in a Google Sheets spreadsheet where I keep track of my portfolio.
since this entire topic seems philosophical, I'll go down this path --

someone is sitting at home, feeling worthless, like their life is pointless and they could disappear without anyone noticing.

but there's this tree everyone likes. people notice this tree. because you see lots of pictures of it, people must visit it often. it's a confluence.

if you were to, say, scratch your name into the bark, people would notice. you would have made some difference on the world, for better or worse.

if you were to cut a branch down, people would DEFINITELY notice. people would think about you, when no one would before. even if the thoughts aren't positive.

in other words, to not feel so small and meaningless.
>The last fragment will almost never have the optimal size. For large transfers this means a significant part of the traffic will be composed of suboptimal short datagrams - a waste of precious router resources.

Why? With large transfers, the most packets will have the maximum length, only the last will have a "suboptimal" short length.
I suspect having a good talent pool, good infrastructure, and a responsive city government is worth more to the company than a few billion dollars in tax breaks.
This is an almost absurd criticism ("be careful telling people to sleep, people I know who were depressed followed that advice and slept for 12-14 hours every day").

Let's fix it by being more specific, so we don't accidentally cause any more problems: "daily moderate-intensity cardiovascular exercise" (or, if you prefer, "resistance training 3x week"). Or even, "a healthy level of exercise".

I agree that therapy is a good idea, but you shouldn't need a therapist to figure this one out. A reasonable amount of exercise is good for pretty much everyone.
I posted this on here yesterday...wonder y it didn't go through. Neat article and beautiful language. I just wish it was easier to train my brain to use it and easier to get data in.
Finding the right journalists to reach out to so that they can then write about your business can be seen as a special case of sales.

Similarly, I think it would be very useful something like: "I built product X, scrape the web and find me the best sales prospect for it". This is something that people do in a very manual way today and takes forever.
"RVs are not always welcome"

Where? How come? And are campervans more welcome? :)
> he (because it's probably a male)

Seriously?
The article decries balkanization of tech services but it noticeably omits a middle path -- offering consulting services for open source software.

Surely, in this aspect, it stands to reason that this section of the tech services industry is more robust in the face of such an encroachment. The only losers in such a situation are the likes of Symantec, whom claim secrecy and obfuscation are a feature rather than a bug.
Brazil has 207.7 million people. One guy making even 5 billion $ per year is only 25$ per person worth of GDP.
Bare in mind what the post talks about that for some people, telling them to go running just makes them feel worse because they can't even get up the energy to get off the sofa.

I think it depends on how deep down the hole you are, plus clearly some things work better for others.
Side note: what TV do you have? I've found that most Samsungs and many other TVs don't respond to the HDMI-CEC off signal. Was quite disappointed.
I created a script that was scraping the kimsufi website every X minutes to check if some server was available and would send me the reservation link via Slack.

It was so hard to get their cheapest server back then, they would get sold out really quickly.
If the idea behind these techniques is to combat the natural response of hiding the problems and actively reckoning them, your argument doesn't seem to offer a rebuttal of that counter-intuitive proposal, you're just saying it's bad.
When using VR, do we focus on the objects or on some fixed point? If it is the objects, it could simulate being at different distances, so it should be better than staring at a stationary screen.
On the other hand, consider the Arnolfini marriage portrait (that's this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Van_Eyck_-_Arnolfini_Port...), and you recognize that clothes like the couple are wearing in the painting are affordable only to 1-percenters. Then and now.
I love this book so much that I bought the paperback edition. Practicing and following its advice has helped me improve my general mood and outlook over the past year.

The past year being one of the most difficult of my life. For me, I see direct evidence of the techniques personally in that it has been reducing the impact anxiety has on me when it occurs.

Its also been improving my ability to: 1) be 'present' and not have anxiety come up as often to begin with, 2) quickly address/resolve the anxiety when it does occur, using the techniques
Assuming the site wasn't actually crashing I expect they didn't care or know about it.
It does require a separate graphics card, though requiring separate PC or console.

There need to be a place to dissipate that 200W+ of power current GTX cards are using, and this is not possible to fit it in kind of binoculars.

Thats marketing gimmick Oculus is doing: it does not require phone (as daydream does) but it does require graphics powerhouse to generate all the virtual reality (unless you don't want the world to be as in current AAA games which DO REQUIRE GTX kind of power).
No, I did not mention where I worked or even the industry.
>It's also a viscous cycle once you stop doing these things.

It is also gosh dang terrifying. I am not so much curing my depression + anxiety as much as I am running away and trying put enough stuff behind me that it can't catch me.

But when it does, it is difficult to get started again.
So, Suburbs 2.0?
I'll grant you the note of our grandparent's diets, but I don't think it's analogous. Were our grandparents also more mindful? Perhaps I'm missing your point.
Interesting, thanks. I asked in that thread because I legitimately wanted to know; I very much know that my C++ knowledge is ancient, and that many things are very different now. Always learning!
I have set up a battery of scripts on google app engine and Im pretty happy with it.

1. I have a script to automatically buy small amount of BTC every day

2. For the more knowledge-dense books I read, I write summaries of them (https://piszek.com/books/). I have a script that puts a random book review to my pocket for reviewing every week

3. I have an instagram account of lego minifig (https://www.instagram.com/le.traveller/). I wrote a script that likes other profiles to get traffic

4. I have a script that parses my bank e-mail statements to fill up my spending spraedsheets

5. I also have a script that parses incoming email for invoices. That system basically does my taxes

6. My GTD methodology revolves around Evernote. I have cron jobs that throw me "checklists" with stuff to do around certain times (yearly taxes, etc)

7. Using Twilio and verified number, my calendar sends personalized SMS with birthday wishes to my family that appear as they are from my number

8. Also on Twilio I have DIY voicemail that is aware of where in world am I and either routes to my current SIM card or takes a message. I also have a US number that routes any SMS to my current SIM

I recently moved, so I have to rebuild all my Smart-Home hacks. I am currently trying to automate my Intercom at home to play pre-recorded message to postman and let him in automatically
You can run Ansible locally with `-c local`.

But, as far as serverless/self-bootstrapping deploys go, it's less common. Ansible has less of a "culture of dependencies"; the simpler, more approachable-looking nature of the Ansible playbook format seems to lend itself to people one-offing whatever they need rather than looking for best-practices solutions that already exist. Because of this, there's no real Berkshelf equivalent for Ansible. The tooling doesn't exist, outside of Tower (sorta), because nobody wants it, and nobody wants it because the tooling doesn't exist. So the people who are doing with Ansible something similar to the Chef Zero stuff I mentioned above are mostly home-rolling it. (I just use a S3 bucket as a Minimart berkshelf endpoint and move on with my day.)

Last-mile configuration is also tricky. In my Chef Zero stuff, I use CloudFormation metadata to provide Chef attributes. You can do something similar with Ansible...but it's duct-tapey. There are times when simple is better; IMO, Ansible's core tooling errs too far on that side and the ecosystem has not caught up to make more rigorous approaches really viable.
Beyond Floating Point – Posit C++ Implementation
Most of them have a contemplative style that can work.

- Catholic: adoration

- Protestant: centering prayer

- Buddhism: Zazen

- Islam: contemplation
It makes perfect sense. A symbol is way too valuable.
Yeah why not. I get paid most of the time when I do this for friends/neighbors/XYZ. Either cash or beer, which is fine.
TL;DR: an early effort to establish a 'standard language' for representing and symbolically manipulating (e.g., transforming) every possible neural net that could ever be constructed with graphs and tensors.

Very cool to see this sort of thing.
Oracle Peoplesoft?
No point arguing over whether this was harsh or justified--what matters is how GGP's spouse feels about it.
"user doesn't trust Google but trusts Facebook" is a very slim slice of the population
More like wire of the half length (monopole) with good reference. Slot is pretty much equal to a dipole and resonates best at double the wavelenth of its longest axis.

This assumes single narrow and straight slots. Quite fancy radiation patterns, polarization and resonance points can be implemented with fractal shapes of slots.
I don't think it is absurd. I have a genetic disorder. All of the standard diet and exercise advice failed me in every metric until I had a proper diagnosis.

Lots of people have unidentified health issues. Underlying health issues can cause low energy, which can be mistaken for depression.
At the risk of sounding trite, this reminds me an awful lot of the "Missingno" glitches in the Red and Blue Pokemon Gameboy games.
It does require external powerhouse (PC) if you would like to have any decent(1) virtual world.

(1) all AAA games (working on the GTX 9xx or 1xxx) are still subpar to the reality, and they're disspating hundreds of wattage. It's not possible to put it into binoculars.
Cutting gluten probably is a net-positive, for most people, if for no other reason than it drastically reduces the amount of simple carbohydrates that you consume, and more often than not, the total number of calories consumed. Whether or not that it is actually the gluten that makes any difference, for non-celiacs, I'm less certain. I feel much better when I get closer to a ketogenic diet of eggs, meat, and green vegetables, but, again, I'm probably consuming on the order of 1000 to 1500 calories less per day when I do so.
In what concrete ways will life improve?

Also, the premise of that book is wrong (that no human is content).
yeah well the same thing happens when someone is really depressed and not on ssris as well
You might have a case if 'hellothere007 doesn't write the jokes. I interpreted their post as meaning they write the jokes, queue them up with the cron job, and use it to schedule them for delivery at some time more appropriate to the wife's timezone.
Would you expect an adversary to actually tell you the holes they find? If they don't, what do you gain from sharing source code with them?
I'm not going to watch any more 10min hobbyist benchmark videos.
So the primary reason for the multiple second response times is that many sequential megabytes have to be read from an HD in order to return an often quite tiny HTTP response data for a particular {url, timestamp}? That would explain the nearly constantly (slow) response time.

(I was puzzled why it didn't seem to vary much depending on the time of day, etc.)
"Don't scare the humans" is an insufficient criterion if you're trying to prevent an AI apocalypse. It just means that the AI that destroys us won't be obviously dangerous.
I had three fun ones.

I wanted to learn powershell, and I was interested in the history of worms on the internet, so I made a script to check https://isc.sans.edu/ and send me an email if the status was not green. Turns out, powershell has an all-in-one function to send an SMTP email, which I thought was hilarious. I used windows task scheduler to run it every hour.

Second, I was struggling with my Cable internet connection, and it was incredibly difficult to nail down what was causing my slow speeds. To help with the diagnostics, I wrote a little python script to download the files that Netflix uses for speedtests (check Fast.com) and logged the average of 10 runs to a file. It similarly used task scheduler to run every 10 minutes and as a result I now have a big old dataset of SpeedTests and unix timestamps which I graphed while playing around with Pillow

I wrote a python bot to Read project Gutenburg books to twitter. This was to participate in a contest that involved seeing which "team" could get a hashtag into more tweets. A twitter bot takes about five minutes to make, as I found a brilliant little Python-Twitter library. Unfortunately, my teammates got cold feet and convinced me to de-rate the bot's posting frequency, meaning we barely lost to a group of 60 or so sorority girls doing it the "correct" way. However, as we did it sort of below-radar, the loophole of automating it is still open and valid.

Currently I'm working on automating the process of creating photoreal scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator. The FSX scene has built tools to turn open source land-use data into ground scenery like houses and forests, and Microsoft included the SDK and Documentation as part of the game[1], but since high resolution photo-real satellite photography is an incredibly expensive asset, nobody has automated that part of the process. I most likely will not be successful, as I have no source for the photo-real imagery.

Personally, I find that absurd, as my tax dollars as an American likely pay for incredibly high resolution (higher than 1 foot per pixel) satellite imagery of the entire world, and I'm not sure how the NSA providing that to citizens would hurt national security. The Stallman in me feels that I've already paid for that data, and it should be public domain. Hell, even a year old would work fine. The biggest problem would be Google and Microsoft lobbying to prevent the devaluation of their expensive assets.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff798293.aspx
Yes. It was most likely a male who took a saw to that tree. Is that a shocking statement?
Here are some stats on vaccines in the US [1]. You can do your own research on the rest, but I think you'll find the numbers to be extremely high. Even homeless people, who I am not counting, in the US have some access to those things. My wife, a clinical pharmacist, is always giving antibiotics to the homeless who come to the ER for free. I know the US the best, but I would be surprised if other modern countries weren't similar in terms of basic healthcare, sanitation, etc. We can of course argue what "modern country" means.

1. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/immunize.htm
Well, if the Power of Now is to be believed, "actively reckoning" with your problems is also bad and you should instead respond like a smiling fool to absolutely anything that happens (among other things he suggests that menstruation can be turned into a joyful expression of womanhood if only you let go of your "pain body" and "egoic mind," elements of the human psyche he also blames for the Nazis).
The requirements about the local labour pool and university system are nonsense. People can and will relocate to work for Amazon across the country and even across the world.

My take is that the RFP is a long-list of wants, not the short-list of must-haves. They want lots of suitors knocking on their door, to make the bidding process competitive.
Don't Buy into the Gender Pay Gap Myth
I feel like it'd help to avoid saying features of your product "are really cool" as you use it to present disaster footage. Also the upbeat cartoon avatars were probably not a good choice.
I imagine that some time ago, a community bank might have had loan officers who would know the person or at least the community personally. That would allow the bank to feel confident in writing a loan at lower risk than what the surface financial stats might indicate. Everything is now so financialized into homogenous trade units that I suspect that the original functions of banks to beneficially work out economic inversions like this have faltered.

On the other hand, the $200-300 being charged might represent a risk level of the whole class of rentals being made... it's hard to know without on the ground information.
That was not my intention. Perhaps there is a language barrier as English is my second (or third) language.

To automate something to me means getting the same result without me manually having to do it.

Like hiring a professional to translate a document for me. I’d call that automation but I know now that’s incorrect.
Why would Catalonia and Occitania be one province? The Pyrenees mountains make for a pretty strong natural border. Catalonia doesn't trace back to ancient Rome but the middle ages. It's one of the medieval Christian kingdoms that fought with the various Islamic regimes that ruled southern Spain until it was subsumed into Aragon (which was later merged with Castile.) Prior to that they were all part of a unified Visigothic empire.
Graphcool Framework
I'm expecting the quality to be on par with gear VR.
They should be able to cut some costs when compared to phone manufactors, since they don't need to support SIM cards, can use bulkier components and get the case "for free".
The grocery chain I shop at has a component of their loyalty card that lets you add certain coupons to your card and they change constantly. All told there may be a few hundred of items offered up daily, most of which I don't buy anyhow. So instead of wasting my time sifting through them to save $10 a month I just wrote a script to add all of them to my card every day at the same time. So long as I go shopping after that time I may have discounts for items I actually purchase deducted at checkout.
yeah but i’ve heard aome studies have shown the blue light from vr headsets damage your eyes anyway
Wow, I'd never heard of Rails before. What a great recommendation. /s

Am I just a curmudgeon, or does every step that GitHub takes these days seem like wrong one? Everything, from small design changes, to the results of their discovery engines, to the pricing and offering of there paid services, just seems to get worse over time.

As somebody who visits GitHub more than any other page, it makes me a bit said. I do hope they can turn it around or GitLab will come up on them fast.
Did it work? Is that part of the story not interesting?
Time to program the Roomba.. just add image recognition and spray paint module..
Wells Fargo ATMs Launch NFC-Enabled Mobile Wallet Capability
Columbus, OH is going to get it.

Growing city with very affordable housing, large university system (OSU), close to international airport, centrally located in the midwest.
"Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which takes advantage of the fact that many trees make new growth from the stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, which is called a copse,"

I finally find out why the "copse of trees" at Gettysburg is called that. Thank you.
Please don't try looking at MySQL's python connector... from a quick inspection there are quiet a few memory copies going on there... just in Python it does not end in GC, but needless wasted CPU / memory cycles (and less performance, depending on what yo do).
The "shuffle any image in this folder" background option in windows is incredibly cool and underutilized
1 hour hold account 1 hour old comment. I am not trying to be negative but i have seen no science to state that cutting gluten is going to do anything at all for anyone unless they have Celiac disease.

You want to back that up with study or something? Its just WOO if i am wrong i will be happy to eat some crow.

Further more the comment near this one about some imaginary threshold of MEME count gives something legitimacy. REALLY?

WHERE AM I!!
That's one thing I love about Vimperator: its macro system. If you can do the steps using the keyboard, you can just start recording and do it once. Next time a simple key combo will repeat your steps.

I've automated logging in to public Wifi networks and filling in many forms with it.