skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The change has to come within you. Drink was a problem to both of my parents. I'm not saying it's wrong to drink. We are only a brief period in this world of pain, and generally, what you find pleasing, go for it. The problem with drink is, it may take you, and the medical complications can be horrific. I don't really care for horror movies - they are lame, after having to consider the fates of two close relatives.

My father drank about as much as you, and he nearly died of liver chirrosis. Which would have been extremely painfull. He died later, after not drinking so much, of heart failure. The medical examination showed he had escaped chirrosis by an inch.

My mother drank way more than that. Eventually her state deteriorated, she went to a psychosis and she soon died. Only after death we discovered she had had pancreatic cancer. So it was good thing, in a way, she passed quickly, not prolonging her agony. Because death by pancreatic cancer is a really painfull way to go. See a pattern? She started soiling her sheets soon before the psychosis. And, her last month she mostly could not communicate, as as far as I can tell, she trembled in fear in her bed.

Was the fear because of psychosis? Or had the hospital staff maltreated her, because, you know, she was just a psychotic fragile drunk? I will never know. She was 66 when she died.

As I understand she took to drink in a major way in her late twenties, and never gave up. She became depressed and lost her job, and drank more.

Some people drink to their grave in the nineties, and stay seemingly healthy, so, it's a game of chance.

Look up alcohilism and it's complications. The bad thing about most of them, is that they creep in, and when they are obvious, it's likely too late to do anything and it's a slide to body horror land and gruesome death.

I know scaring people doesn't work, but at least you have some concept of the odds you are dealing with.

Take care, man.
Yeah, that's true for values you're willing to allocate inline. The key advantage of intrusive linked lists is being able to add and remove normally allocated objects without having to construct separate list nodes. The STL does have splice(), but it's awkward -- you always have to keep the object in a list and refer to it using iterators instead of normal references.
Pretty small screen for a development machine imo. I think you want at least 13" but personally I think 14 is the sweet spot. I say this having used an x220 a few years back.
Depends on the contract. Whine CL on CME is physically settled, WTI on ICE is financially settled. Both are contracts for the same underlying crude (I've traded them one for one in various strategies).
It's not like your CPU isn't backdooring your custom scripts anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Management_Engine
For me, as an adult child of a now deceased alcoholic mother, the headline on this article plays down the findings detailed further down. If you're drinking every night in front of your kids, to my mind that is affecting them, whether you care to acknowledge it or not. So I would say it's great you acknowledge it is a problem and should address it. I think wine is a particularly insidious problem in many places as people see it is going along with food, which is fine in terms of a single glass say, not a bottle an evening. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41665460
Malignant Narcissism.
While the article does mention one more guy (Oliver Schmidt), it's a shame they just put the whole thing on this Engineer, when in reality there is no way this could have been pulled off by two people without the rest of management's knowledge/approval.

Are you seriously telling me that only this single guy was responsible for all the emissions that were found in the TDI range of diesels, all the way from A3 to A8? Sorry, I'm not buying it.
I agree

"Superior" has to be followed by: "superior to whom?" and "superior in what aspect?"

"X is better than Y" but X does not do what Y does then it's not superior if it won't solve a problem.
Why truly sociable people hate parties
> the ultimate morass of monoculture and an endgame with no competition. An ode to "the OS layer no longer matters, don't bother putting any effort into it someone else will". Bystander paradox.

It is not a monoculture, it's a common framework. Most farms have soil, and sure, some farms can operate without soil, but there is a lot of flexibility with soil. No two soils are alike, soil developers at each supersoil centre^W^Wfarm are free to derive and innovate as much as they'd like, but soil is a good place to start.

If you want a microkernel, port the Linux drivers to it and you're off to the races. If you want a monolithic kernel, there's basically nothing you're missing out on with Linux.
Depends how you define excessive. For example, the current UK recommendation[1] is a maximum of 14 ‘units’ a week. An average bottle of wine is something like 9 units depending on ABV strength, so 5 evenings a week of 3/4s of a bottle of wine works out at 33.75 units, or 2.4 times the recommended maximum.

[1] https://www.nhs.uk/Livewell/alcohol/Pages/alcohol-units.aspx
Alcoholism is a very serious but very treatable disorder. If you suspect you might be developing alcoholism there is no shame in seeking advice from a medical professional. It doesn't sound like you have a problem with your drinking but having a professional diagnose if this can turn into a problem is a good precaution if you suspect you might get sick.

A common myth about alcoholism is that it is a personality trait, and people who are alcoholics will always be one. This is incorrect. It is a disorder that one develops and is treatable. If untreated one can be sick for the rest of ones life. The consequences can be severe, including the loss of your job and even your family.

As said before, it doesn't sound like you are terribly sick. A good thing to know is that you are not alone. Many people have this disorder and are actively seeking help. As with other disorders, a professional opinion is always better then self diagnostic.
FB messenger supports it on desktop only. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13799800

(Sorry for the indirect sourcing)
'Shared Space' Design: Road Signs Suck. What If We Got Rid of Them All?
PureVPN Black Friday Crazy Deal: Get PureVPN in just $1.15/month . You can get 88% off from here https://www.purevpn.com/vpn-deal-of-the-decade

P.S: This is a lifetime price which means it renews at the same price every 5 years for life. $1.15/month seems like a good deal.
Beeing outside for long stretches might sound healthy, but at the end of day gives you skin-cancer. Source of Information: Scar over my eye, where the doctor cut out the summers harvest of pesticide resistant weeds in uv-rays.
Not even sure if you would qualify as alcoholic. Afaik, it is quite common in many countries to have wine with a meal, so there must be many people who drink as much as you...

At the same time, it is a good idea to question your habits... I found this "am I an alcoholic?" test, which may be useful: https://www.ncadd.org/get-help/take-the-test/am-i-alcoholic-...

Finally, the UK has a big problem with drinking, so there's plenty of good resources here... See e.g. https://www.drinkaware.co.uk/alcohol-facts/health-effects-of...
> Is it concept of "money" has been upgraded?

That sentence alone nicely illustrates why people loath bitcoin enthusiasts.

> people don't like the costs and regulations associated with fiat currencies

I have a savings account. It doesn't cost anything. The only regulation that matters to me is that it is insured against loss and theft.

> trying to ban alcohol or drugs - people still like them, so you can never ban them

Illegal drugs are banned. Hence illegal.

> no matter what the government wants.

Governments don't "want" things. People do–and elect governments to do it. The overwhelming majority is against legalising heroin. If you believe you can run a mainstream currency with the power requirements of a small country without and not be subject to government regulation, you are delusional.

Look: Nobody is currently using Bitcoin as a "store of value". Nobody but drug dealers is currently using Bitcoin as a transactional currency. The only reason anybody is buying bitcoin is speculation, or, if you will, FOMO. With transaction costs in the double digits, and a security story worse than leaving a bag of money on a public bus, Bitcoin has zero underlying value as anything but the air in a bubble.
Ask HN: How do you license a neural network as free software?
I'm looking for how to use deep learning inside some open source software.

Has anyone done any work on the licensing of a trained network?

A network is effectively a piece of software, however it is based on both data and the training software. Of course, the training software can use any open source license.

Does the data it is based on need to have any particular kind of license or permission given?

And what license does the combined "binary" (it's effectively generated code) of the neural network itself have?

Are there any projects already doing this kind of licensing that do it well?
Well, F. A throw away because this speaks more than is should to me.

2 kids, wife, xVP eng job in major public company. 1.5x bottle of whiskey a week, plus additional beers and wines. Maybe not crazy, but a dependency for sure. Looking forward to getting home for a diet and double bourbon, putting the kids to bed and then onto more interesting drinks is a lot of mon-fri is nota great look or feel. I see it, but have not changed it for 8+ months.

The pressure I feel that drives this is from many angles - job transitioning from a small company to a large public in the last year (acquisition) and issues that come from our new parent company not understanding how to merge the 2; high pressure to deliver on acquisition expectations (and escrow the entire company is held to / huge pressure on me to sustain this for us all); general life stress of school searches (big city problem...); lack of "next step" and somewhat bored nature of my day to day.

I'm for sure a natural addict - 3 years of daily heavy weed consumption whilst in a similar tech job (but as junior monkey) and xbox issues in the past. If I don't decompress, I can't find the motivation to continue - that is pretty high for the last 14 years based on constant dollar carrots. If not for 25k a year school fees for 2x kids, I might be more relaxed on this, but its worse than a mortgage!

For the op, I have managed to launch a few side projects during this. A kickstarter with a friend that hit its goals and shipped on time one of the more surprising issues. However, I'm not able to move into something more meaningful (aka new startup) under the booze umbrella - I feel a motivation is needed here that is essentially a "co-founder" vs any drinking epiphany and then all will balance out again.

An anonymous website showing what people drink nightly would not help here, just reinforce. Some kind of anonymous ledger demonstrating lifespan longevity or liver state of health would be great.
Simple minded “free market” doesn’t work where there are natural monopolies in place. When absolutely arbitrary purchasing choices are not allowed the whole model falls to pieces, ignoring that is like ignoring friction and claiming reality is only bound by the First Law of Dynamics. Pretty stupid imho
I moved away from Firefox because it was literally unable to scroll without dropping frames.
I also have the issue of some keys repeating letters. Also, had to replace several keycaps, the tiny clamps are too weak and get loose, so the keycaps start to wobble and pop out.
>Are / were you in this situation ? If you managed to stop, I would appreciate the 'how'.

Take some MDMA. Inquire of yourself, 'Why do I drink so much?'

Worked for me. It was ayahuasca for my brother-in-law. He had a rather rougher time of it.
The article implies other executives to be sentenced. Liang happens to be the lowest ranking executive. Also from the looks of Schmidt’s sentencing it seems the orher executives probably had longer sentences.
Cripes. Ajit Pai must badly be wanting to compete against Martin Shkreli as most despised man in America.

Shkreli ended up in a jump suit (no doubt picking up soap frequently). Is Pai next?
Nope, the articles says there are 7 more higher ranking executives due to be judged. And from the looks of it their sentences might be significantly higher as well.
Honestly, even that's a crapshoot. In fact this article presumes that it should be an interview, when it should really be a conversation.

If a non-technical founder wanted to "interview" me, I'd tell them to shove it. If they wanted to have a conversation about how we could bring our complementary skills together to solve a problem, then I'd certainly be much more interested.
Netflix doesn’t hog the network. You do, by downloading Netflix data, but then again you are also paying for that data.
VIX futures exist even though there is no underlying vix instrument to be bought. Studying how that works would teach you everything you need to know.
"A common myth about alcoholism is that it is a personality trait, and people who are alcoholics will always be one." There are people who are biologically predisposed to alcoholism.
They can be removed, but with the hooks and clamps you need to be careful and know the right technique.
Ask HN: Is it weird to read articles written in English by non-native speakers?
I'm wondering whether to primarily write articles in German (my mother tongue) or English. For me, the advantage of writing in English is that I'll potentially reach many more people with my writing. The disadvantage (in my opinion) is that the quality of my writing will probably not be as good as when writing in German, and the occasional "weirdness" of the text might put off native English readers.

My question to native English speakers: Do you mind reading articles written by non-native speakers (given it is clearly noticeable in the text)? Do you have any recommendations for us to make our writing better or less "weird" for your native-speaking brain?

My question to non-native authors writing in English: How do you handle this? Do you think it impacts the way your writing is received by native English readers?
I'm a happy Asus zenbook 3 user. I setup arch on it and it's been great so far. Only problem with it is it's crappy audio
This reminds me of some awesome documentary footage of a man who built a cabin in the Alaskan wilderness:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJKd0rkKss

Alone in the Wilderness - Dick Proenneke

The same dry commentary made riveting by insightful and sometimes whimsical observations, the same hardship usually effortlessly overcome, and of course the same solitary strength of a middle-aged man. Both stories make me a bit envious, and inspire me to create a little more with my hands.
I remapped caps lock to be esc, and things work fine.

The touch bar is just now a volume and brightness slider control!
"I'm drinking on average 5 evenings per week, between half and a full bottle of wine" would a full bottle of wine be enough? Doesn't it vary based on weight and alcohol tolerance?
The problem is unfortunately not being able to remove Esc from the TouchBar, and so I accidentally keep pressing it
I know, but they sorta kinda miss the irony when they reference racial origin and "West" instead of referring to an individual.
Paradise Papers suggest billionaire Lei Jun connected to biggest Bitcoin miner
Why does it matter if it's "one" video company that takes-up 40% of the network traffic vs 100 video companies sites taking the same 40% traffic? It would be the same traffic amount.

The only reason they are making a big stink about it is because when there's just one it's so much easier to put the blame on that company or ask it for money, than it would be to ask 100 or 1,000 video sites the same.

It's the same reason why those who want censorship start rearing their heads when you have only a couple of app stores, instead of apps/programs being offered from all over the web, or why law enforcement prefers to go to large companies to ask them for user data, and so on.

When things are centralized, they are much easier to target.
> former engineer James Liang

Former engineer? Does one ever stop being an engineer?
> They do convey a precise meaning.

Then formalize it. Mathematically.
I'm using it as a proxy with IP rotation. It is not a perfect solution, but solved my problem more than one time.

It is a lot cheaper than a "proxy as a service".
Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before Using Chef
There is a simpler test: If you have to ask, the answer is probably yes.
Be sarcastic if you want, but atoms are no joke.

Did you know that some most atoms are toxic in their pure form? You'd have to be crazy to try a spoonful of random atoms. While there are plenty of combinations of atoms that can be consumed safely, it's not true for all of them. You need to be very careful about what kinds of atoms you're eating.

Also, "atom" is the root of the word "atomic." You know--as in atomic bombs? That alone should help you to reconsider whether you want to eat these things!

The above clearly proves that "not wanting to eat atoms" is a perfectly reasonable opinion.
Fantastic precedent. When your boss tells you to do something unethical and possibly illegal, you now have a great reason to say no.
Latest Jacket Types for Winter
I do think that superior alternatives will catch up eventually if they stay in the game long enough... The problem is that sometimes the window of opportunity can be suppressed for very long periods of time; sometimes several generations... Maybe even several centuries.

Great one-time success can create a protective buffer which allows inferior traits to persist through long periods of time.
> gloating

Not gloating – expressing pride in an open collective effort of hundreds of corporations and thousands upon thousands of individuals.

> monoculture

Only a bad thing if proprietary – witness how many Linux distros there are, consider the difference between Android and whatever runs on a supercomputer.

> I don't know the solution to all this

There's no problem, hence no need for a solution. You want competition? Then join any of the other free/open OS efforts and contribute your time and energy.

> Older me knows better

I don't think so. I prefer young you.
Hmm, I'm in the middle of this situation right now, and I want to write so much and yet prevent it turning into a blog post (if you want to talk, reply and I'll set up an alternative email - I think neither of us want to write our main HN/email accounts here).

Three quick pieces of context: I had a binge-drinking problem originally; that transitioned into a "4-6 330ml cans ~5 nights a week" - like you; and a cannabis problem.

I snapped one night when I got thoroughly smashed on a first meeting with someone (bad first impression). I got a shrink. I now have _two_ shrinks (one for diagnosed depression - Dysthymia - shrink's diagnosis, not mine, and one for general substance abuse). I've relapsed. I've missed my meds. It's hard. I keep restarting. I keep going. It's getting better. It's getting easier.

I came around to the realisation that if I stopped one problem, I relapsed on the other (stop drinking, more weed; vice-versa). I was going to have to stop both (it's freaking _hard_ after a 10-year habit). But I also had to acknowledge why I was drinking/smoking: social anxiety, stress, feeling like I "deserved" a reward for a long day, a little bit of something like "impostor syndrome" - but most often? Sheer, absolute, boredom when left alone for too long

It takes a whole-life effort for me: socialising in non-drinking environments. A better diet. More exercise (suck at that one). Medication for withdrawal. Meds for energy (stimulants) to keep me functioning. Sleep (incredibly important). My girlfriend (without whom I think I would be doomed). My managers at work (they know, and we have regular, personal-oriented catchups). My friends.

And I couldn't do any of this without the professional support, the support of my friends, and my work colleagues. The "first step is admitting you have a problem" annoys the hell out of me (so trite, so "easy"). But it's true. The second step is getting help. And it was scary at first (I'm admitting I can't do it myself, I'm a failure for not fixing it myself, etc.) But it was the right call.

A final note on the "high-functioning" part: apparently alcoholism is defined in things like the DSM as "when drinking becomes a problem - when it impacts work, family, or relationships". Mine didn't (much). But I wanted to a) stop it before it got to that point, and b) improve myself - like you said with the running, I am much better able to handle stress, to function in my development role, and to maintain relationships without only ever bonding while smashed.

That may/may not help :D But I appreciate what it's like to be at the "first stage" of acknowledging this. You wonder "do I have a problem?", "Is it _really_ that bad?". It's scary. But I would suggest that quite possibly, life can be significantly better by taking control of it. In ways I never would have thought of when I started my own journey.
Live blog: 24 hours at TechCrunch Shanghai hackathon
Personally i sit close to the monitor because i cannot see that far. I could scale things up, but then i lose screen real estate (and a lot of stuff break with non-default scaling, including some of my own programs). I could lower the resolution, but anything non-native looks blurry as hell. For a while i used a 42" TV and while it was nice, it was blurry.

So i get the best results by sitting closer to the monitor. I want to be able to see the pixels and have screen real estate, so i use a 27" 1920x1080 monitor (LG... something, i don't remember the model, although TBH i'd prefer to use a smaller monitor with a smaller resolution, but any panel with a lower resolution than 1920x1080 has awful image quality and personally i see even IPS panels as a step backwards compared to my Sony CRT and cannot wait for OLED panels... hopefully in sane sizes and DPI). I also have a 2560x1440 monitor (Dell U2713HM) which i bought after seeing several artists at a previous job use it and liking the image quality, but i have stopped using it both because things are a bit too tiny for my taste and because in high end games my GPU (GTX 980) starts to struggle a bit unless i lower the settings considerably. Although TBH often i prefer to play games in a window so i can have some stuff still visible around (especially in Window Maker, my WM of choice, which is generally distraction free) and with 2560x1440 i can use 1920x1080 for the window resolution which often matches the UI scale the game uses but with 1920x1080 as the native resolution i need to use something smaller like 1600x900 which often crushes the UI, making it blurry. But that is a small price to play.

But FWIW, i don't mind antialiased fonts even though bitmaps do indeed look much crisper to me too.
I'd like to also mention this[0] crowd-sourced list of courses[1] on Tech Ethics. Please add your course/class as well:

[0] https://twitter.com/cfiesler/status/931200575873490944

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jWIrA8jHz5fYAW4h9CkU...
That's what I thought too, that there is just a byte stream being tunneled between SSH server and client and not a TCP packet stream.

Btw I use unix sockets on client and server to avoid the local connection TCP overhead.
I think that what you have wrong in your question is that the question is not to write for a native speakers audience but for an audience.

To that regard most perhaps non native will not be able to tell the difference in English.

As for your second question, my more fictional / creative writings in English often get corrected for sense or grammar. I never heard the slightest criticism in a more technical / teaching. I know that my weakness is too use to complex sentences, and so I try to avoid them.