skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish this advice mentioned the importance of ruling out issues like ADHD first, especially the inattentive type which is often underdiagnosed in women. I really relate to OPs description, and if she does have an exectutive functioning disorder that makes task prioritization inadequate and non-stimulating activities unrewarding to a massive extent, it wont be simply a matter of "overcoming fear" to start directing herself in a way that is more satisfying. If anything, it's a recipe for depression and frustration to try to act on advice like this if you have untreated ADHD.
I found CoffeeScript to be a pain to work with.

CoffeeScript added some useful features, like destructuring assignments, and some syntax sugar for objects, loops, etc... but it also made some choices that in my opinion are bad:

- Making delimiters optional like parentheses, brackets, semicolons... in addition to implicit return statements: makes programs hard to read if abused. Makes code formatters get confused and corrupt your code.

- Not being able to distinguish an assignment from a variable definition: causes identifier typos to become new variables.

This implicitness makes programs error prone in ways that are hard to verify and work with. Plus, needs to be transpiled and you will need sourcemaps.

In the end, the benefits are not worth it, even back during the time it was created.
Motivational essays are this are great for some people. Others, on the other hand, are persuaded to avoid seeking help for medical (mental health, hormonal, etc) problems that are wrecking their lives. Overmedication is a problem, yes, but this particular field is catastrophically underdiagnosed because its problems have come to be seen as moral failings and the fault of the sufferer. If you are so "lazy" that you have trouble with day-to-day life, you do not need to "man up" or "reject your self-image". You need to talk to a physician. Such problems are well within their purview. Modern psychiatry has infinitely better cognitive tricks than the moralizing platitudes in motivational essays. If you're really lucky, your physician will guess two-thirds of your symptoms before you describe them, diagnose you with a particular neurochemical deficiency, and prescribe you a medication that, in the space of a week, does more to help you with your problems than you'd managed in your entire life to date.

TL;DR: You aren't qualified to condemn every "lazy" person on the planet, so quit it with the victim-blaming. Some people need this kind of advice but you aren't the person that should be giving it. Let the professionals do it, because they can, first, do no harm.
Meltdown is mentioned in this update released on Dec 6th: https://support.apple.com/en-in/HT208331

(Entry updated Jan 5th)
Trust: true. all industry, science suffers from this. commercialization and pragmatism rule. But, nuclear suffers more than others because we chose to ignore love canal type damage and focus on radionucliotides, in weighing up the risk/reward view.

Militarisation: also true. we're having a minor resurgence of concern about neonicatinoids. That aside, people tend to downplay the risks inherent in most biocides, for this purpose. I think the limited use in the syrian war has played to this: we all know things have been used (tm) and we're all secretly breathing sighs of relief that they appear to be less useful than we thought, if just as evil and scary to suffer. The nuclear arsenal isn't going away. But, brazil has no nuke warheads. Germany, turkey, sweden.. its a bit list of people with a civilian nuclear industry and no warheads.

Personal: I think this is the killer reason actually. I think people don't feel willing to flip on this issue (I used to work casually in the FoE office in edinburgh and I attended the torness demos back in the '70s. I changed my mind)

Cost: Most of the cost inflation feels to me like opportunistic side effects of the planning delay. Nuclear reactors for the small market in strategic icbm submarines have cost overruns but I am less sure the nuclear component of their build is responsible. None the less, civilian nuclear build out is insanely expensive so in the 10-15 year spend cycle, bang-for-buck from PV/Solar is hugely big by comparison. 20-50 years, I suspect its less clear but re-capitalizing newer PV/wind would probably work over time. Shorter field life, but better RoI is undenyable. But, at a lower power intensity.

Fukushima. I tend to believe the unusable zone is shrinking but I also think it was a clusterfuck only the japanese could have come up with. Their socio-political-civilEng culture tends to do things for maximum harm. Look at Tsukiji relocation for a non-nuclear instance of insane bad planning: relocate the fish auction to .. an industrially polluted site none of the fish merchants want to occupy ... WCGW?

Graphite reactors didn't make much sense to me long term. Windscale fire.. wasn't that also graphite core?

I hate to do this, but I feel like this is bringing historical steam engine boiler explosions to the table discussing current technology. pebble bed, 4th gen are a long long way from graphite. Maybe its me but this feels like re-stating the personal-hatred thing.

I'm not so pro-nuclear I'm blind to reality. I think my original statement stands: in the 15-20 year planning cycle it looks impossibly hard to make it fly economically, socially even though in energy intensity terms, its a better long term bet.

I like PV and Wind. I think emerging battery and pumped hydro makes more sense, but we should not be blind to the damage Dams do, to the environment. PH may actually be better in that score, less stable, unmoving deep cold de-oxygenated water. Overall, I think more renewables make a damn sight more sense than burning coal, gas or wood.
Send message to server. Wait for server to tell you if the list of device-id's is current; if not, re-send with the server's update. What part of that works well with a client that checks for new messages every 5 minutes?
S35VN :(
I'm perfectionist

Hence this:

https://www.knifecenter.com/item/RSRYOHZDP/rockstead-ryo-h-z...
I do it too, when I’m being lazy. It simply requires more effort to order one’s thoughts well.

The best reference on style I know in this regard is Joseph Williams’s book Style: Toward Clarity and Grace [0]. The book explains how to analyze your own writing to lessen the mental burden on the reader, mainly by re-writing your sentences so that there is a natural logical flow from subject to predicate to object, with detail added in phrases that don’t get in the way.

0. https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199... [PDF]
> We could shift the low-demand graduates to high-demand graduates with somewhat decreased cost, in theory, by simply axing two thirds of the low-demand programs, no?

By what mechanism would you do this? It's not as if there is a centralized bureau of programs for all universities.

In theory you could stop offering student loans to students studying low demand subjects, but we haven't actually done that.

> If the demand is that imbalanced, why aren't more companies desperate for labor to the point of training workers themselves despite mismatched (or no!) degrees, or why isn't the big pool of under-employeed workers finding massive benefit to individual re-training that should pay off in spades?

The reason employers don't train workers is that it's all risk no reward. If the person drops out without finishing, or worse quits the day after you train them, you lose money. It's easier to just pay high salaries to qualified graduates from normal schools, which is what they do.

As to why people don't take on the retraining themselves, part of that is the cost. Which includes the opportunity cost. You not only have to pay tuition, you're spending all day studying instead of working.

And that can be a deterrent even if it balances in the long term. If you're making $30K/year now but would make $80K/year with a degree that costs $120K in tuition and another $120K in opportunity cost, you break even within a few years after graduating. But only if you have or can get somebody to loan you $240,000 at a low interest rate.

Obviously that becomes more attractive if either the tuition is lower, or there is less opportunity cost because the alternative pays less than $30K/year.
Oblomov by Goncharev..
Here is something that I have a need of pretty often, but don't know how to do in things outside email (Whatsapp, Signal, etc): a point by point interleaving of the original message and the reply; for instance in a technical argument.

I could do this in Slack, but unlike email this is not even close to being universally supported.
Oh, man, I didn't even read the byline, and didn't guess that the Polly in Dear Polly is Polly Esther. Damn I miss her Suck column.
What does it mean to be "lazy"? Why are some people lazy, and others not? Why are people lazy with regards to certain things and not others?

Ignoring all of these questions and simply considering laziness to be a fundamentally characteristic is highly unsatisfying and, dare I say, lazy.

Maybe the authors explanation is wrong, but she offers a potential explanation. Your proposal is simply that 'she is lazy because she is lazy' which offers no explanatory power.
Clinton had the same advantage and her war chest was bigger than Trump's.
Old Timer series. Something like Old Timer workmate.
Affordable and quality and easy to sharpen.

Stay away from stainless steel IMOP. Harder to sharpen, hard to get as sharp.

When I was a kid a lot of old guys had these knives. Something like this https://www.knivesplus.com/oldtimerlumberjacksc-858otb.html.

They would open the blades and stick them in a potato for a few days which would turn the metal black and prevent further oxidation (downside of not choosing stainless).

The flat blade (shortest on one in link) would be kept literally razor sharp and used only when real sharpness was needed. The somewhat rounded blade much less sharp (for rough utility usage, maybe cutting a cable or the like) and the long blade moderately sharp for general usage.

This is the general type of sharpener they used. https://www.academy.com/shop/pdp/lansky-1-x-3-double-sided-p...

First they would use the grit side, then steel the "sharp" blade with the steel side, then strap it on the leather case. The sharp blade was sharp enough when it would shave hair on your arm like a razor.

These were guys that actually used pocket knives a lot. And it was a common brand/system among them.
I meant, in general settings (ie, no special problem structure), that you need full Hessians for Newton’s method. And, regarding conjugate gradient, in (non-DL) settings that I’m used to, that for good results you need preconditioners which are also second order.

Could you provide a reference to a 10^7 size problem that is being optimized with Newton’s method? I’d be indebted.
Becoming a Haiku Poet (2003)
The review model in OP is 55k not 35k
I like my Chris Reeve Sebenza. Spendy, but works like a champ. https://www.chrisreeve.com/sebenza-21.html

Honestly, the favorite pocket knife is whatever I have on me at the time. I have one of these which is TSA approved and it does ok for opening boxes and packages and stuff. https://www.amazon.com/Boker-09BO310-Access-Prying-Steel/dp/...

I do a lot of flying. If I got a nice pocket knife I really liked and then got it confiscated, I'd be really sad. That little prybar rides on my keychain constantly and I don't have to think about it.

It's not sharp as a knife, but does most of what I need to do with it day to day.
When you spread people out, you don't have a city anymore. It's just an endless suburb. And people want to live in cities, because things happen there. There are jobs, services, public transport etc.
Okay, I'm all for RISC-V, but this makes no sense, RISC-V isn't magically immune to spectre for no reason.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-28212223

Profits seem pretty healthy, but R&D spending is also quite high. I'd expect a high-research growth industry to have much higher profit margins than mature things like oil and gas or media. Boggles my mind why banking is comparable, though. :|

Believe it or not, I'm not making claims. I'm trying to get people to go deeper on the issue sooner, rather than later, since a lot could change around it in the US in the near future.

> And it's not just cancer drugs - between April and June this year, drug company Gilead clocked sales of $3.5bn for its latest blockbuster hepatitis C drug Sovaldi.

This sort of thing - breakthrough new drug being ridiculously expensive at first - doesn't seem necessarily bad to me, as long as the price comes down over time and the drugs deliver the goods. We just need to make sure we know the numbers to watch to make sure we don't either bankrupt ourselves, or kill the motivation for research (jacking up the prices of old drugs is a scary recent trend I want us to crack down on).

Here's the core thing: "the pharmaceutical industry is one of the industries with the highest profit margins" is not a policy suggestion. "Costs are too high" is not a policy suggestion. They suggest a few possible things - price controls, or higher taxes, come to mind immediately, but don't do anything beyond that. The US is in dire need of useful policy suggestions (even "medicare for all" is pretty thin, and ignores some disadvantages Medicare has compared to a lot of people's current private coverage), and in even more dire need of people who talk about things with more nuance than "socialize it all!" or "individual liberty is the most important thing!"
Even if you are drug-free now, you could have a procedure in couple years and become addicted to opioids during recovery. Many people who are suffering from the opioid epidemic were prescribed these drugs.
This could just be because the rate of improved quality of life (access to food, medicine, medical improvement) was exponentially increasing compared to the offset of the economic depression.
I think that's a little extreme and reminds me of the problematic trend of giving psychiatric medication to anyone who asks for it. I mean, yes, there's a chance they 'actually have ADHD', but there's also a much higher chance they are one of the tremendous number of people who have trouble getting themselves to do things that aren't urgent. I'm on that list too. So are lots of people. Sloth sounds so incredibly normal to me.
Bay Area wants Elon Musk’s promised SoCal 'roller skates and rock restaurant'
I only learned to ride a bicycle when I was ~15yo.

My neuron count must really be low.
Once you acquire a Compose key, you never can go back. `Compose - - -` = —. I write with curly quotes, hyphens, minuses, dashes, superscripts, Greek letters, &c. all thanks to my Compose key. (Constraining myself to ASCII is actually hard, and I only use straight quotes when it’s actually what I need, when programming.)

My last laptop ran Arch Linux; but I was willing to switch to Windows for the superb hardware that is Microsoft’s Surface Book, once WSL existed, and I knew that WinCompose existed—had either of these two items not been possible, I could not have switched to Windows.
Typesetters are wrong then.
Maybe you and I have different definitions of Internet and web then. You can still access data without javascript or webapps.
I like sticking to ASCII when I stick to English. (Of course, when I write in other languages, I use UTF-8.)
I used to carry a leatherman wave, but that was so big and bulky. I downsized to a leatherman juice, but even that got annoying to carry after a while.

Now I carry a Gerber Dime. I hardly know it's there, but when I need a knife or a pair of pliers it's almost always enough. If it's not enough, then I'm fine to go find something bigger.

https://www.gerbergear.com/Multi-Tools/Butterfly-Opening/Dim...
Tomita's Pictures at an Exhibition is arguably a more distinguished execution of synthesized orchestration than Switched on Bach.
I use the Reddit app yes.

Better yet would be for HN and any other kind of discussions forum, to just be NNTP hosted and then I could use any newsreader I like.

The Internet is about network protocols and distributed computing, not trying to shoehorn everything into http://
That's really not my suggestion.

If you need to write a full application why does it have to happen in a browser? Why can't we use the model so successfully employed on mobile devices?
When is it OK to be critical of startup founders?
I'm there as "press" and a consultant. I have been juggling my calendar (I'm almost fully booked from before 9AM past 6PM the first 3 days) and getting back to people I am meeting with. In-between I am studying up (prepping) on the companies I am going to be meeting with.

I can't say who I am going to see as a lot of it is private. I will be spending a LOT of time in the Main Convention center South Hall with the AR and VR companies. The special section for AR and VR has moved from the back of South Hall to near the front this year. Then you have to look for the more established companies that booths elsewhere.

The CES tools for finding booths and vendors have improved dramatically form where they were a few years back. You can search based on what you are trying to find. They also have a smartphone ap that comes in handy at the show.
Properly formatted (ie, in LaTeX), the real ellipsis character is the only way to go. With fixed-width fonts it's ugly, but with fixed-width fonts most of the typography is in your imagination, anyway. The hideous [dot][space][dot][space][dot][space] approach needs to die.
It actually says "stainless steel" for that knife link. Not sure if composition has changed or it's an error (because others from that site do say "stainless steel blades").

I do know that the blades of that brand would rust and rapidly when I was young (if not potato treated), they were not stainless steel. Not a metallurgist, don't really know the difference but having had a lot of pocket knives the ones that didn't rust were very had to get razor sharp.
This is 9 year old course. Still good for practicing.

"The class is held in room 32-124 from 5:00-6:30 PM on January 12 - 15, 2009"
Based on the remarks I'm wondering if there's a distribution out there that is similar to Ubuntu LTS but only uses LTS kernels.

I'm on CentOS right now and love it, but from what I've understand so far it would be preferable to be on a newer kernel.

I was planning to look at Ubuntu LTS and while they do have updated kernels available they seem to ignore LTS:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack

Also, 18.04 will be based on 4.15 which doesn't make sense to me.

Debian stable maybe?

EDIT: I know I can install updated kernels but I'd rather stick with what a core distribution provides if possible
Didn't want it badly enough.
I didn't see your comment when I posted mine, but that was my take as well (another ADHD person here). I hope she doesn't though, because if so she will be terribly disappointed in herself when she loses enthusiasm and is back to square one 2 weeks later. She's already beating herself over what she perceives as a flaw of laziness (despite being educated, employed and mostly functional).

At a point the bigger problem with adult ADHD is how much you end up beating yourself up. It's a good thing to try to keep yourself honest and accountable for your actions as an adult, but when your brain just doesn't cooperate you need to learn to forgive yourself and depend on external systems where possible. I dont think this advice will help much with that.
Exactly. "I live in the U.S. I am happy." requires a bit more cognitive work to parse if spaces after sentence-ending periods are not wider.

EDIT: For completeness, here is that same text with an extra space: "I live in the U.S. I am happy." -- see how much easier that is to read? Sure, it's not that big a deal, but it's definitely kind to the reader.
"I drink wine...and know things."
> I instantly recognized the inability to get myself to start working on something until the last minute (even if I really, really want to do it) and the piles clothes (despite my propensity for cleanliness). Another hallmark of ADHD that many don't know about is bursts of almost manic productivity for random tasks or when under extreme pressure.

This also describes a lot of people's normal behavior. I don't have ADHD and do everything you describe and my wife does too.
Yes, I think loan policy changes are our most practical knob to turn, as I think many of the current problems are the result of making college too apparently cheap with easy loans and deferred payments. Cracking down on for-profit colleges is a good first step, even though we've somewhat slowed down on that lately.

I'd favor a less prescriptive method around "study this, not that" and a more responsive one: your loans are in danger if your students' debt-to-income ratios are bad, or they aren't employed, etc. Probably "employed" is fine as long as debt-vs-income is checked too, vs "employed in the field," as I do find the liberal arts valuable in general for critical thinking skills even if not directly tied to specific careers. That's the five minute version, it doubtless needs some tweaks, but I wouldn't want to over-target it for today's specifics.

On the point of whether or not university education, as currently practices, is needed more or less:

> The reason employers don't train workers is that it's all risk no reward. If the person drops out without finishing, or worse quits the day after you train them, you lose money. It's easier to just pay high salaries to qualified graduates from normal schools, which is what they do.

That just makes me skeptical to if they really need the workers that much, though. Emerging industries can't work like this - someone has to do the work before the universities catch up - so how do we quantify e.g. how desperate we truly are for programmers? Heck, we even have people with degrees we generally don't want to hire because they somehow still fail fizzbuzz! Doesn't that speak terribly of our ability to produce high-demand graduates?

I'm sure there's a middle ground between "the risk of training this person and them leaving is small enough compared to the potential return they'd give us since the field is so ripe" and "nah, we're totally good," but how do we find out where in that space we are?
> This article is suggesting that higher than normal number of people who are on Autism spectrum explains the gender imbalance in tech industry.

I think this article is suggesting that autism is predominantly more prevalent in males, due to higher testosterone, and mild autism is beneficial for employment in tech.

That being said, if that were believed to be true, that would explain the prevalence of males in tech. And I've read Damore's reasoning for his memo - there's nothing explicitly objectionable about it except for the easily reasoned about backlash from most people. Which is sort of a sign of autism.
Am I the only one bothered by the growing use of the word "objectively" as a general-purpose intensifier? That's not what it means.
List of films featuring time loops
Here is more nuance for you:

A) Americans need to be more health centric. Half the problem is that a minority of chronic patients account for 50% of the costs.

Drive through rural America, fast food is the only option. Grocery shopping at Dollar stores and gas stations.

Solving Americas obesity epidemic is step one in fixing US healthcare.

B) Big pharma regulations. I like the idea of importing drugs and creating more competition. I also think it should be a national embarrassment that we let drug companies advertise to people. Drug decisions should be between doctors and their patients, not patients and the marketing wing of a big pharma company.

C) More access to preventative care. Maybe socializing everything healthcare is way too much to ask right now. But, EVERYONE should have access to regular doctor appointments at least for annual checkups. Earlier recognition of problems will greatly cheapen downstream costs if people aren't waiting till they are having a heart attack to seek care.

These are just a few pragmatic approaches imo.