skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I suppose it's taking place everywhere where assistant labour is expensive. Faster in the places where having a private secretary is old-fashioned, like Sweden.
my neighbor from Germany was doing just this with part-time project management work. However over the last few months they have steadily increased his hours. So now he is up to full time.
There is plaque build up which the "fuzzy" feeling that you might have after waking up in the morning or just after not brushing for awhile. It's a biofilm but it's easily removed by brushing.
Judging by the up-votes this post got, I'd say it probably is normal.
Encouraging boys to make non-traditional career choices without making sure female marriage patterns change as well does not sound responsible to me.
Wikipedia usually has the updated list.
Google's CardDAV server isn't standards compliant (2014)
professional clojure programmer here, not a myth, DSLs often abstract in the wrong direction and by departing from a language of values and function composition (eg by introducing macros) a bad dsl in fact becomes a barrier to good abstraction. Consider any DSL for html generation that predates React.js; react isn’t even a DSL at all, react is values and functions, so there’s all this good innovation happening around React that was all dead ends on 100% of pre-React DSLs.
As a young post doc at the Institute for Advance Study, my Dad knew von Neuman, who according to my Dad, tended to work late at night and work with loud music playing - very much like young hackers today!
I think its more about priorities to be honest. I work from home and I am currently getting towards the end of a training plan that will have me running an ultra marathon. Working from home has been a huge plus in achieving that, as time I would have spent commuting, has instead been spent running.
Setting up a React and Node.js project
Test your self for vitamin D and B12 deficiency. Also try avoiding gluten and dairy products. I support and agree with most other comments here as well, but fix the diet first!
Whoa, thank you so much for sharing this. I never heard of this concept before, it's an unknown unknown for me. This explains a lot of my personality.
Your therapist should be able to refer you to an MD for meds, if she thinks that would help.
I humbly suggest its none of our damn business how the women choose marriage patterns (if they choose to marry at all). Its definitely not "our responsibility".
when the boss knows what he's doing :)
It's http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/16/news...
Went through Ritalin (normal & XR), amphetamine, SSRI and tricyclic antidepressants, but in hindsight none of those gave me much leverage... just left me with holes in my short term memory I'm still regularly annoyed by. YMMV of course, I'm not a doctor and results in this space vary wildly.

The really large improvements came from external structure and therapy. BTW I experienced pretty much the same as you did in the beginning, it was only the third therapist who asked the really uncomfortable questions and went in deep. The others were just a waste of time. The difference between good and bad therapists is several orders of magnitude and a personal connection matters. Don't give up and try to get recommendations.
You committed thought crime, to the Gulag with you!
I miss the Workplace Shell[1]. But I guess you can't really download that separately, and it doesn't make sense without the rest of the system.

There was a file manager for Unix that was inspired by it – DFM[2] – but not really the same thing, and the project seems to have died a long time ago. I remember using it with IceWM in Red Hat Linux 5.0 to get something vaguely OS/2-like. :)

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

[2] http://web.archive.org/web/20120717020125/http://www.kaisers...
Obviously I cannot speak for others, but for me tech and coding was and still is inspired almost entirely by the “mathematical beauty” and “creative” aspects of the tech itself; it has little to nothing to do with pay, social reasons, or anything else.

It really does involve a lot of “staring at a screen” (or paper/whiteboard brainstorming) though, and just talking about it excites me, still — it’s the intellectual/mathematical beauty and creative potential of what is being sketched on those “authoring mediums” that is so very stimulating.

When I first started coding, I was 8 years old, and I didn’t even know the first thing about whether this field would pay well, whether it would be socially engaging, etc. In fact to some extent I was actively doscourage from it, rather than joining the family gardening business (manual labor care of plants — just not for me).

None of the circumstantial reasons for or against programming mattered to me. It was the coding, the very process of staring at a screen with complex patterns and ideas as they’re authored, that excited me. It still does; creating beautiful code that does intricately complex things, that all work correctly every single time to produce the designed results, feels almost like being a modern day wizard creating magic.

Because the work itself is intrinsically motivating, it never gets old, and no amount of social pressures could sway me away from doing this.
I've always suffered from ADD at school, my grades were really bad. I understood everything the teacher was saying but when it came to exams it was a different story. I couldn't study, and I failed them miserably. The worst part was that 20 years ago I didn't know about ADD nor did my parents, so the problem went unnoticed and there was no one but myself to blame. I never managed to finish reading a story for example.

I was never hyper and could always focus on coding and was always self motivated.

Even though I could focus on programming tasks, I realized at some point that I never finished a side project and always jumped from one side project to another.

At 30 (I am 34 now), ADD hit me hard and I lost my ability to focus when coding.

I decided to visit the dr about this issue and was prescribed adderral at first but I didn't like it as it made me feel euphoric for couple hours and ended up on vyvanse (30 mg) few months later.

Vyvanse changed my life. And that might me an understatement. The amount of knowledge I was able to attain after getting on vyvanse is probably more than everything I've learnt. I am now able to complete my projects, read plenty of research papers and absorb what's being said and code for 8 hours straight without an issue. I am considered one of the top engineers at my job (and previous ones) and I attribute a significant part of my knowledge to vyvanse.

My working memory improved significantly and I can focus and finish the most mundane tasks.

I've read that many people that has ADD or signs of it get hit hard by 30 or so.

I highly recommend visiting the dr and see which adhd med works best for you.
Even today, very little is wasted when animals are slaughtered. And products made from animals find their way into a surprising number of end products. Here's some indication of whats going on from the Daily Mail (2009): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1217794/From-...
I was floored to see shopkeeps still open while they moved the building. Today, OSHA would have a heart attack.
5 Signs Your Business Needs a Network Assessment
Self-discipline will help you acquire good habits and drop bad ones, but it also helps to track progress with an app. I use habithub for this.
I saw the same thing being done with a theatre in Manhattan in 1998 (to make way for the Disneyfication of Times Square) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Theatre_(42nd_Street)
Scala Days – Berlin
Ask HN: How do you cope with the existential dread
How do you get through the day without dwelling on how meaningless and futile everything is? Do you distract yourself or have you found away to address this feeling?
How to Sell a $300 Chocolate Bar
Ignoring the terminal capture for a moment and focussing on the gif part: how does it compare to LICEcap? I haven't used it in a while but development seems to have resumed[0].

On Linux, there is also peek[1], and on Windows, there is ScreenToGif[2]. Both are open source.

Another option is to use screencasting software like OBS Studio[3] (and for Linux, I highly recommend SimpleScreenRecorder[4]) to get a high-quality video capture, then throwing it through gifski[5] to get really high quality GIFs.

Especially if you plan on uploading to a gif-site you might as well just capture video and upload that - they tend to do gif-conversion themselves these days.

[0] https://www.cockos.com/licecap/

[1] https://github.com/phw/peek

[2] http://www.screentogif.com/

[3] https://obsproject.com/

[4] http://www.maartenbaert.be/simplescreenrecorder/

[5] https://gif.ski/
current version of Golem is only focused on rendering in Blender and LuxRender.

https://github.com/golemfactory/golem/wiki/Roadmap
As _dang_ mentioned, not sure which one you're referring to? That said, it is doing well and keeps growing. Hit 55k total subscribers this month.
I just keep a text file around that I sync using NextCloud. From what I've seen self-hosted TODO list solutions are generally pretty bad.
I tried OpenTasks[1] on Android using NextCloud's DAV backend, but the app doesn't support proper sub-tasks (subtasks are handled as Markdown text in task's notes). And there doesn't seem to be any good Desktop app that that I found that works well (or is cross-platform) either.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.dmfs.tasks...
Toughest coding question that you faced in an interview
You have 4 strings. You can permute each string in anyway you want and then you are going to construct a trie from these 4 strings. What is the minimum possible number of nodes in this trie?
32 here and I don’t think it’s going to happen for me and probably not my kids either realistically. But at least I got decent career skills out of it. So that’s how I’m trying to look at it.
Every cycle should increase the power consumption by 10x.
I certainly don't mind being an average 1x programmer, if I don't have to take drugs to better my performance.

I don't like coffee, nor alcohol, and I never put any smoke in my mouth. When my diet is OK and my body gets the required exercise, the mind works best.
In my experience this is often possible by removing duplicated functionality into a shared implementation. That is by exchanging multiple features of linear complexity into a single implementation. Due to being shared, that implementation will tend to have geometric complexity.

That means the duplication has to be highly significant and variations need to be few for it to pay off. ... And you'll better hope you have a good set of tests to verify everything is still working.

In most cases it's still a good idea, but it's still a case where you need to argue that you really need it, so it's no exeption at all.
But the hydrothermal vents host thriving communities of marine life - snails, worms and shrimp that have evolved to cope with very specific conditions.

In some cases these creatures are extremely rare, which is why the prospect of deep sea mining is highly controversial.

You can't say the same for the earthworms and dandelions harmed by digging a trench in the yard in New England.
Igor Tamm and the Taylor expansion
It's fairly common to relocate houses in New Zealand, up to a couple of hundred km away.

Wooden buildings built on piles used to be the standard construction method in New Zealand before poured concrete bases became the norm, so they're relatively easy to move: just chop the piles and jack it up onto a truck.

My parent's friends actually gave a house away for free. They were rebuilding, it it was cheaper to give the house away for free and have the new owners pay to get it relocated, rather than pay for demolition.
That was my first thought when I first saw the C# version of async await.

Actually, that's not true: it was my second thought. My first thought was "this is the coolest thing ever". And my second thought was "this is downright deceptive". To me this is now the last hurrah of trying to fit asynchronous programming in a call/return architectural style. By pretending it is call/return when it emphatically is not.
A curious way to break Twitter's search results
Ritalin and amphetamine did not improve your focus/motivation? Not even the first couple of times you tried them?
What do you do, if you don't mind me asking? (I am assuming developer, but interested to learn more specifically your niche/years of experience)
C++ does have a lot of the features that Rust has. You won't get any of the memory safety guarantees or compile time checks though. I will say that to me a lot of the C++ equivalents to Rust features seem very awkward to use (maybe not once you're used to C++ I guess).

This guy does a pretty good presentation on Polymorphism in Rust vs C++:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSlBhAOLtFA
> Could you confirm that first statement?

Yes, and as you can see from one of the comments below, the same is largely true of neighbouring Norway.

> That is, when I visited Sweden for a consulting job about 15 years ago, there was definitely a secretary for the group I visited. She helped organize the paperwork for the visit, booked my hotel and taxi, etc.

Notice that I talked about cultural views on secretaries, not the existence of secretaries within the country's borders. It's a downwards trend, I expect they're even more thinly spread now than 15 years ago.

It's not unexpected that the secretary-general of any organisation, even in Sweden, has a secretary. And of course theirs will be the last to go, with modern universities favouring administration over faculty, as it's the former that brings the cash, the latter only cost money (with that attitude, why not fire the faculty altogether?).
Well, I suppose he could end up in a country where health isn’t in the insurance straitjacket
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I think motivation is one of the most fundamental parts of human existence. I think it should be studied so much more.

Often we talk about it at such a high level. But in the end everything boils down to the second-by-second internal monologue, and all the context and life experience surrounding this monologue.

Beneath this is the raw emotions that we feel and cannot explain. Its like when you're looking at a stack trace and it stops at an internal call into a private api.

I'd love to know more about the inner workings of people's internal monologues. Are there consistent patterns of thoughts that can lead people into the state of flow? How does the mind wandering into a day dream contribute to our motivation? Perhaps ignorance is bliss, and seeing behind the curtain spoils the show. Are we driven by our delusions of grandeur?

Can we trick ourselves into exaggerating the importance of what we are working on regardless of how we may feel about it after its finished?

Does contemplating your own motivation (regularly asking yourself why you are doing something) disrupt your actual motivation (uncertainty principle).
Antidepressants.
"I have 5-6 weekly 1:1s with different people with no agenda."

Wow, five meetings a week not even counting project or departmental recurring status meetings or random crop up ones? That would totally annihilate any hope of the uninterrupted 3+ hour stretch it takes to do any real work.
I've read a funny anecdote (no idea whether it is accurate) that von Neumann's loud gramophone music was a big source of frustration for his office neighbor, Albert Einstein.
Do you work at home alone? Maybe try a co-working space or similar to be near other like minded people. There may also be something where you would feel more fulfilled being part of a team, not just a cog off to the side. The are positives and negatives but I work best this way as well. Think of it a little like going to the gym, you tend to be more successful as a pair or group of friends.
> Every processor made (that I'm aware of) in the last 30+ years has used 2's complement arithmetic

DSPs often use saturating overflow IIRC
If you take away the whole "nuclear war" aspect that future doesn't sound all too bad.
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This would be a cure for TYPE I diabetes, not TYPE II. The difference? TYPE I aka juvenile diabetes is an autoimmune disease where the islet cells of the pancreas are targeted and you no longer produce insulin. TYPE II is where the cells in you body become insulin insensitive. TYPE II can be reversed with diet and exercise in its early stages.

Why are they both called diabetes? The consequences are the same, high blood sugar levels causing damage to eyes, kidneys, and peripheral blood flow in limbs. This can cause blindness, kidney failure, and limb amputation and eventually death.
Private Trades in Spotify Shares to Play Key Role in Upcoming Debut
I think your worries could more profitably be directed to the industrial farming complex as it exists right now.
Windows 10 on ARM is being groomed to fail
I just can't help but think of the MaddAddam trilogy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaddAddam
The order of magnitude is correct:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(diameter+of+blood+cel...

(convert erythrocyte | diameter to meters)×(convert diameter of Neptune's orbit to kilometers)/(convert Earth | average radius to kilometers) = 11 meters

edit: Of course you could argue with this calculation in all kind of ways - widths vs volume vs mass ... but I think for such a silly analogy this is good enough to say: It is not totally unreasonable.
I thought Diskwarrior supported APFS - did you try that one?
Serious question - how often do you exercise?
Are you sure about that, because I would have thought that there are much cheaper ingredients that are also much more similar to wheat, so buckwheat would be a strange choice of substitute?

We use rice flour for cakes. Works fine. Most people don't notice anything out of of the ordinary.

We have a genuine wheat-sensitivity in the family, but it's not an allergy and the consequences of accidentally consuming even a large quantity of wheat, though painful and unpleasant, are neither permanent nor life-threatening, as far as we know. We have an accidental-wheat-consumption-event a couple of times a year. Professional medical advice, and it took a long time to get this far, was: here's a brochure on how to run your own experimental exclusion diet; find out what makes you ill then avoid it; goodbye.
The Programmer's Guide to a Sane Workweek
Now Bots Are Trying to Help Populists Win Italy's Election
How does this actually matter? Various players either have stock and money from tc or they don’t.

I’ve seen maybe a half dozen first hand examples of companies here in Colorado bootstrapping, getting some real funding, going through a big pivot and then having their history effectively rewritten. CEO and maybe a CTO are named “founders” and neither was involved in any capacity for the first 12-18 months. After a pivot and some branding, about the only original equipment is the name of the corporation and some legal paperwork, perhaps a couple employees. Engineers do this too, surely we’ve all witnessed a little “title inflation” on LinkedIn, I think it’s almost a disease with dissolved startups, I just assume someone gave themselves a bump when reading a resume with details from a completely nonexistent startup.

“Founder” is funnier though, it’s one thing if you got payed, but it’s not like you’re claiming engineering experience. Seemed like a few years back at defcon and black hat, folks were getting twisted about “credit,” like Apple and MS, etc.. were going to give “Solar Ninja” credit for finding a security flaw they fixed in a service pack.
Meez – port your virtual self
Coinbase Runs from One Fire to the Next
Building a Dream Team: The Reality of a Self-Organizing Team
Having 5 years professional experience with Clojure, I applied a few months ago to a remote Clojure job, and the coding test was none other than recursion via zippers, literally my weakest point. I could have done the job just fine since they said they didn’t use zippers on the job, but failed the test and they passed on me. Coding tests are the real problem. I’ve had some great ones where you can tell someone put effort into it and will review it fairly, and I’ve had some that were hacked together like this one where it’s clear they weren’t given enough time to put it together by their superiors.
UK bosses believe women should say at interview if they are pregnant – report
Voicing such statements creates a hostile work environment for

1. your immigrant coworkers who entered the country on H1B or other visas;

2. coworkers who benefited from affirmative action to get into university;

3. friends/relatives of law-abiding-but-undocumented aliens.

You might think you are just making abstract policy statements. But to your listeners, you are making threats to destroy their livelihood and their families. Of course they react negatively!

How would you react if someone, in the name of abstract policy, argued that people belonging to your demographic group don't deserve jobs or should be kicked out of the country?
You sound a lot like me. I have had tons of trouble making myself work, even on my passion projects that I have invested significant amounts of my own money in. I would recommend that you read Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield. He was a chronic procrastinator who turned things around. I would combine this with renting a desk at a coworking space and keeping regular work hours, though they might only be four or six hours per day (8 is too much if you are actually working).
OP, are you doing something you love? Sounds like you and maybe others might be “doing a job” and not working on something you are interested in. Just a thought.
xkcd's 2018 CVE List
No. But preferences do explain why women don't emphasize money in their career choice, whereas men do.

The vast majority of women will not continue dating a man who earns less than they do. Two thirds of young women in Germany expect their future partners to take care of them financially.

So for men, earning money and status is absolutely essential.

See also: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/02/a-lette...
To clarify, only signed integer overflow is undefined behavior in C. Unsigned integers have wrap-around semantics. (But beware that unsigned integers smaller than int could be automatically promoted to (signed) int!)
I’ve struggled with an existential dread of death since I was about 9, and I have a spectrum of coping strategies which work for me to some extent. YMMV.

First and most important is trying to break the habit- and it is a habit- of thinking about things which set off that introspective nosedive. It’s not easy, but CBT offers s good tool set for mindfulness and thought stopping. The essential “trick” is to recognize those thoughts, and then redirect without spending too much time on the recognition or redirection.

Distraction can work, but occupation is even better. In other words, listening to an audiobook or doing something fun and distracting helps, but being involved in life, work, friends, etc is much better. The greater your connection to the real world of people, the easier it can be to disengage from the internal world of your own thoughts.

Don’t go deep! If you find yourself trying to think your way to the bottom of your dread, you will discover that there is no bottom, and it’s easy to get lost.

Consider whether or not this might be clinically significant, i.e. depression, anxiety, and such. If so, it may be worth seeing a professional about this, as your preoccupation with futility may be a symptom and not a cause.

Get sleep, and especially try not to get lost in your own thoughts late at night, or when you’re tired. Everything seems worse and feels worse at night, and when you’re tired. Audiobooks or radio can help as a distraction to get to sleep, and I recommend listening to something you’ve already heard so it doesn’t engage you too much. Put the volume down until you can just make out the words.

Meditation.

Hang in there, it will get better.