skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Now:

> (...) I did understand what the fed was doing.

Earlier (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16604736)

> (...) had I realized what the fed was doing when QE was happening I would have definitely done that.

You wanted to pretend you're a victim from the evil FED while at the same time pretending you're smart enough to understand what's going on.

You're full of shit. Don't waste my time.
Many of my ancestors are. Though not in terms of religion.
I do not follow any religion apart from Buddhism which I don't consider a religion.
What's become common for me, when I ask a question, is to have it marked redundant. The response is:

"Your question is a repeat of this earlier question."

So then I try to point out that I already read that earlier question, and I tried the solution suggested in that earlier solution, but it didn't work for me. All of which I explained in my original post, but the moderators don't seem to read all of what I've written, or they'd already know that. I think they just scan the opening sentences, and if it seems to them to be similar to something else, then my question gets marked redundant.

But when I clarify the situation, no one sees my clarification, because once my question is marked redundant, people stop reading it.
"...and Darpa, the US government’s secretive Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is cited in at least two academic papers supporting Kosinski’s work." <-- DARPA is secretive? That sounds to me like sensationalism.
> You are becoming true to your values again. I wish all Americans luck in your fight against the usurers.

Just for the record

Janos Dobronszki
apparently lives in London

twitter.com/crufter
crufter.com
TL;DR: It didn't change much. Better sleep on average, but I eventually missed the occasional bursts of inspiration and productivity that I would get with caffeine which caused me to pick it up again.
--

I've gone off caffeine a couple of times, each for a period of about 1 year. If going "cold turkey" (which I did and don't necessarily recommend), I found it took about 2 weeks to return to baseline without headaches or other withdrawal symptoms. After this point it's mostly smooth sailing: I no longer felt I needed caffeine to wake up in the morning and didn't have any cravings.

On average, my sleep quality was quite a bit better. It was usually easier to fall asleep at night and wake up feeling rested. Overuse of caffeine can make it hard to feel tired at the end of the day, which can cause a vicious cycle of insufficient sleep leading to more caffeine use, etc.

On the flip side, during my periods of abstinence I found I would eventually start to miss it. A good caffeine buzz is one of my favorite small pleasures in life; I've had many of my best and most creative productive periods assisted by it. In addition, I also just really love the taste of good coffee and the ritual of preparing it in the morning. While the latter can be satisfied by substituting decaf, personally for me there just isn't any replacement for that feeling of being "in the zone" on caffeine where it feels like all my neurons are firing and forming connections rapidly, and the ideas and creative output just flow effortlessly.

As an aside, I do suffer from minor persistent depression, which is possibly one reason why I find caffeine helps to give me an extra boost to feel like a normal functioning person :)

To date I've found that totally abstaining from caffeine isn't the best fit for me, but I've learned over time to use it more moderately. Some of the measures I currently take that seem to keep me in a healthy balance:

- Maximum of 2 cups of coffee per day

- Practice being more mindful of caffeine consumption: I have one cup every morning around 8am, but instead of mindlessly chugging it throughout the day I will check in with myself before having another. If around 10-11am I feel like I really need a second cup, I have it. If I don't, I drink green tea or seltzer water instead.

- No coffee after ~2pm. If I feel groggy or tired after 2pm I'll try drinking a low-caffeine or decaf tea instead, or going for a walk. 9/10 times just the act of drinking something hot will be enough to perk me up. This is probably the most helpful change I've made, as avoiding caffeine later in the day ensures I can sleep properly at night
Yet the fact remains: he had 12 interactions with campaign staff, just one of which was was with Trump. It lasted 7 minutes. Hardly enough for a substantial book, so the rest of it he basically sucked out of his thumb, including such lurid fantasies as Trump having an affair with Nikki Haley.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...
Yes, there's an incredible lack of self-awareness and understanding out there, with regard to others.
You are only giving the site your JID (username) not password and it verifies that you control the JID so you really are jepz@example.com
> Any selector has the potential to mess up the entire page.

That's true, but the modern web stack has several solutions to this. If you don't mind "CSS-in-JS", I've been using the excellent styled-components [1] library for my company's React app. I believe Vuejs supports scoped styles out of the box [2]. And if you'd prefer to just write plain CSS, CSS modules [3] will mangle the classnames in your CSS files so you don't have to worry about collision.

[1] https://www.styled-components.com/

[2] https://vue-loader.vuejs.org/en/features/scoped-css.html

[3] https://github.com/css-modules/css-modules
I hate javascript so this might be good.
Just use jquery is nothing like this though.

It also sounds like an answer typically supplied by someone who is perhaps often not much of an expert.
So I think there are good and bad “do X instead” answers, and the good ones are among the most important answers on the site and shouldn’t be categorized as unwanted because of the jquery-variant of the same.
> [4] This is not the same as researching the issue and trying as many things as you can think of, which is definitely helpful in any context of question asking

It would help showing that in your question. Often questions lack the necessary information to discern whether the asker has actually covered the basics

> [...] how you know there are other ways you could do it but you're constrained toward this direction for various reasons

Answerers are also programmers that like to apply best practices whenever possible. If you want to do something unusual which might smell a little without explanation your colleagues, code reviewers or similar would probably also ask "is this really necessary?". So you either have to write defensively from the start or deal with the patronizing-but-wellmeaning-comment-downvote-edit-reopen ordeal.

It's unfortunate, but there is an information asymmetry. The answerers can only see what you write, while you have all the background information specific to your case.
Show HN: Made a Digital Pizza with a Smart Contract and you can grab a slice
Exactly, the achievements of FOSS shows online collaboration is not only possible but can work better than physically centralized counterparts.
You’re Not From Here

You are a foreigner. You were a foreigner before you arrived, you are a foreigner while
you are in Japan, and when Japanese go abroad they will still refer to you as a
foreigner, ironies be damned. This cannot be understated and will be a recurring theme
in the stories to come. Never forget, you’re a foreigner. They won’t ever forget.

Well, I experience exactly the same situation and I'm a Greek living and working in the UK, so it's not something that's particular to the Japanese. It seems a sizeable chunk of most people you'll meet when you live abroad will be constitutionally unable to let go of the fact that you didn't grow up within the same national borders as each other.
It transparently uses messages if a messanger does not implement the XEP so anything supports it. Just without the fancy UI.
Pixar's senior scientist explains how math makes the movies and games we love
Does Japan still have the crazy working hours they were famous for?
Apologies for being a massive dweeb, but i think that's some variety of oblique projection, rather than isometric: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_projection
> > You basically asked how to architecture a security aspect of your software. And you asked for other people's experiences to boot, instead of a canonical solution.

> That's exactly what I want to discuss on SO.

Broad-ish architecturing questions belong on https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/ (formerly known as programmers.SE). A good rule of thumb for which of those two sites to go to is, does your question have code?

(Also, "discuss" is a forbidden word on StackExchange - it's Q&A, not discussion)
I’ll take my economic chances before having to live in the city. The quality of life just isn’t there.

Lower costs in the suburbs or rural areas means my runway is much longer than in the city, which offsets the job availability (6 months of city non-discretionary expenses is a year or more outside the city). I can also afford a 4 bed/2.5 bath house with a pool on a quarter acre, which would be impossible in the city.
Benchmarking OS primitives (2017)
Sure. Practically every open-source project with more than a single contributor does it all the time. In commercial projects, decisions about location aren't made by developers.
how is a 650kb PNG file better when an 80kb JPEG could do the same?
Andrew Wakefield is not a credible source on one single thing. Not only do you not have a source, I would want a secondary corroborating reliable source.
I find this explanation for their choice hard to believe.

I live in Vietnam, speak Vietnamese, and see millions of people post not-formal, to-the-point things on Facebook and Instagram every day.
Who is hating what exactly here? I hold no hate in my heart for any human being. I do disapprove of the debt slavery taking place in much of the world right now, causing suffering to countless of lives who would otherwise be happy and decent humans beings.

I do not even hate those who are greedy and bring this suffering on the innocent: I'm sure their soul is tormented and void of loving kindness.

I just simply disapprove of their action and wish there was a way to stop this madness.
Used a Mac full time three years.

Having to

-move the pointer diagonally across two screens, then pick something in a submenu (carefully, I think the submenu disappears if you don’t hit the end of the first menu and instead tries to move directly to the item in the sub menu)

- and back again

is one of the things I never miss.
Cities partially just make the poverty more visible. There's extreme deep wells of poverty all over the country, it's just more spread out so it goes unnoticed. In a city with tight space though the homeless get pushed together with the rest of society so they get noticed more. Cities do exacerbate it some because of tight housing supply and cost where other places poverty means they might just have a really bad house in the city there's not the space for it. It is also partially self feeding because there's just a lack of services for the homeless/poor outside of big cities and because cities are booming and productive there's just a lot of extra that can support a homeless person than in a rural or small town.
I agree with the author. SO culture definitely exists. His final points are great. However, I think that the author didn't explore the idea of rewards on StackOverflow and how they might influence the quality of an answer too deeply.

For example, things like most upvoted answer and best liked questions are things that definitely fall under my radar when answering questions. In an ideal world, it shouldn't matter whether my answer is the best, or the "selected" answer, but it does. Of course, that might not be the case for everyone.It's like this good feeling; like you've achieved something and you're getting validation of your knowledge.I know that when I used to answer questions, some people would comment saying, "Don't just post a link to the answer, explain it". It helped make me a better answerer. There are also times when I tend to ignore questions that are downvoted.

TLDR; I think the rewards system plays a significant role in determining the outcome of the quality of answers and questions on SO.
Yeah, I work in an open space environment but we get to work at home from time to time when the need arises. I'd say I'm at least twice as productive at home than in the office.
You shouldn't necessarily erase history, but it's pretty easy to move your old text under an Old Answer banner or something, if you still think the info is relevant to someone or even that surfacing the delta between versions is educational.
It hasn’t exactly made it a model community despite good tooling and good intentions (to say the least).
The more diverse are the people trading, the better trade works for improving everybody's life.

Where it fails is when there are market failures. Like when you have a naturally the winner takes all dynamic, asymmetric information, and some shady government intervention.

And, of course, the communications market is full of all of those.
It can really pay off to live underground, feeding on things that eat detritus and also live underground. That’s pretty much the story of our distant ancestral mammals, and why were here having this chat. Burrow into the earth, hibernate, have loads of babies, eat anything; it was quite the winning strategy.
The correct term is soyboy
I regularly check so for questions about the libraries I've written and try to provide good answers that will hopefully get indexed and be discoverable. It's both a short-term desire to help and in the long-term reduce time for other people struggling with something.

Very often I can just include a few lines of sample code and provide a link to the docs.

Occasionally a bug or deficiency is revealed and I can make my library better.

Despite these benefits, there are clearly some ridiculous questions... and incorrect answers given by others. The tension between high and low quality can make for some frustrating experiences. But it's still worth the small amount of time it takes me, I believe, to try and help.
Ah, maybe Reddit then? I guess my point was SO "knows" what it is not. It isn't a place for discussion.
I don't care about just APIs, I want libraries and services.
Easter Egg From a Different World
If you take a look at this Google spreadsheet (which gives you an overview of the best keto, low- and slow carb foods around the world) under one of the countries starting with 'M' you'll find an Easter egg hidden somewhere: http://masterlist.alchemylist.com
In some places, yes. Ontario, for example, imposes hefty fines on individuals who use the an engineering title without accreditation.
I guess I meant grid as in data grid to show data from a database, not layout. With wxWidgets it got tedious once you needed sorting, filtering or paging.

On the web I have a lot of choice, also in .NET. Not so much in qt or wxwidgets. I have seen some very nice Java desktop apps recently so maybe that's a good choice now despite a not so good reputation.
How to perfect your pitch deck – according to a guy that gets a lot of pitches
Breaking Down Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
You're kind to say that, but I literally just meant it was interesting. I don't know how reliable it is. I search for things debunking the endocrine disruptor claim and found it, and it didn't ring any credibility alarm bells.
Calling a female colleague `babe` is not definitely offensive. Using the word `nigger` is not definitely offensive.

Offence is the position the interpreter. ie offence is taken, not given. This is not to say that offence is not to be expected, nor is it to say the person who offends should be exempted from all repercussions - but it does temper what a reasonable repercussion is (in a society that deems it viable to censor through offence).

It should be noted that words like nigger did not always hold their current offensive status (especially not outside of America) [1].

It should also be noted that words have geographical offense, the term 'lass' was one that I grew up hearing and using - appropriate when referring to a person to their face in an informal manner regardless of age (note that if you don't already know this usage then you are unlikely to be on informal enough terms with someone who would accept it to use it) - yet if I were to say this in the south of England I would be being patronising.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigger#British_usages
> I root for the people of America who denounce the cesspool of propaganda what is disguised as their free media.

Your entire comment is propaganda unfortunately.
In the article the author states:

From this, we get that accounts should certainly behave like state machines.
And from that, it’s reasonable that other pieces of code ought to be able to
dynamically inspect an account’s current state, as well as its complete graph
of states and transitions. That’s as much a part of its public interface as
any particular method.

I disagree with this a bit. I think that the state transitions are not part of the public interface -- they're an implementation detail of the SM. The public interface of a SM are its states and the events it responds too. It's up to the SM to decide when to do the transitions. (The _author_ of the SM would be very interested in it's transition graph/conditions of course.)

For example, reviewing a bunch of the javascript SM libraries I see a few have the SM define a "transition table". This works for simple SM but makes it difficult to conditionally transition. Perhaps we want our bank account SM to automatically transition to the "hold" state if the balance goes below zero. With a fixed (i.e. as configuration) transition table we can't do this (or we have to fight against the SM library, or the SM library has to be more complicated).

I guess I'm fairly influenced by this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-UML-Statecharts-Event-Drive...
I found that approach worked very well when I used it to implement a fairly sophisticated UI on an embedded device. It was easy to rationalize about, easy to read in the code, and easy to maintain (add/move states). Seems like something similar in javascript would be nice, except doing things in a javascript way.
Have '48 Chevy - can confirm that lead-substitute exists and classic cars will run with it. I never use the car without it so its possible the stuff doesn't actually do anything.
Very interesting.

I love where he says it wasn't a public campaign where one message was sent out and everyone could judge it, but rather it was designed to whisper the right message privately to each individual, the message most effective at converting their opinion given their psychological and demographic profile, even if the messages themselves were contradictory across different individuals.

Hard to figure out what the future holds because we generally never get less sophisticated, but more sophisticated.
Interesting that nobody seems to talk about the software itself and maybe it's alternatives.

I for once welcome the concept of something like Finda and am looking for alternatives for me.

> Finda finds things — windows, browser tabs, code editor buffers, browser history, apps, files, etc.

Finda looks and acts like a normal launcher. The concept isn't new, but fast good launchers are rare. When we look at the Finda-Page (I didn't download the demo since I don't use Mac OS) we can conjecture how it works and there are a few things that bother me.

It seems to always run in the background and listen for inputs.
It's cross platform so it will probably have it's own file indexer.

This all seems to add up to a rather large memory consumption.

Anyway right now I'm still using the dmenu [1] launcher and am looking at many alternatives, most of which haven't been updated in some time.

First the ones that haven't been updated in some time

dmenu2 [2], interrobang [3], and lighthouse [4].

All nice launcher, but here comes my current favourite rofi [5]. Not only is it an active project, but it defines itself as window switcher and launcher (so what finda kinda does). Combined with it's extendable nature it seems to be a solid launcher. Bookmark functionality is for instance given with the buku [6] integration. But I'm still looking for the best solution. Here is the feature list I'm looking for: program launcher, simple calculator (through bc or python), file locator (maybe through locate), bookmark manager (firefox preferably). Other things like quick (online) search, clipboard management or the whole slew of other features provided Finda and panther and whatnot would just be extra. Does anyone of you have a nice lightweight solution?

[1] https://github.com/stilvoid/dmenu

[2] https://github.com/muff1nman/dmenu2

[3] https://github.com/TrilbyWhite/interrobang

[4] https://github.com/emgram769/lighthouse

[5] https://github.com/DaveDavenport/rofi

[6] https://github.com/jarun/Buku/

- bl
No, I don’t think most people think of it in the same sense that we do.

I lived in Korea, not Japan, but they also have a word for foreigner—외국인. I never got the sense that a Korean person found the term offensive to us and still used the word. Korea, like Japan, is just so highly homogenized as a society that it’s common to refer to foreigners that way.

I think we find offense in the term, because as many people come to realize, foreigners generally get treated like a second class citizen. So then, being called a 외국인 is a reminder that we look different, and thus Koreans have premade assumptions (like that we don’t and won’t speak Korean). Which isn’t exactly wrong though, as many foreigners / expats / sexpats don’t bother to learn Korean.

Again, I don’t think Koreans are intentionally using the term to be offensive to us. It’s just a descriptor.
It’s always sad when people choose to believe in what they want, rather than what they have evidence for. I want to be loved by a god and live forever, but that doesn’t make me believe in any of that. I find it hard to ignore the pattern of people injecting the same old beliefs with new language into whatever narrowing gaps exist in current theories.

No one ever goes and actually finds the teapot, they just try to come up with more esoteric ways of defining it. I think that’s sad too.
> Thankfully, neither are the problems that society is faced with.

True, yet I think we can agree that some problems are more easily solvable than others. Likewise, solving some problems will have greater positive impact on society as a whole than others. Therefore, it's probably a good idea to have some type of estimation strategy for determining the above stated properties of societal problems.

> It turns out, you don't actually need to! Some problems are faced by a subset of a society, and often that subset are most interested in solving them.

Then what you are describing is not a societial problem. I can define any individual as a subset of a society. That does not make that individual's problems societal. Expand your subset to include 0.05% of the population, their problems still are not societal. I would say there is some critical mass of people that must experience a problem before it becomes a societal problem. What that proportion is I do not know.

Furthermore, there are ways to solve problems for one subset of people by damaging another subset of people. Example, slavery. In these cases I don't think you have actually solved a societal problem. You've caused one.

I would claim this is the case for the "diversity" issue. A small set of "experts" have determined based on little to no evidence that for a certain set of job roles the proportions of people in said roles must reflect some vagued idealized ratios based upon superficial biological characteristics. In order to address the "problem" that the current propotionality of members in these job roles do not reflect their ideal a public smear campaign is unleashed in order to threaten non-compliant organizations into instituting exclusionary hiring policies and moralistic internal propaganda campaigns.