skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In other words, the field just has very low standards for truth, in a scientific sense.

The field has little to no scientific sense. It's why psychiatry/psychology is a soft science. It isn't based on the scientific method or reproducibility and testing. It's mostly based on consensus driven by a handful of powerful practitioners.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_science

What sigmund freud did wasn't science. His oedipal complex theory isn't a scientific theory. There is no scientific test to refute it. You just accept it or not.

The biggest problem of our generation is the conflation of science ( hard science ) with pseudoscience ( soft science ). Because both has the word science in it, people give soft sciences far more credit than it deserves.

If anyone is interested, Richard Feynman had a very interesting interview about it.

https://youtu.be/tWr39Q9vBgo
I hope to have a large family for this reason.

I dont know if I'll have the time to give kids my full attention.

I found my brother was/is the reason I'm a nerd. Sure my dad was a database manager, but I spend hours daily with my brother gaming. I dont even think I wanted to spend a half hour with my 'boring' dad.
This is what bummed me out about it most when I tried it. I had to buy a pack of 6 (maybe smaller sizes are available now), when I wanted to use half of one. The rest was all waste.
Obviously not, in every software house there are some people who commit horrible code.

If you are as big as MS some of it will pass through review.
Validation strategies for your machine learning model
I read the same author's other book ("Do The Work") and I did find it interesting. I'll look into this one.
I've got 3 pi's in my desk drawer not in use. There's multiple outlet's that sell more than 1 per customer.
IEC 61131-3 Structured Text [1] is very similar to Pascal if you're more on the industrial / electrical side rather than 'real' embedded dev, quite a few PLCs support it these days and it's a fair compromise between safety and expressiveness.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_text
We couldn’t afford a Mac when I was a kid, but Susan’s icons were one of the primary things that made it stand out as “special”. From the trash can to the fact that it booted up with a smiling Mac icon, instead of the typical stream of bios logs on every other machine of the day.
Someone once told me: "The best gift you can give to an only child is a sibling. Shows them they aren't the center of the world."
Modern civilization is a triumph of the free market.
I don't think it's one per customer. More like one per transaction. I buy mine from Microcenter and probably have 10 by now.
Just curious what software are you using for the ODB diagnostics? I'm currently using a cheap ELM327 reader hooked up to an Android tablet with Torque. I have wanted to switch to using a Pi with software I could modify myself, but I guess my previous search was a little short.

It's a dream, but I would love to see some open-source software that would be equivalent to the diagnostic tablets from some of the tool trucks.
I imagine the answer is that 99% of their testing and use is through docker where it's an image that is set up and then thrown away purely for this, so messing with an existing system isn't something they'd notice.
The cardinality of the continuum is a cardinal number. It’s one of the alephs. It is not known which aleph it is. So it’s not known what the cardinality of the powerset of the naturals is. It’s just known that it is the same cardinal number of the reals. Basically, we have two jars of marbles that contain the same number of marbles but it’s not known how many marbles that is.
and then gratitude journal

This sounds terrible to me, which means I should probably look into it in order to curb my increasing cynicism.
What isa gratitude journal?
There's likely not causation with any individual factor, because it's a multivariable model. There are probably a dozen factors that contribute to the birth rate, including those you mentioned and probably many others.
I heard that Duolingo is not good at teaching you how to actually use a language, instead focusing on the parts that are easily measured. Because of that, I never tried it and don't know how accurate that evaluation is, but here's what helped be when learning Chinese:

- Regularly meet with a native speaker (1 hour per week for me): they can correct your mistakes and try to explain confusing aspects of the language

- Read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:IPA/Target_Language and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target_Language#Phonology and the descriptions of individual sounds linked there. It will help you to consciously position your tongue to produce the sounds and practice until you can do it subconsciously. Doing it purely by ear is much harder. You probably won't sound like a native speaker anyway, but get much closer than someone who approximates everything using sounds from their native language.

- Watch movies in your target language (every day before going to sleep, in my case), with subtitles until you can do without. You'll almost certainly notice a few words every time which are repeated frequently. Pause the video and look them up. They might not be useful in everyday conversations (I know way too many titles of members of the Chinese imperial court), but if you stay within a genre, they'll still help improve your understanding as you keep watching.

- Use spaced repetition to review vocabulary. Turn it into a habit to add some fixed number of new words every day and then review. If you keep it up for a few years, even small increments add up to a sizable number. Fortunately, spaced repetition increases the intervals between reviews, so the time cost each day stays manageable. If you use Anki, I also recommend looking for addons to add pronunciations automatically (even robotic speech-to-text can be helpful).

- To practice reading, start with headlines from a newspaper website (even if it's just a single headline initially and you have to look up every word). Then work your way up to paragraphs, articles and eventually books.

- I never practiced writing much (except when memorizing individual Chinese characters), but if you can speak and read, you can probably write. If your target language has a different keyboard layout, figure out how to switch to it in your OS and practice typing. For Linux, I can't plug Fcitx enough, especially for its awesome Unicode input feature.

- Finally, nothing motivates more than putting yourself into a situation where you have no choice but use your language. After 2 years of studying Chinese, I somehow managed to rent an apartment in China using only my still pretty limited speaking ability and the pressure of that and similar situations has helped me improve tremendously.
A few examples:

Chatting to somebody about the side effects of the antidepressants we're both on, namely decreased 'filter' when talking. Amusingly, said decreased filter might be one of the contributing factors behind this increased openness :)

Asking a friend who was obviously going through a hard time - "You don't owe me any answers, of course, but I wondered if you'd mind me asking whether you're okay, and what's going on for you?". Plus a lot of follow-up questions, phrased as "here are some things I'm wondering about, with absolutely no obligation to answer them; and of course if you have any questions for me, I'd be happy to answer".

Even just simple stuff like following up on throwaway conversational prompts - "hey, you mentioned as an aside that you'd done horseriding for fifteen years - that sounds like a big part of your life; how did you get into that?"

A lot of it's been about relationships, for various reasons.
Indeed. I'd say we are in the midst of a "revolutionary breakthrough" right now. The cost-per-kwh of solar/wind electric power is now lower than fossil, and still dropping. Consumer options are growing on the low end, and experience with industrial-scale installations is growing on the high end.

There's another breakthrough I'm looking forward to, however - really good instantaneous pricing and metering. When prices are set on demand and fully automated, then energy caching hooked to the grid becomes viable. This creates a good arbitrage financial model. Store energy from solar/wind when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing, and sell that stored energy when demand is up and supply is down.

Once that's working, the whole grid gets remodeled. Then we can make a real dent in the coal-fired baseload plants and aging nuclear plants that desperately need retired. Economies of scale and experience will reduce production cost for whole suites of energy storage technologies (batteries, compression, thermal, flywheel, gravity, etc), even if they don't become more efficient.

That's an exciting future.
They should've been caring about that from the start. If GDPR is what it takes to get bloggers to think twice about embedding Like buttons and analytics/trackers up the wazoo, then I for one welcome our new European overlords.
It's really easy to avoid sugars and when not in SF its even cheaper. In Ohio a healthy meal for 2 would be ~$5. $0.50 for rice, $0.50 for beans, 2 peppers for $1.50, pound of chicken for $1.50.
I'll raise you two full weeks of debugging and then the project got canceled because redesigning the board was needed and it was too expensive ;)

I'm doing quite a few of low volume (mostly bussiness/industrial helpers) arm linux projects on Pis now. Some of them stay on Pis, if rebooting the board every 2 hours is feasible, some move to custom boards after the prototyping is done. Still, it's very nice to have an off the shelf documented board to start stuff on.
This is false.

There are 500$/mo rents everywhere and food costs are the lowest in history.

If you dont care to keep up with the Joneses and have minimum wage people cook you food, you can easily live off 1 low-income salary.
Completely changing my mindset toward success. Only having positive thoughts. All actions start with me to attain my most desired goals. No complaining, no blaming, no hesitating, and no coulda woulda shoulda. Instead, "Next time I'm in this situation, this is what I'll do to be successful." Staying focused on the goal. Failure is only a necessary stepping stone toward success and is only there to tell you how to do it better.

Rising above standards and expectations set upon me by others. Only you set your own goals. Be the best available in your career and you will be set for life.

"Win as though you're used to it, lose as though you like it."
Yes I Think Your Document Is Ugly
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I play DOTA like a few weeks of the year, mostly to catch up with friends. I don't like playing pick up groups since the community is generally too toxic

Now I just play battle royale games on downtime. Less toxic and less stressful generally.
What kind of monster puts milk on their tea? :)
You're right though.
>Glass bottles of Pellegrino sparkling water is my replacement.

Get a SodaStream and throw out the flavor things that come with it (they taste bad anyway). I love sparkling water but the cost of things like Perrier, Pellegrino, or La Croix really add up, not to mention the added waste from the bottles and cans that need to be recycled (or worse, aren't recycled at all). You can exchange the CO2 canisters for ~$15 a pop, which gives you 60L of soda water.

I buy big bottles of lemon juice and add a splash to water from the SodaStream and it's great.
Every day you write down X things you are grateful/thankful for. The goal is to write new things every day.

The intent is to help you rediscover things in your life that you tend to take for granted. A lot of us have it pretty good but still feel sad or depressed day-to-day. This journaling process intends to curb that.
Amazon might be the loudest employer, but they are not the only employer impacted by the tax. The person leading up the signature drive isn't even an Amazon employee:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-maiocco-a9520

This would be a vote by all Seattle residents to determine the need for the tax. Are you saying that Amazon is going to somehow rig the election?

I'm just pointing out that it's interesting that the day after articles started coming out that the signature effort was way over their goal of getting this tax on the ballot for November election the city council decides to vote on a repeal.
https://www.king5.com/article/news/politics/head-tax-repeal-...
Writing one technical blog [1] post per day. I started in January. Back then I had ~400 people on the blog on a good day.

It's paying off in terms of traffic, as last week I got over 2k visits from Google alone, but more importantly I learned a ton in the past few months, because of the continuous process of learning / building something / testing / writing / revising / incorporating feedback / repeat the next day.

Sometimes I think I know something, only to realize later that I only barely scratch the surface of a topic, and there's a lot of things underneath.

How do I find the time - I started waking up 2 hours earlier than what I used to do. Made all the difference.

[1]: https://flaviocopes.com
Imagine the people who determine parking in your city also being in charge of the food you eat. I'd rather not let the government get their paws on food
Sure, it has a meaning, but it does not have the meaning implied by the title, hence clickbait, which was paidleaf's point.
This is just a list of current ideas (mostly) and implementations using blockchain. Calling it a list of "real world use case" is far fetched. We have yet to see whether it actually works.
It probably helps to set a good example for kids. I eliminated nearly all sugar about three years ago and highly recommend it. Food is fuel, not a recreational drug. Added sugar is purely recreational.
You’re optimizing for the wrong outcome. Cost is only one factor. There’s also being immune from utility rate increases, on-site perpetual backup power generation, and reduction of transmission and distribution costs.

Disclaimer: I have rooftop solar.
Ditto for me. I had it done in 2006 and have had 20/20 vision ever since. It took about a year before the halos became unnoticeable but I've never had any other issues. My wife, either. It was absolutely life changing for me and I'd do it again even if I had worse side effects.
12-15% capacity factor is comparable to a natural gas peaker plant.
"Hair Ice" sounds flat and un-poetic, like Donald Trump named it.

"Frost Beard" is the OBVIOUSLY superior name of this phenomenon.
> I dared to download and play around with the files, only to get shocked how incompetent Microsoft is in packaging.

It's not "Microsoft" doing the packaging. It could be an unpaid intern that volunteered to learn how to make Debian packages.

But that's not even the point: they're Microsoft developers. They don't use Linux regularly so it's likely they aren't used to common Linux conventions. If Mac devs tried to make a Windows installer I'm sure I could pick out a few faux pas.
I hope to move someday close to a river or stream so I can pick the hobby back up. Used to tie my own as well, I highly recommend Trout Flies: The Tier's Reference [1]. Full color, step-by-step instructions, so enjoyable to flip through I still pick it up sometimes even though I don't fish anymore.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Trout-Flies-Reference-Dave-Hughes/dp/...
...if you leave the big city? There are not $500/mo rents in many popular places. But sure, Des Moines, Pocatello, you can live like that. And why not - at that salary, you sure aren't going to the Bolshoi Ballet any time soon.
Puerto Rico recovery – Google.org
None of those positions are low paid outside of teenage retail/grocery workers.

Fire/police/teacher/plumbers are very well paid.

Cleaning is hit and miss, specialty cleaning is borderline extortion.

Still, I know that most cleaning people get paid min 15$/hr.

At 15$/hr, 30k/yr is plenty to live.
What makes a recommended dose of sugar scarier than childhood obesity? I'd rather there was some guideline than none at all
Using magnets to control DNA-robots
biking. its fun and has health (both mental and physical) benefits.
it was tough first few times but now I cant wait any longer than 2 days to jump on my bike for an hour long ride.
I will never use a Microsoft device.
I wonder why they have not given an official statement on why it happened. Probably just a one-off case.
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My diet is mostly bananas, oranges, apples, almonds, cashews, carrots for snacks.

Onion, mushrooms, garlic, spinach, with baked chicken or a steak for dinner.

Protein shake with a banana and almond/coconut milk (with no sugar added) for breakfast.

I don't think it's that hard to avoid added sugar you just have to keep things a little more basic.
> "Most companies will say "no thanks" and move on to the next candidate in their list."

I don't see why this makes any part of it idealistic or how it is connected.

I view it as pragmatic.

Consider an employer who feels so entitled to workers that just take whatever unproductive office space they give that they would just say, "no thanks" to a qualified candidate and move on. Never mind the fact that in many domains, it's extremely hard to find good engineers, and 'just moving on to the next candidate' is not really a thing. Beyond that, this employer would be telling me how entitled they believe they are, and inflexible about a top-down mandated open floor plan design.

It's not idealism to want to avoid that sort of employer, it's just pragmatism. Like I mentioned, unless you're in dire straits and you have to compromise to take a job right away, then just say no. In other situations, you can by definition afford to just search longer and longer until an employer meets these standards.

I agree it would require patience for a very long job search, but I don't agree that it is optimistic or idealistic. Rather, it's pragmatic and being patient to reject all the bad employers who won't care about your ergonomic health is important and worthwhile, even at the cost of a slow job search where you turn people down for failing to provide private offices.
I doubt that they can manufacture enough Pi Zero's to match demand without purchase restrictions. Not only that, but you also get people buying them in bulk and reselling them.
No, I am certainly not engaging in that debate.

I am not suggesting taxing or not taxing, or lowering or raising the tax.

I am advocating a change in the form of the tax.

This preserves the moral imperative.

So its not the behavioral effects of the policy that are confusing the philosophical argument, it is the philosophical argument confusing the study of the effects.
Sunrise Commander, an orthodox file manager for Emacs
1. Build Error.
2. 404 Errors on website.
3. I dont get why I would use it instead of Express Generator.
I am a grad student and currently enjoying my summer as am doing a research project at the university while most of my friends have left for their homes. I was 47 pounds overweight one year back and had no time for any exercises because of my studies. But now I am quite free and have been swimming 4-5 times for the last 3 weeks and have already lost 15 pounds. The best thing about swimmming is that it doesnt hurt anywhere like my knees or my ankles and I enjoy going for a swim for 40 minutes each. And I plan to keep continuing this for another 2 months hoping to lose atleast 15 pounds more.
The fiber and nutrients make a difference. Fruit is healthy if you don't overdo it.

(Not all fruits are sweet either -- like avocados, tomatoes, zucchini, and cucumbers.)
SpaceX is giving Wall Street a reason to bet on Tesla
Seconding two part epoxy putty as a thing more people should know about, I've used it to repair several sorts of broken plastic clip, fill small holes in walls, etc.
Not OP, but: https://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/happiness/2006/12/09/deve...

Well in his program he said whenever you think about this exercise, just take a few seconds to think what you're grateful about right now, today, etc.
A few weeks ago I had an eye exam, and was starting to consider getting some kind of corrective eye surgery done, but this article gave me pause. What's really so bad about wearing glasses? I've worn either glasses or rigid contact lenses all of my adult life and most of my childhood so I'm used to it. I've adapted to whatever inconveniences and difficulties come from needing vision correction.

I know some people who've had the surgery, and who are happy with it, but it's not for me. I find disturbing the casualness that patients and medical practices have approached this kind of eye surgery. The rapidity of the procedure and the short recovery times, makes it easy to forget that this is major elective surgery on a vital organ. There's just too much that can go wrong. Glasses are a bit annoying, but that's the limit of it. I don't want to be reminded everyday how good I had it back when I wore glasses, as I put in eye drops every 15 minutes for the rest of my life, or have to have someone drive me around at night, or whatever else could go wrong. Medical procedures become more refined, safer and less invasive all the time. I'll wait until surgery is a necessity and enjoy the benefits of years of medical advancements between now and when that time comes.
I think exercise can be like this for a lot of people. If you do figure out the solution, let us know, would you?
No, but hints that the longevity is not just luck, but an exceedingly sturdy rover.
Remote Java and PHP jobs
This is super interesting but I don't quite understand it.. Can you explain how adding capital dilutes labor? Also, how does blockchain make it cheaper to do double entry accounting?
Near Fatal Car Crash to $150k/month Selling Skincare Products
Upon recent years of dissapointment, I no longer watch superbowl ads.

I think there was a massive marketing campaign to get people to pay attention to superbowl ads claiming they are funny.

They've just turned into ads in recent years.
weight lifting 3x a week. the ability to move through life with physical ease is extremely relaxing.
Where ‘orthodox’ means ‘like Norton Commander‚’ c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_manager#Orthodox_file_man...
> the Planck constant is simply a convenient length

m^2 * kg / s
If stuck to posters or wallpaper it also leaks oil/plasticizer over time (months to years) which is absorbed by the paper and causes staining. I discovered this the hard way in my late teens/early 20s.

Solution is to apply some Sellotape (Scotch tape) to the back of the poster first, then put the Blu-Tack on the plastic tape, which blocks the solvent. And avoid using it on wallpaper (emulsion or gloss paint is fine). Better still, use poster holders and a picture hook, or go the whole hog and frame your artwork properly.

Sugru ... air-cures: it doesn't have the solvent-leaching problem, but if you used it on a poster the only way to get the poster down would involve a chisel or sandpaper. Blu-Tak is for temporary attachments; Sugru is intended to be permanent.