skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, over the weekend I wrote up a bit about my struggle with burnout and mental health. I got about a bajillion fake internet points for my comments so I guess people wanted to know what I have to say. I’ll go ahead and add a bit about how to find a mental health professional. I hope it helps a bit

First, if your general practitioner doesn’t have even one suggestion at all, I’d suggest thinking about a new general practitioner. This is quite like saying “my leg has fallen off can you put it back on?” And your doctor saying “well I can’t and I don’t really know anyone who can. Have you tried google?” If that sounds absurd, it’s because it is. Mental health is important.

Second, if you love your GP, try asking around other people you know. Ask on Facebook or twitter or LinkedIn for your friends recommendations. Don’t be embarrassed. Mental health is important.

If you are a member of a religious or social organization, ask the leaders of that. Almost invariably religious leaders have good recommendations. They talk to a lot of people and often have a good understanding of mental health issues and who can solve them.

You can also ask your insurance. Insurance companies often have a referral service. It won’t be as personalized but it will have some help.

Now once you hit up all these groups then make a list of 5-10 therapists and call them. Have a few minutes phone conversation. See what they are like. Then make an appointment.

Whatever you do, please don’t give up on finding someone. It will help. It’s a good thing.
How different is that from a new prison guard being pressured by their supervisor or co-workers to be tough on prisoners? It indicates that a bad situation can be created by bad management, and a new person introduced to an existing bad system can turn bad as well.
Common: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-musk/elon-musk-buys...
"Why does the sun work?"

"Because that's just how it be sometimes."

Magnificent.

EDIT: apparently human comments are allowed, which might explain why that one fits so well.
Mobile workstations suck to lug around. I made the mistake of buying a Dell M6500 precision. That thing was way to heavy, and it made me look like a toddler with it sitting on my lap. It had a lot of power, but it was extremely fragile.
Errors Trigger Retraction of Study on Mediterranean Diet's Heart Benefits
Common stock bought on the open market.
Over the next five years, we are about to witness the world we live in entirely disrupted by improvements in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning. Children today are growing up with AI assistants in their homes (Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa) -- to the point that you might consider their mere presence an extension of co-parenting. As voice and facial recognition continue to evolve, machine learning algorithms are getting smarter. More and more industries are being influenced by AI, and our society as we know it is transforming.
A quote I once heard from a friend: "Don't turn your normal problem into a distributed systems problem."
I know it's not the most pristine new organisation there is, but this was a rather interesting and unsettling read: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-06-13/after-taunting-sho...
One time I was struggling with some odd R behavior of the sort described by the author. I asked my local R expert. He told me how to fix my program, but I protested that none of it made any sense, even when explained. He didn't disagree, he just laughed and said "don't worry about it."

That works great for him, he can "not worry about it" and things work because he knows all the quirks.

If I just "don't worry about it" my programs don't work for mysterious reasons.

It seems likely that R could have been designed to have the same strengths without having so many weird and arbitrary quirks.
there is a linux distribution for wifi-routers:

https://openwrt.org

table of hardware: https://openwrt.org/toh/start

- current master runs kernel 4.14 / 4.9 for most targets, flow offloading, performance fixes, wireguard in base, lua-based ui called uci.

- security fixes land after a few hours/days in master, a few days/weeks for a new stable release

- pretty much only non-commercial and volunteer effort, so be kind and friendly and help - check the wiki and the forum first.
Access to the courts is something guaranteed by the Constitution (standard disclaimer about the shape THAT's in). Usually googling "File a small claims case" and your state name will get you started. Here are the steps.

http://www.civillawselfhelpcenter.org/self-help/small-claims...
Martin Shkreli still owes the feds more than $450,000
This is an interesting comparison, because Uber is also hemorhaging money and to a lot of people it's still not clear they're worth anywhere near as much as their valuation.

It's easy (relatively speaking) to build a big business when you can take on billions of dollars in losses. Turning that around is the hard part.
Sometimes librarians are also those things.
They can already demand the keys to the kingdom.
What if Google Analytics wasn't around? What would you use?
Images seem to be down off the archive, so it's hard to see what he's talking about really.
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The Chomsky Challenge for Americans
> The pareto principle guarantees that lower IQ men in aggregate, have more kids

I'm sorry, what? I am familiar with the Pareto principle but I do not see how this follows from it. Could you elaborate?
I disagree with your entire post. It has never been easier to start q business online or otherwise. It has never been easier to start a business with virtually no investment or financial stake. It has never been easier to learn how to start a business in most any field and never been easier to find customers.

I'm not sure what you are defining as risk or difficulty. I can list a dozen day-one-profitable businesses right here that a person could start before tomorrow morning for less than $100 investment.
I was under the impression that quantum entanglement could provide perfect privacy across a connection, as it would be obvious whether the line communication was intercepted.
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It used to reply "blue", not it claims it doesn't know the answer.
In the abstract, sure - it's not uncommon for projects to start to become consumed by their own infrastructure. But I've never seen X-macro enum stuff contribute to that.

(This does of course presuppose that you really want to be able to always get the string name of an enum values. I've found this to be reliably the case, if only for logging purposes, but I've only got my own experience to go on.)
IRS has already granted them millions in contracts Post Data Breach with more on the way

> The phrase "too big to fail" referred to the idea that certain banks are so big

Yes, thank you Mr Technicality for the explanation. The fact of the matter is Crony Capitalism existed before the bank bailouts and continues to exist,

"Too big to fail" is more of a Meme now to refer to the concept of Government bailing out business, and does not refer to a point in history or a single act by government
VRChat and Other Worlds with UGC Threatened by Upcoming EU Regulation
Well then who is the owner? I certainly don't feel like I own my iPhone, I can't even run my own kernel on it!
I think the OP was referring to added sugars.
> You can't vandalize shop windows over the Internet. You can't massacre people at a concert [snip]. You can't smuggle weapons over a border [snip].

I could commit these crimes over the internet by using others to perform them. So the people you catch are not the prime cause of the crimes. This was not feasible before the internet, and digital monitoring would be the only way to catch me.
The defense applications for this are tantalizing. However, given the staggering amount of room clearing that's been taking place in US military operations for the past 15 or so years, I'd be shocked if there wasn't already an existing capability to detect bad guys through walls in a CQB environment.
This is not exactly related to your lawsuit, but I gather from your Twitter feed that these days, librarians are spending a lot of time helping people use computers and especially the Internet. I don't go to the library hardly ever these days, but I have heard of this phenomenon elsewhere, too.
> since they do not know what this specific vulnerability is

How do you know this? I'd be shocked if they don't have one or more of these devices themselves and have it completely figured out.
This is very short sighted. Just wait a month or so and this machine will not look like anything special. ORNL typically doesn't use Intel.
Getting the world off dirty diesel engines
Let's hope Elon has been completely forthcoming about Tesla's next few months, because if not this purchase could be treated as insider trading.
Yeah, CON is a device name (console), like LPT1, COM1, PRN, or NUL.

See: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa3...

An old DOS trick to create a file is to run "copy con newfile.txt" and hit enter. Then you can start typing the file's contents. I don't recommend trying to use backspace or delete since it doesn't always work like you think, depending on your shell. When you're done, hit F6 or Ctrl+Z followed Enter. It still works in cmd.exe.

Similarly, you can create an empty file with "copy nul newfile.txt" or test copy a file with "copy filename.txt nul".
King was my favorite writer growing up. I read "Firestarter" in 6th grade, and then continued working through about 20 or so more of his works until graduation from HS. I was "that kid", always had my nose buried in a paperback from the library, usually one of his. His works were like familiar friends to me. I could step into nearly any library or bookstore and find myself absorbed into some small town in Maine, or perhaps a more fantastical setting in some cases. Some books I remember better than others, some left me frustrated at the end (looking at you "Cell"), but mostly I just felt like I was a hanger-on, privileged to be hitching a ride into King's imagination. It wasn't just his imagination though, it was his experience as a human that I think I really craved. It sounds sort of funny to say I learned a lot about human nature and society from reading his books (and reading them in the 2000's no less, 20+ years after many of them were written), but I did. His characters were never stupid or shallow or boring just because they were female. His characters had flaws and issues, motivations and fears, and the world around them was not often a nice or sensible place. I can relate to that, and I needed to relate to that growing up.

I don't read his books as often now, but I do love the man and his works for how much they mean to me. I never regretted reading any of them (even ones I may not have finished). I'm glad he doesn't regret writing them either.

Favorite quote from that piece that I think applies to many of us, in any creative field:

> But I also understand that life is short, and that in the end, none of us is prolific. The creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.
Encouraging. Please let us know if/when you get a check.
> because all the authorization and restrictions are done on the application layer.

Which application tier? It sounds like you're using GraphQL in-memory to query the database in the same process that's creating the GraphQL query. You should be treating GraphQL as a database, and it should not exist on the same machine that's using it. This way your GraphQL app has centralized permissions & auth, and all your other apps would then be beholden to whatever you implemented.

> just using a GraphQL server as an ORM

If you're using it the way above, then yes. But that's the wrong way to use it.
Are ADS used for anything useful anywhere? It is kinda interesting how long MS has been carrying that feature around, especially as it is not really highly advertised feature; is it really even supported? ADS does constantly pop up in these sorts of (semi-)malicious contexts, simply dropping them seems like sensible thing.
That's quite interesting! Does that not detract from how well his work reads, though? I suppose not by much given how popular he is.
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Just to add. Looking at the current political state surrounding the Russian collusion investigation. It's not a stretch that Trump would not use this against his political enemies or "fake new media". And look at what his supporters have done with FBI agents that had an affair with private text messages. Trump isn't the first of his kind nor will s/he be the last.
Speculative execution isn't an inherent security risk, but it typically entails a cache fill, which can, if not cleaned up or not isolated, can be used for a timing attack. That's the real issue here: that execution results in mutating a shared datastore, and facts about the likely contents of that datastore can be inferred from performing additional operations and self-measuring aspects of one's own performance.

In the larger sense, mixing various privilege levels on shared hardware is likely a bad idea, despite being fundamental to general-purpose computing. This is because it's fairly difficult to cloak intrinsic "physical" attributes of execution, like execution timing, cache timing, from other processes, and essentially impossible (and/or unreasonable) to cloak it from one's own process. It is both possible for a process to generate lots of side-effects (e.g. IO, cache fill), and for it or another process to try to figure out ways the shared state changes by observing its own execution.
Answering questions in a rapid, interactive way (, while using C to be efficient enough that one can run it on millions of rows):

# Given a dataset that looks like this…
> head(dt, 3)
mpg cyl disp hp drat wt qsec vs am gear carb name
1: 21.0 6 160 110 3.90 2.620 16.46 0 1 4 4 Mazda RX4
2: 21.0 6 160 110 3.90 2.875 17.02 0 1 4 4 Mazda RX4 Wag
3: 22.8 4 108 93 3.85 2.320 18.61 1 1 4 1 Datsun 710

# What's the mean hp and wt by number of carburettors?
> dt[, list(mean(hp), mean(wt)), by=carb]
carb V1 V2
1: 4 187.0 3.8974
2: 1 86.0 2.4900
3: 2 117.2 2.8628
4: 3 180.0 3.8600
5: 6 175.0 2.7700
6: 8 335.0 3.5700

# How many Mercs are there and what's their median hp?

> dt[grepl('Merc', name), list(.N, median(hp))]
N V2
1: 7 123

# Non-Mercs?
> dt[!grepl('Merc', name), list(.N, median(hp))]
N V2
1: 25 113

# N observations and avg hp and wt per {num. cylinders and num. carburettors}

> dcast(dt, cyl + carb ~ ., value.var=c("hp", "wt"), fun.aggregate=list(mean, length))
cyl carb hp_mean wt_mean hp_length wt_length
1: 4 1 77.4 2.151000 5 5
2: 4 2 87.0 2.398000 6 6
3: 6 1 107.5 3.337500 2 2
4: 6 4 116.5 3.093750 4 4
5: 6 6 175.0 2.770000 1 1
6: 8 2 162.5 3.560000 4 4
7: 8 3 180.0 3.860000 3 3
8: 8 4 234.0 4.433167 6 6
9: 8 8 335.0 3.570000 1 1

I used slightly verbose syntax so that it is (hopefully) clear even to non-R users.

You can see that the interactivity is great at helping you compose answers step-by-step, molding the data as you go, especially when you combine with tools like plot.ly to also visualize results.
> though Anaconda is getting better with this

Anaconda is becoming to python what Chrome is to browsers, particularly as Jupyter matures. Drop it in, and a huge amount of what you want to do is ready to go. Sure, there's lots of libraries/extensions available, but most of the time you can do real work with a default userland, non-privileged install.
Beans are a large part of my largely added-sugar free diet. Also eggs, salsa, and lean meats.
Plenty of people are cheap and don't pay for iCloud storage which means if you want any backup at all it's local.
You can still put in backslashes from Linux as well. Technically NTFS allows for this (Win32 vs. Unix-y namespaces).
Pony looks great, but based on reading the docs it seems it is a bit too early to do much with it. Looks like they don't really have any tooling (package manager?) yet.
Tesla is held to a different standard because they whine like children when they're held to the same safety, financial, or operational standard as other automakers.

They don't get to have their cake and eat it too until they prove they've earned it, and thus far they haven't by the metrics that matter to analysts or the public in general.
I think Spectre is even less severe then Meltdown though.
Well, Postgraphile is offering you a shortcut that comes with limitations.

A more complete approach would be to structure your application in a more typical fashion, and put a GraphQL layer on top. Have a data access layer that maps from our back end sources (databases/REST/RPC services) to GraphQL types. Then have a logic/authorization layer, with GraphQL on top.
Using Postgrapile seems to take those application layers away for the sake of convenience.
So find a new job and quit. Your skills are in high demand right now.
There's a very concrete, contemporary rationale, as well. Our culture values and facilitates the commodification of other cultures above their preservation. Simply examine the way that Disney has presented (and profited from) depictions of various peoples of the world. In its latest iteration, even going as far as trying to trademark "The Day of The Dead"[1]

1. https://www.cnn.com/2013/05/10/us/disney-trademark-day-dead/...
This is incorrect. I've personally experience Apple leaking private data. They do well, but they aren't infallible.
Wasn't 212b02125f3 ("x86, fpu: enable eagerfpu by default for xsaveopt") sufficient protection for everyone on a modern CPU?
Ask HN: Are there other programs similar to AngelList Analyst Program?
I recently came across the AngelList Analyst Program (https://angel.co/analyst-program). After reading past analyst's experiences, I thought it was a great program. I was wondering if there other programs similar to this one, that gives experience working with startups and provides a great stepping stone into the industry. Thank you in advance.
> Isn't it the judicial system working as intended?

If you're a large firm who makes money by gossiping about people, you might be very concerned about it working as intended. They've successfully lobbied for an exception to libel law so you can't sue them for telling lies about you; buying a congressional pass as proof against this sort of responsibility is hardly a stretch.
The use of the word “librarian” here seems designed to evoke stereotypes of a short old computer illiterate lady who fought The Man and won. Jessamyn West is not that kind of librarian — see her Wikipedia bio for more detail.

It would be not more accurate but perhaps more clear to say “Well-known author and activist wins case against Equifax.”
> The new paper helped push down the already sinking price of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies on Wednesday. The price of Bitcoin fell as much as 5 percent after the report was published, approaching its lowest point of the year. Bitcoin is now down more than 65 percent from the highs it hit late last year.

Well, then. An obvious question is who involved in this paper has just sold Bitcoin short.

Maybe there's a disclaimer. But I've had no luck getting the paper. I've tried to get it from Sci-Hub, but they don't seem to have it yet. And Elsevier doesn't seem to accept Bitcoin. Anyone know a source?
https://idledillettante.com/2014/12/06/eron-gjoni-hateful-bo...

This blogpost from 2014 has multiple examples of Eron posting under a trip on 4chan as well IRC logs.
I used to feel similarly, but I think it's much more stable than it was even a year ago; `!!`, `enquo`, and `:=` is good enough for the vast majority of users who want to write their own NSE functions now.
It comes down to history, long term track record of reliability, and responsibility. The number of times that actual malicious software has made it into an official Debian apt repository is very, very low. The people who build the .deb packages and make them available (with appropriate GPG keys and hashes) keep things secure and are generally very trustworthy individuals.

https://wiki.debian.org/SecureApt

At a certain point it does come down to trust. From the position of a potential attacker, you can't just upload a randomly built thing to the official CentOS or Debian repositories and expect it to be made available to the rubes.

Very different than people downloading and trusting random Docker images.
I believe it's about 9m if the whole of Greenland (two major glaciers) melts. And another ~60m if the whole of Antarctica melts. Naturally this is unlikely to happen in our lifetime, but positive feedback loops are a fascinating subject.

For friends looking to buy coastal property on ~30 year loans I advise that they need to be able to sell those properties some decades out from a more general concern / awareness of the risk.
When you consider that much of WeWork’s revenue is likey just VC dollars paying the expenses of their tenants then the whole thing looks even crazier. VC money paying revenue of a startup that uses that revenue to justify raising more money from VCs. I have some bridges to sell.
Add uber to that list.
"to big to fail" only apply to (big) companies that mainly use debt to finance themselves, and have no assets to sell if they ever "fail" and go bankrupt. Because debt owner then would go bankrupt, and if debt owners are also companies with a huge ratio debt/asset, they would then go bankrupt and so on. So banks.

(NB: i may have misused financial terms as i am not a native speaker)
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It's probably not gonna stay that way tho.

"More thoughtful and effective disaster policies are needed because the future will bring many more weather disasters like Hurricane Harvey, with larger impacts than those of the recent past." (From your own link)
> posting

I don't think you're ever going to persuade a given HN user to stop posting content here. But to order 'we' to stop deeming content relevant and worthy for the rest of the community (by up-voting — which is what I think you meant) is rather laughable.

The community decides what it wants to make popular, not you or I alone...
They di seem to have fixed this, at least as far as WSL is concerned. If I open a bash shell on Win10 and do `echo foo >/mnt/d/temp/like:this` then I can open the resulting file in Notepad and see the content `foo`. `mkdir like:this` works too. The file or directory name does appear a bit mangled in Explorer, but still works (and still looks like a colon from inside bash).

I think you are right that this used not to work in earlier versions of WSL. You could use colons within the WSL home directory, but not on the mounted NTFS drives. But it seems sorted now.
What continues to weird me out here is that Tether's price is still basically $1, and there's basically no risk premium for those exchanges that trade BTC against Tether instead of actual USD. But when the two start spreading, the shit will really hit the fan...

http://www.untether.space/
Lovecraft is more popular for his ideas than the quality of his prose, except in a "so bad it's good" way.
Exactly.

And having more mechanisms by which they can access user data is not something that ever should be encouraged.
The high-volume low fat high-fiber plan works for most people. Apparently there is something different about your body.
It's a lot easier to say no if there are no keys to the kingdom.
Classification with F# ML.NET Models
Could you explain your reasoning? Just curious.
I feel like I might learn the most from Rust, but since I can handle having a GC in my app the extra focus on elements included in Rust to guarantee memory safety without GC is potentially wasted. Thanks for you thoughtful comparison though, it was very helpful!
Not an expert but this amount is pretty much nothing for a guy like him. This can easily be a pure PR move.