skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have ADHD, so I'm not naturally an organised person. That being said, I've developed some really good systems to help me out. They've varied a lot over the years, but here are some key elements that I've found to stick around.

1. Writing everything down

I make sure to write down every event, task etc as soon as I can, and then process it. This makes sure that I don't keep things in my head. Just this alone gives huge returns.

2. One week at a time

I organise my life one week at a time. First, write down all your time commitments for the week (things you've already committed to doing). Then look at the time you have left. Once you have that, look at your backlog of tasks/things you want to do (from element 1) and select the things that you can reasonably do in that week. I then schedule these tasks roughly for each day.

I found that setting a few tasks for a day meant that I was able to focus on one or two tasks, rather than dealing with the weight of all my different life facets at once. This was especially useful to me during university, when I was balancing multiple subjects and clubs.

3. Plan, record, reflect cycle

This part is quite simple, and could also work on its own. First you plan your week (See 2), then during the week you write down notes for yourself. This could be:
- Where you failed (e.g. I was late for work today)
- How you felt (e.g. I really enjoyed hanging out with x friend)
- Any random thoughts/observations (e.g. I tend to get scared by strangers in hats)

I tend to set goals for each week, and then record relevant metrics (e.g. Hours on my phone if I'm trying to cut down, or days taking my medication)

Once the week is done, I do a reflection over the past week and look at what I want to change for the following week. Because I iterate weekly, there's no harm in me trying radical things with each week as an experiment.

Just the weekly iteration has been incredibly valuable for me, and has lead to some great insights.
Why are you still in SF? There are day jobs available pretty much everywhere.
Skaffold is only 5 months old. That's a little unfair to call it unpolished an over-ambitious.
Why is city in quotes?
Hrmn. Maybe.

Then again, if everyone in my apartment complex splits a water bill, there's not much incentive for me to use less water.

If it's truly the heavy vehicles ruining the road, and so we somehow charge the much more, then perhaps measures will be taken to address that cost...
iTunes and App Store are down
'Hello World' from the Stanford AI Lab Blog
> Even if they aren't a corporation in name, capitalism naturally concentrates power with the richest groups of people.

Sure, but you've gotta concentrate it somewhere. Concentrating it entirely in bureaucrats hasn't worked out very well.

> Without some external factor draining wealth from the wealthiest they will eventually soak up the entire monetary system and crash it

Hmm? What?

> Capitalism is a positive feedback loop, like an open mic next to an amplified speaker, and we're pushing the mic closer and closer each year.

That's an interesting metaphor, but is it true? We've had capitalism for quite a while. When does the implosion start?
The vast majority of Democrats are Christians, roughly 3/4ths as of 2014. http://www.pewforum.org/2015/11/03/u-s-public-becoming-less-...
I am not sure why you intend it to make a loss, even though I agree with you on benefits to the economy.

Once a public transit system is convenient and is used by a large percentage of the population, let's say 30-90%, then it will surely be profitable except if it's grossly mismanaged.

Incidental tip: buy stocks of Hong Kong public transit companies, they're doing amazing.
Would recommend the book: The Courage to be Disliked.
Learning and writing about unintended consequences
There is no voice with any real institutional power in American politics that is seriously opposed to corporate hegemony. There’s no labor party.

That fact is unusual and anomalous in modern political systems and is causing massive instability and unpredictability of outcomes.
> The left thinks bad corporations are responsible for the ills of society, while the right thinks bad government is responsible.

This is both a strawman and entirely irrelevant. What's more informative is what both sides do once in power.

The Democrats are quite happy to cut taxes, subsidize all kinds of corporate incentives (see Amazon in NY), and have not actively taken an antitrust stance since the 90s. Meanwhile, the Republicans are quite happy to have a HUGE government, as long as most of those expenditures are in the military and not in social programs. Neither party is particularly anti-corporate. The Democrats are certainly more willing to reign in corporate power, but this is purely in the marginal sense. Consider that copyright extensions over the last 50 years have enjoyed broad, bi-partisan support. As have pro-corporate trade deals like the TPP.

The most stark policy differences between the left and the right in the United States are in the realm of social and cultural issues: abortion, LGBTQ rights, guns. There is no mainstream party that has a substantially adversarial relationship with corporate power.
Congrats! A fantastic app, and fantastic team.
The right frequently advocates for privatizing various government services, which would make corporations bigger.
The explorer does not report trades. It simply shows transactions on the chain and the supply.

If you want the price, you need to aggregate the USDT trades across all pairs to get the price.

https://blockmodo.com/quotes/USDT

It moves up and down but it largely comes back to a dollar.
I don't know what you mean here by 'ideology', or how you can claim so certainly to know what 'the only reason' to do something must be.
This is an in-depth discussion of Django's proposed governance changes from a long-time committer (since 2007), release manager, and board member of the Django Software Foundation.

It's also an interesting mini history of the governance of the project and formation of things like the DSF.

Essentially they plan to dissolve the Django Core and make the development of Django more open to new contributors.
> wonder why E. Coli is much more common in Romaine than in Iceberg. Any thoughts?

Romain grows in sprouts while iceberg grows round, effectively in its own shell

> Personally, I am more of a fan of Iceberg,

The U.S. shifted from Iceberg to more Romaine as a way to have more flavor, nutrition in their lettuce than mostly water.
"The system’s financial straits have gotten worse in part because it has fewer riders, and is collecting less money in fares."

If there are less riders to serves doesn't logic dictate service levels be adjusted to fit market conditions?

Given that this might be the key fact in the whoke article, the article should have detailed why rider volume is down.
I bought their lifetime subscription when it first came out, and it's wonderful. I would recommend, I listen to it nearly daily.

Here are more detailed thoughts: https://medium.com/@kentf/nootropic-review-brain-fm-addddeee...
I'm not sure how I came across them, but i did several years ago when they were first starting. I think I paid some amount of cash for a "lifetime" subscription.

I regularly and routinely return to the site when I really want to concentrate. I might drift back to Spotify for interesting tunes, but whenever I want to really focus on work brain.fm works (for me) much better than "regular" music. As always, everyone is different.
>I don't think you're even able to comprehend my position.

Are you a space lizard?
What is expanded regex?
And the Secretary of Education has spent her entire career advocating for spending government money on privately run charter schools. And there's no small number of people on the right who believe that the Department of Education should be disbanded entirely, since they don't believe in any federal involvement in public schooling at all; they barely want state involvement (see: charter schools).
The Bitcoin "value" (the buying power it confers) will be mainly determined by bulk transactions and by factors of high-inertia (changing them radically and fast is impossible), not by investors. One of such last factors is the cost of energy production and storage, another is the efficiency of mining equipment and the associated willing to amortize it. Therefore it will be much more stable, and it seems to be the main problem at hand.
The article should have mentioned this, as well as why rider volume is down.
>The equivalent argument to a Worker's Revolution on the right would be the disbanding of the Federal government or a reduction to independence-day levels. That opinion does not exist in Congress either.

Rep Ron Paul (R-TX) until 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_positions_of_Ron_Pau...
is that correct? links?
I liked the old hacks better than the modern-day data fabrication, sexual harassment, and financial schemes we see at elite schools like MIT. Somehow, tolerating hacks seemed less harmful than tolerating and covering up fraud and rape.
Forcing workers to drag a "porta potty" through lettuce fields so farmers don't have to pay for the restroom breaks could be causing this.

http://crownservicesco.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Ag-and...
I've just skimmed over the both specifications and haven't noticed anything that would indicate that this is a "weekend project". In fact, I'm impressed enough that I might work on an implementation in my preferred language (assuming a decent testing dataset is available).

What exactly are the technical issues that make you dismiss this project so harshly?
Sounded more to me like just a "that's outside my area of expertise so I can't really contribute".

Also, "frame of reference" has a specific meaning in relativity but it also has a more general meaning regarding the framework within someone understands something. It's pretty clear from the context (imo) that this latter is what was meant in this comment.
Yes. I really believe this. I still use email daily as do most (all?) people I know. It's a primary means of communication, especially when you need a digital "paper trail" of the communication.

I remember email before Gmail. I used to delete hundreds of spam messages a day. It was torture. Not anymore. Now my inbox is all legit mail with vanishingly few spam messages. And my junk mail folder almost never has legit mail in it. For all intents and purposes the email spam problem is solved.
Zero knowledge proofs can solve this.
I loved Bard's Tale up until I completely ruined it for myself by opening my saves up with a hex editor (the DEBUG command in DOS). The format was really simple, and I quickly figured out how to max out everything. I never finished the game, it wasn't fun after that, but I went on to learn x86 assembly language. So not a total loss.
Ash HN: What is your must-read audiobook?
What is your must-read audiobook?
x86 has plenty of instructions that use data from memory as one of the operands. I'm sure that offsets the limited number of registers somewhat.

In the end it's all deep in the details. What I'd really like to see is a RISC-V implementation done by a full team at Intel, AMD, or IBM. Even an ARM implementation by those teams would make a great comparison, but that seems even less likely ;-)
Another alternative that I'm sure you'd hate: we consider that category of information to be "born classified", just as we do for some nuclear warfare secrets. When you file for your patent, you are told that the patent is classified and you must immediately turn over all copies of the information that you have.

There are lots of heavy-handed miserable ways to deal with the problem. It seems you prefer to think there isn't a problem ("don't WANT to keep it away from foreign governments") and/or just give up hope ("don't think you could succeed"), but lots of people disagree with you. Be thankful that stronger measures aren't being proposed.

I know you aren't appreciative, but the restrictions are intended to be for your benefit.
The only laughable part about that is: only 1000?
Fix the high price of housing. Expensive places push more people into homelessness. Sure, services are still needed but by fixing housing you'll make the biggest dent and do good for the most people. We need to upzone the near ring suburbs of these cities at the very minimum.
The United States had a different path to development than most other developed countries. How different, is a theme developed in an essay by Samuel Huntington from the 1960s: Political Modernization: America vs. Europe. In a nutshell: the US never underwent a period of state centralization, like that associated with the age of absolutism in Europe.

This is good in some ways — effective bureaucracies got their start as support for monarchial ambition, in an era of unprecedented government expenditure and military devastation — but it means the US never developed a strong, effective state, either bureaucratically or socially. The US retains many of what Huntington calls “Tudor Institutions” — institutions like a powerful court system that can effectively determine public policy, a decentralized approach to military forces (including the right to bear arms), and the sometimes handicapping balance of power among the different branches of government and the states. When absolutism collapsed in absolutist countries, all the decentralized institutions had been cleared away; but the bureaucracies survived, and with them a strong civil service tradition (modeled on military service), a notional trust in government, and a wide variety of effective and efficient public agencies.
Everyone should have medical + pension + medical in retirement. How did America get to a place where healthcare and pensions are regarded as perks?
Like I said, it goes beyond just solving the problem. It's a learning exercise as well as a solution.

Have you never wondered what projects you can write to help you learn X or Y?
So that means if we want to solve homelessness, we need to start taxing homeless people.
I'm pretty sure Alexander would see the same problems in most Barcelona architecture as he does in other cities. The design in Barcelona is very good by the standards of European cities (and exceptional relative to a lot of places) but the paradigm for architectural practice is still, broadly speaking, the modernist one. Alexander wants to go back to preindustrial vernacular building practices.
It's a bit more than that. It's also a mindset that, yes, we really will give real money and effort to help people.

A government agency could eventually build the social infrastructure (though they might make a mess of it). But building the consensus that we're going to solve this problem, even if it costs us a lot is... difficult. As you said, probably not reproduceable elsewhere.

I'm a non-Mormon living in Utah. I don't praise the Mormon Church very often. But on this I think they have done well, to have the desire and willpower to address the issue.
I have a feeling that the friction is very directional.

There are lots and lots of stories about individuals losing money in bitcoin and tether, this is one way they do it.
State of package.json dependencies
There is no real difference between the left and right at the high levels of government. We live under crony capitalism, the worst mixture of bad government being run by bad corporations.
Assuming OP is related to brain.fm. Are you planning to do a Black Friday sale on lifetime subscription?
I am a bit sad that Linus is more known for his occasional frank outbursts than for his consistent encouragement and supportive tone.
> The great thing about software really is the fact you have the independence and ability to build and publicize your own stuff whereas in all the other formal professions you can't without oversight.

By the same token, software isn't really a professionalized activity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineering_professio...
I wonder if there could be a good tech solution where lettuce samples would be tested s part of the packaging pipeline.
> Were this technology correctly introduced to society by trusted parties

...it would be fundamentally outperformed by said trusted party producing a database.
They're likely referring to the \x modifier, also called extended regular expressions:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24642616/what-are-extend...
“Successful low-credibility sources are heavily supported by social bots. These results suggest that curbing social bots may be an effective strategy for mitigating the spread of online misinformation.”

No, really?

Sorry - go ahead and vote me down. I couldn’t resist. Sometimes science uncovers facts that seem obvious.
Isn't the entire purpose of this threat that Kubernetes is a big solution made for big problems and smaller problems might not need that big of a solution?

The comment was in response to a question I asked about "do I really need something as big as Kubernetes". Not sure why people are picking apart this answer when it seems to answer my question quite well.
What is JAB's patent situation like? One of QR-codes most important attributes (for us, at least) is that patent threats are relatively low.

Has research been done to see how safe implementations are from infringing on currently-valid patents?
You’re describing what the Forest productivity app can already do so it’s definitely possible.

Perhaps you can reverse engineer it and find out what API they’re using as a workaround?
The offending strain in both the current outbreak, and a major outbreak in June, is E. coli O157:H7, which is a less common strain typically associated with cattle or other livestock.[1] CDC analysis (also helpfully linked by craftyguy) of the previous outbreak of this strain, which hospitalized or killed people in 36 states, found that the source was contaminated canal water used for irrigation near Yuma AZ.[2] A large CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation) exists upstream nearby.[3] You can see it from space in satellite imagery. It is interesting to view the orientation of this CAFO to Gila River, and to zoom in to the level of individual cattle to get a sense of it's scale and topographic orientation.

Determining the source of water contamination is outside of the scope of office of CDC. EPA is responsible for this, but I can find no evidence of investigation of the source canal contamination. Perhaps EPA is becoming more “business friendly.”

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org
/wiki/Escherichia_coli_O157:H7#Natural_habitat

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-04-18/index.html

[3] https://www.google.com/maps/place/McElhaney+Cattle+Company/@...

Edit: FDA published an environmental assessment on Nov. 1. They also attributed contaminated canal water as a possible cause. That assessment included "limited" samples (I can't figure out what kind of samples) from the CAFO, which found no matching e coli strain. The authors state that the assessment occurred several weeks after the growing season ended.

"It is uncertain how the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7 was introduced into this 3.5-mile stretch of irrigation canal water. The first illnesses in this outbreak occurred in March 2018, and therefore the outbreak strain may have been present in the irrigation canal months before the EA team collected the positive samples, or the outbreak strain may have been repeatedly introduced into the irrigation canal. A large concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO) is located adjacent to this stretch of the irrigation canal. The EA team did not identify an obvious route for contamination of the irrigation canal from this facility; in addition, the limited number of samples collected at the CAFO also did not yield the outbreak strain. Other possible explanations for how the irrigation canal became contaminated are possible, but the EA team found no evidence in support of alternative explanations.

Growers suggested weather events in the Yuma growing region may have contributed to crop contamination. The EA team considered the possibility that leaf freeze damage and dew on romaine leaves created conditions favorable for windborne contamination of the crop with dust carrying the outbreak strain of E. coli O157:H7. While this type of STEC contamination has been demonstrated (Berry et. al, 2015), it does not explain the presence of the outbreak strain in a free-flowing irrigation canal months later when there was little wind in the region."

https://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/Outbrea...
My father was at MIT in 1948, and he'd regale me with stories about MIT pranks, especially the explosive wire one.

MIT at the time was full of older men who were WW2 veterans on the GI Bill. They were skilled at handling explosives.
That's because humans are mostly all in the same reference frame. And hey, so is this binary system, within astronomy-
sized error bars anyway. I'm not sure the terminology of "observer" is totally consistent, but it's definitely true that you can only disagree with another observer on ordering of events if you're in a different reference frame, basically if you're moving at a (noticeably) different velocity.

In the presentation of SR I saw, "observers" are basically identical with reference frames. What is "observed" is exactly the sequence of events pieced together from instruments in that reference frame, close enough to "see" all the relevant events with negligible lightspeed delay, all with synchronized clocks. "Seeing" a distant event, the time when light from that event reaches a particular point, is an entirely different question that, frankly, we mostly ignored.
Show HN: Building a React Native App for Toby
They should have sued on trespassing grounds. That's what eBay did to prevent scrapers. (eBay vs BiddersEdge)
>It takes enormous amount of time to go through each line and each file to make sure something else is not sipping in.

This is an enormous exaggeration.
It’s normal. I have a sign on with a public tech company you’ve heard of that has a one year stipulation.
I don’t know about the schools there, but imagine if families instead of rentals occupied the condos—I bet the schools would shape up real fast. I admittedly haven’t researched/thought about how to fix schools, but getting parents raging seems obvious to start.
These comments kind of reminded me of the comedy sketch, “The Expert” [1]. When nobody else will say no to an idea your meeting might end up sounding like that. I agree though that you should let people know the constraints and alternatives if you want to help forge a path ahead for their ideas.

[1]: https://youtu.be/BKorP55Aqvg
This is pretty easily fixed by doing white balance correction. One piece of the barcode is always kept white, and it is used for color calibration. assuming the color transformation is constant across the entire code (which is the case in your example) you can undo some pretty large color shifts.
I only listen to fiction when it comes to audiobooks. That said, I really like Clive Barker stuff who I discovered relatively recently. In particular, I like "Books Of Blood" [0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8x7Iee3m0A
I used to like the simplicity of the C API and knowing where buffers were allocated and discarded. Then at one point I took the dive and learnt the C++ API and its memory management scheme. I did not look back. Having all these things automated while still being reasonably predictable is really comfortable!
Those iCloud accounts ain't gonna sync themselves!
Things weren't always this way. The US used to have a true labor party. I think the pendulum is already starting to swing back.
To play devils advocate: I am against establishing such a definition, but I dislike when organizations that are supposed to be inherently unbiased and unopinionated state an opinion, even when it is one that I agree with. I feel like doing so gives potential detractors of said organization (like GP) more ground to criticize them on.
References requested.
Can confirm, Tracy is the real deal.
Try living in a country with hyperinflation, and then the utility of $BTC becomes clear. Sure, it's volatile, but anything is better than the Bolivar.