skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The world is not short of people who want to work in healthcare. Because of high barriers to entry, professionals in the field are very well paid and young people are desperate to enter it. Given this vast army of the aspiring, you can be confident that nothing that really needed doing went undone because you chose to do something else with your life.
Pen/Paper as default. When on a computer, an outliner/mind-mapper. Of late, getting back to Scapple[1]. You guys should try it.

1. https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scapple/overview
> I think we should encourage immigration on the basis that brain power is the resource that US needs and one that will be driving the growth of the next century.

That's a good argument for legal merit based immigration but not for illegal immigration or the majority of legal immigration that is family based.
Oh, thanks personally I here "lapis" when I was a child by my grandparents, mostly referred to nearly finished (short) pencils, but I never hear "cimosa" always say "cancellino" or sometimes "cancelletto" instead :-)

Never hear "coccia" before you normally I used "guscio" or "conchiglia" or "valva/e" depending on the context... On Tuscany I remember from an ex girlfriend from Livorno that "vetro" (glass) is where you drink (well... a glass of ...) but also for coffee cups because tazza or tazzina (cup, small cup) is WC ceramic but, not a thing used to drink :D
Not just regularly, but less painful and with fewer other undesirable side effects (mood swings, hot flushes etc)

Source: My wife.
Not OP but I would highly recommend TiddlyWiki[1] as a personal Wiki

[1]: https://tiddlywiki.com/
When someone contribution to child raising is money and nothing else, that someone is still better off then their partner.

The impact on livestyle, socializing or ability to he part of society, hobby options, career options, free time or regular fun, possible achievements etc etc is quite large for the other partner.

Regardless of gender.
I still think it is misused, was also my first time seeing it used this way (I’ve been working with node since the start in 2009).
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Congratulations, you should be very proud of yourself. That's quite an accomplishment.

It's also a bizarrely defensive interjection, given that it has nothing to do with my comment, which was about the set of ostensible environmentalists that focus on self-flagellatory concerns at the expense of actually significant ones, a group that you're saying you're not part of.
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it's an opinion that needs hours to debunk. All I need to say is that he includes a quote from Naval. Lol. Naval is a big proponent of bitcoin and blockchain. Talk about getting facts wrong.
notes often end up like old photos, you never view them again

Ideally i would want a service where all notes are reminders, with default perhaps 1 week. When you are reminded , you choose whether to be re-notified or discard. The good ideas will stick
The thing is that owning a stadium is not a for profit enterprise in Switzerland as it may be the case in other countries. The investors that won the contract to build and maintain the stadium are not expected to make any money with it. Also the land that they get for housing is not free but it gets sold to them at lower than market prices (I got that wrong in my earlier comment).
Can you substantiate any of what you present as facts with actual sources?
Is there a standard checklist for messaging services that want to be secure?
Is that different than the branding/trademark issue that Firefox also had for years?

(Not bring cynical, I genuinely don't know.)
The difference isn't that large anymore. gcc has also implemented color diagnostics and caret highlighting, and they have continuously added new helpful warnings, e.g. the upcoming -Winit-list-lifetime in gcc 9 (nothing comparable available for clang)
As I grow older, I find I have less and less 'random' stuff on my machine.

I have a two main folders:

/Development/Code/{language}

/Development/Tool/{tool}

Where the tool can be IntelliJ / vim or tmux config and other programming related files.

Apart from those, downloads do land in /Downloads and I keep that more or less clean.

/Documents holds docs.. most of this is text files for a Spanish course I am taking.

My projects fit under a language in /Development/Code/{language}/{project} so if I need any documents for the project I will make a subdir in the project folder, to keep the files close to the code.
Yup, you push the blades of a "regular" pair of scissors away from each other with your left hand, and if it is sufficiently loose, it will just bend the material you want to cut instead of shearing it.
> It's a short life, so I want to be careful with this decision, to avoid any future regrets.

Obviously then, the first one to solve is longevity
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To be consistent, I treat myself as a client and follow all the same rules. But I also give the important ones their own "brand" name. It's a pseudo "exit" plan. That is, I could "sell" to someone else.

The gist is, doing my own projects differently took away more then it helped.
I use MS outlook at work and you can actually open incoming emails, edit the subject line and save it, used this a few times as a quick way to tag my emails on what needs to be done with them, e.g.:

- [FOLLOW UP] Lorem ipsum dolor...

- [ASK MICHAEL] Lorem ipsum dolor...

- [INCLUDE IN PROPOSAL] Lorem ipsum dolor...
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The focus should not be on "what," but on "why." I just got this advice the other day and it's liberated my thinking. I was (am) stuck in a rut believing that if I just find something I am passionate about it would alleviate the sense of purposelessness that pervades. Not so.

Some people can work just for material benefit to themselves and their families. However, eventually that juice runs out because money is just not useful beyond a point. Depression is a first world problem, generally. Why is it that people who are materially better off than most of their peers in the last century become depressed?

The key, it seems, is to find a goal that is higher than immediate selfish interests of the individual or family. This might even mean staying in your current situation but just realigning "why" you are doing it to something higher. It is very hard to find an unselfish person who is depressed, unsure about what to do or unhappy in general.

The goal makes all the difference.
Another useful tweak is to turn on the option that forces all popups into tabs rather than new windows. This is an option in FireFox itself but it complements TST quite nicely, because it means that the popup's tab appears underneath it's parent's tab in the tree. Popping up in a separate window with no tab at all is pretty much the opposite of that!

This is a nice option to turn on anyway. IMO there is no reason why a webpage should ever be able to open another window on my computer. For me, this is the other killer feature in FireFox. This also stops pages being able to resize/move windows (because that only works in popup windows), which stops the worse aspect of "the annoying site" which came up recently on Hacker News.

To change the setting: in about:config change browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 0. Source: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1066799
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I (and am sure many here) have been in the same situation. I have tried physical books (which I'm still biased towards), OneNote (my next favourite, especially on tablets with stylus), txt files, wiki etc.

Ultimately what I realised is that it is all useless if I don't have a periodic review session for these ideas.

So, what I am doing these days (not with much success due to lack of discipline) is to have 2 or 3 different sources for such ideas - notebook, onenote, email, bookmarks, Google Keep etc. But spend sometime during the weekend to organise these week's ideas into the correct container. In my case the 'source of truth' is OneNote, so I have several notebooks and sections within each notebook and I file things there.

Even though this is tedious and repetitive I find it to be absolutely necessary if anything good has to come out of those ideas. It also gives me a chance to revisit old ideas and file my new half-baked ideas into a section where it fits in with some other idea.

The other important task is that I need to plan some small action items with these ideas or else it will just accumulate there and cause lot of stress eventually.

P.S. It will be great to hear your thoughts on the tool you plan to create. Like what features you find missing and how you plan to accommodate the user's laziness in your UX
Bookmarks are not a good UX. They're slow to load, unreliable (link rot), and a chore to keep organized.

Bookmarks are an improvement over writing addresses down on paper or copying and pasting into a text file. That's about it.
I started this route after being influenced by GOPATH. Can’t imagine anything else now.
Then, of course, the challenge is to identify overlooked problems which actually are real problems and therefore worth solving. It's easy to succumb to a fallacy of thinking that if no one else is working on a problem it's not a real problem or is not worth solving.
Ask HN: What is your current main OS?
What is you current operating system? Why did you decide for certain OS? Did you perform any customization? What are you concerns for OS selection process (performance, security, customization, etc.)?
Would someone post a non-paywalled link, please?
No need for snark. You might be correct that, by “computational volume”, handling currency values might be considered a niche; but even something like World of Warcraft has to handle money at some point.
this is true for applied healthcare, but not so for research in healthcare. Research jobs in healthcare aren't anywhere close to as prestigious and don't pay anywhere close to as well, yet we would all benefit very much from top talent dedicating their lives to them
At the end, the author recommends Signal (https://signal.org/) and Threema ((https://threema.ch/en). I've never heard of Threema before, but having more viable options in this space is definitely a good thing.
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As a corollary, your brain tends to imagine things towards the happy end of the probability space. Choosing the uncertain path means you’re comparing against a reasonably accurate alternative instead of an imagined utopia.
Looks like they've been scraped from github.

I'm not sure I appreciate my text being copied/pasted into a random site, where the "authors" collect the advertising revenue. In the best case it spams, in the worst case it leads to outdated documents being hosted.
This is pretty much my system too. Including the YY(YY)MMDD naming, even for folders.

Only except keeping all the repos inside Dropbox, I regularly rsync my working folders to Dropbox (to prevent Dropbox from constantly reindexing and eating my CPU).
I honestly don't care. I've always known they last for years, I know they end up all over the place, and that it's disgusting, but I don't care. I'll throw it away if I'm close to a trashcan, ashtray, etc, but otherwise I just flick it away and go about my business. I never litter otherwise, I always chase down trash if the wind takes it from my hands, and I pissed when I see someone throw trash on the ground. When I was a kid, I put my chewed gum in my pocket without a wrapper because I didn't want someone to step on it. I like to think I'm considerate to the world and the people I share it with. I never smoke next to someone unless they say it's okay, otherwise I find somewhere else to go, or just don't smoke. There's just something about throwing butts on the ground, I can't get myself to feel bad. I know I'm doing something wrong, and I know I should feel guilty, but I don't. Guess that feeling goes for smoking as well...
(I apologise for this intoxicated ramble, a few of the other people who responded to you had irked me)
The focus should not be on "what," but on "why."

So, like a good git commit message :P

Jokes aside, good point and imo the number one answer to the question. Not sure why you got a dwonvote even. If you're ok with material benefits then yeah, anything goes of course. But that only gets you so far and indeed real value seems to lie beyond that. It took me alomost half a life to realize it, but altruism really does give me much more than materialsim.
This is because you create a python float (64-bit) before passing this float to the Decimal class.

>>> a = 9999999999999999.0
>>> a
1e+16
How about Wire as an alternative? I'm curious.
If you happen to be fishing for app ideas, here's one I'd pay $50 for:

An app that controls `~/Downloads` and automatically organizes (somehow), tracks usage and schedules files for deletion.

Once a week I'd like to see a dialog listing files likely to be unwanted, info about how many times they've been accessed, where they came from, etc. With a simple, one button, 'trash them all'.

The idea would be to optimize sets of files so they're more likely to be 'all trashed' because they aren't useful anymore, while minimizing situations where you want to trash all but a few and have to spend time managing that.

Not sure what the heuristic would be.
I think he wants privacy. Google not knowing when he pays and how much in what currency would be useful
Try not to get too bogged down by not having a plan or a clear idea where to go. This may seem like an unnatural state for our minds, but chaos is the default state of nature.

Focus your mentalities on yourself (eg do what you want, not what you think you should), and when the time comes for you to become aware of your calling, you will become aware of it, unintentionally. Some never do, and that's OK, as there is no requirement to.

Those that do, will find the path to success easier than those who premeditated it, in my opinion.

Do what you love, not what you think you should. This, with a positive attitude and a dribble of lady luck should get you through.

At least that my plan :)

EDIT: I should add, for me, it hasn't worked out yet, but remember. Positive attitude!
most of the people nowadays surf from mobile
Question to anyone reading this: What is your answer to "if you weren't working on it, this problem would not get solved"?
Yes, because it’s such a delight to don’t have a synced history across devices. When I was figuring out how to transfer WhatsApp hustory from my mother’s Android to her new iPhone I realized that was no longer possible unless you use some wacky paid tools, because one only syncs with Drive and the other is with iCloud.
Although I’d love to log in Telegram with Authy.
> In this case, Google or FB will not be able to tell you how they drew the connection, because even they won't know. All you can assume is the AI engine will take dozens of parameters today and hundreds tomorrow.

Sure there are ways to implement systems like this where you can't understand what they are doing. Just like you can launch websites and webservices without any metrics, monitors, or logging.

But why would you?

It requires more work, and it makes the underlying architecture more complicated but any sensible organization with a good engineering excellence fundamentals would ensure they can introspect and debug the outputs of any production algorithm.
So far I have been trying to eliminate repetitive tasks that can easily be automated to make jobs more interesting. People using our software are usually afraid to lose their jobs, but in practice their work just becomes more exception handling than doing the repetitive tasks, which makes for a more interesting filling of time during the workday. You would be amazed at how many jobs there are that not much more than 'input this PDF we receive by e-mail into this excel sheet' or something like that. That we improve operational performance at container terminals is a nice side effect of this.
It's a short life indeed, worrying on what decision to make and postponing will only make it worse.

Consider the statistics of decision, in general and simplified. In any abstract decision, there is a 50 percent probability that the correct or constructive choice will be made. If the correct path is taken, obviously no problems will exist. If the incorrect selection is made, it will become evident. When it does, there is a 50 percent probability that the choice can be reversed and the constructive path substituted in its place.

Therefore, there is only one chance in four, at the most, that an irrevocable direction may be taken in decision making. All vital decisions in the history of man have been made on much worse odds than three to one. Some were as high as one in twenty and came out positively.

To move away from the null point of indecision, take the position that any action or decision is better than none at all, based upon the odds of three to one.

More here https://pastebin.com/1tF3gqre
That's interesting, I'd never noticed that the majority of hockey shots are with the blade to the left. One-handed things like clubs, rackets, paddles, and swords, I like them in my right hand while most right-handed writers seem to prefer the right hand. Makes sense. So being a right-handed thrower with a dominant left hand would be the last thing where we haven't a good explanation.
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Strongly thirded. I'm not sure I agree with absolutely everything they say, but overall I think they have a far more pragmatic and honest set of answers than any competing advice I hear. For disclosure, I worked there for a year.

The EA worldview takes some getting used to though.
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I think you can't really consciously decide what you want to do with your life. Life happens to you:

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever." - Steve Jobs

You can however increase the odds of things coming on your path that you'll be passionate about:

- Pursue a wide range of interests, jobs in different industries

- Fearlessly trying lots of different stuff, for ex. go skydiving, go rock climbing, go travel if you can, go from the beaten path of life

- Socialize and stay open and curious to different people, so you hear different viewpoints and get different interests
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Canadian diplomats too. And US diplomates in China. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havana_syndrome
EFF designed a way of scoring the security/privacy practices of IM applications. They've called it Secure Messaging Scorecard.

While it was useful, they've decided it was a fruitless attempt[0] and their arguments are very convincing to me. On the other hand, it's kind of shitty not to have a reputable resource to point to and say "you shouldn't be using this, it's at the bottom of this list". I appreciated the list while it was a thing more for its bottom than its top.

[0] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/03/secure-messaging-more-...
GDPR in theory means that we should be able to tell exactly what data ISPs have about us.

But surely you can visit a McDonald's car park, run tor-browser and download whatever that Sony thing was without being traced.
s/might/do

I’ve had a partner with that problem and she greatly benefited from the pill. A few times we had problems procuring it (for one reason or the other, cannot remember), and she was in huge pain for weeks.
Hard drive: nothing established yet.
File system: since I use file names to browse for stuff I've saved, and since the most common thing I can remember is when I created them, I name beginning with datestamp, then title, then people affected.
Projects: this is a much more interesting question than can be addressed here.
Both energy and healthcare are important. Choose the one you want to work on because you'll make more of an impact in the long run.
Science isn't short of brains. It's short of money. There's an overabundance of clever and highly trained people chasing too little funding, which is why you find so many young scientists in their thirties grinding through second and third postdocs for crap money.

I suspect you could do more good for science by working a lifetime in some well-paid career and donating a hefty portion of your profit to some science-funding organization than by trying to do science yourself.

Science needs your money far more than it needs your brains.
My biggest issue with 80,000 hours is that it's a rational, but radically uninspiring advice in the end. It is a framework for those who buy into "don't follow your passion advice", and try to maximize their utility function instead.
[devils advocate] ISPs are businesses, they are also there to make money, those customers who want a static address may have to pay extra to get one. They know static IPs are more valuable so they won’t give them out by default, ipv4 was the same.
Why not both? I am a software engineering consultant working in many fields (mostly in finance, but occasionally in such exotic fields as nuclear security or epidemic modeling).

The entire notion of a “career” is outdated. It ended back in 1980s.
> Why write a book at all if it says "we don't know"?

Related to this, someone commented on the /r/AskHistorians discussions linked by the article [1]:

> What I like about history is that it teaches you humility. Even if you spend years researching a small topic, there will be so much that you don't and never will know. Political science is the opposite with lots of helicopter opinioning. New crisis in Mali? Here I come with my insta-factoids and world explanations

The fact is that around these parts of the world (Eastern Europe - The Balkans) people have started wars and a lot more people have died as a result of those wars, only because one hundred years ago some historian just couldn’t say “we just don’t know” after dedicating all of his career to a specific topic (like “who was the first one between populations A, B and C to have occupied this land?”). In the meantime historians have smarten up a little, it’s not all black and white, there are a lot of “maybes”, of “we need more data to answer that question” or even “this question will probably never be answered in a satisfactory matter”.

Meanwhile, I’m pretty sure people are dying at this very moment because, like you said, some political scientist or economist just couldn’t say “we don’t know” or even “it’s complicated”.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/16zhk7/as_a_...