skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very relatable.

I laughed with number 5 because I'm a leg shaker, but I can't break that habit.
Those things are minor and maybe not even something to complain about.

For the other cases, like 2. It's hard to deal with people like that, even after reading "Dealing with people you can't stand" which helped, but it is yet another effort you have to make yourself with unpredictable results.
Children born at the end of the year are more likely to receive ADHD medication or an ADHD diagnosis than children born early in the year. This is according to a new study from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. The researchers have examined ADHD diagnoses and ADHD medication use among 510,000 Norwegian children aged 6-14 years (born in the period 1998-2006).

https://chadd.org/adhd-in-the-news/most-adhd-medicine-used-b...

So many of the ADHD children are basically immature compared to the rest of the class, no wonder since the difference between the oldest and youngest are almost a year.
I am 28 and managed to give up a few months ago during one of the worst periods of my life after reading Alan Carr’s, The Only Way to Stop Smoking Permentantly. Read it.
...Heroku?
Pretty expensive, just checked Alibaba and there's some Proxmark clones for 62USD: https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/Update-PM3-Proxmark-3...

edit: Aliexpress is even cheaper ($42) and is not in bulk (also, the hardware Proxmark design is open source): https://www.aliexpress.com/item/Newest-version-proxmark3-dev...

https://github.com/Proxmark/proxmark3
"You don't pay me enough to care"

I used to work for a logistics firm and when one of the warehouse staff got called out for mishandling goods that was often the response.

The biggest issue there wasn't goods in transit, it was the actual packing process. Warehouse staff would pack mobile phones in to big plastic totes which would be taken to retail stores. They were on the clock so they would throw the phones in to the totes from wherever they were standing. Stores wouldn't accept phones in damaged boxes even if the contents were Okay.

The company fitted WiFi shock sensors to all the packing totes. All this did was increase the number of "fk you and fk your job" resignations.
> Contrast that will ADD/ADHD. I'm not convinced it has anything to do with maturity or a lack thereof. Sure, mindfulness meditation helps quite a bit. But I think you can be mature, self sufficient, polite, etc, and yet still have ADHD, or immature, etc. and have ADHD.

There is a very good video about 30 essential things parents should know about ADHD

https://youtu.be/YSfCdBBqNXY

One of them is that when unmedicated on average a person with ADHD has the maturity of someone 2/3 of its age.

Its is just an average, but is relevant to think how different a 14 years old and a 21 years old are (or 20 and 30).
Bothies? Sheer luxury. Now have a look at a howff:

http://scottishmountaineer.com/the-dossers-guide-slugain-how...

https://kasmansbonniescotland.blogspot.com/2015/11/the-secre...
Very good and easy to follow tutorial, was fun to do some Arduino hacking again :)
high score and very few comments

...can also indicate vote fraud / self-promotion.
That is surely an implementation specific complaint; calling FORTRAN code from other languages was always very easy on VMS (same with Pascal, BASIC, whatever else)
Not OP, but I found Singapore to be rather hell-ish. It feels like one giant American mall, with possibly too much money for its own good.

HK, as a comparison, has preserved its character and charm, with life on the streets and many unique neighborhoods.

Singapore happens when you think SimCity is realistic: the primacy of the automobile, the belief that one additional Starbucks is always better than one marginal tree, the instinct that any public meeting must be broken up, unless it’s a queueueueueue (a long queue) at an Apple Store, etc.

It’s completely identical to Dubai or any of the Gulf metropolis, only with rain. The #1 Thing to Do in Singapour is taking the bridge to Malaysia, and never coming back. They think they can demolish the brutalism, but it’s already too late: it must be in the water supply. Anything built after ca 1980 is still brutalism, only with glass. When you get to Singapore, you take a $50 rise to the city center, and wonder why you are still in the airport.

Singapore is what happens when you don’t allow creative people the occasional drag of a joint: they take revenge, and make you live in it.
Charles Goodyear
> Buy real estate with clean money. Raise rents frequently and rapidly; once the current tenants leave, have pretend tenants that pay with dirty money. Voila, clean rent money, no need to maintain the building.

This would explain so many empty buildings in Prague or Berlin, while skyrocketing rents in the available real estate.
While KEH was great for used camera gear (I haven't bought new or used gear in ages so IDK how they are now), B&H offers an unmatached breadth. If anything I'd say that Adorama is a much closer competitor to B&H, although I'm loathe to buy from Adorama due to the incessant spam I get from them every time I make a purchase.
I tried reading it, but stopped around the first pages when he boldly states something along the lines of "you don't smoke because it tastes good" (it was more than 10 years ago, my memory can be a little fuzzy). That was my main reason for smoking my whole life, I couldn't take the man seriously.

I stopped smoking a year ago without any effort: I just started to forget to do it, day after day, and one day realized that I no longer smoked on a regular basis. Guess it wasn't a real addiction after all.
A large fraction of western middle class youth goes through a phase of rebellious experimentation with recreational drug use almost every one of them eventually grows or of it, either when they settle into jobs or after a long phase of stable, functional use that slowly becomes more sporadical than regular.

Sure, if you count in as "died from addiction" everybody who was essentially taken by old age, just earlier than what might have happened with a healthier lifestyle, then the majority turns again. But those numbers never really make sense, except for constructing alarmism. Everybody who merely "lost years" (as opposed to something closer to the cliche of overdosing on a public toilet) would have also lost years to burgers, pollution, sedentiarism and stress. Which one was the killer?
Indeed, it's very hard to win with unknown products that can be readily cloned. And with so much commerce online, it's much harder to fight knockoffs. I mean, Amazon would probably just bin them all together.

But in fact, as passionate as this guy has been for decades, it's arguably not such a novel idea. William S. Burroughs featured spring shoes (and spring knives, flails, etc) in some of his novels, starting in the late 70s.

And if you've ever read Archeology or other elder-targeted media, you'll know that spring shoes are a trope.[0] Along with "exotic" knives, watches, cpoins, necklaces, and statues of the Archangel Michael.

0) https://www.hammacher.com/product/spring-loaded-walking-shoe...
> 1. The filename characters have to be valid D identifier characters. This annoys some people.

this could be solved by allowing strings in qualified imports

import "illegal identifier"."some more weird unicode" as someLib;
So, copy and pasted code spread out everywhere rather than centralized?
It's open source
The subscription-pocalypse
BTW, I consider the quoted moderator response to be very well-written itself.
The proliferation of future protocols that will never fully be adopted is simply creating an fractious and overly complicated mess.

examples:

IPv6 migration. This is the best case, given that it was a necessity to combat the exhausting pool of IPv4 addresses. Even such only ~25% client adoption after 10 years. And worse support from websites in the alexa top 1,000,000 (https://www.internetsociety.org/resources/2018/state-of-ipv6...)

HTTP/2. Roughtly 35% adoption (by site) in the Alexa top 1,000,000. https://http2.netray.io/stats.html

HTTP/3. Obviously less.

Now I'm not trying to make this point from the position of the grumpy old man who doesn't want to learn something new. I love new tech, and obviously the research and development of new protocols over the past 30'ish years has created an explosion of new industry and communication patterns that have indisputably changed the world and shaped modern life.

However... the marginal benefit of each protocol advancement is directly related to it's usage (so I assume). The benefit the world saw (from the user perspective) when switching from HTTP/2.0 from HTTP/1.1 was arguably zero (I'm not saying it was exactly "zero", but I could argue that it was imperceptible). With bridge technologies like WebSockets and BOSH/Comet/"Hanging POSTS" it could be argued that HTTP/2 was effectively a bandwidth optimization in most users lives (those users that use the sites that offer support).

However, the additional complexity for developers to leverage these optimizations is detracting from the development of otherwise useful service offerings in the form of opportunity cost. This is because nearly every optimization inherently incurs a complexity cost, e.g. supporting both HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 is obviously more complex than simply supporting the former. And you are supporting it even if your deployment process abstracts the details away from you, e.g. debugging customer issues.

Formulating HTTP/3 when support for HTTP/2 is below 30% is simply an example of standards bodies working on a tiny "easy" problem (make the web go faster.. which is important) rather than face the bigger problem, i.e. helping to scale the worlds service providers a seamless migration path to adopt said new technology.

/rant from a grumpy old man
The comparison on GPL vs BSD is henious. The only disadvantage is that you lose the opportunity to be selfish.
if its just for your personal finance i would rather use firefly because it does not use third party services and is open source.

https://firefly-iii.org

https://github.com/firefly-iii/firefly-iii
Since we are on the topic, I would like to know if we have any alternatives to Plaid APIs?
Dokku is great! If you're not concerned running your apps/database one the same node, you're good. There are tons of plugins for different databases (MariaDB, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ...), as well as other services like Let's Encrypt. DigitalOcean also offers to install it when creating a Droplet, so it's easy to get started. Manual installation is also straightforward. I've been using it for several years on former-HPC nodes in our University computing center to host small apps made by students.

To add to the example in the blog post, I've played around with containerizing Django with Docker and deploying it to Dokku (Heroku should also be possible I guess): https://github.com/mimischi/django-docker

It's also possible to spin-up your own Sentry instance (open source error tracking) with Dokku (https://github.com/mimischi/dokku-sentry), as well as Minio, a simple S3 clone: https://github.com/slypix/minio-dokku/issues
"and were being so impolite as to have a conversation that not everyone on the floor could understand"

what? If people are not in an institutional situation and they are having a chat on the floor how is this a problem?

the mail was really bizarre indeed.
What if you don't store the inference, but instead process it when needed internally in a function?

if (dob.month == december) $birthstone = quartz
select advert from adverts where stone = $birthstone

Or whatever
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We've been running a Dokku instance on a single node with PostgreSQL on the same host without any issues for years. It's been pretty solid for us.
Most Published Research Findings Are False (2005)
I think articles like this are dangerous to us addicts cause it solidifies the "this is just a phase" mentality that many of us have. They sampled 42,000 people, but how many others had to die, have their lives ruined, or ever worst, hurt someone they loved or end up in prison because of their addiction?

YES I'm sure some of us can quit on our own or can "grow out" of our addiction if we don't end up dead or in jail first. I'm sure there cancer patients out there who are cured and have never had a single treatment, but you can bet that most people with cancer get some sort of treatment and help.

Bottom line is, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO AT IT ALONE. There is help available, so why not use it? AA, NA, HA ,CA, Wellbriety, going to therapy, medical professional, it's all there to help so use it. You doesn't HAVE to take 15 years to "grow out" of alcoholism if you can get the support you need to help you quit sooner.

Tonight I'm speaking at a DETOX and I suggest that they go through the 60 day RIT program that it offers so they have a better chance of beating their addiction. Again, please don't wait to get help. You don't have to fight this battle alone.
Microsoft also pushed for their version of markup (wpf + xaml)
The narrative is what has issues. Its more like saying- I did X and then my career flew from there. People confuse this with saying doing X causes success.

In reality doing X was a small factor in making success happen. In terms of a risk management perspective, the old adage A bird in hand, is better than two in the bush is very sound advice to follow. Say his case would have gone the other way. Had he been demoted, it would have taken a few years to merely climb out of that mess.

If you believe this kind of risk taking. It will makes sense to also toss a coin a few times and make that decision. After all if you have to leave it chance, might as well let it be a little pure.
I'd happily answer the first question, but your second question is flat out dumb.
http://archive.fo/7Tl20
Everything I've ever learned about biology suggests the 2/3 rule is nonsense. Neither biological age nor maturity are linear, and they vary wildly from person to person.
Microsoft engineer calls out Firefox for not switching to Chromium
I mean, just turn off the internet on your TV. Most TVs have terrible built-in software anyway. My TV isn't connected to the internet, so it can't track what I'm watching.
I find it hard to believe that the smell and taste of smoking was actually pleasant to begin with, and more likely that you now have a positive association of the smell with the pleasant effects ("high") that you got from nicotine. Although I've stopped smoking marijuana now, I still really love the smell, very herby and fresh. My wife, on the other hand, absolutely hates it and can't stand it.
How to prevent and recover from burnout
Industry 4.0
obligatory heinlein quote:

Am not going to argue whether a machine can “really” be alive, “really” be self-aware. Is a virus self-aware? Nyet. How about oyster? I doubt it. A cat? Almost certainly. A human? Don’t know about you, tovarisch, but I am. Somewhere along evolutionary chain from macromolecule to human brain self-awareness crept in. Psychologists assert it happens automatically whenever a brain acquires certain very high number of associational paths. Can’t see it matters whether paths are protein or platinum.
Reminds me of short comings in Captcha
Thanks. I found LADR not that helpful - I use linear algebra constantly but only on a very elementary level. After reading your message I now feel it's ok not to find that book applicable to my pursuits and that I'm not missing some concept I failed to grasp from the book.
Jupyter Notebook: An Introduction
Mainline Linux inclusion – zfsonlinux/zfs
Newegg is now as bad as Amazon with that third-party reseller bullshit. The nail in the coffin for me was that when I ordered a hard drive from them recently I had two shipping options: free FedEx smartpost/surepost/whatever from New Jersey or pick it up in Southern California. Essentially it felt like I was being bombarded by scammy vendors and penalized for choosing free shipping. No thanks.
You should read more Western media if you are under the impression that those countries aren't criticized as well. Particularly the "US official policy".
I've been running it for a couple of years now, and it basically just works. Don't expect too much out of it, though: it's basically just a small but very convenient wrapper around Docker.

If you need replication, failover, automatic backups, scaling, or something of that order, Dokku is probably not what you're looking for. If you just have an app with a handful of users, it's absolutely amazing.

I looked into Flynn as well, but it seemed way too complicated for my use case: it's a bit overkill to spin up three machines when there's probably only one user at a time and it's idle all but 5 minutes a day.
I think these concepts are often conflated. One thing I miss most in OOP and appreciate most when doing FP is ADT's, when I can represent

Type payment = Invoice(Address) | Card(CardDetails)

And then match/switch on those things, while the compiler will tell me if I did something wrong such as not handle one case. Adding a third type of payment (Cash) is as simple as adding "| Cash" to the definition - and the compiler will tell me exactly where I haven't handled cash payments.

A simple smell test for a programming language is this: if describing the above takes more than the above code - your language has a wart. If you try to describe this properly in C# you'll be writing an abstract outer class and N concrete inner classes, plus boilerplate for comparisons and so on. You'll be looking at likely 50-100 lines of code where no single line of code actually shows whan what you are modeling. This is the terrible part of OO. I'm sure there are a few cases to show an FP weakness handled elegantly by OO - but I'm equally sure those cases are fewer.

Also, there is nothing particularly "FP" about ADT's. They are just common in FP languages. Any OO language with a sum type and exhaustive matching can do this. But typically, such as for Java, C++ and C# they don't (yet). There are languages that support this that aren't FP (but not necessarily OO either) such as Rust and Kotlin.
In this political climate, saying that people in the US should speak English to help communication is not very intelligent. I'm kinda okay with a not very intelligent professor being removed from duty :P
Great article. I remember staying in these as a young Scout - a very cool experience, I can highly recommend it.
Here is a picture of the building in the article https://i.imgur.com/1BW2j35.png

To me it looks like an old beach resort.
The next time you are hiring for your HR department, think deploying a bot
"i could have done that"

"but you didnt"
I have the opposite "problem?". I have PS4 and good gaming computer with lots of cool games but just cannot get into them.

It's really weird to explain but sometimes when I'm alone and have free day I want to play games but at the same the moment I start them I just can't do it for some reason.
But you have to look at the results - ugly monoliths that create oppressive spaces.

Having grown up around the results in the towns and cities of England, it's hard to see these ideals when a grey-brown lump of concrete is blocking out the already weak winter sunlight, unbroken straight lines make the wind howl through and chill you, and dark spaces accumulate litter and urine and seem to just encourage social problems.

So that's why I don't grok the mindset - can people not see what it actually becomes? I get that egalitarianism was there in the intent, but intent is not really relevant. Results are relevant.
Each day a cruise ship emits as much particulate matter as a million cars
I didn't follow it but is it safe enough? Does it work exactly like the original ZFS?
Yes thank you. Not to mention that the parent comment neglects the fact that splitting out files just means you have to now worry about conditional inclusion or tighter coupling with your build system.
I know the "no true Scotsman" fallacy is bandied around here a lot but I don't think I've ever seen a more literal example than this. ;)
Some of us die.
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This matches my personal experience with a variety of drugs, although I stopped short of hard opiates. A large proportion of people who took drugs with me when I was younger got out before things got nasty. Which isn't to say everyone - there was one guy in particular who got into cheap speed and the attendant unhealthy lifestyle so much that his skin turned yellow. But a three factors that I don't see mentioned in the article, which anecdotally seemed to predict quite a bit of the difference, were a supportive family environment, insight into the nature of your drug use, and money. Supportive families helped because when people felt they were doing too much they could drop out of that scene, head home and dry out for a few months. Insight was important because it gave perspective on where they stood in regards to how their drug use was impacting their lives, and before it got really heavy they could head home. Money - enough spare cash to get home and families with enough to support the returning kid - made this kind of flexibility possible. If you don't have many or any of those three things, it becomes much more difficult to make the decision to stop early enough - although even if you have all three it doesn't guarantee anything. I doubt I would have found drug use such a positive experience if I hadn't had that safety net.
I personally hate the things - was bitten under my knee once and it was itchy for three years - but they’re valuable enough to smuggle. Or “import” in this case. $50k worth of product in this case.
Freelance Life vs. Office-Based: My Take on This Shit
I’ve heard this explanation (i. e. selection bias) a few times, but I don’t think it holds true. I live in a 190x building in Berlin that was nothing special for its time. Yet people prefer this style to anything built later, including most modern buildings (which are, however, preferable to the abominations of the 60s, brutalism or not).

Here’s a streetview: https://goo.gl/maps/bmFBmYywHAF2 walk around a bit and you see many such buildings. Only where bombs destroyed the older houses in WW2 will you find anything build after 1920.

The reasons aren’t necessarily a loss in taste: the older buildings have far higher ceilings, which may be due to them often being filled with far more people than is usual today. Alternatively (or because of that) heating costs did not factor into such decisions.

As to skyscrapers and larger buildings such as museums or hospitals, it’s important to remember that glass & steel & concrete is rather new technology. It’s far cheaper than brick, and simply a compromise between costs and appearances that was not commonly available back then. It’s also somewhat inconsistent but undeniable that we appreciate the decorative elements on the exterior, or the stucco inside, yet it feels somewhat tacky to make them today: McMansions are what happens when you think you can plunder all that’s beautiful from previous eras.
ADTs are common in statically typed FP languages (and others you mentioned like Rust and Kotlin). I have been working with Elixir a lot, and being dynamically typed the concept isn't appropriate.

Pattern matching is the concept that they all have in common, that I miss when it isn't available. You don't have the 'exhaustiveness' check in Elixir because it's not possible in a dynamic language (dialyzer aside), but it's still a very powerful tool.
Early Bitcoin mining.
I found Narcotics Anonymous immensely useful.

It saved my life, my marriage, my sanity and my family.
Presumably what is meant is PTO accrued over a year and a half of working, which would most likely mean a couple of weeks of PTO.