skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We know, because its outlined in their privacy policy that they store dns logs for 24 hours, and store the location data of devices which allow the location history feature, and provide data to governments who send a proper search warrant with reasonable cause.
Ask HN: How Can I Be More Hardworking?
I work from home. I make enough money to work about 10 hours a week so I often work 10 hours a week. The rest of the time, I don't really do anything. "Nothing" can range from hours on Stack Overflow, spending 4 hours filling a form, vacuuming the office, or having an hour long morning tea.

I have a very productive workspace; own room, fast equipment, good workflow. I eat healthy, sleep early, wake early, get enough exercise.

I've tried all the major productivity tips - meditation, Pomodoro, gamification, watching motivational videos, RescueTime, nootropics, plain grit, keto. They help for about a week, but then I build immunity to them.

I can easily cold turkey something like Facebook but this just ends up replaced by something else like breadmaking or reading books.

I tried working full time. I can work 14 hours/day full time just fine. But when I'm done with it, I still go back to working minimum hours.

I like my job and I have above average motivation and discipline. I have no willpower issues otherwise.

What else is a good way to increase my work rate?
Try backing up an articulated-hitch wagon with a tractor, to mate with an auger! 6" tolerance and you can't see anything back there.

It's amazing what humans can learn to do
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About the Relationship Between Stablecoins and Security Tokens
> The concern is Google having it, in the first place

This. I think it's the only responsible thing for the police to do. Since they know the data probably exists they have to look, but does this data need to exist?

What we need is some limitations on what is collected and how long it is stored.
Understood.

I do suggest you seriously benchmark against clickhouse, because where single node performance is concerned, it is the tool to beat outside arcane proprietary stuff like kdb+ and brytlytdb. I have used single-node clickhouse and seen interactive query times where an >10 node spark cluster was recommended by supposed experts.

Clickhouse is not a mainstream tool (and I have discussed its limitations in other threads) but it is certainly rising in popularity, and in my view it comes pretty close to 1st place for general purpose perf short of Google scale datasets.
Actually, no, this isn’t what they mean. The concentration level for unit test runs is distracted much more if your thought process is preempted by another work task, no matter how trivial. There’s zero fall out from surfing the WWW for a few mins.

A case where it’s more productive to be skiving.
Sounds like a great project for you to learn a low level language, and some UX and GUI design at the same time.

Game development is done in several languages and frameworks, so it's not a big deal what language you go with as long as you learn to write good code and document it well.

Every tool, language, and framework has downsides and quirks, literally every single one.

Over your career you'll use dozens of languages and tools, if not more.

Stop fretting and start doing :)
There is something called gut-brain axis that does not seem to be mentioned here. It is a relatively new discovery. But this finding, gut-schzophrenia, is not something surprising at all. Gut-brain axis is such an important part of our biology that it's probably connected to everything in one sense or another. Schzophrenia, depression, our psychological health, you name it.
My buddy was VP Engineering at an innovative software company (neural solutions to industrial control problems). Quit and opened a falafel restaurant, never been happier.
Nevertheless, you are not forced into certain roles. Except for some because of physical aspects, like being drafted into the military because you don't have a womb.

People would have notions about other people without gender, too (like being caring or non-caring).

You can be caring and empatetic as a man.

More importantly, being a man doesn't make you non-caring.
> our freedom of speech is being limited

We have the same freedom of speech that we've always had.

> Are we that sensitive, scared, and close-minded?

The online community seems to be. Good thing it's just a very vocal minority.

> Is this sustainable?

Online: yes. IRL: it wouldn't be, but that's why it doesn't spill out into real life that often, and when it does, it's discouraged.
Timeline – WorldWideWeb Next Application
The judges are not made aware how many people will be affected by this.

In fact the FBI has often hid the scope of Stingray operations from judges for precisely this reason.
I live in Europe, so no, I do not have USD in my bank account.

What if my real employer doesn't live close to me because he's in a different country? Should he send cash in an envelope? Which cash? The one from my country? From his country?

What if you live in Venezuela, would you still trust the government money?

So no, this is not possible with USD bills.

> banks in the US are extremely reliable and trustworthy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_banking_crises#21st_ce...

"Massive bail-outs of financial institutions and other palliative monetary and fiscal policies were employed to prevent a possible collapse of the world financial system."
You're not the only one. A lot of applications developed today do the same thing and it also frustrates me. I also dislike when a piece of software will outright modify/change/move the current directory structure to suit its own logic.
No offense intended here. I have a commercial drivers license and have put a bit of time in driving a truck as a summer job after high school. It sucks. Society basically treats trucks as outcast from the nicer places of our communities. Truck stops are full of chemicals and unhealthy food and anything nicer is barely reachable when you are 75 feet long. 8 hours of coding with the chance of running at the end of the day is much better. I also did a bit of paid software dev after high school, looking at screens isn’t the best, but the freedom to integrate with society is well worth it. (I ended up studying mechanical engineering in college and will graduate in May)
Disclosure: I work at Google (and with the folks at OpenAI).

Are you familiar with OpenAI's Dactyl? [1]. I could see you saying it's perhaps not a leap forward versus classical techniques like their DOTA bot (OpenAI Five), but I assume part of that is just that they're getting started.

There's also the PlaNet work from Google and DeepMind [2] that's been announced more recently.

[1] https://blog.openai.com/learning-dexterity/

[2] https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/02/introducing-planet-deep-pl...
I'm in a similar situation, except making average salary only. Switched from academia to a software company recently. Right now I'm supposed to grok a 25+ years old project consisting of about half a million source lines of well-hung legacy "C with classes" code. Of course it is mission critical code, of course there is no documentation. This is on the one hand challenging and overwhelming. On the other hand, there isn't much range for creativity, fun or purpose. One has to rescue that code and keep it alive and running for the next 10+ years. I know that once (if!) I grokked the stuff, I'm the only one at my company who can deal with it, meaning I'm stuck with it for an indefinite time. I try to stay positive and to be patient, because I heard that such situations are the normal. But my motivation suffers a lot.

The good thing is, the people and labor conditions at the company are super nice. For me that is the main reason to stay, and probably I will stay at least until reaching "Senior Dev" status. But I can imagine to switch anytime, even back to research, and as soon there is some good opportunity (2 times the money would certainly do it). So I keep looking, applying, and try to persevere in the meantime.
Someone told me once that european strawberries grew wild in forests and those were the only strawberries europeans knew. Small and very sweet but so fragile that you can't really pack and sell them.

Eventually some europeans stumbled upon american strawberries: Bigger, less fragile, less sweet, less tasty. They hybridised the two kinds and got today's garden strawberries.

Not sure if it's even close to what really happened, but thought I'd share :) as I found it interesting when I was told about "fregoline di bosco"
Oh, sorry. You're right.
There's a decent community of BBSs connected over telnet as well. The ESP2866 makes it easy to "dial in" from an 8-bit machine.
I can't say I have a large collection of ebooks (just checked: 54) but I won't use a file manager to handle it. I use Calibre because it's much easier to convert between formats, edit metadata, edit the ebook, add a cover page. Basically that's it and Calibre has many more features that I don't use (the reader among the others). I'm sure there are separate programs that do all I use Calibre for, but it's much easier in this way.

BTW, I don't understand the use case of reading ebooks on a desktop or laptop instead of on a phone or tablet (or eink reader.) Is this really common? I can imagine reading some technical ebook at my computer while working at my desk, but not fiction or anything else.
To be honest, I doubt corporations will give Python 2 up easily. Currently Python 2 codebase in use in production is probably fairly huge and is just working. Look at how hard it is to convince enterprises to give up Internet Explorer even though Microsoft itself says they should really end using it. Someone like Red Hat will probably keep maintaining Python 2 for at least some years more.
After the windows 10 blunders lately I decided to give Linux on the desktop another shot. Decided to go with Ubuntu since it's the most popular distro so there's more likely to be support for it.

Developer tooling is really damn nice and using the command line is a joy. With proton on steam I can play a lot of the games I like.

But no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get sound to work properly. I'm using a FiiO E10K and a pair of Sennheiser HD650 and no matter how hard I tried I just couldn't get it to sound right. I tried editing whatever configuration file I could find and I still couldn't get it to sound not choppy. Eventually I gave up and went back on windows. Maybe when I'll change my amp I'll give it another try.

I'm glad it's working for you though.
I think it's a chicken-egg problem, so we are likely to not find agreement.

Sure, sometimes you have a hypothesis and you go searching for a way to measure something.

Other times, you find a new way of looking at things, or you come across some new fascinating data. This helps you generate hypotheses for which you need to design new studies, not least of which is to ensure that the new measuring tool is measuring what you think it is.

I definitely agree with the sentiment that the product of research such as this shouldn't be policy or a change in world view. It should be hypothesis generation and new testing.
Eh, homeless people are occasionally right and a little less hysterical. Twitter is the equivalent of a small dog yapping at the homeless man yelling at a bus stop.
I have ulcerative colitis. Same type of disease. Basically there's no cure just management but it probably won't kill us with modern therapies. I basically bleed out my colon and hope it stops with some steroids and biologics.

Smoking helped me more than tremendously. Nicotine replacement did nothing. Last year i quit smoking and fully vaped and had a deathly flare.

Smoking hurts chrons though. The pain is extreme and you don't get opiates because they constipate so just Tylenol. Nsaids are a big no no. I'm about to do another colonoscopy.

The worst part is urgency. During a flare I'll go to the bathroom to bleed every 30 minutes and when it's time to go i literally have 10 seconds to make it there otherwise it's an accident. Sleeping is hard.

So during a flare i have extreme pain, always in the bathroom, little sleep and blood loss.
A Tour of Recurrent Neural Network Algorithms for Deep Learning (2017)
Society was never rational. I like to think Universities are a place to explore ideas that improve society and connect like-minded human beings. They exist to enhance our understanding of ... everything, including society :)
Could you give me example of windows specific headaches ?

Afaik, Windows is perfectly fine for casual users.

Apart from updates needing restarts and windows being inconvenient for programming, I don't see any clear disadvantages of using windows.
Any patient who tells me they've got to have my private number will be told that they've got to get a different doctor. It is vitally important for me to be able to disconnect from patients and their potentially bottomless well of need in order to maintain sanity.
Similar in approach (in that it can use Markdown) but Deckset.app for OSX also incorporates a GUI, I don't think you'd need to know any CSS.
When I worked a Geckoboard they had a great system where you had unlimited paid time off, but you had to take at least 25 days off each year.

This, combined with colleagues visibly taking advantage of the time off available, helped ensure a healthy approach to unlimited time off.
Ha! You're talking to software professionals here.
Good news, there's nothing stopping you:
https://www.telnetbbsguide.com/
Tldr: neurons react to electro magnetic state of other neurons nearby but not necessarily connected
Sweden is joke when it comes to privacy. Yes, in Sweden GDPR applies, but in practice is not applied at all. Just type in Google the name of any resident in Sweden and you´ll get a bunch of companies providing information about full name, address, picture and directions to where they live, indications of where to turn, right, left, to go to the flat where the person lives, how much they make, whether they are married or not, own a car, a house an apartment, etc.
All because the public agencies sell personal information which has not been anonymised.
The Swedish Data Protection agency is another joke. Have they said anything about this? I wonder if they are going to do anything at all.
According to the GDPR the region government as well as any other company or organisation should have contracts in place with reliable providers and they are responsible when going into a contract with some one who is not reliable, so the 1177, the region government, Medicall, etc, they are equally responsible.
I buy from Google, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection.

I buy from Kobo, no DRM, plain epub. Big selection.

I buy from a bunch of authors' own websites or small publishing platforms (like bookviewcafe.com) because an even higher percentage of the price goes to the author, and nobody ever pays to put DRM on their own book.
Wouldnt chalta hai be more like "well it works"?
I imagine that part could be mitigated nowadays with ventilation and HEPA filters, no?

As an aside, I'm floored by the wholesomeness of this whole thread. It's inspiring.
Yes, I hate programs that replicate my filesystem, slowly and badly! Please, give me an ebook reader that opens a single file and that's it. It cannot be so hard!
The Case Against Cough Medicine
> "Work when you want" doesn't have to mean "I have no idea when you'll be available today".

People confuse the two all the time! Flexibility and reliability have to go hand in hand, if you cannot be reliable when left unsupervised, you need to expect I cannot leave you unsupervised. On the plus side, when people are given this explanation they often self manage into a good routine.
They are a B2B company. Their clients pick the strawberries like this, so when they get to the supermarket shelves in the other side of Europe they're red.

If you make a robot that can only pick ripe fruit... well, you're up for a nasty surprise.
These are not new problems.

All the hacks mentioned are against exchanges, not the blockchain itself. Ethereum's "smart contracts" have well-documented vulnerabilities but most people don't want to hear that.

For the record, the Bitcoin blockchain has never been hacked.
Apparently, cannabis helps peoples with IBD.

I'll get my coat!

Is what I would have said.
Your story reminds me of the 'pick your own' fashion of the 1980's in the UK. For small children it was great fun with more eaten or thrown at siblings and friends than put in the basket to be paid for.

This was a special time in that you couldn't just buy strawberries year round from the convenience store in single use plastic packaging, strawberries had bona-fide treat-luxury value. The excitement level of strawberries was definitely up there with chocolate Easter Eggs.

The trip to the field with the pick your own sign was a great day out but you had to have a functional family that did not work silly hours and had a lead-belching automobile. This was the high point of 1980's consumerism and it worked great for the farmer as the customers rather than hired-hand immigrants did the work of picking the strawberries. They just had to have some small child by the gate with some scales - a great cash only business.

I have noticed fewer pick-your-own signs in recent times and I wonder why. In the 1980's the shops were not open on a Sunday but the pick your own fields were. Also families are not quite the same and neither are communities, society has become more atomised. Screens have also taken over so kids today have better things to do on their hand-rectangles to be interested in spending a glorious summer day having fun with strawberries.

Anyway, returning to the original question - of course robots can do a better job of picking strawberries. We made it to the moon, right? It would be defeatist to think that we could not put our finest minds and billions of dollars to solving the problem of picking strawberries by robot. There are bigger fish to fry though.
> unfortunately, the use of SIMD can make the code less portable and less maintainable

Unfortunately general purpose processors aren’t getting any faster, but they are getting more specialized. At some point in the future package managers for OSS May have to do LLVM compilation on the machine just to specifically target the bits and baubles of the specific architecture it’s running on.
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Republicans Leading New Charge to End the Death Penalty
"...they are losing to Apple and Android..."

When did you write this portion of your post? 2013?

Otherwise I agree.
There is a topic on reddit now which can shed some light on this question.

How Many Productive Hours in a Work Day? Just 2 Hours, 23 Minutes...
https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/as3cyv/how_many_...
Not a physicist, I'll take a crack at it. Fusion needs two things:
1. plasma (easy part)
2. pressure (hard part) - this is normally referred to as confinement, which is misleading. What you're trying to do is squeeze the plasma into a really small volume, which is like squeezing water in your hands into a perfect compressed sphere. Try it.

Stars do it easily, because the confinement / pressure is provided by immense gravity which very conveniently works to compress a huge load of gas into a point space.
If you work more hours than you sleep, you are doing it wrong.
Legendary Fashion Designer Karl Lagerfeld Dies at Age 85
Calculating Sexy Primes, Prime Triplets and Sexy Prime Triplets in SQL Server
The reading experience starts when you open the book with the reader program. If you want a library, use a library program. Those should be completely orthogonal concerns.
Remember that protest @ the beginning of Trumps presidency? Or any protest that has elements that go bad? When they were seeking images of people they could recognize in order to detain/question/harass because they were in the vicinity of some mischief?

It is already known that agent provocateurs are used to incite peaceful mobs. It would be no great difficulty to use a agent provocateur to give a probable cause to pull the lever that dumps the complete list of people in that mob with little effort.

Technology affords law enforcement great powers. But simply handing these powers over without judicial oversight and control can turn very dangerous.
I bet those still in business have accounted for such years. You won't pay for your robots thinking you'll get to sell 100% of your crops every year.
Modern Monetary Theory Is on the March
C4ML (Compilers for Machine Learning) Workshop at CGO 2019 – Slides
What Happens When a School District Votes to Arm Teachers?
Interesting idea. I'm currently learning German, which is rather similar to my native Dutch. Yet I'm learning most of it through English, because that's simply the language people tend to use for instruction material.

Every now and then when I'm doing English to German translation, I find myself puzzled and then have to remind myself "think about the Dutch word" only to then immediately understand/recall the German cognate. I'm sure someone talking to me in Dutch could have the same effect, and more broadly speaking, another 'attractor basin' may be activated by random chance, like the tired cliche of someone in a movie figuring out the 'case' as a result of their spouse or child mentioning something unrelated yet apparently analogous.
Maybe they don't? I'm pretty sure most EU politicians prepare for a no deal brexit.
Simple explanation for why we think we're right even when we're wrong: we perceive what we believe. Not the other way around. Even when we're dead wrong.

In psych they call this confirmation bias.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Scott Adams wrote a fantastic book on the subject, in the context of Trump's election to the Presidency.
https://www.amazon.com/Win-Bigly-Persuasion-World-Matter/dp/...
Flutter vs Xamarin, an Opinionated Comparison
> You realize that Apple has so much money they can do both.

Nobody said they couldn't do it. The fact is that they aren't.
What about twitter threads from well-respected researchers in the field? What about a poorly-designed study (for the reasons pointed out in the thread)?
There should be a "Download" button just below the title, which allows downloading the PDF. If it doesn't work, you can find the file "presentation.pdf" in this BitBucket repository:

https://bitbucket.org/Maurizio_Tomasi/adass2018-julia/src/ma...
What percentage of CPU power do you think will be mining bitcoin 5 days before vs 5 days after all of the coins have been mined?

If you think the amount will be roughly equal, then you are predicting that transactions that end up in blocks will need to voluntarily contribute an amount equivalent to the block reward in order for the system to continue functioning. This seems unlikely to me.
From my experience, I’ve never had CRA suddenly break down all of a sudden and leave it in an unmaintainable state. The whole point of CRA is that doesn’t happen.
A Beginner's Guide to LSTMs and Recurrent Neural Networks
This is sarcasm, isn't it?
So the opposite of a blank check.
> Firstly, nobody in the international community takes Trump at his word (he's a notorious liar who also follows a wholly transparent negotiating playbook, one that he's spent decades advertising).

There is a theory that the Sun clan's "art of war" was intentionally disseminated among its enemies, to make them more willing to yield to negotiations, and make their maneuvers more systematised, and predictable at war.

Strategists of Suns, on the other side, were well known for trickery, and unconventional maneuvers.

If it is so, "the art of war" is one the most brilliant piece of disinformation ever written.
>I think what's meant here is that Python is the language of choice for using Tensorflow and PyTorch

So it's a good editor that's lacking too, besides the fact-checkers.