skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really identify with this question. My process might sound insane, but here it is.

It's really hard for me to self-motivate. I get into slumps where I don't make progress on anything, then I spend a lot of time feeling bad and thinking about what to do, and then loop back to not doing anything.

If you look at Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, 'esteem' needs is right below self-actualization and what you and I do is bounce between these two levels. When you work alone and can't self-motivate, how do you satisfy the need for a sense of accomplishment, for power and prestige, for respect so you can self actualize?

Sometimes all I need is a goal. The right goal can kickstart my desire to do things and progress makes me feel accomplished, but these goals are hard to find.

Sometimes all I need is a checklist. Checking things off as done is a great motivator for me but it requires having things I need or want to do.

When I don't have a goal or a checklist, I hop on hackerrank and do practice problems. The ranking system is an ok motivator, I get the sense of progress and accomplishment when I complete a problem and I don't feel like I'm wasting time like when I get that from a video game.

After a while, I realize hackerrank isn't really doing much and I want to get out of the loop. This is when I start planning every half hour of the day. I write it out for the next day at the end of the day, set alarms and do whatever the schedule says. It's no longer up to me, I have to follow the schedule. When I'm writing the schedule, I think about things I might be interested in, things that would help others, things that would bring me health, wealth and happiness. I consider how much and what I could get done in half an hour, write it down and do it. Eventually I find something I like and it starts filling my schedule. After some time, I stop scheduling because I'm doing that all day. Then I usually get bored and start the whole loop over again.

Every 100 days I have a reset day (it's in my calendar) to stop and identify what brought joy and accomplishment and try to stay out of the feel bad loop.
There are screencast and video editing tools available for linux and they cost $0.
Amazon wouldn’t exist without Bezos. It’s kind of a stretch to say he’s leeching off his employees when his vision and drive literally gave rise to Amazon.

Also I’m pretty sure Bezos doesn’t collect much salary. His wealth is tied to how much Amazon is worth. He’s essentially taking nothing from his workers because his net worth is based pretty much entirely on how much someone else is willing to pay for his shares.
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Yeah that would certainly be interesting. At least it would work to expand a dataset. I guess the tricky part is to realize at all that some problem cases can appear though, and code them into the simulation.. for example, the bumper-bent license plates someone wrote about further down :)
You'll find that two of nine justices writing a concurring opinion doesn't constitute anywhere near a majority.
On average, the S&P 500 has historically returned roughly 9.8% annually. In 2017, the S&P 500's total return was over 19.7%. But for 2018, it was minus 6.2%.

You could easily achieve similar returns in an S&P 500 index fund.
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> Yes they did. That's what elections are. You voted for representatives who you believed would exercise similar value judgments as your own to all the thousands of complicated situations and decisions that the government faces.

You're assuming New York has democratic elections, which is a reasonable assumption if you don't live in New York, but is unfortunately very incorrect.

New York government is not a democracy; the ruling parties have constructed a series of arcane, layered laws which allow the parties to essentially appoint people to nominally-elected positions, which bypasses the entire spirit of democracy[0]. The parties are controlled by local private clubs, which have hefty membership fees (my local club starts at $1000/year, which I could technically afford if I wanted to, but many of my neighbors could not).

Unlike most states, we don't have the right to have direct ballot initiatives. We don't even have the right to vote against unopposed candidates if we don't like them - if a candidate runs unopposed in a primary[1], the primary is cancelled altogether. So, for example, Kirsten Gillibrand literally did not have a primary election in 2018 - she won the nomination with a total of zero votes.

[0] as just one example, just the tip of the iceberg: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/18/nyregion/new-york-politic...

[1] and remember, the party gets to approve whether a candidate receives a primary challenge in most state races
Simon Sinek talks about this too, and uses Apple as the example.

Start with why -- how great leaders inspire action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4ZoJKF_VuA
You just made my day. I've always been so frustrated with google that they would consistently place w3schools higher than mdn. I found it shocking and very much un-google. Typically their search result priority is exactly what I'd want.
I use cwm: https://rgz.ee/openbsd/cwm.html
You can install popular desktop environment from packages:
http://cdn.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/6.4/packages/amd64/

For example:

# pkg_add gnome

Ethernet drivers:
https://man.openbsd.org/?query=ethernet&apropos=1&sec=4

Wireless drivers:
https://man.openbsd.org/?query=wireless&apropos=1

Video drivers:
https://man.openbsd.org/?query=video+driver&apropos=1&sec=4&...
> And you must remain vigilant that they do not undermine your freedom.

By, for example, refusing to give economic support or a privately-owned platform of speech or press inches to fascists who are pushing an ideology that leads directly to genocide.

Inherent in the freedom of the press is the freedom to control what the press you own publishes, and inherent in the right to peaceably assemble is the right to refrain from assembling with those you do not choose to support (be that assembly one of common protest or simple commerce).
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Even less known is that the author of the paradox advocated tolerance and only to use violence when it is clear that discussion is impossible.

> I do not imply, for instance, that we should always suppress the utterance of intolerant philosophies; as long as we can counter them by rational argument and keep them in check by public opinion, suppression would certainly be unwise. But we should claim the right to suppress them if necessary even by force; for it may easily turn out that they are not prepared to meet us on the level of rational argument, but begin by denouncing all argument; they may forbid their followers to listen to rational argument, because it is deceptive, and teach them to answer arguments by the use of their fists or pistols. We should therefore claim, in the name of tolerance, the right not to tolerate the intolerant.
The media is funny, first they hype something, then they trash it - were in reality Bitcoin is just what it is. Some appear at times frustrated or desperate that they can't put a label on it. It's been there for quite a long time now too.
Is there any rights/liberties special interest organization that hasn't been turned into political crap? The ACLU and NRA are basically the DNC and RNC at this point.
Canada becomes first nation to formally commit to Nasa's lunar Gateway
Ah, but we can do something about it. We have something in America called "due process" so gather enough people around and force the FBI to fix their woefully inadequate form. The ACLU is doing just that in the mean time.

"But why was it instituted in the first place?" Good question. People do things they aren't suppose to do in the first place all the time! But we can do something about it.
That's true in a lot of cases but comparing a gadget to a service is far from being intellectually honest.

Best case scenario it becomes a hit as the philips hue, but at the end of the day it's a gadget, it's shiny, it's new, it's trendy, but it's still a gadget. Sure it fulfils some kind of weird pseudo-need but it's not going to revolutionise anything.
That's not fair. The article you mention is https://www.w3schools.com/xml/ajax_applications.asp, and it comes after a sound and basic introduction of the XMLHttpRequest element.

> find me an XHR example that doesn't use ready State

I absolutely see no problem with using readystate.

> and work objectively less well than their framework (or modern JS) counterparts

Come on, that's silly. What's called modern JS and what those super heavy framework use are in no way objectively better. To confront beginners with all their overhead (build tools for JS! Just crazy) is in no way helpful.
Incorrect.

> The result: 56 percent of voters statewide approved, while 36 percent didn’t.

> In New York City, 58 percent of registered voters backed the plan, while 35 percent were opposed.

https://nypost.com/2019/02/12/majority-of-new-yorkers-want-a...
You're right, the no-fly list is extra-judicial and a violation of civil liberties, unconstitutional even. But let's not engage in a false equivalence here - the no-fly list has maybe 100,000 people on it[1], of which supposedly fewer than 1000 are American citizens, added over the course of nearly two decades. The Chinese list has 23 million of their own citizens, added over the course of a single year.

[1] recent sources are hard to find, and the list apparently grows rather fast - I'm going off https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/20/fbi-no-fly-...
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The scale, ease, speed and reach of the tools for media manipulation in 2019 is very scary compared to those in the past. And it is only going to get worse. Russia is said to have spent very little money in meddling with other countries' elections using the media, for a fantastic ROI. This wasn't possible in the past.
Using Backblaze which is only in US and Hetzner which is only in EU might not be the best idea, you might have issues with networking between locations.
It's just fun to trigger people by downvotes :)
> The amount of ‘America! Fuck yea!’ in that thread is cringe inducing. Is there nobody trying to talk about the issue at hand without invoking any of the crazy emotional appeals to American exceptionalism

I was literally arguing, that the nice theoretical point of guaranteed free speech is null and void by the current implementation of communication/publishing/payment processing. Where do you find 'America! Fuck yea!' in that? If anything, it is a critique of the current status, which hides ugly reality behind nice theory.

> or Muslim hatred?

Oh boy, another huge can of worms. Muslims still have no idea, what is a hatred in the West. They interchange criticism with hatred, and then they react somewhere between rioting to violence, fueling the vicious circle. They have no idea how Christians were/are pushed around in the West (you can start with the Covington issue recently: they were automatically guilty for being white and Catholics); or don't even consider how they behaved/are behaving towards Christians in the Middle East. Food for thought: ever seen Christian no-go zone in Saudi Arabia? Thought so.
> Revolut doesn't let you send out or in crypto making it more or less useless

Do you have a link for that?
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As a hardware engineer and sometimes product designer, I am interested in discussing the list of features with other people of a similar background. This isn't a review of the user experience (since I've never touched one of these lights), it's a response to a hardware teardown.
Deep space dial-up: How Nasa speeds up its interplanetary communications
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Since that day over four years ago and the time of writing, we have not had one customer ask to pay in Bitcoin, Dash or any other cryptocurrency.

I viewed it as a useful summary of the article, quoting from the article, not editorializing.
I've found that prelude, at least, isn't too bad, as long as it's not running on my phone.

I really like spacemacs (I'd love to get back to using vi keybindings in emacs), but man is it slow. Awfully cool, though.