skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll be honest, all it took me was to learn about it, and I refuse to think that I'm the only one in that position.
I used to sit in front of a screen until the very last moment I went to bed, now I read, I go to bed when I'm tired, I avoid alcohol before bed, &c. Look around, in all the companies I went to, 40+ years old people were overweight and had poor posture, that's just the (visible) tip of the iceberg.

A lot of people eat like shit, don't exercise (enough), come back from 8 hours of sitting at a desk to do what ? Sit on a sofa and empty a few beers. After a while, when their body can't "catch up" they feel the effects and wonder what happened.

> But we've digressed.

Yes, too bad HN doesn't really work for longer conversations.

> An improvement over the nightmare of far longer hours in the early industrial revolution. But we've digressed.

Sure, but what is it now ? For most people in 1st world countries it isn't about survival, especially for us, IT workers. Albeit poor people in countries completely rejecting socialism ideas still struggle just as much as 100 years ago.
The survival nightmare isn't there anymore. Now we're suffering the blowback of an economy that can't sustain itself without constant growth.

"The necessity of production is so easily proved that any hack philosopher of industrialism can fill ten books with it. Unfortunately for these neo-economist thinkers, these proofs belong to the nineteenth century, a time when the misery of the working classes made the right to work the counterpart of the right to be a slave, claimed at the dawn of time by prisoners about to be massacred. Above all it was a question of surviving, of not disappearing physically. The imperatives of production are the imperatives of survival; from now on, people want to live, not just to survive." - Raoul Vaneigem
… in debug mode. Normally it doesn't load the debugging tools.
This is what you get when you try to implement general mathematical concepts in a language that is horrible at expressing them. What a clusterfuck python is going to be in a few years.
If "we" wanted to get rid of decoration then why are so many posts so long and full of extra language that doesn't really help get to the point?

It could be that "we" isn't the correct term to use.
The point is not to reduce the comment to the assert, but to detect when the comment is outdated. If a comment is referring to another function in the code, then assert would check that the function exists. If you refactor the code and remove the function, you'll have to refactor this comment as well.

A docstring describing arguments to a function would check that the list of arguments to a function is exactly as described in the comment. If you add a new argument, you have to edit the docstring.

And so on.
> Take two weeks off, avoid alcohol and other stimulant, avoid artificial light after 8 and wake up without an alarm. You'll see how you feel after that regimen. Your body knows exactly how much sleep it needs.

Is that due to the sleep, or the lack of work and general de-stressing?
The effusive praise bordering on reverence of Peterson always strikes me a bit strange. He is an exemplary rock star lecturer-scientist and if you aren't on Team Peterson you've got issues or you misunderstand or if you disagree with him you probably are pretty much a science denialist. A bit excessive, no?
Why do remote meetings suck so much?
Many people pick up the rules of the rat race quite readily as they play along learning what counts for points, what is foul, how and when to team up and so on. Autistic people tend to struggle with all of that and end up way outside the lines alone having to reel the situation in somehow.
From the 4DX (4 Disciplines of Execution) Cal Newport mentioned in the book, people play a different game while keeping a scoreboard.

In my initial idea, the scoreboard (I have it on the left menu) is the core value of the app. The scoreboard should motivate you to focus on the goals.

I will work harder on improving the scoreboard so that it won't be just another todo + timer app.

And, based on my friend's feedback, I'm working on a feature that you can set your own interval instead of following Pomodoro technique.

Thank you so much for your feedback. It means a lot to me.
Yeah. And I mean, they called it Hatreon. "What if Patreon but for hate" is _the brand_. They weren't subtle.
Collectively, we do need to get over it. There are all kinds of tradeoffs in life and society, and we can't keep using ICEs. It's the same reason we no longer use uranium oxide in ceramic glazing[0], even though it makes for very lovely, bright colours.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiesta_(dinnerware)#Radioactiv...
The whole point of fractional reserve banking is a $100K house being held represents a modest return during a housing bubble, but they could turn that $100K property into $1M of mortgages with a likely higher total return. During a bubble people want to transact like crazy so tying up working capital in dirt would have some substantial opportunity costs. So in a financial model of banking that doesn't actually exist, it still would not be a good idea.

There are practical problems relating to specialization in the industry; there are no participants at this time who could play the proposed game. There are salespeople-transactors companies who need to turn their working capital over every month or so; the people who sell you a loan for a commission and then sell the loan to a national servicing company next month, they need to turn that working capital over every month or two or they go out of the business of selling loans because they run out of cash to turn over in new loans. Meanwhile the national servicers specialize in logistics, sort of, by trying to optimize cheap and poor customer service to turn (junk) bonds and such into the largest income stream they have; they optimize all internal processes on being identical and simple and fast and dumb. They're in the business of raising money, buying lots of small income streams, then milking it for all its worth via monthly payment transactions and trying to branch out into long term real estate investing is problematic for that business model level. Why don't restaurants own farmland, because skilled farmers and skilled restaurant operators usually aren't the same people so two people trying to do that would overall make far more money if one tried to be the farmer and one tried to be the restaurant chain owner.

There are real estate investment trusts but they tend not to be a tiny department of a sales org or a servicing org. REITs tend to be stereotypical investment organizations that happen to buy real estate and derivatives and holding companies rather than Apple or Google stock; not a desk at your local bank branch or a dude in the mail room at a national service center.

The closest analogy is probably pawn shops. Those guys will sometimes do weird things to optimize return on their collateral. Its probably a good thing they tend to be smaller and less centralized than the world wide megacorporate financial system.
It's when you cut your blog post into tweet-sized blocks and post each tweet in a separate jpeg with a cartoon dog.
Yes, Python supports in place operators to avoid this:

def __iadd__(self, other):
if isinstance(other, dict):
self.update(other)
return self

This would get called for `d += other`.
Works fine in Safari on my four year old iPad Mini.
Range and service are the two big reasons why I can only sit on the sidelines and watch what happens with EVs. There isn't a super charger within 3 hours of me and the nearest service center is over 500 miles away! (Ok, one might be a bit closer, but it is in another country and that has its own set of issues.)

Obviously, not everyone has that problem, but distance to a dealer is on my mind, even for my ICE vehicles and it is "only" an hour away. I wouldn't want to go any farther than that.
> "see? Germans decide for everyone!"
I don't know what you mean by "forward" but I have the impression you don't understand how file descriptors (i.e. "open files or streams") work.

The shell sets up a pipe and connects the left side to the pipe's writing end, and the right side to the reading end. Now, the right side is actually a subshell (indicated by the parentheses "(...)"). And that subshell can spawn as many other processes, sequentially or in parallel, as it wants. All of them will get the open file descriptor (the pipe's reading end) inherited by the operating system.

If you had multiple processes in parallel reading from the pipe, the outcome would be totally nondeterministic (dependent on the kernel's scheduling behaviour. In the example case, none of the potential readers actually read (not the subshell itself, not the sleep, and not the echo).

Here's a perhaps illuminating example:

(echo h; echo hello; echo HALLO; ) | ( read firstline; echo "Firstline is $firstline"; grep A; )

Does that help?
Reverse engineering the firmware for an embedded product where someone lost the source code.

Bonus points available for:

* "the source control is ZIP files on a network share"
* "yeah we use forced squash commits on everything to keep the Git history nice and linear"
* "it was designed by a contractor who is now uncontactable"
You can compare the experience of an autistic person to the experience of the normal person if you increase the mental load of the normal person to compensate for the extra stress the autistic person is dealing with due to neurological factors.
Pacing and Leading: How to Influence Others' Behavior
I think we're talking about two different things. The parent comment was referring to micro apartments, which are generally rented to tenants.

Considering that many college students have two to four dormatory roommates, I don't see what's wrong with renting a small living as a young adult - provided that the living space itself is up to code.
That is a really impressive guide.
That would be great but convincing School Boards of that would be a non-trivial task.
It's the same old story every time minimum wage is raised. Will they never learn?
Warren Buffett Joins the Crowd Struggling to Understand Oracle
The backlash against comment judging has begun!
In principal a good option, but can't use it due to policies.
From a German point of view I don't see this.

Executives of automobile manufacturers are stuck so deep in the backs of our politicians that you can see them once they open their mouth.

After everything that happened around VW and "Dieselgate" nothing happened or changed. It's just depressing to see how this crisis is dealt with by doing nothing because manufacturers threaten with loss of workforce in Wolfsburg etc.
I’m part of a group trying to do something similar (buying an apartment building and then all living together there). From our early research, I think the biggest thing I can say is that you need systems in place at the beginning for resolving conflicts and ending things. (Don’t wait until you have an issue). Also, if people decide to go their own way, that’s okay as long as you had a good experience while living together.
For many, yes, but you were still absolutely wrong about pronunciation. They're not even remotely the same, as the two languages are not in any way similar and don't share any kind of common root.
Microsoft Releases Open Source ML Library for Distributed Search Engine Creation
>Don't all modern houses have a decent mechanical ventilation system?

No, a large number of houses (at least here EU\Italy) is not "re-built" they are (badly) adapted with increased insulation (and usually with polystirene or styrofoam "coats" - please read as waterproof insulation) and - often this is the key issue - new windows that are air tight without retrofitting "proper" mechanical ventilation systems.

And it is not uncommon to find newly built (in the last - say - 8-10 years) houses that are in energy classes C, B or A that still miss such a system or having it not providing enough air changes.

Hence I earlier said:

>unless a proper (and properly calculated and maintained) mechanical ventilation system is installed

As a matter of fact mould is usually not an issue for older houses, exactly because the walls are not completely waterproof and because of the leaks from windows and doors (that even without having wind blowing through do allow some ventilation), there may still be localized mould where thermal bridges are, but is usually a minor issue that can be solved.

Recently (again last few years) some "new generation" of "local" (as opposed to centralized) ventilation systems (basically a fan with a heat exchangers that fits in a pipe 100-160 mm for which you bore a hole in the outer walls) are becoming a needed retro-retrofit to these houses but they tend to be a little noisy (so you need timer controlled ones for bedrooms).
This sounds fascinating. Do you have a write-up where you go into more details? A couple of examples with before and after perhaps? Seriously that would be amazing.
That is so true how it changes when you KNOW you will be up at a certain hour... I can't ignore my son as easily as I could ignore my dog if it is up too early!

I have the opposite problem though my son is already a night owl and keeps finding excuses to come back to our room and tell us random things!
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Thank you!
I would guess at least some of that would be catchup sleep + dehydration from not drinking in 12 hours.
IMHO, the most important condition is the need to do different stuff on different (small) subsets of classes, typically combined with a (non-trivial) tree traversal. Otherwise, its more straightforward to add regular virtual methods.
Why do people get depressed? Break up, lost loved ones, lose a job etc. etc. Why don't they prescribe these people to have some voluntary work at a local charity and take a break from life's stress and enjoy the joy of giving? etc. r understand or fix the reason they got depressed in the first place? Or simply some consoling or support. Why does everything need a chemical cure that messes up the brains natural balance and harmony?

When you give and bond with people, your body releases oxytocin.
When you do cold showers, your body releases seretonin.
When you laugh or meditate, your body releases endorphin.
I can go on and on. All of which helps bring back balance to the mood and get people rid of depression.

You create a chemical/toxic & selfish society,where everything MUST be fixed through chemical drugs backed by greed of pharma companies that does half-dashed studies, you are doing humanity endless harm.
I’ve never considered this, but I think it’s a fair assessment! It’s particularly striking when you see a compiler with multiple visitors that are refactored into one or two visitors to reduce the number of traversals. I think I understand the cause, it’s easier to start with a visitor pattern than refactoring into a visitor pattern.

Nevertheless, for many problems, like compiler construction, I’ve never seen a pattern that matched the utility of the visitor (even outside of imperative and object-oriented patterns)
I like that idea. My colleague who block off work request between 11am to 1pm every day to work on an important project.

That project was not making much progress due to many work requests from different departments.

This method helps him to deliver the project.
If he is such a stellar scientist, I'm sure there are quite a few other scientists building off his work -- I'm sure he's advancing some fields of study, if he is as sharp as you say.

Is there a list of people building on the work of Jordan Peterson? I'd like to see it.
Top advantages of Kola Nut and its side effects
I bet the same applies to "blockchain startups"

> create a company and use a popular buzzword

> ???

> get money
> I would not be surprised at all if the NSA left some surprises in that thing.

Huh. I would be extremely surprised if the NSA were to include some kind of malicious or pseudo-malicious easter egg in the open source RE toolkit they're releasing. How dumb would they have to be to pull a move like that, and for what? The self interest just doesn't line up.
It's hard to take a post like this seriously with so many spelling errors.
The 3575z has to have a reason listed, and the only valid reasons all reduce to "that person isn't here". The postal employee won't take the form if you are the addressee.

Again, stop blaming the victims, and start assigning responsibility accurately: to the postal service and to the senders.

The USPS makes too much money from unwanted mailings to make it easy for the recipients to block it.

Besides that, the new resident can always just toss the mail addressed to you in the trash, and the postal service would probably never notice. You only have to jump through the bureaucratic hoops if you are afraid someone might come after you for mishandling mail that isn't yours.
That has yet to be decided. That's the problem. In a reasonable society, of course, no one would question this. However, while driving down the road, a shoddy repair has an effect on another system which interferes with the lane change sensor and allows you to drift into a semi while checking you iPhone, that is Tesla's fault (or so you'll argue in court). Things get into grey areas quickly. Also, if you have a lawyer that's worth his/her salt, they'll try to suppress the fact that you had a repair on an unrelated system by an unlicensed shop.
Clearly, shifting the time by an hour keeps the birds asleep longer.
Podcast: The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell – insideHPC
I'm pretty sure that it's universal and not restricted to just European 'AI startups'.
I think this has been the case for many decades. Lamport, the Turing award winning mathematician and computer scientist who wrote seminal algorithms and papers on distributed consensus, invented TLA+ for this express purpose.

A programming language is insufficiently expressive enough to specify and guarantee the safety and liveness properties of a multi-agent system.

I think formal methods and program synthesis are going to become the tools of choice in the long term for designing reliable systems in this vein.

I've been following the development of the CALM theorem and various attempts at programming languages that implement it's ideas (BloomL, etc) since 2010 at least -- I'd wished I knew about TLA+ back then. This paper is great... I hope it catches on more.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't ECS a really fitting architecture for a simulation/tycoon game? There are lots of entities and components that have to be updated and whose updates could be parallelized. Granted, the game in the post is far from a full-scale tycoon, but wouldn't it make sense to just start with an ECS if you're going to use it in the end anyways?
Here's the thing, the doctor is supposedly the expert, so why am I the one recommending a course of treatment? If I were confident in my own diagnosis and treatment, why do I need the doctor? They're just useless red tape at that point. I explain the reasons I don't want to do the drugs again, and I just get arguments.

Because this is the US we're talking about, I've had to change doctors pretty frequently in my life and there are only a small handful I would say wouldn't react negatively. I'm pretty sure the proliferation of Epic has made it worse too.
Liskov substitution and meaningful method-mutability forbid any kind of sub-typing relationship.
Buyer Beware: Hollywood Special Effects Now Permeate Property Listings
Everyone who responded wins the Internet for pointing out my obvious anecdotal fallacy.
This sounds much more like illegal antitrust behavior as reported by independent media: https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/6/18252561/waymo-sell-lidar-...

"Select partners" can mean "those who won't compete with us".
I would love this. But it seems what pegs everyone to the same schedule is uniform school hours for K-12.
Honestly it's this kind of thing that really makes me marvel at the human brain. Most people see 'the grass is greener' as meaning that you will always want what you don't have.

I see it as meaning that you can honestly get used to anything, given enough time. It's inspiring really, when I'm at my worst and darkest times, to think - hey, if someone can deal with being tortured for years and get through it, I can make it through this.
Well he also designed Java, so...
One of them chose to die by their own will. The other was unlawfully assassinated in a perverted lust for revenge. I would be glad if the death of the latter was made society unhappier when comparing the two. Not so say that this is a morbid, perverse thing to do anyways.
PureOS Is Convergent
Good designers work from the content out, not the page in.
In Defense of Neoliberalism
SSRIs are extremely dangerous and life-altering. I'm definitely not the same and I was only exposed to it [Citalopram] for about a week or so. Look up post-SSRI Sexual Dysfunction (PSSD) - possible permanent reduction in libido and overall sexual response. Or anhedonia - complete removal of emotions.

Vitamin D, fish oil, exercise, and improving your diet should be considered before ingesting poison.
Spring HATEOAS 1.0 M1 Released
Reminded me of a project from a friend of mine that unfortunately is pretty much dead since two years:

https://github.com/quantifiedcode/quantifiedcode

This one also creates graphs from code and once you write a fix for one pattern you can apply it to all.

EDIT: it's for python
Also noticed this, FWIW I believe some of the recurring peaks are named once and label omitted in subsequent years. I.e, the higher peaks before every year are Christmas/New Years with Valentines Day shortly after.
What do you think ordinary Russians will/should think of the West if it does this? Do you think it will encourage them to vote for a pro western liberal democrat? or an authoritarian strongman?

What would you think if Russia did this to your country? Supported the oligarchs in your country... to make you see the error of your ways?
Understanding Explain [pdf]
Probably my favorite response to my mostly-intended obvious anecdotal fallacy.

He was a really good/unique/smart guy, though :/ He was also pretty staunchly atheist... Perhaps he needed to know, once and for all.
Tow it to where, precisely? Additionally, are you going to get a free loaner that pretty much every other major brand gives you for warranty work?

If you break down on the side of the highway, what then? Where does the car get towed?
> It very nice that dict and set are very distincts, and that they have a distint set of operators. This way it's super easy to scan the code and know what the data structure is, and what it's used for.

This is exactly why I want explicit typing in Python.