skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whaaa? Is that a new thing? I've never needed to supply my phone# to GitHub, and there's no # associated with my profile. Also, I agree with you in being a little hesitant to give it out and is precisely why I didn't go further than the sign-up page for coder.com.
from what i understand when people go to ketamine clinics it can cost $500+ per infusion. the drug itself isnt that expensive but you have to pay for a doc to supervise you for a few hours

some people are studying ketamine + some sort of therapy, but it isnt clear whether this actually works, who it may work for or what the ideal regimen is. the idea is that ketamine treatment provides a very rapid antidepressive effect, but that effect isnt durable after treatment stops. some forms of psychotherapy are more effective when people are only mildly depressed, so ketamine can "prime" people for psychotherapy
Yet another vote for Spectacle.

I also pair this with Cinch[1] as I regularly switch between inputs and setups (KB & Mouse at the desk, neither on the go) and like to have flexibility with both keyboard and mouse/trackpad control.

The key value-add of Cinch for me is replicating Windows-style 'drag-to-top' for fullscreen, and 'drag-to-side' for half-screen window adjustments.

In short, Spectacle for fine-tuned keyboard controlled window management, and Cinch for mouse/trackpad.

[1]http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/cinch/
It sounds like what you're describing is financial comfort/stability more than true "independence." That being said, those that seek traditional financial independence aren't exactly free from bad beats that might destroy their nest egg and force them to become financially dependent on their labor again.
At what point are the words "self-made" going to lose their meaning?
Most code use American English anyway (e.g. "background-color" in CSS), so it's usually a good idea to standardize around it.
Can't you afford a real gpu? Or already own one?
“git blame”, is what I usually reach for
By the expected behavior of the program? By checking the VCS commit log/blame? How would you determine what to do for a misbehaving function with no comment? This seems like a hypothetical question to which the only answer I can give is: it depends.
This is less of a problem if you comment for the "why" rather than the "what" or "how". The "why" generally doesn't change much over time, and if it does, it's usually blatantly apparent that the comment makes no sense in the new reality.
Sure, but in that case you won't be receiving potentially-life-changing quantities of stock options, because it's already too close to being a sure thing. You're only going to strike it rich if you are one of the first handful of employees to receive options at a very early startup which later has a very successful exit, and you simply can't know in advance whether the startup you are thinking about joining will or won't be one of those.
> Vasquez, the Uber back-up driver, could face charges of vehicular manslaughter, according to a police report in June.

> Based on a video taken inside the car, records collected from online entertainment streaming service Hulu and other evidence, police said last year that Vasquez was looking down and streaming an episode of the television show “The Voice” on a phone until about the time of the crash. The driver looked up a half-second before hitting Elaine Herzberg, 49, who died from her injuries.

Though there's something to be said about watching a video as opposed to paying attention to the driving, the job of a "back-up driver" seems to be highly aligned with something akin to a CCTV monitoring job. In that industry, they recognize a "vigilance decrement" [1] occurs within 15-30 minutes, at which point a person basically can't effectively continue monitoring. It's recognized as a best practice to limit the duration anyone is watching a screen and regularly rotate people's tasks [2].

As the self-driving technology gets better, of course people's trust will go up and they'll pay less attention. My guess would be the first hour or so you're in a self-driving car, you will be hyper-vigilant and probably even get a rush of adrenaline everytime it approaches an intersection or pedestrian or makes a turn into moving traffic. After a while -- say dozens or hundreds of hours of no incidents -- of course your vigilance is going to go way down, while your boredom goes way up. Apparently for some people, eventually to the point they feel comfortable focusing on something else.

All this to say, it's surprising this doesn't seem to be taken into account -- specifically, what practices did Uber put in place to avoid this known problem? Did they put a human in an impossible situation, where they expected someone to sit and do nothing for maybe hundreds of hours and then suddenly react within a few hundreds of a second when something went wrong?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigilance_(psychology)#Vigilan...

[2] https://www.securigroup.co.uk/news/understanding-the-challen...
That's a necessary, but not a sufficient requirement for quality. The driver needs to be both upstreamed and actively maintained obviously, to retain its quality. If you think just getting upstream will magically make it good without any further effort, then you think wrong.
As someone with ADHD and bi-polar like cycles, I can fully relate to this. I'm burnt out right now - exactly as he describes. Problem is, the rollacoaster doesnt let you get off.
I'm not exactly claiming 100%, but it's close. Until the industrial revolution GDP was very close to flat. It has to be this way to explain why most people lived on subsistence farming for thousands of years: if GDP growth was even 1% we'd have space colonies.

The industrial revolution brought GDP growth, but to a very small number of people. The rest (practically everybody) were plunged into abject misery. This is where anarchism, marxism, communism, socialism, fascism, and so on came from. I mean, one of Henry Ford's famous innovations was paying his workers enough to afford the things they were building. It was a capitalist nightmare.

WWI and the Great Depression unbelievably made things worse, and they led to serious political upheaval throughout the western world. It was only when WWII wiped out the holdings of many of the wealthy that quality of life started to improve at all, and in fact that lead to one of the longest periods of growth and equality in human history. But it really had nothing to do with economies of scale. It had to do with the fact that incomes finally rivaled capital gains from wealth.

The essential difference between that period of expansion and the initial industrial revolution weren't economies of scale. It was that we had political systems that distributed the profits to more than just the business owners. If you don't have those kinds of systems (free markets, progressive taxation, financial regulation, open credit), then it doesn't really matter how efficient your production is, because the benefits are only going to .001% of people. If those people aren't sharing (not exactly something rich people are known for), then quality of life for everyone else won't go up at all. And hey look, that's what happened during the industrial revolution.

Source: basically just read Piketty.
Pomodoro does the opposite effect for me. Very often a task needs 20 minutes or 35 minutes. It jerks me out of flow by sticking to a forced 25 minute schedule.

There are some boring, tedious work like writing documentation and tests, where the Pomodoro Technique works well. But not for truly deep work.
It looks super easy to host your own server. The instructions consist of:

> 1) Download a binary (Linux and OSX supported. Windows coming soon)

> 2) Start the binary with the project directory as the first argument

> code-server <inital directory to open>

From: https://github.com/codercom/code-server

Disclaimer: I haven't actually tried it.
I’ve read that IR boosting contact lenses are already a thing, but that’s more gossip than knowledge.
Hack you design sprints: wireframes to prototype in under 5 minutes
It’s a sad joke. If the gov’t wants to fix drug prices then figure out how to stop companies from gaming the system like this.
The only thing at the moment that comes close to filling this cross-language gap is the nix package manager I think.
Making mistakes: Django startproject and Rails new
Isn't that true for lots of software that's been driven down to zero cost, though? Like, say, TensorFlow? Given the business value of people who need to use TensorFlow, it "should" cost more than even IDA.

It feels like to stay in business with software like this, it has to be lucrative, but not too lucrative, or else FAANG companies (or occasionally governments, like in this case) will either gobble up or kill the market.
> Patents do not create value, they protect value.

That's just semantic hand waiving.

Patents create value. With no patent, as with generic drugs, price approaches marginal cost of production. With a patent, price is limited only by competition with other therapies. And sometimes by regulatory intervention.

> These days, investors and companies generally only fund development of drugs that provide a significant clinical benefit to really sick patients. This is because they deeply understand that value in pharma is determined by clinical benefit

That's because "really sick patients" are desperate.
It is completely ridiculous. S-ketamine has been available on the black market for years - it's not like anything about this is rocket science.
Nice rule of thumb. "worse is better" would instead imply that solutions to the identified problems aren't likely to be implemented in some pure solution, but something much messier and more practical.
I loved staying in love hotels when a hostel was not convenient. A king size bed and all you can watch Starcraft, usually with a PC Cafe next door (breakfast, lunch, dinner).
FYI, that's not because it went over your head, it's because this article is vague and incoherent. Almost all popular articles on physics are.

If this interests you, I strongly recommend learning the very basics of quantum mechanics. It will involve math, but the math doesn't need to be very complicated. And you will learn how the universe is fundamentally different than you thought, in a way that these popular articles hardly even hint at.

There are many introductions, but I've found the lesswrong one to explain things well, while using as little math as necessary (read: no calculus required):

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7FSwbFpDsca7uXpQ2/quantum-ex...

Feynman's book QED is also an excellent introduction, while requiring only a bit more math:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QED:_The_Strange_Theory_of_Lig...
Right. And unless the inactive R-isomer has some negative effect, it's a meaningless change.
European Parliament set to end EU-wide daylight savings
It does kind of makes sense. The planet is flush with shady Russian cash partly because it was laundered, stolen, transferred outside the country. As opposed to going back into it to improve the infrastructure, education system and other things.

If you don't see the poor pensioners and other people in the remote corners of the country and only see those who can afford to take weekend shopping trips to NY, you might get the impression that the economy is doing ok.

From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Russia

> One study estimates that "the wealth held offshore by rich Russians is about three times larger than official net foreign reserves, and is comparable in magnitude to total household financial assets held in Russia."[43]

There is your average run of the mill wealth inequality and then there is the Russian level of wealth inequality in its own special category.
Agreed, that's how I have gotten that coupon too.

It's time to share the Three Secrets of the regular 20% off one item and $5 off a $15 purchase coupons that BeBo (that's what we call them here) mails out:

0. Ignore what it says on the coupon!

1. The coupons do not expire. No one looks at the expiration date, they just scan the barcode and it always works.

2. You can use any number of coupons in a single purchase as long as they are on different items.

3. If you don't have a coupon with you, you have 30 days to come back with a coupon and your receipt and get the discount refunded.
Right, so why force everyone who wants to write a driver to upstream? Just make a stable driver ABI they can interface with and be done with it. If their driver is good, it'll work good, if it isn't, it won't. Same as today really, but without the need to constantly recompile and force people to open their code (like that even matters because, as you said: firmware blobs).
It works if combined with "active focus". There are references aplenty in the Endmyopia web forum, FB group and YT videos.
Binja is the only real competitor in any remote sense IMO, and while the LLIL/MLIL are nothing compared to Hex-Rays, they do still dramatically improve the speed of the job. Binja is also fairly extensible/pluggable, though it's pretty undocumented... I just don't do it enough in my spare time these days (not in the field anymore) to justify a Hex-Rays license for myself (even if it is permanent...)

That said I just renewed my license so I have to get some use out of it, but Ghidra does seem like it could be the real deal. Honestly, I never really expected any free/FOSS alternative to IDA to ever exist at this point, so the possibility is tantalizing.
Unless it's a "game as a service" and even after release you have to keep on polishing the turd.
Resource Scale for Fractional Scaling Support in Gnome Shell 3.32
If that's true, maybe their patent is invalid.

But maybe there's also a patent on the delivery mechansim. Or maybe it's a process patent.
As an alternative to a tiling window manager, I've found phoenix (https://github.com/kasper/phoenix) to be a great window manager. It allows you write custom keybinding in javascript to move windows around.
If the primary cost is electricity and not equipment this can double as a "battery" by only running when electricity is cheap, lowering the price further.
There are quite a few benchmarks and comparisons online, I work for GCP so I don't want to give a biased answer.

Also, K80s are pretty old these days, though this makes them much cheaper than P100s and V100s. Comparing all of them from a price/perf standpoint (especially with TPUs in the mix) can get tricky because it's different for every use case.
Of course, if you don't sign up, make sure you DO opt out of Informed Delivery. Otherwise someone else may sign up and get copies of all your mail sent to them without your knowledge.
> But again, my point is: IDA costs a lot less than its place in the market suggests it should.

Sounds like every developer working on an open source stack.
I'm fairly certain all the blue pills that are cheap have a GD32F103 and not a ST chip.
me too on both the diagnosis and "I forget I need to take care of myself."

It's really a struggle to maintain normalcy in the professional world and take care of myself.
Two College Students Disrupt $100B Industry
When siblings Josephine and Eugene Pulver noticed how expensive security professionals were to book and how little money these professionals made, they knew something had to be done to lower costs for consumers and increase pay for professionals.

As a result, these two college students decided to create Guard Grabber and Guard Grabber Jobs, two free mobile apps connecting licensed and background checked security professionals with individuals seeking protection. The patent pending technologies featured in their mobile apps allow listed security members the opportunity to decide their own hourly wage while keeping all the money they make. The consumers signed up on the Guard Grabber app are also provided with the lowest possible rates, as security professionals must maintain fair hourly rates to remain competitive.

Guard Grabber Technologies Inc. has received a $1 million grant from the James Dame Trust Fund to further foster the students' vision and to assist in further implementation of new features such as a land based build out. This build out will operate similar to the mobile applications where people will be able to book security services on their computers and laptops in real time.
You can just reverse-engineer it!
Toll bridges are quite rare. Most bridges are publicly funded via taxes and free to use, just like Ghidra.
Shouldn't these two cases/features have different names? They're completely different. Calling both "VPN" is wrong.
"Because it's garbage" isn't a reason.
Along these lines, the first customer should pay the millions of dollars it takes to market and produce the software and then they can do what they want with it.
/r/gatekeeping
"The text of the proposed legislation has not been released."
Pomodoro is a technique I used when I was in crunch on my indie game, and it really helped me ship the game after a year of fulltime work.

Just a simple timer with conscious ON/OFF for myself really helped staying focussed.
If you don't have both - quality will suffer because developers will make any mess they want without aligning with the kernel. One infamous example is Nvidia's "official" GPU driver. All its problems are caused by it not being upstreamed.

> Just make a stable driver ABI they can interface with and be done with it.

That will also hold the kernel back. So let the driver better be compatible for some version window, but not forever, even if it's provided with dkms. That's a good, not a bad thing. Freezing driver interfaces forever will turn the kernel itself into a mess. No one does it, including Windows.
Would it be feasible for a desalination plant to also process and sell sea salt as a byproduct? Alternatively, could the salt be used for molten salt energy storage?

Humans have come up with tons of interesting ways to generate and store energy. I think we'll see some truly innovation solutions combining these methods to solve our biggest problems.
Salt and minerals get into fittings, destroy valves, and coat everything when the water evaporates. Probably not a great solution.
That's a 30-year old building in Atlantic City, though. The building itself will have depreciated since then, and Atlantic City isn't a very desirable area any more. The current prices won't necessarily reflect the original construction costs.

There are some actual numbers in this Fannie Mae commentary:

http://www.fanniemae.com/resources/file/research/emma/pdf/MF...

The average costs to build 1-3 and 4-7 story apartment buildings was $192.0/ft^2 in 2017, compared to $233/ft^2 for 8-24 story buildings. I assume the square footage includes common spaces. I don't know if they attempted to control for sample biases (e.g. if taller buildings tend to be build in areas with higher labor costs).
you are a fucking dick. doxxing people is against HN rules. I have flagged your comment.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

in your profile you wrote:

> cryptocurrency. Former blackhat / ID thief.

oh. I see what we are dealing with here. a criminal.
> I don't submit change of address forms, as the USPS sells the data from those to spammers.

It may no longer be valid, but at one time there was a hack
for this - permanent COAs were sold, on 9-track tape, IIRC,
but temporary COAs were not sold, but just kept on file at the local post office, so one could just submit a temp. COA every
six months (the maximum duration of a temp. COA).
A whistleblower has pointed out that Janssen is “the same company where 31 children died while taking Risperdal, another 1,207 were permanently injured & 14-year-old boys grew breasts, is bringing a ketamine-like nasal spray for depression to market.“

https://twitter.com/melaynalokosky/status/110311449708494028...
Very illuminating.
I believe the included decompiler predates the one that goes with IDA Pro, so that could be a motivation. IDA Pro itself is really really old, having once been a 16-bit DOS shareware program, which explains why IDA Pro doesn't use the GUI shortcuts that were standardized much later.

IDA Pro still doesn't support collaboration, although there are very broken hacks that attempt to add it. Binary Ninja supports collaboration if you buy the enterprise edition.
Also know as debug mode.
I am, in fact, set it up this weekend.
>Regarding the installers, try this page that makes installing much easier

Ugh. So my choices are: use the installer, or build from source. How Linux of them.

You apparently don't get this, but I don't actually want an installer to make it "easy". I'd rather it be simple. Give me a damned zip file containing the program and its dependencies, and make the tools support relative paths (or environment variables). Is that too much to ask? Yes, apparently.

> Regarding variable declaration, part of the Free Pascal design is that you must declare things first before you can use them. Declaration must be separated from implementation code.

Yes, I know. That's precisely what I don't like about it. It disincentivizes using variables to hold intermediate values for clarity purposes.
The article is the charge. Like I said, if they don't comment then note that in the article, and ask others.

If noone comments then note that in the article.
Rule of thumb: if it's not an insurance company or medical facility, HIPAA doesn't apply.
> I'd love to see data on the average on-call incidents

Don't have any hard data to compare but having been involved in debugging running Erlang systems. It's very nice having the ability to restart separate supervisors while the rest of the processes handle requests. Being able to do hot code loading to say fix bugs or add extra logging. And my all time favorite -- live tracing after connecting to a VM's remote shell. You can just pick any function, args, and process and say "trace these for a few seconds if a specific condition happens". None of those individually are earth shattering but taken together they are just so pleasant to use. I wouldn't enjoy going back to anything didn't those capabilities.

And yes, that restarting of sub-systems (supervision trees) happens automatically as well. There were a number of cases were it turned a potential "wake up 4am and fix this now, cause everything crashed" into a "meh, it's fine until I get to it next week" kind of a problem.
Honestly I know this probably sounds insensitive which isn't my intent but I feel like a substantial amount of noise around these mental condition labels are people using them to subconsciously raise the victim flag instead of dealing with shit, either personally or by proxy (parents claiming kids are abnormal, when really they are just bad or absentee parents). There must be a technical term for this perspective in the science, could anyone with a psych background fill us in?
> Why not instead work toward universal health care in New York, and then invite people to move there?

Like I said, that requires a certain level of callousness.
If you specifically start GHIDRA in a debug mode, then yes there is a backdoor, but you asked for that.
Lake effect?
There are simple tricks to make those queries not kill performance. Here is a dumb proof-of-concept I made a few months ago: https://github.com/MatthewSteel/carpool

The general idea is combining queries from different HTTP requests into a single database query/transaction, amortising the (significant) per-query cost over those requests. For simple use-cases it doesn't add a whole lot of complexity, can reduce both load and latency significantly, and doesn't lose transactional guarantees.

Not 100k/sec writes on my laptop, mind you :-).
Yes, and it never works. People don't remember what you did before, so the social and functional capital you've so carefully accumulated becomes worthless as soon as you need to cash in from some bump in the road :(
Really, "phonon"?
Federal Disaster Money Favors the Rich
TrueUSD will add a new Real-Time stats for viewing the dollars backing TUSD
It's probably because of your ad blocker. Whitelist the domain (if only temporarily) to read the post.