skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This rings true for me, and is how I quit cold turkey and never looked back.

You need to realize that you want or need is not wrong - embrace it. Embrace it and realize there is something you want more; a larger need that subsumes the lesser habit.

No one hates eating cookies and watching tv all day, but there are conflicting desires that lead you to change your behavior - sense of accomplishment, physical health, making money to live, etc.
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Exactly. Threads like this are an invitation for Copenhagen Ethics (i.e. "No matter how little anyone else has done, if you even do a tiny amount for cause X, you will be criticized for all you failed to do.")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10367855
Forgive my ignorance ...

What is the range of HSMM/Hamnet ?

Can you have a "Hamnet BBS" and if so, do you need a separate radio for each "line" ? Or can the BBS have a single radio that shares incoming connections on different sub-frequencies of (whatever band you're using) ?
I get the impression systemtest was making a general comment rather than responding to your comment specifically. The (highly amusing) lyrical waxing struck me as tongue-in-cheek – and not directly related to your particular workplace.

In any case, I wish you the best of luck. Your situation sounds horrible.
I think this self-programming things work a lot better than people expect.

The best way to avoid the temptation to each junk food is just not to buy it, or the best way to avoid defaulting to something is making it impractical.
This website does not ask for your location, OP pretty clearly has malware on their phone. This site uses a measly 150 lines of JS and none of it involves location. Feel free to see for yourself:

https://news.ycombinator.com/hn.js
The problem I see with this is that it adds the ability to alter history. You can effectively remove messages sent by the other person, altering context and changing the meaning of the conversation. You can also remove evidence of transactions, work or anything else.

I get that this is supposed to be a benefit, but it's also a very significant issue, especially where business is concerned.
tldr; does this add a breakthrough or is it just a variation of a consensus + payment channels solution?
Only if you actually follow through and hire them. You can put in a wheelchair ramp and feel good about yourself, but probably should actually hire some in a wheelchair.
With all the hardware news of last week, my guess is the focus will be on services and the rumors are all about a TV service. I find this news depressing--what ever happened to the company that desired to make a bicycle for the mind? A TV service is what they come up with next?

Here's hoping it's better than I think it will be.
I think the basic disconnect being expressed in the widly varying opinions seen in this thread is:

You can design an open office to work well.

You can design an open office to be a sweatshop fitting in the maximum number of employees at the lowest cost.

You cannot do both.

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I have worked in an open office I liked. It was the former. Plenty of huddle rooms and other private spaces, different groups physically had a good amount of open floor space between them and another group, and great design to minimize visual distractions for people.

I do not believe it saved any significant amount of floorspace over a more traditional cube setup. But it worked well and I didn't have major complaints.

However, I have seen far more "open offices" that are just purely out to fit the most employees in the smallest space, and everyone is always miserable in those.
Right, the cost is up-front fixed costs. So if they sell 10 million iPad Minis, then the estimated cost was $500-700 million? Doesn't that seem a bit implausible?
Understand, I said Android One phones from them. I have a moto x4, it gets monthly security updates just like the Nokia. No skin aside from a few useful gestures.
Did the company give you a bucket of days and say, "use it however you want!"? Then they're taking sick days out of vacation days. I'm guessing that you're either not in the U. S., or you've just never looked at it that way before. The last two places I've worked full-time work that way.
My favorite thing about Einstein crosses is that the images do not appear at the same time. So a supernovae will appear at a different time in each image. See https://www.space.com/31418-hubbles-einstein-cross-supernova... for a case where we actually saw that.
the rebase strategy involves force-pushing to your topic branch and then ff-merging to master (or develop, or whatever). some people love it, some hate it, but force pushing is a necessary part of the strategy if the master branch has had new commits since you created your branch.

yes, force pushing can be dangerous, which is why (when you use the rebase strategy) you usually protect certain branches. force-pushing should only happen on your short-lived topic branches.
It's probably the infamous HN hug of death
Not completely relocatable, but in practice this means that you have some memory reserved at a specific point in memory for the relocator and the template.

The relocator can be made position independent by using indirect stores. You never need direct access to the program counter for this, but it gets a bit more complex. You don't need to read the program counter directly for this, but I think the simplest way of doing that is the jsr instruction, which puts the PC (plus some fixed offset) on the stack.

The idea is that instead of using a "template" and referring directly to that, you load the relocatable code where you want it, load that location in some zero page vector and in the relocator you do indirect+relative stores based off of that vector:

lda page ; the page that the routine was loaded to
sta $ff
lda #0
sta $fe
jsr relocate ; wherever you've loaded the relocator
...

; vector $fe-$ff = routine location, $fe must be 0
relocate
lda $ff

; load the lsbyte of the offset of the first patch in the routine into y
; in reality, would be calculated at the point of assembling the routine template
ldy #<2+patch1-routine_start
sta ($fe),y

ldy #<2+patch2-routine_start
sta ($fe),y

rts

As you can see, the relocate routine is now completely position independent. The relocated routine has the same constraints (has to be loaded to the beginning of a page). We use the y register to load the offset within a page and $ff as the page counter. It's also not much more complex to write the relocator for routines spanning multiple pages, but it comes with a bunch more considerations that I think would take much more code to demonstrate (e.g. cross page jumps and calls).
this is the real deal:

to be productive: sucks
to let workers be a little more human: it's good
Thank you!

I used Wikipedia quite a lot when researching on the harmonic table format, chord naming and symbols, scales and modes, Roman numeral analysis, and similar stuff. I found myself frequently visiting threads in https://www.reddit.com/r/musictheory/ and https://music.stackexchange.com/.

And of course there are great Youtube channels about music theory (I linked some of them in the Credits page of the website).

Most of the time I just search in Google and jump from blogs to forums to dedicated websites until I find what I'm loooking for.
That's why I said to buy an Android One phone from them. The X4 doesn't have this problem as it gets software updaates monthly from Google.
Leadership Lessons from 'Game of Thrones'
Sweet, sweet irony
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Right. "Self-control" is a process, a system of habits and procedures for handling various situations.

But our language of self-control is about morality, and "lack of self-control" is seen as a character flaw, not a problem that can be solved with repeatable processes.

In other words, "lack of self control" is a failing of society, not a failing of individuals.
What's the alternative to the M1911, the M9? Ugh.

I'm sure the sidearm isn't that important in today's military, but a Glock (or similar) .40 S&W would probably be a much better tool Even if they had to stick with 9mm.

I've heard the 1911 is kept around by Special Forces types who can use whatever they want for the most part. Same reason it's used by SWAT teams and such.
They are bored because they routinely ignore cases of domestic abuse, sexual assault and harassment, murder, they have corrupt agreements with the yakuza, and on and on it goes.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-nov-09-fg-autop...

https://www.tokyoreview.net/2017/08/myth-japans-bored-police...
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> 1. Electromagnetic records that do not operate in accordance with other persons' intention, or gives unauthorized commands which act against their intention, when another person uses a computer.

They should arrest every second mobile app developer. They collect data from the phone without permission. And then please arrest Google Analytics developers as well.
TLDR: Four methods.

1) PET/CT stimulation

2) Exposure to bright light

3) Exercise

4) Diet
Well, I stand corrected. I had admittedly just googled it myself. I had known the ban on encryption was pretty accepted in the amateur radio community. Thanks for the correction.
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Are there any park-n-rides in the areas that are a long commute from city centers? Basically, where you can have cheap housing (because it is far away), then drive to a large parking structure to pick up a bus, light rail, or commuter train (or all three)? Also, is it common enough that if you are using public transportation, where you can VPN in via cellular, and start your day early (and have that "count" as part of you work day), so that 2 hour total commute means only 6 hours at the office? Or do most employers frown on that?

This is a really nice option where I'm at (Chicago area), where you can drive to one of the closer suburbs to the city, park, and hop on the L to get to the city center.
Barnum himself spent much of his life in and out of debt. He was a great showman and many of the performances he arranged were extreme financial successes, but he was a profligate spender and he was always one disaster away from going deep into dept.
I'm curious if you consider Nim or Golang to be a small language that is a "better C".
If not, why?
I think Europeans are quieter
More broadly, the purpose of the ham radio allocation is learning / experimentation / personal use between hams / etc., not production services (and not even personal use between a ham and a non-ham, e.g., while listening in on ham frequencies doesn't require a license, a ham intentionally broadcasting to those listeners is not authorized under their license). These rules predate the world in which encryption for everything is commonplace, and they envision a world in which encryption means that other people can't learn from your communications practice. These rules are also written to discourage actual commercial users from using the ham frequencies, to keep the frequencies clear for hams.

Now that we live in a world where my writing this message to you (and, in fact, to the world, publicly under my name) goes over an encrypted channel and it would be unthinkable if it didn't, and where my texts to my friends about where to get dinner happen over an end-to-end secure messenger, and where most competent cryptography is developed in public, it's not clear the rules make sense any more. But that's where they come from.

BTW, one ham has argued that encryption for the purpose of using a standard protocol like WPA/802.1x (or, probably, SSH or SSL) that is otherwise compliant with the intent of the amateur service is legal, because the purpose of the encryption is not obscuring their meaning, the obscured meaning just a side effect of other goals: http://www.n5dux.com/ham/files/pdf/Data%20Encryption%20is%20...
The CRAY-1 Computer System (1977) [pdf]
Yea, we have an open office which is really just cubicals with low walls such that you can see someone's head across the partition. It would be inconceivable for our company to build out offices but I've argued that high-walled cubes would be better for concentration.
Wow you weren't kidding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-35
This is an overprescribed and oversold lesson that might be more harmful than good. On the one hand, he is trying to teach people the importance of empathy and perspective taking for any creative individual. But on the other, if you believe that no one cares about X, then you are less likely to begin creating X. You are also less likely to get emotionally involved in the first place which might do more harm.

The opposite message might be a better one. There are always advocates for your products, writing, etc. who want you to succeed. Your goal is to find these advocates and work with them to create something that they love so much that they tell others and help you to increase the number of advocates. If you can build a little cult around your work and then expand it, then maybe there will be people willing to read your shit after all.
Why is an HTML document the bare minimum?

HTML isn't a technical requirement, but they do say their goal is to sell the service.
Cannot believe noone was punished for this. Even if noone got payed, putting the people you're supposed to helping in harms way should be a punishable offense by itself.
Direct quotes from the article, emphasis mine:

> “I’m grateful to actually have gotten a job,” Howard said during a work break. “It’s just part time, but even still, it’s a good job. … I’m making above minimum wage.”

> Likewise, Northwest Center employees and those it places with Amazon are paid at least minimum wage. (Seattle closed a loophole in its minimum wage law that allowed employers to pay people with a disability a sub-minimum wage and recovered back wages from Northwest Center in 2018. Washington and many other states still allow minimum wage waivers.)
Recently I've tested just compressing images as 1 frame in an av1 video with ffmpeg and it seems to work surprisingly well. Browsers seem to automatically display the first frame of the video without needing to play.
I'd go one step further. There are two models vying against each other here; Free Will and Materialist Determinism. We often try to believe in both at the same time, and it causes all sorts of dissonance in comprehension and expression.
Even if true[1], so what? The exemptions exist specifically to encourage employers to look for ways to make use of the labor of disabled persons, in the hopes that it can lead to discovery of sustainable work that doesn't need an advantage, or at least help such people feel useful (which is important for self-esteem).

This "gotcha" is like saying, "$CARMAKER is only investing in electric cars because such autos get tax subsidies." Well, yeah. Public policy encourages things that are underproduced relative to the social optimum. That's why you need public policy to do it, and not regular businesspeople.

We have a term for where no one does anything good because the public will ridicule them for not having 100% pure motives: hell.

[1] a sibling reply suggests this exemption has been phased out
Yup. And flying slightly off-axis means greater chance of tumbling as you enter a soft target. It is the one time you dont want to be flying strait.
From the article, emphasis mine

> “I’m grateful to actually have gotten a job,” Howard said during a work break. “It’s just part time, but even still, it’s a good job. … I’m making above minimum wage.”

> Likewise, Northwest Center employees and those it places with Amazon are paid at least minimum wage. (Seattle closed a loophole in its minimum wage law that allowed employers to pay people with a disability a sub-minimum wage and recovered back wages from Northwest Center in 2018. Washington and many other states still allow minimum wage waivers.)
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The thing is, what we compulsively do doesn't necessarily make us feel better. We do it because we have a habit, or an instinct.
I think IP is a better fit for the 900mhz range though I'm no expert in the radio space. It's a shame 802.11ah never took off in hardware.
A recent point of comparison: Walmart quietly eliminating the "greeter" position, which is often filled by people with physical or developmental disabilities:

https://www.npr.org/2019/02/25/696718872/walmart-is-eliminat...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19251858
Leasing more space is expensive. The entire point of a hotelling office is to reduce costs.

Less space to lease, less desks and chairs to buy, less cabling to run.

Office space is expensive.
the very next paragraph:

> Mr. Beecher advised young men to get in debt if they could to a small amount in the purchase of land, in the country districts. <snip>

> This may be safe to a limited extent, but getting in debt for what you eat and drink and wear is to be avoided.
In theory, shouldn't every PDF viewer support printing... and both macOS and Windows 10 support printing to PDF... which flattens the layers?

Just tried it with macOS Preview and totally flattens it, the annotations pane lists nothing, I can't select/move annotations... they're permanent.

However, also just tried with Acrobat Reader on macOS, and infuriatingly after selecting the system's "Print to PDF" Acrobat pops up an error saying it doesn't support print to PDF. WTF. Why would they intentionally go out of their way to disable that?
I think "rock solid" in this case means highly likely to result in a conviction, not necessarily "of great importance."
Slightly OT: This is a timely find and post as we debate how and why Boeing got the 737MAX8 through approvals. This is such a salient quote:

> Perhaps the truest explanation of why things happened as they did is the most ordinary: that human beings could not foresee the way that chance and circumstance could magnify the consequences of their acts.
In a forum discussion on the shooting, I found a link. I clicked the link, realized it's the right video from descriptions and asked myself 'WTF am I doing? If I keep watching, that's going to have consequences for life and stopped.'.
> With GTC it was possible to isolate and disperse the light of objects ABC, demonstrating that they belong to the same light source.

That's pretty amazing.
Can't wait to try it
> Overall, a better argument would be that a lack of self-control isn't the driving force behind our decision to procrastinate. Rather, what causes us to procrastinate are things such as anxiety or fear of failure, and a high degree of self-control is what allows us to overcome these issues.

Hmm, I don't think so. I would say:

What causes us to procrastinate is that we are using it as a _coping mechanism_ for our anxiety (which is related to our fear of failure). But it is an ultimately unsuccesful coping mechanism -- it has short-term alleviation of the negative emotions we wanted to avoid, but in the long-term can make them worse (as well as interfering with accomplishing what we want to accomplish, which can itself trigger anxiety and fear of failure).

Thinking a "high degree of self-control" is what will help us overcome procrastination does not actually help us overcome procrastination -- in fact, it can also trigger anxiety and fear of failure (as we are failing to have enough self-control).

You don't overcome it with "high degree of self-control", you overcome it by recognizing the role it is playing, finding other ways to approach your anxiety (not trying to avoid it by procrastination), and by _self-compassion_, not self-blame for your lack of self-control.

What is in the article matches my experience and observation. It also matches Buddhist philosophy/psychology.

You can _disagree_ with the arguments of the article -- is that what you mean by "finding it a bit misleading"? But they are considered and to some extent evidence-based arguments, that really are intentionally saying it's _not_ about "self-control", and thinking it's about "self-control" and you just need to "try harder" won't get you out of it. That is what they are intentionally saying, it's not misleading if the title makes one think they are going to say that.
The First Regulated Cryptocurrency Exchange Will Be Launched in Vietnam
I mean, that's a pretty big "if" qualifier there. Getting water might be easier than getting the power once you have the power, but that also means its harder than getting power because it requires an extra step. Also, it's straightforward, but that doesn't make it easy or cheap.

If you want to go to the ISS, become an astronaut is straightforward, but it's not exactly helpful.
"What's next, a story about how Amazon is saving puppies?"

Maybe they could start with Boxers.
This is a puff piece to legitimize use of EVMs. India uses EVMs, a closed source device made by a secretive Japanese manufacturer. The government claims the device is "hack" proof. They stubbornly refuse to conduct an open hackathon to find vulnerabilities.
One of the reasons I have understood this not to be possible with, e.g., Signal, is that in order to do this, the server would have to know more about your messaging history than you'd ideally like.

Is that true here?
I think we broadly agree. What you’re raising in your argument seems to be examples of what I consider to be current weaknesses.

However, I think you’re making a distinction without a difference going between classification accuracy and performance. That said, I am running on 1.5 hours less sleep than I need today — the only other important metric I can think of right now is the kind of skill which humans book-learn and which get implemented on a computer as an explicit and deliberate algorithm instead of being learned, and I simultaneously don’t count those as AI and think machines have beaten us for decades in that domain.

I do have one other question though: do you regard Alpha(Go|Zero|Star) as nothing more than classification?
New brain cells made throughout life
Noone is forgetting China. In the context of democratic elections, adictator's comment still has merit.
How do they make money
Stories like this is exactly why I've created Roamie (www.roamie.co)...for those that want the safety and reliability of hotels, but also might be solo travellers and want to meet others.
Especially when you curse!
$1k?
It’s very expensive for me!

But thanks for the suggestion :) I will seriously consider it.
I'm not genuinely not trolling, but is China really a democracy? I have been to China and I think it's far from being a democracy.
When I interviewed with Boeing many years ago, engineers worked in old fashioned bullpen offices with dozens of desks in a completely open room with managers in offices on the periphery. One of the reasons I didn't take the job--along with a general vibe of engineers just being replaceable jobs. (I was actually given an offer straight out of school on the basis of just a resume. I had to request to come on-site and do some interviews.)
I've seen purported extracts of the manifesto, they were mostly trolling
This site looks very similar to examine.com. Are you familiar? Wondering what advantages your site might be aiming for over examine
An AI could transparently act in the public interest if safeguarded with blockchains.
Yeah as an individual who doesn't use the euro, I didn't know it was euros until I read it in the thread here.
The real heros are Indian Election Workers and security personnel who travel to towns and villages far away from their homes and set up the elections and many times sleep on the floors of schools and offices to conduct these elections.

India could never be authoritarian for one simple reason its too damn diverse, a country that is contradictory to every definition of nation state exists because it has adopted democracy how ever imperfectly and mastered elections.
>ice chewers

Were they literally chewing ice or is this some idiom?
how does that compare with a typical credit card company?