skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Addiction is a symptom of something else, usually trauma (which I include forgetting fundamental ways to use the mind as an item, eg. how to be still and not suffer from boredom).

For me, there were several issues. Anxiety was my normal state, though I didn't know it because I'd been cultivating my addiction since around age 8 & was largely disconnected from my emotions. They were also seemingly locked up from denial of the trauma stemming from being molested (saying "That traumatized me" aloud to myself led to a flood of emotions all at once). I grew up in a codependent family and culture. I was born into the psychosocial slavery of capitalism and taught I had to have a job and money to survive. This disconnected me from my need for community support, which I was also shamed from seeking. I was bullied by my best friend growing up, as well as most of the adults in my life. All of these things had a lasting impact on my relationships.

What worked for me was healing from all of that. I use RescueTime to keep an eye on my usage, but have no other controls anymore. Early in recovery, someone else monitored my screen time, I used MManager (I think) for locking down my phone and a boot password for the laptop, with my roommates & therapist knowing the passwords. Basically, setting up accountability systems for myself. But that's just what kept me from lapsing, which isn't as big of a deal as addiction specialists told me, because I started using them as learning opportunities to observe how my mind worked in those situations.

Basically, any app that isn't helping build mindfulness, learn about what life needs to thrive, build a supportive community, and identify/heal from trauma is operating from the current mainstream approach to addiction and is only going to have marginal effects. Don't look to current addiction science...I turned my info addiction inward and healed that way.

If you'd like to talk more about what you're going through and would like to add someone to your support network, I'm available for it.
> it’s definitely possible to quantify how long it would most probably take to succeed

yes.
if success means to roll a 1, and anything else is a failure, you will on average roll the die 6 times before you succeed. E(x) = 1/p for a geometric with p = 1/6. your variance is q/p^2, so 30.

so then, my rational decision as an investor is to quit rolling the die after 17 rolls ( mu + 2 sd = 6 + 2*sqrt(30) = 17 ). I wouldn’t wait until heat death of universe.
It doesn't sound like they hold any really sensitive data though, at least not any customer data.
As to luck there's an old saying that I really like: the harder I work the luckier I get.

How I interpret this it that working hard increases your skills. If you are more skillful you are more able to take advantage of lucky situations you have. We all have lucky situations, some more than others (we can even say privilege plays a large role here). But here's the thing, if you don't have the skills to take advantage of these situations then they are useless.

Let's make up an egregious example. Let's say you are working on battery powered rockets that use AI. If you one day meet Elon Musk at your local grocery store and somehow strike up a conversation then he's probably going to be very interested in you and your background. He'll probably try to keep in contact with you and maybe offer you a job. Now let's consider without the skill. Well you met Elon Musk which is pretty cool, but you're probably not going to get a job.

It isn't so much luck vs skill, but the combination of the two. I would be willing to bet that there is not a single millionaire (yes, that low) that can't chalk up a significant portion of their wealth to something that others would consider luck. Such as family/friend's connections, stumbling into a situation, taking jobs that lead to other jobs in the right way, etc (this is why the specific wording of the previous sentence. Because most don't notice these kinds of things and when looking from the inside we notice the skill part and not the luck. Because we did in fact work hard, and you know... Human psychology)
Sorry, I failed to completely and accurately read your comment.
I use Boostnote[0] (not affiliated, just a happy user), it's a simple to use note keeping application that supports Markdown.

Keeping an (almost) daily journal of stuff that hangs me up has helped me immensely. You know the type of problems that take 12 hours of debugging just to find out it's something trivial? Write that down, it's sure to come up in the future and our memory isn't great at all.

[0]: https://github.com/BoostIO/Boostnote
I think you fail to grasp my meaning. The inflection of "uh" in that sentence is a greater part of its meaning than the pronunciation of the word, unlike the examples you gave. Onomatopoeia is a fine way to develop new words; inarticulate grunts that communicate hesitation in spoken conversation do not translate well to writing.
We've been in the Oauth review process for almost a month, and getting maybe 1 response per week as well. Plenty of times it's just the reviewer not reading the instructions we sent them and, well, time to wait another week. Then there's them saying our app doesn't need to be verified (apparently reviewer was looking at a different API permission instead of the ones we requested for OAuth), so there's been a bunch of unnecessary back and forth.

We've gone through app review processes at other companies like Facebook, and it's all the same - plenty of time wasted with mostly ineptitude on the reviewer's side. Sometimes it feels like there's just one person working in Google/Facebook's basement doing these app reviews for minimum wage.

I understand the need to be thorough on these app reviews especially if the app touches sensitive user data, but when the reviewer doesn't even read the instructions provided to them properly, would you trust them to be thorough when it comes to ensuring the apps aren't malicious?
As I understand it, some C programs omit the final argument to a function. That function does not actually read the value of the argument, but it is still undefined behaviour for it not to be passed in.
"Perceive to have" is exactly correct. Even though it seems easier to knock over a cup if you want to, there was a complex set of processes occurring both inside and outside your body over a long period of time (forever!) which resulted in you acquiring the desire to knock over the cup in the first place. This process is outside your control.

There once was a man that said, though
It seems like I know that I know,
What I'd like to see
Is the 'I' that sees me
When I know that I know that I know
I think citation needed carries a connotation of “I don’t believe this is true.” It is just a lazy way to converse if you are engaged in a genial conversation in good faith. “This is new to me, can you share some references?” I appreciate we can be technical and to the point, but given the context, I felt my response was appropriate.
Imagine the flocks of dead birds around their house.
Definitely agree that most programmers would benefit from studying these topics. They have broader applications than many realize.

You can use tools like jscodeshift [0] to refactor code! I've previously written codemods to migrate away from a bad design decisions. The React team has also used codemods to introduce breaking changes. AST Explorer [1] is the best tool I've found for writing codemods since it gives you nearly instant feedback and allows for a good amount of exploration.

[0] https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift/

[1] https://astexplorer.net/
Graphic novels are another form of escape.

Have you tried mindfulness? I've found it useful for literally everything, ESPECIALLY when restless.
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They aren't the standard purchasing power differences, it's literally orders of magnitude cheaper.
At $10 a month, that’s only 125 users. How many apps with less than 125 users have we seen become a target for hackers? Has there ever been a case like that?
One key problem is mentioned in that article - having to make movies phone-screen compatible. The user just can't see the details on the tiny screen, no matter how many pixels the screen has. That limits you to close-up shots and vague backgrounds.

I'm waiting for the first theatrical release in vertical video.
Wouldn't that be sandy bridge? AMD still had some competition for core 2 with their 9xx series.

It wasnt until sandy bridge and bulldozer that things got really bad.
Time is money. Nobody has time to go around finding someone who needs a paint roller when the roller costs $10. I just moved to a new apartment, I don't even know any of my neighbors.

The argument for some kind of business that provides this durable goods and tools swapping service is interesting. It might be worth tackling with a start up. But ultimately users would have to validate that idea. No idea if it's viable.
I took Ubuntu's dropping of 32-bit support to only apply to the machine itself, like how openSUSE Leap only supports running on 64-bit hardware but still supports 32-bit libraries[1]. Sounds like Ubuntu's taking it to an even greater extreme.

Regardless, I can think of a couple ways around this:

- Build the 32-bit versions of the relevant libraries and ship them in a third-party PPA (or - ideally - convince Canonical to do this for Ubuntu, thus doing what openSUSE Leap is doing)

- Ship Wine in a snap or AppImage or flatpak or what have you with the relevant 32-bit (and 64-bit) libraries

[1]: https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/b...
Just Dance has had yearly releases since 2009, and the Wii has always been included.

The marginal cost of continuing to support Wii is negligible, since their engine has always supported it and needs minimal upgrades-- it just needs to play background video and perform platform-appropriate motion tracking and interpretation.

I guess middleware support might be an issue, and Just Dance historically used Scaleform, which appears to be entirely discontinued at this point, but presumably they have a perpetual license for it.
Capitalism works well when resources are scarce enough that everyone is short on something, but not so scarce that there isn't enough to even trade goods. (At that point disaster management needs to be very authoritarian.)

Capitalism absolutely fails when there's "too much" surplus.

Social focused alternatives also fail to survive in to human implementation because power corrupts and greed ruins everything.

We need some benevolent dictators to do slightly wrong things for the right reasons, and a lot of right things for the right reasons, to break our cultures out of the insanity that infects them.

Or maybe someone can come up with a greed proof form of governance and resource allocation that can tolerate the inherent failure modes associated with using humans as cogs in the system.
Study: Tesla Autopilot misleading, overestimated more than similar technology
I think that is honestly not what those documents show at all. How they actually do it is ripe for abuse and egregiously broad and beyond the scope of simple foreign monitoring.
Here's a great article about the discovery of this color, and the pigment industry in general, which hit the front page of HN a year ago:

The Quest for the Next Billion-Dollar Color

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-quest-for-billion-do...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16870440
If there is such a thing, I would absolutely love to find out about it. Even if only open to accredited investors.
You might like Matt Risinger's YouTube channel, https://www.youtube.com/user/MattRisinger . He's a builder in the Austin area who does very energy efficient homes. He uses (a variation of?) this thing called a "100-year wall" system, the gist of which is that the entire envelope of the house is sheathed and sealed, basically turning the frame of the house into "furniture," in that it's in a conditioned space. The big insight is that the vapor-barrier-on-the-inside scheme came about in climates that were mostly dry outside, and mostly moister inside, whereas large areas of Texas (and tropical and subtropical areas) are the reverse.
A recent thread on that subject:

https://twitter.com/panic/status/1106633444157607936
I don't mind this style of puzzle so much, I'm just disappointed that it seems to be essentially a rehash of last year's problem, except in 2D instead of 3D.
Not an expert but I don't think it's considered good practice to expose your directory structure like that. It should have been 404 or redirection to /home.
Software, sorry if it wasn't clear.
>But it's still better than SMS, right?

Right, with Google 2-step verification you don't have to worry about number porting attacks. It's just vulnerable in the sense that a phishing site you've entered your username and password into can still trigger the prompt.

>How does the security key/browser pair communicate without involving the site? Does it involve more of Google's interference then? While I know you're not saying "yes" to the site, isn't the key doing roughly the same thing?

When you use a hardware security key with a browser, your browser tells the security key the page's domain, a user id, and a random challenge token if I remember right. The security key signs a message containing all of these things and gives that back to the browser. If you're on a phishing site, the page will have a different domain than the true site, the message signed by the security key will have the phishing site's domain instead of the true site's domain, and the signed response generated by the security key won't be valid for the attacker to use on the true site.
All natural source of animal protein. They've built a catch around the greenhouse.
What strategy are you guys using for leap seconds?
Plants produce oxygen when they grow, and you would need to grow about 8 pounds a day to supply oxygen for one human. See https://www.gardenmyths.com/houseplants-increase-oxygen-leve...
You do realize that banning guns does absolutely nothing to stop gun crime, right?

It already illegal to use weapons to commit crimes, and in the vast majority of cases the guns used in these crimes were obtained illegally.
What does grep + gron give you over jq?
The percentage of drivers who think it's safe to nap is small but nonetheless frightening. What are these people thinking?
Rust has AST -> HIR -> MIR -> LLVM-IR. Two internal IRs and a third external one!
The returns of the fund alone don't tell you the level of edge (alpha) of RenTech.

Alpha (the skill/edge component) is the excess return on a risk-adjusted basis.

Roughly, alpha is total-return - risk-free-rate - porfolio-beta * (market-return - risk-free-rate).

You can have a total return of 20%, a risk free rate of 3%, a Beta of 2, and a market return of 13% and you've actually underperformed the market on a risk-adjusted basis. Your alpha would be 20% - 3% - 2 * (13% - 3%) = -3%
Yea, I was thinking they shouldn't throw stones...
> The negative externalities from all those extra cars on the road are fierce

It's better to have an Uber idling at some corner than a traditional taxi driving furiously while trying to find a new ride.

That's what the Uber drivers do in the cities I have lived or visited.

Taxi drivers are the most aggressive and dangerous drivers ever. Almost all crashes I have seen involve one or two taxis.

You can't ignore that externality when discussing the only alternative to taxis we have now.
The output format like a slightly better INI (in that it would support deeper hierarchies), although arrays would be a pain to write an index at a time like that.

And for purely aesthetic, nitpicky reasons I think the leading period in each line is redundant.
45 Richest Germans Own as Much as Entire Lower Half
Isn't a green house a solar collector in some way? They get their heat from the sun, and their main mechanism is simply trapping it in a closed environment.
it's going to be moot on macOS when mac hardware switches to ARM.

e.g. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/apple-mac-arm-cpus-2020-in...
I'm in my first mortgage, 30 years on ~$200k, almost nothing down. Starting to look at selling next year, which will be year 10.

If it sold for the price I bought it, I'd walk with at least $40k of equity after closing costs. But it's also increased in value about $60k.

And I'll have maybe $10k in maintenance and fix up costs over that decade.
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It also depends in the regular income. YouTube music costs $10 per month, I would have never paid that when I was in India, where I could just skip the ad & the cost of data for video YouTube is not much. About 3GBs daily, for Rs 284 for two months, or about $4 total, 4G where available, 3G other places. Before Jio launch, the data cost were same without the word DAily, so about $4 for 3 GB TOTAL in a month.
It's not a gambler fallacy, it's the idea that failure is an important part of learning to be good at something.
1) If the population stays at ~7 billion ticket price will stay very expensive, but if there are several hundred billions, we'll build a launch system like "space fountain" or one of other proposed designs that are not economically viable yet due to low demand. This in combination with solar sails in space can make the ticket pretty cheap.

2) I don't think i would be jealous of those who can breath 'fresh air' , i already spend most of my time in a room, and with better VR games and large domes/caverns i don't think i'll miss the outside.

3) Again with large population on earth, there will be enough people who want to go to mars to create self sufficient economy there.

A) the amount of generated waste does not depend only on the population but also on the time the population lives at the given level of technology. When there are less people less resources are spent on science, and people end up generating the same amount of waste eventually, and do not develop the knowledge required to generate less waste. Another variable is the desire to generate less waste: as long as the amount of the waste is not threatening most of the people are not interested in generating less of it. Some see the problem sooner than others, but with lower population the number of these people is also lower and they have smaller effect.

If you look at the history of humankind you'll see that we were able to do great harm to environment even with much smaller numbers (killing megafauna, deforestation). the difference was that then we were not able to understand what was happening.

The crucial point is that the cost of developing new technologies does not depend, but reward grows, with the number of people alive. So when the number of people grows, everyone wins.

I believe the myth of overpopulation and the cultural norm to have less children, have caused great harm. Migration from poorer high birthrate countries into rich low birthrate countries leeches the most important resource the poor countries have, more educated and more active people who want to change the country. If developed countries were giving as many migrants as they take, we would be living in a much better world. Hopefully technologies like longevity therapies and artificial womb will be developed sooner than the population starts to decline.
>This socalled winner-take-most dynamic, or 80/20 rule (in which 20 percent
of participants reap 80 percent of the gains) appears to be a structural
feature of network-based activity because well-positioned business
players are able to realize most of the productivity gains that materialize as economic “frictions” are radically reduced at an extremely rapid
rate. This is displacing middle-class jobs at an accelerated rate, leaving
people reeling from the pace of change and government scrambling to
solve market disruptions using archaic policy architectures.

I would really like some input from someone with familiarity in the field of economics to vet this statement.

>In the report, Kim Taipale, Founder and Executive Director of the
Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies, said that the paradoxical result
of network effects is that “freedom results in inequality. That is, the
more freedom there is in a system, the more unequal the outcomes.”
This stems in part from the self-reinforcing benefits that accrue to the
“super-nodes” of a network, a phenomenon sometimes called “preferential attachment.” Players that function as super-nodes capture
a far disproportionate share of rewards relative to their effort, while
hard-working smaller players and individuals find it very difficult (for
structural reasons) to increase their share of benefits. Because of this
dynamic, said Taipale, “The era of bell curve distributions that sup-ported a bulging social middle class is over, and we are headed for the
power-law distribution of economic opportunities. Education per se is
not going to make up the difference.”

Will the middle class in a wealthy economy ever be viable when so few control decisions?
If you use technology to break the addiction, you risk obsessing over the tech. If you rely on will power to break the addiction, you may face internal conflict. The stress is just as bad as the addiction [1]

In my experience, mindfulness is the best solution: Clear your mind by experiencing the sensations of your environment.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironic_process_theory
Everywhere I've ever worked claimed patent rights over anything I invented.
I shopped around for a good personal financial advisor. (Some of them are just trying to push mutual funds that they get a commission off of -- but the reputable ones will give you really sound and practical advice.)

One recommended a really short yet helpful book called "The Wealthy Barber." It explains all the basics of personal finance in the form of a folksy story. (It also makes a good gift if you know someone who's struggling with this.)

Another author who writes more detailed books: Venita van Kaspel. I asked my financial advisor which book of hers I should read, and the answer was "anything."
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Though I agree with the overall thrust of your comment, I'd imagine there are thousands of everyday millionaires in their 60s and 70s who have nothing I would look at as particularly great luck [other than to be healthy and employed for 40 years while saving diligently].
> That means they paid 1000 in 2009 and now pay ~3500 in 2019.

Which means they're almost certainly exaggerating, unless they're in a condo in downtown Chicago, but they did say "bumblefudge-nowhere" so I'd say just straight BS.
Like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoGIPk8Vrl0
Thanks. Was having an off day. This got me off the couch and scanning some documents while listening to music. A necessary task I am easily able to do. Feel much better already.
> Backlash was certainly loud, but Amazon could have made things work even without all of the subsidies they received. This is entirely me speculating, but I wonder if Amazon feared that NYC workers might eventually organize or be organized, given the political rhetoric and the framing of the backlash. Amazon has a legendary fear of unionization.

Aren't the workers primarily knowledge workers? In a place like New York where developer jobs grow out of the concrete I don't think there could be legitimate fear of unionization.