skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Outside of family, work, and exercise, I have time and energy for approximately one personal project.

AoC got to be a bit of a grind for me last year. Something came up, and I missed a few days towards the end. I told myself I was going to go back and finish, but I never did.

I'm tempted to try again this year, but I don't know. I already have projects languishing in need of some attention. On the other hand, it's lots of fun.
Nice. I thought of doing a similar thing, but being a recovering startup guy, I was like, I should totally build this as a platform and let others read books this way. :p

Plus, a big part of why I kept going with it was because I wanted to see how far I could push Cloudflare Workers as a pure app development platform... pretty far it turns out! (disclosure: I work at Cloudflare, although not on the Workers team).
Ha! That's another vote for the "send me 5 pages" or "send me 10 pages" link in the emails.
For the HN-reading 22-year-old out there who is trying to climb out of that first unspeakably horrible episode of mental illness, and as part of that, trying to grok what psychiatry really is: at this point in history, models (theoretical or other) are great and can drive progress in psychiatry, but don't for one minute believe any hype like this, from the reviewed book's Amazon page:

"Ticic and Hulley equip readers to carry out focused, empathic therapy using the process found by researchers to induce memory reconsolidation, the recently discovered and only known process for actually unlocking emotional memory at the synaptic level."

Just, no. It's not even worth refuting. What happens at the synaptic level, and what happens at the emotional level, the experience of emotions? We are not meaningfully closer to bridging that gap than we ever have been. Despite great advances in brain science, that sort of talk still belongs in philosophy, not science or medicine.

This is not to say that UTeB or EIEIO or whatever model doesn't hold promise for those of us with lived experience of mental illness. The evidence base for talk therapy continues to evolve. Just ignore any kind of "unlocking secrets" talk. We aren't there yet. We aren't close. But on the web pages that sell books, we are always on the verge of...
It depends a bit on exactly what you mean by socialized, but I have the Singaporean system in mind. (I was just quoting Cougher when using the term socialized.)

Singapore has some of the best healthcare outcomes in the world, and costs about half as much as a share of GDP per capita as the British NHS.

Where the American system seems to combine the worst of public and private healthcare, Singapore combines the best.

In the Singaporean system individuals use a health savings account to pay for small, routine health care costs. The insurance part of the system only kicks in for larger, costlier, uncertain items.

There's plenty of subsidies for poor people, too.

See eg https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/upshot/singapore-health-s... for an American perspective. There's also plenty of easy to find material on the web.

I especially like that doctors usually have a list with price ranges for their most common items hanging out prominently. Very transparent.
I shifted house 3 years ago and sold old TV at that time. Thought going to buy new Smart TV. But 1 month passed and I didn't missed TV (also skeptical about tracking thing).

I realised after spending working hours in front of Monitor/Laptop, my eyes can use some rest. So NO TV in weekdays.

I have bought 30 inch monitor, connected to home desktop and use it for entertainment - Netflix, sports etc.

NO TV is an option. Some day going to upgrade to bigger monitor.
I make it a habit to not read science-themed articles that contain the word or variants of the word "impossible" when describing something clearly observed.

The word "unexpectedly" or "surprisingly" is probably what they mean. But if the writer thinks the scientists believe their observations to be impossible, then they've written an article that isn't worth reading. The title already says it isn't so -- they couldn't have observed this in any way.

These types of headline make it sound like the scientists don't know what they're talking about. Since they obviously do know what they've observed, I'd rather read about it from a writer who doesn't speak of them as being so inept.

No wonder the Internet is littered with people who don't trust science. The headlines keep discounting new discoveries by blatantly calling them impossible.

I have the same beef with science writers who speak of "different solar systems." Our sun is Sol. Our planetary system is the only Solar System. All those others are different star systems or different planetary systems that may or may not be Solar-like, and they are named after their own star... not after ours.
Yes, I think that's right - we have 20,000 lumens in our office and it is pretty cool, except you can't see your screen when it's up all the way. I still prefer daylighting, because it changes the angle of the light and everything else through the day.

A couple things: I don't think you necessarily need more light in the morning if you have a well-defined (artificial or real) sunset, and if you've reduced light at night to a lower level.

We add light to the morning so that we can add as much light as we want at night - the two cancel out. But I think it would be better to really try to design the evening to look different than the workday. Lights should change, and they mostly don't.

There are for sure some people with long internal clocks (DSPD/N24) who need very custom lighting schedules to have a normal schedule, but I think if we make the overall signal stronger (more day to night contrast), a lot of the differences between night owls and early birds would become smaller.
But I guess landing on the human with a human with intention of bringing the human back is much much harder.
Aeroplan had this until recently too, the website shut down at 9PM PST and re-opened at 6AM PST. Last employee out turn off the servers? What is it about Canadian IT haha.
If you read the article, the author is focusing on the scenario heating a person while sitting at their desk, not the entire room.

In those cases you could argue the methods he prescribes are more efficient, though not practical for times where you want to heat up a whole room or home.
I’m grateful I can get out of bed in the morning and walk around on my own feet. There have been mornings when I couldn’t.

I am grateful to be able to relieve myself without needing help. They’ve been days I couldn’t do that either. Sometimes it’s the little things, like not spending Thanksgiving with a catheter.

I’m extremely grateful to have a partner who loves me. There have been a LOT of days when I didn’t.

I’m grateful to have a job. Again, there have been days when I didn’t. Not many but enough.

I’m grateful to have a body that mostly works, the freedom and ability to travel, whether to the corner store or around the world, rewarding work, and people in my life who treat me with kindness. I am very blessed.
do you have any plans to allow to combine it with proxycrawl? That would be great as I could benefit from them while using your tool
It's really incredibly hard to understate just what a phenomenal accomplishment the Apollo mission was. I consider it one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of mankind. Not just sending a human on a rocket to the moon, but with enough finesse to make it a round trip. The bravery of the astronauts blows my mind. The risks were extreme.
Earlier this year my company pitched anonymization solution for smart TV and smart home appliances to LG and Samsung representatives in Korea.

Their reaction to a proposal was, to put it kindly, terrifying and highly defensive. They said they are doing nothing wrong, no data has been leaked snd that there is no future for our solution, sensing huge discomfort.

Quite evident they have zero interest to gamble status quo on current situation.
In court, from what I've seen, police officers (as witnesses) put on quite a show laying out their experience, the calibration of the machine, the outcome of the field tests, etc. because of the skepticism that people have. You get a very different picture than what you get from journalism like that. Not saying it is always accurate, or nothing is ever fabricated or lied about, just that it seems normal to cover every possible objection twice over and only prosecute the most aggravated cases (at least in my locale).
Heheh, War and Peace via text message would be commitment!
Ahhh... I see. The DMV sucks because they don’t have enough money.

Not because they are horribly run.
What vast informational resources that are available. Which can be trusted and how to verify sources.

How to use those resources to research and problem solve.

More importantly, how to problem solve (scientific method, logic, etc). Your CS background will help immensely here.

Organizational skills with an eye towards tying it to all things personal finance (the tax suggestion is at the top of my list of things I wish schools taught).

How to take the information you've researched and organized and present it well. Improve their public speaking and maybe throw in a bit about how to present oneself professionally.
A lot of them have very strict routines about going inside and using super-dark curtains at particular times. I've gotten to email some people above 60N and it is just what they do.

In the old Aschoff "bunker" studies where people allowed to keep the lights on as long as they wished, they concluded the human clock was 25.1 hours. We know this isn't true if you provide a proper light-dark cycle, it's much closer to 24. But I treat this old work as a cautionary tale - we can be 25.1 hour animals if we leave the lights on all the time.
The most cited paper on this is "Stability, Precision, and Near-24-Hour Period of the Human Circadian Pacemaker" (Czeisler, et al., 1999), which found that their 24 subjects between ages 13 and 65 had a mean circadian rhythm of 24 hours 10 minutes with a standard deviation of 8 minutes. Earlier studies were affected by artificial light lengthening cycles. Non-24 sleep-wake disorder in sighted people is not researched well enough to have accurate rates: there are only about a hundred cases in the existing studies and the disorder is not well known and probably underdiagnosed.
Nah dude if everybody started using paper straws we would make a significant dent in plastic waste and oil production.
Tesla's Model 3 just outsold America's most popular car
Quick question for anyone who understands legal side of this, would Smart TV/ Smart TV manufacturers fall under CCPA when it goes into effect?
Would be interested as well.
The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper
It might be the flicker. Most LED lights I've found have pretty bad flicker: https://youtu.be/eWut5Qx6mkM?t=285

Phones are pretty bad too. Check out the Nexus 5x vs Pixel 3: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1f7-ChF4zFiisFdmEZVEz...

I found that Phillips non dimmable bulbs are the cheap and don't flicker.
Hydro Québec & other Quebec govt entities will soon have the ability to identify you as a "historic anglophone" for giving you services in English. Everyone else will get govt services in French. CAQ govt. says it will implement this people identification system as a part of Bill 101 enhancements.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/english-government-s...
In economics, the usual prescription for high price despite low manufacturing costs is to lower barriers to entry.

There's probably a legal reason why someone can't just set up a company to buy mebendazole in bulk in the UK and ship it to the US and sell it for eg $200 per tablet?
Same here, legally changed my name at 10 years of age knowing that a whiter name would give me a better shot in life. One of the best decisions I made.
So it seems that PIA is leaving the freenode project? Will LTM ( now Imperial Family Trustings ) still be heavily involved? It was my understanding that Imperial was owned by PIA - is that not the case anymore?

I love Freenode. But keeping up with these politics and all these different related corps is exhausting.
Hence why the truely great generals (alexander, genghis khan, etc ) understood the importance of logistics and incompetant ones like napoleon didn't.

> and they almost all had to walk the ~3,000 kilometers to Moscow

Closer to 800 km than 3000. Napoleon's invasion of russia started at the neman river near lithuania. It didn't start in paris.

Now compare napoleon's "short walk" to moscow with the thousands of kilometers of logistics that alexander or genghis khan had to deal with ( and they succeeded while napoleon failed miserably ).

Another great napoleon logistic fail was his failure in egypt where he lost another army. It shows how propaganda frames the people's minds that we think that napoleon was a competent, let alone a great military leader. Objectively, Napoleon's major failures and the fact that he destroyed the french empire makes him one of the greatest military fools in human history.
It helped me a lot. I can write hundreds of non-trivial but well tested lines of code which passes all tests on the first try and is fit for code review in a couple of hours. I wouldn't be able to do that if I hadn't practiced competitive programming a lot.

This skill wont solve all of your problems, but if you have a lot of theories you want to test then your ability to implement them quickly is invaluable, and testing a lot of your theories is how you learn most of the other important skills related to software engineering.
A text editor is not a service. Because there is no service, there can be no terms of service.

It is software, and the terms of using that software are the license it is released under.

Downloading free as in freedom software does not bind you to any terms of service other than the license to that software, which in this case is the MIT license.
Health, safety, loving family & community.

An 11 and 14 year old were both recently murdered (probably gang related) at the school our church partners with. We've helped beautify the school, donated bikes, glasses, school materials, other basic needs to the underprivileged.

Was quite painful for the community and myself.
Scrum Master uses RNG to assign tasks to sprint. Is this normal for Agile?
Thanks, this is a phenomenally interesting read! You can see the algorithms for the DDR3 version of this here: https://github.com/coreboot/coreboot/tree/master/src/vendorc...
"Given a web server" seems a pretty big caveat. I'm not a big node cheerleader (even though I work in it day to day), but it doesn't need to be given a web server to achieve the rest of this claim.
How DynamoDB Is Gaining Popularity in the Developer Community
Erm. Talk to the founders?! Get this team lead fired for gross incompetence?
Death and Destruction in Brazil's Rainforest [video]
What I remember from reading master a few months ago:

the zend VM can specialize ops already, trading size of the op-implementations against type-check-elision/fusion by GCC/clang.
I think eliding redundant type checks at least won't be hard when confined to a single php function.
Causal Inference Can Lead to Real Intelligence in Machines
I don't know how accurate it is, but I remember reading that (the first time was a very long time ago) some varieties of plants/crops were developed through literally bombarding them with radiation and then breeding the mutants that were improved, and the results are not considered to be GMOs, because nobody was manipulating specific genes. They were just basically firing a shotgun at them.
I hope things get better for your daughter/family!
why this tools always are slow in safari and works perfect on chrome? Isn't it safari better in performance than chrome?
When I see old pictures with zeppelins in the sky, I am jealous and think they're more futuristic than we are.
I'd hate to think what the propellor noise would do to whales and other sea life.
Is that adjusted for the increased impact of releasing CO2 at higher altitudes?
I'm thankful for having finally found a beautiful home that I could afford in a very populated city

I'm thankful for the birth of my beautiful, happy and healthy baby

I'm thankful for working in an industry where my skills are in demand and has plenty of opportunities to work from home

I'm thankful for my wife who is an incredibly strong, kind and inspiring woman as well as an amazing mom

I'm thankful for living in the U.S which has given me many opportunities to be grateful for
Why do you trust Microsoft more? They have the most egregious and base level of data collection compared to any other company. Their collection from the OS is pervasive and deep. The inability to truly disable Cortana is evidence that we don't own our purchased software anymore, merely borrow it from the big tech companies.

In terms of undermining user ownership, MS has done more than most with help from Apple. I can get a different webmail provider and use a different search engine. Changing operating systems to Linux from one that actively fights you to run your computer for you is something else entirely.
A problem like this could be significantly alleviated by not having the flash soldered onto the motherboard. This is one of my concerns with the current generation of Apple MacBook laptops. Considering the cost of a Tesla as a whole, surely it can't be ridiculously more expensive to put a m.2 socket and discrete flash module on a motherboard.
I can imagine that some people might pay to have an ignition breathalyzer added to their car!

If it actually worked, it could be like an insurance against their own worst proclivities...
I should clarify that I do not trust Microsoft more in terms of data collection, rather that security patches will be automatically pushed to an Xbox one. And that it has a relatively low likelihood of becoming part of a botnet, or compromised by a persistent form of Trojan.

Good luck getting a software update for a four-year-old smart TV running some obsolete version of Android. Or WebOS.

Xbox 360s are 12+ years old now and are still generally considered something that is safe to have on your home network, and not vulnerable to any known in the wild remote code execution.

Xbox one or PlayStation 4 has considerably lower chances of becoming a malicious, virus-infected device on my home network.
True (to be fair, I did say it was a hot take :) ). But assuming this is a salaried team at a cost of $150k per employee, a $50 per month expense amounts to 0.4% of salary.

You're right though, it can add up quickly. Do that 20 times and you're at nearly 10% overhead. It's also a big assumption that the team is salaried. It might be a team of founders, or an open source project.

Ultimately you just need to decide which SaaS solutions are most important to your team.
"The thing is that virus and bacteria don't work magically to harm us. They have to evolve too"

I thought it was an "everybody knows" thing that viruses and bacteria generally coevolve with hosts, so they become less virulent over time. It's when something has just become infectious that it's most likely to decimate (or worse) the population it's just arrived in.
Does this not count as looking up the math concepts?
Thanks :) I really appreciate hearing more experiences. I adore him, and I’m thankful he did get the diagnosis because we’ve had access to a lot more services. I also know each autistic child is different!

I’m also very curious to see how having a neurotypical little sister impacts his growth. Already seems to be having a big impact.

Insurance has been a big stress point but we’re navigating and getting Medicare has helped a bit.
you might just offer to help with/review student projects. I think some young would-be engineers have ideas but don't know how to make them happen. you won't have as big an audience as a class, but you'll get motivated people.

I think teaching basic CS topics in a classroom is very tough since the students are rarely on the same level no matter how early you start.
If we're giving PHP credit here, I think we can say with some confidence that the ease of spinning up a shared server with PHP and MySQL inspired the kinds of super simple infrastructure products like Heroku that are now commonplace. The notion that PHP is easier to deploy used to be true, it's not something that should be dismissed, it's even a pretty big deal. It's a walk up experience that inspired an improved DX for every other mainstream environment. But they've caught up and that's worth acknowledging too.
Does anyone know why the big cloud vendors don’t seem to have any offerings that can beat a regular consumer machine in single thread performance? Surely there must be a market for it?
Pizza Hut coopting the fall of the Soviet Union in an ad makes my skin kind of crawl

"Yeah we destabilized the politics and economy of a nation, but hey, we got pizza!"
Hold on. This references periodic re-training as something switches and similar should do.

Then what about a PC? Might my workstation become unstable if I don't restart it if the room temperature changes?
I would approach it from a "how to use information technology" perspective. This would include how to locate, acquire, validate, transform, store, process and display information. It would also include how to find, download, install, customize, secure, and update a set of tools that can implement all these things, including a standard office suite, a programming environment, and an audio/video capture and edit environment. Python could be used for Libre Office scripting as well as the programming environment. Display should include both the graphing functions of the spreadsheet as well as using CSV files to transfer information to the programming environment for more complex processing and use of plotting tools. Financial and business data could also be used as a theme.
> And their reputation for security is much higher than a small startup regardless of the startup's competence and intentions.

Not all security mind you, Android runs on ancient kernel and it won't be changing for a long time even though Google announced plans for moving to mainline linux.
I can see a future where it will be necessary to start opening up new consumer electronics and using small wire cutters, precision screwdrivers and needle nose pliers to physically rip out the Wi-Fi functionality.
True, but also, the dangers are somewhat overstated. A BAC of 0.10 (3-4 drinks in an hour for the average American, so, a lot) [1] makes you 7X more likely to be involved in a fatal accident. Sounds like a lot, right? The risk of being involved in a fatal accident is baseline 10.7 per 100,000 per year. That 0.01% per year. So, if you spent the entire year with a BAC of 0.1, commuting normally, you'd have a 0.07% per year risk of dying. That's still three 9's of, uh, up-time.

Should you do it? No. Knocking back a couple beers and driving isn't the equivalent of walking off a sheer rock face though.

The only thing that's caught up with Quebec is their puritanical tendencies, see: the CAQ being elected.

[1] https://www.alcohol.org/bac-calculator/

[2] https://www.verywellmind.com/drunk-driving-the-dangers-63002

[3] https://www.cars.com/articles/are-the-odds-ever-in-your-favo...
David Sinclair
I am thankful that after being addicted to weed for over a year, I got my shit together. I started weightlifting 3* a week, have gotten myself into a postgrad programme, and have been steadily losing weight. I have also recently started writing every day.

I'm a much better person now, and have mostly kicked the depression and anxiety (even though they show up sometimes).
I mean, I think most of us spent a lot of generations inside caves, didn't we? I think we adapted.
being healthy is the most important thing.
I think in this context "increasing" means f(x+ε)>f(x) for all x, not f(x) > x for all x.